Me and Mrs Jones, by Billy Paul.
Me and Misses Jones
We got a thing going on
We both know that its wrong
But it's much to strong
To let it go now
Jacob Jones sat by the pool, sipping his morning coffee as he watched the sun rising higher. "Today is going to be a scorcher," he muttered to himself. Although it was a Saturday and he had finally returned home late last night, he was wearing a dress shirt and tie with trousers. His suit jacket remained draped over the chair next to him. The briefcase sitting on that same chair was an unwelcome reminder that he had a meeting this morning to brief his bosses on his latest business trip.
As he sipped his coffee, Jacob looked out past the pool at his latest home improvement project. The Great Wall of Jones was finally beginning to progress. Jacob didn't have the time, and he hated to admit much less the energy, to build the block wall himself. He had wisely hired a neighbor kid to build the wall. Digging, forming and pouring the first segment of footing had taken a weekend. Building the first two pilasters and wall segment had taken almost forever as he taught the kid how to work rebar, mix mortar, cut block, apply mortar and lay block. Janine had been disappointed that he was so profoundly exhausted that her eagerness to give him a massage didn't progress to lovemaking those weekends home. However; the kid had learned. He had built the next two segments and pilasters by himself in only two weeks. If he was a professional, he would be fired for working so slowly. However; the quality of his work was more than just acceptable. Hopefully; the kid would get faster.
Jacob would have only absentmindedly acknowledged the breakfast that Janine placed in front of him rather than almost choke on his coffee if he hadn't noticed that she was wearing a bikini rather than her habitual, frumpy housecoat or maybe her demure, one piece swimsuit. Even more amazing, Janine was wearing the bikini that he had coaxed her into buying during their Caribbean cruise a half dozen years ago. It wasn't a thong style. However; the bottoms revealed an inch or so of her butt cleavage and the much smaller triangle in front failed to fully conceal her neatly trimmed but unshaven pubic hair. The top was barely adequate to cover her nipples and surrounding aureoles much less really contain or even restrain her big breasts.
Janine's reluctance to buy the bikini had been motivated as much or more by anxiety about her maternal physique rather than by her habitual modesty. She had acknowledged that they were thousands of miles away from anyone that they knew. In truth, Jake hadn't been able to honestly dispute her complaints that she no longer had the body to wear a bikini. He had been hoping that wearing the bikini anyway might boost Janine's self confidence or at least relax her inhibitions. Unfortunately; the timing of their cruise could not have been worse. Although he at least had been trying to be careful, they had a child who would be starting First Grade in the Fall to attest that it had certainly been easier to get her out of her bikini than her usual, one piece swimsuit. Wearing that bikini might have failed to boost Janine's ego or relax her inhibitions, but she had been pleased that they brought home a little souvenir from their cruise. The bikini actually looked more alluring on her now because she had finally slimmed down and toned up a bit.
Janine smiled coquettishly as she poured Jacob another cup of coffee, then she set the pot down in front of him and jumped into the pool. As he watched his wife swim laps in their new pool, he realized that the pool might have been the best investment that he had ever made. The solar hot water panels on the roof of the pool house combined with the insulated pool cover with the mechanized retracting mechanism had allowed his wife to swim daily all Fall and Winter. She was now doing the breast stroke towards him which intermittently revealed her deep cleavage. The display became even more alluring when she turned around and rolled over to do the backstroke. One could easily imagine Janine actually using her double-Dee breasts like paddles rather than her arms to propel herself through the water.
It was only when Janine climbed out of the pool that Jake remembered why when they had returned home from their cruise, she had vowed to never wear that bikini again. The white fabric turned translucent when it was wet. As she readjusted the top to settle a renegade breast back into its inadequate triangle of fabric, he noticed that her jet black pubic hair which failed to really conceal her labia was very visible through the damp fabric. Janine's nipples and large, dark aureoles also might have been nearly nude. He had had to spend a lot of money on drinks to keep his wife buzzed enough to wear it around the pool during their cruise. He was now glad that he had talked her out of throwing away her new bikini after they got home. She had carefully tucked her bikini away in her lingerie drawer as a souvenir when she realized that she had gotten pregnant during their cruise.
As Janine warmed up Jacob's coffee, he found himself appraising her as if he were an accountant rather than an engineer. Her assets definitely exceeded her liabilities. By contemporary standards, she was overweight or maybe even obese. However; her wide hips and big breasts gave her a classic hourglass figure in spite of her belly that was neither flat or firm. She looked a lot like Marie Devereux, that caricature of Elizabeth Taylor that had danced with Pan in the movie CLEOPATRA. Jacob suddenly found himself wishing that he didn't have to go to his damn meeting. However; this project would ultimately earn him a bonus that would pay for not just the Great Wall of Jones but the pool.
Janine hesitantly asked, "how late will your meeting be?" She was obviously hoping that his meeting would be brief. He had been to tired and jet lagged when she picked him up at the airport last night. He hadn't awakened her when he got up this morning. He had rationalized that there would be time this afternoon or this evening after the party. There would be plenty of opportunities. Their younger children were staying with their grandparents over most of the Summer. Their eldest was spending the summer backpacking the Pacific Crest trail with a group that included her boyfriend. If not this afternoon or maybe after the party that they were to attend this evening, there was always Sunday afternoon after church or even Sunday evening. They were getting to the age when their usually almost weekly routine should be sufficient. They were getting past the age when they didn't need another, unexpected, little souvenir. He was getting to an age when he would have difficulties if he was fatigued or failed to take time to fully recuperate. About once a week was almost more than sufficient, at least for Jacob.
"I should be home by noon unless the bosses extend the meeting out over lunch," Jacob replied. Janine's obvious disappointment inspired him to add, "I'll try to get home as soon as I can." Janine expressed her displeasure by jumping back into the pool. Jacob swore to himself, "shit. Now she'll be petulant and bitchy," he muttered as she was swimming the length of the pool underwater.
Jacob's ruminating about his wife was interrupted when Jamal walked into the backyard. They had known the kid since he was only a, well, a little kid. His mother was a widow who worked as a humble secretary. She somehow managed to hang on to the worst house in their best neighborhood. Everyone helped out the widow, at least a little bit, whenever they could. It was just being neighborly rather than charity.
Jamal was now becoming a grown man. He would be leaving for college in the fall, thanks in part to a football scholarship as well as Jacob and Janine's tutoring far more than affirmative action. Although he was hearing impaired, which had inspired his mother to hold him back a year or so, and had more than a touch of Asperger Syndrome, he was a smart kid. Given his social deficits, most people would mistake him for a ghetto gang banger. In reality, Jamal was a good kid.
Only a few months earlier, Jamal had overpowered and disarmed a bank robber who might have escalated from just shooting up the bank building to shooting people. The robber had been armed with one of those KelTec shotguns. Although a KelTec is a conventional pump action shotgun rather than a semiautomatic, it had twin magazine tubes. The shotgun had been loaded with twelve rounds of slugs as well as thirteen rounds of buckshot. The slugs which had about ten times the wounding capacity of a bullet from an AR-15 had reamed the bank building end to end to then penetrate adjacent buildings. The buckshot had been even worse. Each round of number four buckshot had contained almost the equivalent of an entire magazine from an AR-15. The robber had brought a satchel full of extra ammunition.
While the police had been cowering in the parking lot waiting for the shooting to stop, Jamal had rushed into the bank building. The disarming of the bank robber had included not just a violent tackling but the breaking of both of the robber's arms. Jamal had been threatening to shove the shotgun up the robber's ass when the police finally found the courage to enter the building.