I had been "in love" with Caroline for as long as I could remember.
Well
, to be more precise, I began my crush on her during my adolescence. While hormones were raging and I was becoming aware of my sexuality it was
She
that became the focus of my desire.
Caroline was my best friend - Peter Foster's mother. Pete and I had decided we would be best friends on our very first day at primary school, when we sat opposite each other and shared crayons. We have maintained that friendship right the way up to this very day.
Caroline and Geoff - Pete's father - were young parents and Pete was their only child, no doubt the unplanned product of a night of passion at university. They were both highly intelligent people and had obviously not let having a child while still studying spoil their careers. By the time Pete and I turned eighteen, a month apart from each other, Caroline was only thirty-seven and Geoff just thirty-eight.
As the youngest child of four myself, my parents were old in my mind and going round to Pete's was always something to look forward to. There was always a lot of swearing going on and rude jokes being told. Pete and I would be allowed to stay up late and watch the kind of TV shows that kids weren't normally permitted to watch. It was, in a way, more like being looked after by an older brother and sister than a mum and dad.
Caroline always had a naughty sense of humor and as I entered my teens she would regularly tease me with suggestive comments, no doubt reveling in my obvious embarrassment. She would tease me about how tight my jeans were and how they left little to the imagination or about how handsome and muscular I was becoming and how the young girls must be fighting over me at school. To the best of my knowledge they were not.
When she came home from work, Caroline would make a big show of telling me how she was going to strip off her formal work clothes and change into something more comfortable. She would appear moments later wearing quite sexy, figure-hugging outfits. In retrospect, she was clearly just having fun. She was hardly more than a girl herself and took pride in her good looks and enjoyed being flirtatious.
Caroline was a beautiful woman. She was of northern European descent, a mix of German and Danish, which blessed her with many naturally strong features. She was taller than the average English woman, probably about 5'9. She was slim, the result of a healthy diet, regular yoga classes and her good, Teutonic genes. Her hair was shoulder length and quite straight. The overall effect was blonde, but was, naturally, composed of many different shades and tones, some quite golden, some silver and others almost chestnut. She had quite strikingly, pale, green eyes that drew you in whenever you met her stare. Her eyebrows were quite strong. They were clearly well crafted, but Caroline left them a little thicker than most women, adding to her stunning, Arian appearance. She had a long, straight nose and full, sensual lips. Her cheekbones were high and she had a powerful, yet still feminine, jaw line. Her skin tone was quite pale, but glowed from within and gave an overwhelming impression of good health. She was one of those ladies who looked incredibly good without any makeup on whatsoever, but when she wore it she applied it only to eyes and lips, but in quite dark tones, giving her that 'femme fetal' look.
I remember she had taken to wearing a pair of half-moon, tortoiseshell spectacles when reading and the effect, when she looked over the top of them at you, was both unnerving and incredibly erotic at the same time. She definitely had that 'sexy librarian' look about her when she wanted it.
I suppose, as a young man, I could not help being drawn to the sight of her striking physique. She had rather large breasts, definitely bigger than the average and she was not afraid to show off the fact by wearing tight sweaters and low-cut tops. I suspect that they were perhaps not as pert as they must have once been, but they maintained a good shape, despite her age and sat as high on her chest as someone ten years her junior.
Anyway, I was smitten. I would invent numerous fantasy scenarios whereby the beautiful Caroline would seduce me and make a man of me, little knowing that something along those lines was indeed to come true one day.
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