I peeked out the window of the door and saw the smiling face of little Julie Anderson, the neighbor girl who lived down the road a piece. She was wearing her scout uniform, and judging by the time of year and the things she was carrying, I knew what the visit was about.
"Hi Julie!" I said as I opened the door. "Cookie time again I'll bet."
"You're right Mr. Hall!" Julie said, giving me a big smile that revealed a set of braces that matched her bright red hair. "Hope you still have a sweet tooth."
"I sure do," I said. "Come on in out of the chill."
I stepped aside and let little Julie in, and as she entered the house I noticed that little Julie wasn't so little anymore. Although she was still as thin as ever she had gotten taller, and was only more a few inches shorter than my 5'9".
I put my arm around Julie in my usual grandfatherly way and escorted her into the kitchen, pulling out a chair and getting her to sit down.
"How about a drink?" I said. "Whiskey? Beer? Ice tea?"
Julie giggled and said she would like a glass of ice tea, so I fetched the pitcher out of the fridge and poured her a tall one before easing down into the chair across the table from her.
I had been buying cookies from the scouts since - heck - since back when Grace was alive - and had a particular preference for those thin mints. These days though, being alone like I had been since Grace passed, I welcomed the company more than the cookies, and ever though the girls probably dreaded having to sit and chat with an old fool like yours truly, I usually bought enough to make it worth their while.
"So Julie," I said as I watched her lift the glass to her lips. "How come you're all alone this year? You always come around with - what's her name - the Evans girl and the other one."
"They quit scouts," Julie said. "They think it's corny. I guess it is but, oh well. Nothing else for me to do."
"Well, I think it's a fun thing to be a part of. If you weren't still in it, were would I get my cookies from?" I told Julie, who did this cute little twitching of her pug nose when she giggled.
"Besides, don't tell anybody but you were always my favorite anyway," I said as I reached over and patted her arm, which seemed to have become even more covered with freckles than ever, and the feel of the long pale down that graced her forearm made me shiver in addition to making me feel guilty.
"So, you're probably going to be entering high school pretty soon, aren't you Julie?" I said.
"College you mean?" Julie asked as she looked at me as if I was senile. "I'm graduating high school soon."
"College? I said. "How old are you?"
"Eighteen," Julie said, and as I tried to figure out where the world the time had gone my eyes strayed to Julie's chest, and the tiny swells beneath the sash of her uniform shirt.
"I know I don't look it," Julie said apologetically as she seemed to notice where my eyes went.
"Getting old will happen to you someday, if you live long enough," I told Julie with a grin. "The years go by so fast when you get older. Grace - it seems like last year that she passed away instead of four years ago."
"Five years," Julie said, correcting me, and as I did the math and concluded she was right I shook my head.
"See what I mean?" I said, taking my glasses off and wiping my eyes with my sleeve, getting emotional over Grace as well as loathing the memory lapses that reflected my advancing age. "Oh well. You're only 64 once."
"You don't look 64," Julie said.
"Does that mean I look younger or older?" I kidded.
"Younger silly," Julie said. "My grandfather is 65 and he looks way older than you."
"Poor guy."
"I'm serious," Julie said, her braces gleaming and her freckles glowing on her cheeks. "You always reminded me of the angel in the movie It's A Wonderful Life."
"Clarence?" I said, returning her smile. "Okay. I guess it could be worse. So why am I babbling about me falling apart with a pretty young woman in front of me. The prom must be coming up soon."
"Next month," Julie said without smiling.
"Aren't you going?"
"No," Julie said. "It's - you know, it's kind of expensive. The dress and all."
I was going to offer to buy her a dress. It's only money, and I have a little, but as I looked at her I suspected that the reason she wasn't going wasn't because of the lack of money.
Despite my fondness for Julie, I guess if I looked beyond my tunnel vision, maybe the truth was that Julie wasn't all that attractive. I mean, I thought she was adorable, but I guess you could say that she wasn't what you would call well developed, and maybe the plethora of freckles that seemed to cover all of the pale skin visible to me wasn't every one's cup of tea either. Grace had a lot of freckles, which might have been why I was partial to them.
"Well, I didn't go to any of my proms either," I confessed. "Although if I was in your class this year I would have made an exception to that."
This got Julie laughing again, and the sound of her giggling was infectious. Julie ended up spending the next two hours sitting at my table, telling me about video games, Twilight books, a guy called Justin Beeper or something and a whole lot of other people that I knew nothing about.
She managed to sell me cookies too. Ten boxes of them, and when she asked me what I was going to do with all of them, I told her.
"Eat them, what do you think?" I said. "Maybe if you have time you could come back and help me eat them. You like the thin mints?"
"They're okay, but I like the coconut ones better," Julie confessed.
"In that case, add a box of them to my order," I said, and when Julie thought I was kidding I made it 2 boxes and had her write it down on the form. "That way you have to come back after you deliver them and help me eat them."
"Okay," Julie chirped.
"I'm only kidding," I said. "About having to come back I mean."
"I know, but I will," Julie said. "I have fun talking with you. Maybe you can teach me that game you said you like to play."
Julie was referring to Gin Rummy, but as she spoke I was thinking of another game I used to play a lot when my wife was around. Poor Julie - the sweet thing had no idea what was going through my mind - and that was a good thing.
I was mentally undressing her, imagining I was slipping off that sash and unbuttoning her blouse. I fantasized that her skin was a pale white and that the freckles that were plentiful on her face and arms also were on her shoulders.
Julie's breasts were small, that much I could tell from watching her grow up over the years, but that was fine by me. Pert little handfuls of titty that were probably quite firm, maybe untouched by any of the neighborhood boys. Even fantasizing about them made my cock surge in my trousers.
Did Julie have a hairy pussy? I hated myself for even thinking about it, but that didn't stop me from imagining her with a nice furry muff, a blazing red bush that was so thick that you could hardly see the lips of her sex. Hair was never a problem for me. Gracie had a jungle between her legs, and I used to worship it.
Just then, I realized that I had been stroking Julie's arm all that time, and Julie's expression had changed as her skin got all goose-bumpy and the fine hairs on her arms stood up straight.
"Mr. Hall?" Julie whispered to me as my hand left her arm and slipped underneath the sash of her uniform.
"You're so pretty, honey," I said, cursing myself as my hand squeezed her breast through her blouse and bra.
Even smaller than I had imagined, I mused while kneading Julie's titty through the fabric of her blouse and what felt like a padded bra, but that was fine by me. Even better, while Julie's chest was heaving and her eyes were open as wide as possible, she wasn't stopping me.
I kissed her, all the time knowing that I was going to hell. Julie let me kiss her, and when my tongue pushed into her mouth she even used her own to duel with mine. She was melting in my arms, and all of a sudden I wasn't an old man but 18 like Julie.
My eyes were open while we kissed, and so when I brought her hand down to my crotch I saw her eyes pop open when I put my hand on the bulge. I hadn't been this hard in years, and as I held her hand down on my lap I asked her if she had been with any boys.
"Sort of," Julie mumbled, her breath ragged, and after I coaxed my zipper down I brought Julie's little hand through the open fly and into my boxer shorts.
"Oh!" I groaned when Julie's hand took my cock under my urging, and it was all I could do to keep from cumming right her away when I felt her fingers wrap around it.
"Oh honey," I groaned when I felt her fingers squeeze my cock.
"Your dick is big, isn't it Mr. Hall?" Julie asked me, proving that while she may have been innocent she wasn't all THAT innocent.
"I guess," was all I could say in response, and when I kissed her again Julie kissed me back hard.
My hand, which usually ached with a mild case of arthritis, was doing just fine, and after sliding down the outside of Julie's blouse and deftly undoing a couple of buttons, it slid inside. I nudged the padded harness upward and found her titties every bit as firm as I had suspected.