Debbie and Me
Author's Note: I first roughed out this story in my head in a pink haze of oxytocin after a thoroughly satisfying session of love-making with my wife. After writing countless wish-fulfillment stories featuring bondage, anal, deep-throat, and gorgeous young women with insatiable appetites for all of the above, I felt like writing a short and to-the-point story that reflects how good even vanilla sex can be for an old married couple who are still deeply in love.
These two characters are not me and my wife exactly, but there's a lot of us in them, including the sexual work-arounds that age often brings with it. If this level of realism is not to your taste, fear not. I haven't given up on the kinky wish-fulfillment fantasies. I'll be back to them.
Please let me know what you think of this alternate direction in my fiction. By the way, all characters in this story are very much over the age of eighteen.
Dinner was done, the dishes rinsed and loaded in the dishwasher, the counters wiped down. To drive back the chill of a Canadian winter, I lit a fire - our house is of the blessed vintage that actually has a wood-burning fireplace in the living room, and we think that the atmosphere created by a real fire is well worth the hassle of buying, carrying in, and replenishing real wood. Yes, we have a perfectly good gas furnace. But a gas furnace doesn't crackle.
We settled down on the couch to listen to another installment of our current shared audio book, a steamy bodice-ripper by Phoebe Hamilton cheekily titled
Temptation Island.
After several frustrating chapters full of misunderstandings and misreadings of each others' feelings worthy of a Shakespearean comedy, the couple in the story had finally realized what the reader knew all along, that he loved her as much as she loved him, and decided to celebrate that discovery with a long and extremely explicit sex scene.
When the last orgasm had stopped reverberating and the chapter came to an end, Debbie switched it off before another chapter could sneak up on us. She turned to me with a smile, put her hand warmly on my leg, and said, "I have an idea what we should do next tonight."
I smiled back, "I think I have the same idea. I take that last chapter as a challenge to see if we can do at least as well. I won't promise that I've got the sort of stamina Alfred has, but I'll enjoy seeing what I can do."
"Then I guess you'd better take a Daddy's Little Helper."
"I'm way ahead of you. I took one when I went for my last pee break. It's kicking in nicely now."
Daddy's Little Helper is, of course, Viagra. In addition to being seventy years old, I'm taking a variety of meds including blood pressure pills and a light dose of an SSRI for anxiety. As a result, I need to take even more pills to counteract those pills when I want to get hard and stay hard. A pain, but the SSRI has made me much easier to live with, and there's no buzzkill like a blood-pressure-induced heart attack or stroke. I'm happy to keep taking my witch's-brew of meds so I'll be around a while longer.
We finished the last sips of our drinks, put our glasses in the dishwasher, brushed our teeth, took our nightly selection of pills, and started getting ready for bed. I waited patiently while Debbie harrumphed her dress off over her head, inspected it to see if it was still clean, decided it was, and hung it back in the closet. Then she turned her back to me expectantly. As I do most nights, I came up behind her and unhooked her bra for her. Of course, she's perfectly capable of unhooking her own bra, but helping her with it is mostly an excuse for me to slide my hands around her from behind and help myself to a double handful of the breasts that tumble out when she slides it off the rest of the way.
Her breasts aren't as perky as they were when I first met them, but neither are some of my bits and pieces either, especially the old-man belly that keeps sneaking up on me despite all the exercise I use to try to keep it at bay. But I don't care that what used to be firm C-cup breasts are now somewhat droopy D's. After forty-plus years, they still feel as good cupped by my hands as they did when I first felt them. And with a gentle massage from my thumbs, their nipples still perk up under my palms. She thinks my male fascination with her breasts is funny, but she also finds it kind of charming, so she humours me and I'm happy to be humoured.
I made a soft purring noise and kissed her on the neck, right where it met her bare shoulder. That always tickles a bit and makes her scrunch up her shoulder. It's another of the little rituals that people fall into when they've been married and in love for forty-three years.