We hosted my neighbor for Thanksgiving and I had to help walk her home. This picks up where Part 1 left off.
Oh crap, I've been gone for almost an hour! How the hell am I going to explain this I thought as I opened my door and closed it and locked it? As I turned around, I saw that the recliner and couch were empty, meaning that my parents had gone to bed. My sister was still zonked out on the loveseat so I figured I would just leave her there. I turned off the light and went upstairs to my bedroom.
I noticed that the door to my parent's room was shut so they were probably asleep. I walked into my room and closed the door. Taking my tie off, I threw it on my dresser and sat down on the bed, taking my shoes off. As I did so, I thought I heard steps and then a door close and I figured it must be my sister going to bed. I took of the rest of my clothes except for my underwear, turned out the light, and got under the covers.
The buzz I had from the wine was pretty much gone after the events next door and I was a little tired as I laid my head down to go to sleep. What a weird f-ing day! I never imagined any of it happening, particularly being turned on by my sister, and I damn sure never had a woman throw up on me before. Ok, maybe not on me but near me.
Eventually I fell asleep and the next thing I knew it was 6:30. I had originally told everyone we would get up at 7 in order to have time to get ready to get to the airport. Of course, I knew my mother would be the one getting me up instead of the other way around as she was the early riser in the family.
I drove the family to the airport and said goodbye, my sister crying a little as we hugged. Quite honestly, I was looking forward to going home and having a few days to myself of some normal time and just relaxing. As I pulled up to my place, the thought of what happens next with my neighbor immediately popped in my head. But, I was pretty tired so I walked in, shut my door, turned on the TV and lay down on the couch. I was pretty tired and a little hung-over and I ended up falling asleep.
The sound of the doorbell woke me up. I looked at the clock and it was 5:30 PM.
Holy Cow, I slept all day. Who could be at the door?
I walked over and it was my neighbor, Donna or Mrs. Kramer, or whatever I was supposed to be calling her. I opened the door with a smile.
"Hi Donna," I said.
"Hi Chris, did I catch you at a bad time?" she asked.
Well looks like Donna it is.
"Oh, no not at all," I replied, "Come on in, I had taken a nap when I got back from the airport. I've been asleep ever since."
"Oh ok, well I won't stay long. After my day, I have a feeling I'll be asleep early myself."
She walked past me and her scent filled my nostrils like flowers in spring time. She was wearing a nice skirt and jacket combo with heels and nylons of course and looked fantastic. I motioned for her to sit down and she did in the loveseat.
"That's fine, so how are you feeling today? You had to get up and work didn't you?"
"Well, "she said haltingly, "That's why I stopped by. Yes I did and I will get to bed early tonight but I'm not quite sure what happened."
"What do you mean?"
"I was a bit drunk last night, and I remember you walking me home and vaguely remembering getting sick...."
"Oh don't worry, no problem at all. I just helped you upstairs and made sure you were ok before I came home."
"Well I really appreciate it but I am so embarrassed. I haven't had that much to drink in a long time," she said. "I didn't do anything bad?"
"Believe me, it's quite alright. I think everyone here had a bit too much as well and certainly no one noticed and I didn't say a word. A gentleman knows how to be discrete," I smiled.
She smiled back at me and spoke, "That's the other thing. I just wanted to also apologize for the way I've treated you the last few months. You have been a nice young man and I have been a total bitch to you. I honestly don't know why I've been that way to you; I guess I've put up such a wall since the death of my husband..."
"Well, I did kind of wonder, but it's all good, Donna. I think yesterday was just what we needed. Let's just start from scratch, put all that behind us and move on."
"That sounds great to me," she said and she stood up. "You really are a gentleman."
Ha, if you only knew or could remember the half of it, I thought to myself.
Before I could stop myself, I blurted out, "Hey, if you aren't busy, would you like to go out to dinner tomorrow night?"
"Why, I'd love that," she replied instantly, surprising me. "Where?"
"The Ranch.. Is that ok?"
"Wow, pretty high class place. We don't have to go there, we can go somewhere else. Besides, wouldn't you rather go out with someone your own age?"
"It's not that expensive and I'll forget the age thing," I said smiling. "I know you have your shop to run, what time is good?"
"Why don't you pick me up at 7 and we can eat say around 7:30?" she said.
"Done. I'll set it up and see you tomorrow night," I said as I walked her to the door.
"Great. Thanks again for understanding."
"Not one more word. It's all forgotten."
What the hell was I thinking? The answer is, I wasn't.
But I didn't really have much of anything else to do, and I wanted to get out a bit now that my family was gone. And besides, not only did I still kind of have the hots for her, but she was turning out to be a decent woman, and I was starting to want some company.
The next evening rolled around really quickly. I took a shower, shaved and got dressed, putting on a coat and tie since the restaurant had a dress code. It was a bit chilly, being two days after Thanksgiving, so I threw on an overcoat and backed my car out of the garage, and left it running to warm up while I went over to get Donna.
When she answered the door I was once again struck by how classy she always looked. This time, she had on a navy blue dress that went just below her knee, blue hose, heels, and a string of pearls finished off with a full length fur coat.
"Wow you look beautiful," I said.
"Oh, you're sweet. And may I say you look very dapper."
She locked her door and I walked her over and opened the door to my Explorer. Given it was an SUV, she had to step up to get into it. Unfortunately, with the long fur coat on, it denied me a hoped for peek at her thighs.
Dinner was a great experience and the time flew by as we ate our meals and had coffee and dessert. The conversation, while at first was a bit awkward, eventually flowed easily and after a few hours, you would have thought we had known each other for years.
I found out that she wasn't as old as I had been thinking and in fact was in her early 50s. Her husband had died about a year ago and had left her enough money to open her own business. Having worked in the fashion industry as a buyer, she decided to go out on her own with a small boutique dress shop that was doing quite well and in fact, was frequented by some of the upper crust of Boston social circles. She was an only child and really did not have a lot of family save for a few cousins down south.
We got in the car and drove home. As we pulled up to the driveway, I stopped and said, "How would you like to come over for a bit? I can build a fire and we can sit around and chat. I mean, that is if you want to. "
"That sounds wonderful," she said.
Parking the car in the garage, I led her in my place and took her coat and hung it up in the closet with mine and draped my suit coat over the recliner.
"Why don't you make yourself at home while I build a fire?"