This is a lockdown story, but not necessarily the lockdown we are experiencing at the moment. It is merely the vehicle for the story. In it, a naΓ―ve and inexperienced eighteen-year-old boy and an older woman with an interesting past find themselves isolated together. They are a long way from civilisation and things inevitably happen.
All those participating in sex are eighteen or older and all acts are consensual.
Chapter One - Taking the Bait
It was a lovely day and for once I was awake and up early. I managed a cursory breakfast and loaded my fishing gear onto the little cart at the side of the cabin. It was only a couple of hundred yards down to the fishing area at the lakeshore but the amount of kit my Dad and I had accumulated in the six years we had owned the cabin meant the cart was a Godsend. I trundled it out onto the foreshore and hoped the noise of the tyres on the gravel would not disturb Mrs. Hanson in the cabin next to ours.
At least part of me hoped it would not disturb her. The other, testosterone-fuelled, adolescent part of me was willing her to make an appearance. After what I had witnessed her doing from a distance the previous night, I was longing to see her do it again. In equal measures I was scared of seeing her close-up, knowing what my reaction would be.
I tensed as I heard the sound of a bolt being drawn and felt myself reddening as her screen door opened. As she peered around the edge, I hoped she'd think it was the exertion of tugging the cart that was causing me to colour up, not sheer embarrassment. My Mum had once described her smile as 'enigmatic'. To me, it always felt like she was sizing me up - appraising me. Whilst her face radiated warmth, her eyes seemed to lock onto mine like lasers and I felt certain she could read my thoughts.
Given that my thoughts concerning her were rather improper, I prayed I was wrong.
"Good morning, Matthew, what a fine day!" Her voice was low and sultry and did nothing to allay my discomfort.
"Morning Mrs. Hanson. Yes, great for a spot of early fishing."
Her smile graduated from warm to full-on sunshine and my heart flipped as she emerged onto the porch in figure-hugging lycra fitness gear. "Sounds nice, but I have more energetic things in store. My morning workout - got to keep this old body in trim, huh?"
All I could manage was a nervous laugh. In that gear her body looked perfectly fine to me. More than fine - she looked incredible. I had watched her do her 'workouts' in the yard behind her cabin from one of our upstairs windows the previous summer season and to say she was fit was an understatement. Given her age, she had the grace and elegance of a gymnast and the physique of a woman half her years.
Feeling my embarrassment all the more, I made to move off but she was not done. "So your folks around? Didn't hear you get in last night - must have been late arriving?"
"No, we were supposed to come up together, but they got involved in meetings about this virus going around. They'll be up in a few days - sent me as an advance party to get everything geared up. Typical Mum and Dad - get me to do all the hard work and arrive late to enjoy the fun!"
Mrs. Hanson laughed. "Oh, you poor, downtrodden, put-upon youth! Well, have a pleasant few days on your own - just don't play that guitar too loud, hear me?"
Despite her stern look I knew she was toying with me. At the beginning of the previous summer she had seen me plonking away on an old acoustic guitar on our front porch as she passed. She had merely smiled and nodded at my efforts and disappeared indoors. Ten minutes later I heard footsteps on the gravel path and looked up to see her approaching with a guitar case in one hand and a large square box in the other.
She put them on the ground and gave me her inimitable smile. "You play well, Matthew. When my dear ex-husband... how shall I say it? When he traded me in for a younger model, he forgot these were in an upstairs cupboard. He won't miss 'em - he's got about fifty more!"
And so I became the proud possessor of a slightly worn 1968 Fender Telecaster Thinline and Vox AC35 amplifier that had been used onstage and in the studio by none other than Chuck Hanson of 'Baltimore Blues Inc' fame. Being a lover of the blues, I thought I had died and gone to heaven and couldn't thank Mrs. Hanson enough.
I pulled on the cart handle and promised her I would try and keep the volume down, giving her a little wave as I made to leave. When she spoke again, I almost had to bite my lip to stop from yelling out loud in joy at what she said.
"Oh and Matthew - it's been a while since I saw you, but I can safely say you've grown into a fine young man. Your Mom and Dad must be proud of you! You must be what, eighteen now? Yes, you've come a long way from the shy little Brit-kid I first saw when we bought his old place!"
Blushing all the more, I thanked her and headed off down to the fishing spot. I rigged up a couple of rods and settled down in the large camping chair usually occupied by my Dad. On a normal day, I would relax within seconds of setting up my gear. Just switch off, listen to the wind in the trees, the sound of the birds and gentle lapping of the water.
Today I was unable to get the vision of Mrs. Hanson in that tight, black and silver lycra out of my mind. And she had called me a 'fine young man'. My parents had never even called me that and they had certainly never said they were proud of any of my academic or sporting achievements. All my Dad was interested in was getting to point 'A' faster than me when we were out running or on our mountain bikes, or landing a bigger freshwater trout than his only son. Competitive, driven and completely blinkered. That was part of why I was growing up in America, not rural England, and it had taken me a long time to come to terms with it.
Once I got over my little bout of resentment, I thought back to the previous evening. It was a long drive up from the city and I was fairly new to driving. The size of the family SUV didn't help and it was getting quite late when I arrived. The carport was around the rear of the cabin, so at least I didn't disturb anyone unloading the endless bags of food, gear and clothes we always seemed to need for a week away.
Not that there were many people to disturb. Going by previous years, the Aaronsons would not be arriving for another few weeks and the furthest cabin from ours had been put up for sale at the end of last season. As far as we were aware, it was still empty. That only left Mrs. Hanson and whilst I was looking forward to seeing her again and resuming my improper thoughts about her, I also relished the thought of a few days completely on my own. A few days of fishing, running and cycling and a few evenings of beer, playing my guitar at very anti-social volumes and viewing some of my favourite websites on a sixty-inch, Ultra-HD television instead of an iPad mini.
Any hope of the guitar element of my wish-list was soon dashed when I saw a light on at the rear of Mrs. Hanson's cabin. Oh well, at least there was a chance of catching a glimpse of her working out and there would be no-one to stop me doing something rather naughty as I watched her.
Little did I suspect that very soon I'd get rather more than I had wished for.
The trips from the carport to the house were never-ending and at last I crashed into a chair in the den with a beer and a microwaved burger. It was pretty gross, but it did the necessary and I felt a little more human after the long drive and the unpacking that seemed to take even longer. I was tired and decided my super-sized naughty movies could wait for another night. I popped the top from another beer and headed up to my room. The tv in there was not as big, but it would still do the job I required from it better than my iPad.
It was as I reached the top of the staircase and glanced out of the window into Mrs. Hanson's yard that my plans for the evening changed somewhat. I still got the end-result I was aiming for, but instead of watching one of my favourite starlets going at it onscreen with a hunky stud or another lovely girl, I had a bird's eye view of my own little private live show.