The tale I am about to relate was told to me by a dear friend of mine. I had known her for about twenty eight years when she came to me with her story. I shall call her Nancy, which of course, is not her real name. Over the years she has shared many of her thoughts and troubles with me, and she certainly had plenty to share. A husband, whom I shall call Kevin, is an alcoholic and transvestite. He cannot perform sexually unless he is dressed in female clothes, and try as she might, Nancy can’t cope with this.
This ceased to be a problem, at least in one respect, when Kevin about five years into their marriage gave up all sexual activity with Nancy. This however left Nancy with the problem of what to do about her own sexual needs. Nancy is a person with a strong sexual drive, and one way of overcoming her difficulty was via a series of lovers.
Of course, Nancy could have got out of the relationship, but she tried to hang on for the sake of the two children Kevin had managed to sire on her in the early years of their marriage. At the time of the episode that she related to me and which I shall shortly pass on to you, Nancy was in her early fifties; she had been married twenty nine years, and there were by then grandchildren also to be considered.
In addition, Nancy felt sorry for Kevin and believed he would fall apart completely if she left him. So the marriage dragged on and Nancy adopted a strategy that, alongside her lovers, gave her some relief from the pressures of home life; she went house sitting for people going on vacation, and included in this was taking care of pets.
It was through house sitting that she came to take on a more profound role in one household. She house sat for a husband and wife, let us call them Dan and Vera, who are both lawyers. This marriage too, was almost on the rocks, but it did manage to produce “The Twins.” They were somewhat disconcertingly named, “Robert” and “Roberta”.
The busy work and social life style of this legal couple meant that Nancy was often called upon to baby sit the twins. This began very soon after they were born and Nancy came to play an extremely important part in the lives of the children. In fact, she became something of a substitute mother.
When the twins were around three years old their parents’ marriage finally broke up. This came about because Vera came home unexpectedly to find her husband in bed with her best friend. Dan departed the house to live with the best friend and Nancy came to play an even more important part in the lives of the twins.
Then Vera took on lovers herself, and this often meant trips away with her paramours, some extending over two or three weeks. Dan and Vera provided liberally for the children as far as money was concerned, but were too busy with their work and amatory affairs to provide the sort of love and nurturing that the children needed. I should point out that Dan’s extensive love affairs did not cease once he moved in with the “best friend.”
So Nancy was frequently shuttling back and forth between her own home, and the home of the twins, leaving the inebriated Kevin to manage on his own for a while.
That Nancy was deeply fond of the twins was undoubted. She is a very affectionate and loving person anyway. It was equally certain that the twins loved Nancy.
The years went by, as they tend to do, and it was when the twins entered their teenage years that a shift in their relationships with Nancy took place. This was initially most marked in Roberta. She became extremely petulant, insolent and contrary.
Oddly, the promiscuous parents of Roberta were very determined that their daughter remain virgo intacta. Roberta, on the other hand, had an equal determination to sacrifice her maidenhead at the earliest possible moment. Thus when Nancy took over the household during Vera’s amorous absences, she had the burdensome task of trying to restrain Roberta from sneaking out of the house on a boy hunt.
Robert, who knew of his sisters sexual activities, referred to her as a “slut” who was having it off with every boy in the neighbourhood. No doubt this was something of an exaggeration, but it did put a great deal of worrisome responsibility on Nancy’s shoulders. One might add the thought, “Woe to the parents who prize too highly their daughter’s virginity, the girl will always find a way of disposing of it.”
Finally Nancy spoke frankly to Vera, saying she could no longer cope with Roberta. The result was, that during those times Nancy was house sitting for her and, let’s face it, still sitting the now seventeen year old twins, Roberta, spitting, hissing and snarling like an infuriated tigress, was removed from the house to stay with a draconian aunt.
This left Nancy with the house and Robert to look after.
Robert was passing through his teenage years in a manner very different from Roberta. He tended to be shy and introspective and, having failed to get the love and affection he needed from his mother, he drew even closer to Nancy.
Another divergence from the Roberta life style was that as far as Nancy could tell Robert was still a virgin. He did not seem to associate with girls or for that matter not much with boys, and the reason for this puzzled Nancy considerably. I have met the twins and their parents, and both the children have inherited their parent’s good looks. If anything, Robert seems to favour his mother’s blond hair and brown eyed features.
Now I should point out that, for all the difficulties that had beset Nancy in her life, she always looked at least fifteen years younger than she actually was. She has auburn hair, always worn long and, one must admit, now regularly dyed; she looks out at the world with very tender blue eyes; her wide mouth with full lips always ready to smile; and a slim figure with breasts, despite her earlier breast feeding, still nicely firm. In short, a very presentable and desirable lady, as witness her rather intricate sexual affairs.
She had a habit, and for all I know probably still does have, of dispensing with bras and panties when at home in hot weather, and home included when she was house sitting. The movement of her breasts beneath a soft shirt or dress, and the obvious outline of sweet little nipples, left little to the lascivious imagination.
I mention this because I don’t want you to have the impression that Nancy was like some of those Nannies you can see portrayed in films or on television; rather stern and unattractive. Nancy was far from such an image.
I have by implication suggested that Nancy was a Nanny, and of course she was really. The twins called her “Nan,” and that is why I have adopted the pseudonym of Nancy for her.
So it was when Nancy was in her early fifties, and looking in her mid thirties, that she came to me and told of her – what shall I call it? – “Her dilemma”? She seems to come to me with all her marital and love-life problems. I suppose I must have a sympathetic manner.
The dilemma began when Nancy was called upon to house sit for Vera once again. At that time the twins were eighteen years old, and Nancy felt that they were past the age when they needed “baby sitting,” and since Roberta would be carted off to the draconian aunt, she said to Vera, “Surely Robert could look after himself.”
You must understand that Nancy was not attempting to reject the task; on the contrary, she knew she would miss it badly, especially where her beloved Robert was concerned. But Nancy had a conscience about being paid for a job she did not feel warranted the money.
Vera protested along the lines that Robert would not eat properly and the house would get into a dreadful mess. Nancy mentally shrugged, thinking that if mother didn’t mind paying up, why should she worry about taking the money?
So Nancy moved in with Robert for a three weeks stint while Vera and her latest lover took off for distant lands and long sessions in bed.
Nothing untoward happened for the first couple of days, except that Robert seemed to be more affectionate than ever, and rather dejected. Looking, as she did, upon Robert almost as her own child, or even grandchild that he could virtually have been given her age, she tried to discover what ailed him.
His response to her early queries about what was troubling him was, “Oh, nothing really.” Nancy, having some understanding of boys that age and the moods they go through, did not pursue the matter, hoping the mood would pass. However, it did not pass, and it was during the evening of the third day of her stay that things came to a head.
It was Robert’s habit that, when he had completed any study projects he had to do, he joined Nancy in the lounge in the evening. It was also his habit, and for that matter Nancy’s habit, for them to cuddle up on the couch. Nancy is a very tactile person generally, and she had cuddled up with the twins since they were babies. Roberta, of course, had long renounced such “silly” ways, no doubt getting her cuddles and lot a more elsewhere.
Robert, on the other hand had, in recent years seemed to want more hugging than ever, and took any opportunity to touch and embrace Nancy.
Nancy accepted Robert’s hugs that evening but she expected that they would eventually lead up to a revelation of what was troubling Robert. Hugs with Robert had often before been the time when he talked about things that were troubling or concerning him.
On the evening in question Robert had his head lying between Nancy’s breasts, and she noticed that his lips were very close to one of her nipples. This was nothing unusual because Robert had lain against her, his head in that position, many times. Additionally Nancy confessed to herself and me that now Robert was no longer a child, but a young man, it was rather delightful to have his head lying between her breasts.
Nevertheless, Nancy was a bit disconcerted partly because Robert’s lips were very close to her nipple, and partly because she was having one of what she called her “liberation days”, being free of bras, panties and wearing one of her more loose and filmy dresses. She also noticed that Robert’s hands were rather restless, and seemed to be wandering over her body.
For a long time they lay together and when eventually Robert spoke he asked what seemed an innocent enough question.
