This is a work of fiction and any resemblance by any character or situation to any actual person or event is purely coincidental. All characters presented in this narrative are over the age of 18.
Editors Note: To fully appreciate this story, first read "Stargazers: Ellie's Story."
Stargazers: Carrie's Story
By Royce F. Houton
Let me get this out there from the very start: George Clinton Standeford always has known how to make my pussy twitch, even when he's not trying. We were high school sweethearts, we've been married for 32 years and we've been ardent, monogamous lovers for all of that time. It just never gets old.
Let me also say that while I don't put it on billboards, I am not shy about acknowledging our very active sex life. I don't go into detail, but I make no secret of our vigorous and regular connubial pursuits. Friends ask if they can drop by, and I'll tell them unflinchingly that Clint and I are having some buck-naked, adult alone time. We've been known to sneak away momentarily from entertaining guests for a bathroom quickie and then, if asked where we disappeared to, acknowledge that we ran upstairs for a fast nut. People who don't know us well think we're joking; our closest friends know it's true.
It's just the happy story of being Clint and Carrie Standeford and we make no apologies for it.
Our friends are important to us. We live in the world's best neighborhood -- Cordovan Court, a
cul de sac
in Chesterfield County, Virginia, a suburb of the state capital city of Richmond. There may be more trendy and affluent subdivisions than our mid- to upper-class subdivision, but I wouldn't leave here for anyplace. All the families on our little dead-end drive have lived here long enough that we mark major occasions together. Clint and I host the neighborhood Christmas party -- we call it our Festivus gathering, borrowing the idea for the alternative celebration from "Seinfeld." We all pitch in and seal off the cul-de-sac for community parties to mark Memorial Day at the start of each summer and Labor Day to mark its end. And our neighbor Will Tetherton has hosted the annual Thanksgiving feast for the past few years at his house, a large, two-story white house at the top of the cul-de-sac that sits atop a gradual rise with a commanding view down Cordovan Street as it slopes slowly downward toward its intersection with a major state highway.
Will was a special project. He and his wife, Gloria, had been close friends to Clint and me and he was devastated when she passed away from cancer about seven years ago. Will became morose and reclusive. He moved from a house on the corner just opposite of ours into the large white house at the top of the rise because everything in the house he and Gloria had shared was a painful reminder that haunted him, but he didn't want to leave our community. Will's adult children, Emma and Walt, had begged him to get out and meet people, perhaps date, but at least find interests to fill his brooding, idle hours. Their pleas got them nowhere. So Emma turned to me, knowing I am not above devious means to achieve a worthwhile goal.
Ellie Matner had been a friend and colleague in the teaching profession for decades. She's a little older than I am but our children were about the same age. We bonded as parents and as fellow professionals. The past 13 years, I worked under Ellie while she was the principal at the elementary school in our neighborhood. During that time, she made the school a statewide model, perennially among the highest ranked both by test scores and subsequent student outcomes, in Virginia. But most importantly, we managed to remain best friends even when ours was a boss-subordinate relationship. That's hugely rare.
I had toyed for a few years with the idea of fixing her up with Will, but I knew that he had to be handled delicately and that he might bristle if he thought someone was overstepping a boundary or intruding on his sacred, still-loving memory of Gloria. It was Clint who gave me the confidence to go for it.
Like Will, Ellie could be somewhat reclusive, though she wasn't emotionally vested in a past spouse as Will was. Thirteen years earlier, her marriage to a stuffy architect crashed and burned on a New Year's Eve when he came out to her that he was in love with a man. Ellie went into mama bear mode, resolute on protecting her twins, Mark and Melissa, and giving them the best possible childhood that a single mom could. As part of that, she also focused on being the best education professional she could be.
Clint and I both adored Ellie and, in our efforts to keep her from going reclusive on us, involved her in some of our family activities. She was a regular at birthday parties, at holiday gatherings, and occasionally beach vacations. It was last summer, when she joined us for a couple of days at the cottage we'd rented for a week in Corolla on North Carolina's Outer Banks. There, she confided to me that she would be retiring early this year, tentatively the end of February. Absent her lifelong avocation, I knew she would need something or someone to fill a considerable void in her life, and I sensed that with both her children grown and on their own, her resistance to dating was softening.
Ellie is a compact ball of energy. She's short, but lean -- easy to see how she had been a star sprinter on her high school track team in southeastern Ohio decades earlier and to this day a merciless force on a tennis court. But I didn't know how much of that was attributable to her actual physique or a fashion sense so keen that she could hide any infirmities of age beneath her impeccable clothing.
It was when Ellie and I were changing into our swimwear in our Corolla vacation rental for an afternoon on the beach that I saw firsthand that she's the real deal. There was no way anyone would believe that this body had given birth to twins in five decades plus on this planet. Her abdomen was firm, no bulges or rolls anywhere. Her tits were probably C cup with less sag than most women half her age, topped by dark, tight and prominent nipples. Her bare ass was a taut, perfect inverted-Valentine shape. My supposition that her vibrant auburn hair color came from a bottle fell away when I saw that it was a perfect match with her neat, reddish-brown nether curls.