Guy was a twenty-five year old washing machine service engineer who was mentally and physically marred by the scarring of adolescent acne. He was also thin, shy, and sexually frustrated, and was altogether the exact opposite of all that service engineers are supposed to be. His was not the life of continual housewife conquests and extended house calls no matter how much he wanted it to be, and on the only two occasions that he had made half-hearted advances to the ladies he had called on he had been rebuffed instantly, and threatened with being reported to head office. He had learned to keep his wishes and fantasies to himself and wait for a woman someday to make the first move. Not that he expected that anytime soon. That is, until one particular day when he was called out of his area to attend to a wealthy and important client when the usual area engineer unexpectedly went off sick.
Denise Miles was the forty-seven year old wife of Eric Miles, millionaire owner of a string of fast food outlets dotted all across the South of England. She was also blonde, exceptionally beautiful, and extremely sexually repressed, for when it came to the bedroom her husband viewed her in much the same way as he viewed his customers, to be serviced with as little effort as possible, as quickly as he could, and with the maximum amount of return for himself. His shortcomings must have been apparent even to himself, for he continually threatened violence if she should ever take her needs elsewhere, threats that he had unjustly carried out more than once. It was his insane and paranoid jealousy that finally made her determined to make up for what she had missed when the next opportunity arose. She had done the time, she reasoned, and now she would do the crime. Not that she expected that to happen anytime soon. That is, until one particular day when a strange, gangly service engineer called to fix a faulty washing machine.
Usually Eric made sure that he was home if anyone was due to call and then hung around to make absolutely certain that not so much as a wink passed between his wife and whoever the caller was on that occasion. But this time he took one look at the stuttering youth who stood fidgeting with his tool box, clearly in awe of his surroundings, and figured that this time he was safe to leave everything to his wife. Not that he was leaving them to it altogether - he wasn't that trusting. He felt sure that his presence in the garage that adjoined the laundry room was enough to ensure that nothing could happen between a sophisticated middle aged woman and an engineer who only a mother could love.
Bizarrely both Denise and Guy were immediately and instinctively drawn to each other as the opposite faces of the same coin, perhaps their own limitations and restrictions allowing them to see beyond those of the other. But whatever the reason, Denise saw slim, not skinny, and restrained rather than timid, and she didn't see the acne scars at all. At the same time Guy saw past the severe hairstyle and drab middle-aged clothes to the voluptuously sexy body they covered, the difference in their ages being as invisible to him as his ancient acne was to her. Each was intuitively sure that the other was a tiger waiting to be liberated, and as soon as they were alone together the air positively crackled with pent up sexual energy. But it was, of course, left to Denise to make the first tentative advances, the sound of an engine starting up next door allowing her to flirt, albeit quietly.
'I imagine you enjoy the perks of your job, don't you?'
He looked up with the side panel of the machine in his hands, puzzled incomprehension plastered all over his face.
'You know.' She pushed on. 'Calling on all those housewives alone in their homes?'
He shook his head, trying not to see where the conversation was headed.
'Don't tell me you never service more than the washing machine?'
She placed a heavy emphasis on the word 'service' so that he couldn't misunderstand this time.
He felt colour rising in his cheeks as if she had somehow discovered his fantasy. He shook his head again, more emphatically, burying his face in the innards of the machine.
'No, never.'
'But what about when women make a pass at you? They do, don't they?'
'It's never happened to me.'
The little words 'to me' tugged at Denise's heart strings more than a little and she made the decision that she would push things as far as they would go, Eric or no Eric.
'What would you do if they did?'
'I wouldn't do anything.'
Inside he was saying to himself that he bloody well would, if only he could pluck up the courage.
'Why not? You're not 'the other way' are you?'
'No!' He emphatically denied the implied homosexuality.
'So, wouldn't you like someone to fancy you?'
'Yes. But....' His voice trailed away in confusion. She looked directly at him and waited, forcing him to finish.
'But what if they change their minds and report me?
'I fancy you, and I would never change my mind.'
There, she had said it and it was out in the open, and when he looked up at her she could see surprise on his face and frightened lust lurking deep in his eyes. An unspoken, unknowing pact was made between them at that moment, and all they had to do now was to recognize it and then somehow fulfil it.
He stood up from the machine with a broken inlet valve in his hand.
'Wouldn't you?' He asked.
'No.' She answered flatly
He didn't know what to say, didn't know how to react, and so he just took the new valve out of its box and stared at her.
'What would you do if I came on to you now?' She asked in a whisper, her own nervousness clear in her voice.
'I don't know.' He licked suddenly arid lips and felt his heart begin to hammer.
'Wouldn't you like me to?'
'Yes, if you really mean it.'
She came and stood close to him, looking into his eyes from only a foot or so away as she reached across and fondled his terrified and flaccid penis through his jeans.
'There.' She whispered. 'Now you know I mean it.'
He said nothing and she carried on fondling him, smiling when she felt his body react, his cock unfurling and lengthening behind his fly.
'What if your husband comes in, he's only next door?'
The words came as a frightened whisper.
'Yes, I know.' She sighed softly. 'We can't do anything while he's here, but you can always come back another time.'
He didn't answer, even when she cupped his balls through his jeans and gently played with them.
'You can come back another day, can't you?'
'Yes. But what reason would I have if he was here?'
She stopped for a moment to think and then, releasing him, she went across to his tool box and removed a pair of long nosed pliers.