We have been here together before,' I reminded her.
'I know,' she said.
'You called it 'my place'.'
'It's our place, or it was, but you were gone.'
'But here we are again.' I said.
'Yes, I should have known I'd see you again some day. I didn't think I would.'
'I always thought so too, and I always imagined that we would be in this place again together.'
'I'm sixty now; almost an old woman.'
'I'm thirty-six now. It doesn't matter.'
'That's still six years younger than I was the first time we were together.'
'It doesn't matter.'
'It's easier for men, aging.'
'Maybe.'
'I can't stay here long today. I only popped out to get some shopping. Derek is waiting at home. He's retired now.'
'Can we meet again?'
'You want to?'
'Yes, of course.'
'Then Saturday. I will pick you up at one.'
Saturday came around and I was waiting on the high street where she had told me to, and she arrived right on time. We drove to the same place by the river that she had taken me to the week before. When she picked me up, she was in a playful mood, unlike the reflective and slightly melancholy way she had been at times the week before. I think that the fact that things had gone so well between us the previous Saturday, and my indicating to her that she was still desirable now, put her in a girlish and flirtatious mood. If she stayed in this mood, I would seduce her. I decided that in the car. And everything about her, from her manner to the way she had dressed suggested that she was in the mood to be seduced.
We would come full circle. That first time in the car, when I had clumsily made my adolescent pass and she had accepted it and we had masturbated each other and she had sucked my cock. Then what I came to think of as the collision between us, when I had thought that all I had needed to do was put myself in her way and something would happen. And it had, oh it had; but not quite as I had expected. I found that she had turned into a sort of secret suburban libertine, and the beginning of it had been more a clash than the gentle coming together of suburban housewife and small town boy turned educated young city dweller. It had been Yvonne who set the tone that time, and it was she who had educated me about what the body wants and what it knows, and how to find the answers to its questions.
This time it was going to be different. It would be a more conventional seduction. I would ask her for another date. We would go for lunch and then spend the afternoon together, and we would reacquaint ourselves with each other's bodies and to her surprise, I would take delight in the ravages of age that had gently, but indelibly marked her body, and she would be surprised that I still desired her so, despite the work that nature and experience had performed on her flesh and in her eyes. It turned out that one half of what I expected was the way it went.
I took the chance to look her over again, as I had when we had first met at the shops. I had been right. She still had it, though maybe she didn't believe it anymore. I looked carefully at her. She had not gained weight, as so many people do with age. She had never been slim either, at least not when I had known her before. She had been shapely, a little voluptuous even. And she had never been a great beauty; not the kind of woman to turn many heads on the street; but there was nothing motherly or housewifely about her either. And mother and housewife were two of the things she had been. She was attractive, but that not mean anything definite. She was very, very sexy, and in a way that was not contrived. That was why she had been so sexy. And she still had it, and the years had not been too unkind. Her face was lined of course, but not too much, and her skin was still good. She had wide, hazel eyes and her hair had been dark brown, but now it was half grey. It was like her not to have coloured it.
She continued to be flirtatious as she drove and as we were about to get out of the car, she turned to reach for a jacket, which she had put on the back seat. With her other hand, she held the dashboard in front of me, to balance herself as she turned, and as she turned back, she allowed her hand to drop low enough, and close enough to my lap for her fingers to brush almost imperceptibly over the gentle bulge of my crotch as she drew her hand back towards herself. It may have been that she let her fingers stop there, gently touching the material of my trousers over my cock, for a moment, but I could never tell, because ever since I had known her, it had always felt to me that whenever we were in the same room, it was as though she was touching me, even when she wasn't, right back to the time, a long time before the time in the car, when I had been sitting in her living room with Neil and Robert and she had come in and sat down in her usual black, and smoked and cross and uncrossed her legs at times, and without meaning to flirt, and I had got a fierce erection.
'I wanted to make this a big seduction,' I told her, 'and take you to lunch or dinner and then to a hotel for the afternoon or the night, but now, here, I want you so badly that I want to do it with you here.'
'I want to do it here too,' she said, 'because I want to do it now. I don't want to wait. I don't need the usual procedures or the dressings up. I need your body and mine, I need your cock in my pussy, and I need you.'
I was kissing her and fondling her breast through her blouse, almost before she had finished what she was saying. And then the old Yvonne was there for a moment, for she added
'And I've always wanted you to fuck me again, and in this place, our place.'
I didn't think she quite believed it as much as she used to. Her last sentence seemed to contradict itself. She said she wanted to be fucked, when it seemed to me that it was something else she wanted, or the act of fucking, but by another name, not fucking, but something else. And that was confirmed by her saying this place was our place. And I think she wanted affirmation too; that even though she was sixty, she was still a woman and desirable. And desirable to a man so much younger than she was and one with whom she had such a history.
'No one comes here but me,' she said, 'so we are safe. We can strip off, and do whatever we like.'
Our sex that afternoon was different from how it had ever been before. It still had the urgent, animal quality that it had always had, but there was something else as well. We undressed each other as we were sitting there and kissing, until we were other naked to our underwear.
'You still wear the same kind of boxer shorts,' she said, as she undid the button on the fly and eased my cock out through the gap. She stroked it gently and then she said
'I have missed him.'