I've been single for nearly 10 years now, ever since my husband passed away, and at 48 I'm far too old to get back into the whole dating thing. That aside, I still like to look my best, and I'd like to think I look pretty good for my age (save the stretch marks and the odd wrinkle). I'm not lonely either, I've got my darling son Paul to keep me company.
He's been a real comfort to me and kept me sane during the first difficult years. Now he's all grown up, a handsome young man of 19 and he's often out on the town with his friends of a weekend. I don't begrudge him a good time, but it can be quite annoying when he keeps me up all night "entertaining" his young lady friends in the room next door. He seems to pick up a different young lady every night, and I'm often treated to the sound of some little floozy panting and screaming till the early hours.
I can definitely say I approve of his current girlfriend though, as I was introduced to her some 2 months ago, and we are like one big happy family.
It started on a Friday night, Paul was out on the town and I decided to get an early night in, so I retired to bed around 11. I was so tired after a hard week at the office where I work that I didn't hear him coming home, and was oblivious to the fact he had come back at all, until I heard some movement in the kitchen downstairs, and assuming it was him, I got up.
I wrapped my dressing gown around my nightdress and slipped downstairs to make him breakfast as I always did on a weekend. When I entered the kitchen, there was no sight of Paul at all, instead there was a girl sat at the kitchen table. I call her a girl out of habit, she was not like his usual air-headed bimbo type, this was a real mature woman, quite attractive too, aged not too far off me, I'd say she was late thirties/early forties. She had the most beautiful chocolate brown skin, and long black curly hair and she looked quite fetching in the short silver dress she had obviously been wearing to go out in the night before.
Seeing me stood there, she got up and introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Susan," she chirped offering a hand to shake.
Taking her hand, I introduced myself politely, "I'm Beverly, Paul's mother, is he not up yet?"
"Paul's gone out early to the gym, he told me to make myself at home and when he got back we'd go into town," she replied, asking me if it was OK.
I smiled and nodded, pouring us both a coffee I sat down to find out some more about her. She told me she worked down at the gym and that's how they had first met. She was divorced from her last husband and work commitments had left no time for children. This woman was so different from all the other girls he had introduced me to, and the more we chatted, the better we seemed to get on.
I told her to make herself comfortable while I went for a shower, and then we could have breakfast together while we waited for Paul, and she smiled and thanked me. She even offered to make breakfast for us.
I reassured her it wasn't necessary, but she insisted and I accepted her offer gladly, before going upstairs to shower. As I washed myself I thought to myself what a nice woman Susan was and I hoped Paul would see more of her. After 5 minutes or so, I switched off the shower, wrapped a towel around myself and exited the bathroom, moving across the landing to my bedroom to dry off and dress. As I entered the room, I unfastened the large towel from around my chest and dropped it to the floor, before slipping on my panties and bra, and moving over to the wardrobe to pick out an outfit.
As I turned round, Susan was stood in the doorway, she wanted to ask where I kept the frying pan.
I was rather embarrassed to be stood there half naked in front of a woman I'd only just met, let alone one with such a perfect figure, and I tried to cover myself with my hands as best I could. Susan could see I was uncomfortable with my situation and apologised for the intrusion before adding a further unexpected complement. As she went to leave me to dress she said "I don't know why you're trying to hide yourself Beverly, most women would kill for a body like yours."
My face flushed red with embarrassment, not used to being complemented on my appearance, seeing my coyness she continued. "Honestly, I should know, I see so many women working like crazy just to try and maintain a figure like you have naturally."
I was really flushed pink now and covered my face with my hands, leaving my body open to her full scrutiny.
"You look fabulous Beverly, honestly," then looking at the selection of long loose dresses in my wardrobe, she added "You really shouldn't be hiding it in clothes like those, you should be proud, show yourself off a bit."
Then before I could reply, I uncovered my face and was stunned to see her slipping out of her dress, leaving her in a tiny pair of lacy knickers and a matching bra which only half covered her perfectly round full bosom. Then she handed the dress over to me and invited me to try it on. Although it wasn't really my style, if I had refused it would have looked very odd indeed for her so I took the dress and slipped it on.
"Wow!" she enthused, as she looked me up and down, "You look great!"
This time when I looked in the mirror, I couldn't disagree. Though I say so myself, I did look pretty good in it.
Susan chuckled as she saw how surprised I was with my attractive reflection and laughed as I turned and posed in the mirror "See, I told you Bev, it really shows off your boobs, I wish I had a pair like that!"