Part 1. From Danny's point of view.
Danny looked at the view from his aunt's beach house and watched the rollers coming in. He reminded himself how lucky he was to spend a week here by the sea. At age 18, just left school and due to start university in September, he reckoned he should be ready for the next step in his life ... but he wasn't. Confused was a word that circled his mind.
''How are you this morning, Danny?'' Her voice had sex appeal. Aunt Stacy was the sister to Danny's mother and the twin sisters looked alike. Auntie had always taken a keen interest in Danny and she had invited her nephew to spend a week or two relaxing. She came to stand alongside Danny. ''I brought you a mug of coffee.''
Danny took it gratefully. ''Thanks, Auntie.''
She put her hand on his shoulder. ''You're not your usual self this morning. The same yesterday. What's troubling you?''
This could be embarrassing, he thought and looked for a reasonable explanation. ''Oh, just wondering what the future might ... you know ... and all that.'' Even to Danny, his reasoning sounded dumb.
''Come and sit with me.'' She walked over to the armchair and indicated the sofa opposite. Danny had always found her silky voice attractive as he sat. ''I've known you all your life, Danny, and I know when you're hiding something. Best thing is to come clean.''
''I'm okay, really. Tired maybe.''
''You look tired so why aren't you getting enough sleep?''
''Hot, I guess.'' Danny took a sip of coffee and let his eyes flicker away from auntie's face and down to her cleavage and further down to her legs. He blinked and dragged his eyes up to her face again. ''Sorry.''
There was a moment's silence before she smiled. ''For what?''
''Well, ah ... I shouldn't be looking ... you know ... at your chest and ...'' He shrugged because he knew auntie was a very attractive woman. He had heard others say that she was a MILF. Her spiky blonde haircut and intense blue eyes made auntie look younger than her 40 years. And Danny had also seen her in a wet bikini which indicated teardrop breasts with large nipples. And her legs were shaped like a gymnast.
''It's a compliment,'' she laughed, ''and you're admiring my figure. Claude doesn't do that.''
Danny relaxed. ''Your husband must be mad.''
Stacy came to sit next to him. ''And what is worrying you? You look sad.''
''It's nothing.'' He told himself he could not tell her the truth - his problem with masturbating. ''It's a man thing,'' he said and looked at his lap.
Auntie gently cupped his chin and turned his head to face her. ''You are a good looking man. Your dark hair is too long, it shields your eyes and your lips are more full than most men. But you are adorable.'' She swept the hair back from his eyebrows. ''Tell me your problem.''
''I can't. It's sort of private.'' He wanted to look away but auntie kept him facing her, their eyes locked together. He felt the pressure to say something as her thumb moved over his lower lip. ''It's what all boys do.'' His words felt clumsy and he wanted to retract them.
''And men.'' Her voice sounded husky. ''Pleasure themselves ... relieve their stress ... men do it. Is this your problem?''
He nodded and auntie drew him in closer and hugged him. Danny smelt her perfume. Somehow, he felt reassured, that he could tell auntie anything. ''Yes,'' he mumbled.
As their hug increased, auntie said, ''Say it in your own words, Danny darling. I'm family and I understand.''
He spoke into her soft shoulder, ''I try to masturbate, want to do it ... try to ... but after a while, I lose it. I don't know why.''
''And this makes you frustrated.'' Auntie's other hand stroked his back as he nodded again. She said, ''Are you hard when you start?''
''Yup.'' He gulped and wanted to stay in her arms for reassurance.
''So you can get a little way along the journey, so to speak.'' He nodded and she spoke again into his ear, ''And you fantasise, I assume. But what happens then?''
Danny needed to take a breath and withdrew from their hug. ''Images swirl around my head and, I suppose, I get confused. And that's where I can't go further.''
''You lose your ... erection?''
''Yes.'' He thought back to last night and the lack of sleep as he tried to finish himself off.
As if reading his mind, she said, ''And you spent much of last night trying to masturbate and it didn't work.'' Her statement had him nodding again. She smiled. ''I'm more than twice your age, Danny, so I have more experience than you. There is a solution ... we have to talk things through ... we can resolve it. And once we've got to the bottom of this you'll be so much happier. Will you make me a promise?''
Danny trusted his aunt. She looked so much like his mother, her twin sister, that it felt like he was promising his mum. ''Yes, I promise.''
''Promise me to do whatever I suggest, to answer my questions truthfully, to follow me in this quest.''
''I promise, Auntie.'' He gave a broad smile, the first for ages and auntie put her hand against his cheek and used her thumb to wipe under his eye.
''You have a vulnerable side, Danny. I can see a lot of people falling for you. Not only are you handsome but you have a closeness to your feminine side, you relate to how women feel and act. You're a person of many parts I think.''
He raised his eyebrows in surprise. Ever since one of his friends had said that he looked pretty, he had changed his hair and clothes to emphasise his masculine side. And as auntie had been talking he noticed she had shifted her position, a push of her hips towards the sofa's edge which meant her skirt rose further up her thigh and couldn't go any further without exposing auntie's knickers. He tried to avoid looking but failed. Danny continued to take in the view below her waist.
By leaning over, auntie kissed the top of his head but now Danny's eyes looked down her cleavage. ''You poor boy,'' she said, ''you seem all over the place.'' She took his hand. ''Come with me.''
In a daze, Danny was lead upstairs, his hand still held as he walked behind auntie. He debated to himself whether aunt Stacy was going to make him have sex with her. ''Auntie,'' he said, as he pulled back slightly, ''it's not right to involve you. We can talk about things but no further ... you're my mother's sister and ... I don't know what mum would say.''
''There's nothing to tell my sister,'' as she went into her bedroom. ''I'm helping you discover yourself.''