Susan was much younger than me. She was the product of my best friend in high school and his first wife. I was the best man at their wedding. They seemed have it all. He worked for a local oil distribution company and made decent money. Back then, she was a stay-at-home wife- then mother. I joined the military right out of high school, so I wasn't around much. I'd usually come home on weekends during my advanced training and then only when I took leave while I was stationed at different bases around the world.
Susan was born while I was overseas. I didn't get much of a chance to watch her grow up, only when I was home on leave. It wasn't unusual for me to spend more time at their house than mine, including sleeping over, while I was home. I guess I was like her long-lost uncle when we saw each other. It was great.
Over the years her mother and I became close too. We were like brother and sister. I would date girls and we'd talk about things. I could ask her about anything and she'd give me a straight answer. I had real feelings for her. We were close. A little too close! This was about the time Susan was probably 18 or 19 years old. Nothing sexual ever happened between her mother and I, but it almost did. That is a tale for another story. Suffice it to say that my best friend and I have had a strained relationship from that time period until the present.
During the intervening years, they divorced. I'm still friends with both of them, but we aren't nearly as close as we once were. Due to my military career and happenings in life for all of us, I didn't come around often. I hadn't seen Susan since she worked at a bar close to her home when she was about 20 years old. I stopped by to say good bye one evening and gave her a kiss. (I learned later that her girlfriend, who worked with her, teased her about the older hot guy she kissed!)
Fast forward about 30 years. FB became available and I looked her up. We became friends and communicated that way. I was married (not quite happily) and she was divorcing an ass that liked to use her for his pugilistic training. We communicated and I let her know that I was going to be in town. I was driving miss daisy and a friend down to Florida and we were staying in a local motel (two rooms). I invited her over and she knocked on my room door. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the door.
She had grown up a bit since the last time I had seen her. She looked hot! Dirty blonde hair, nice sized breasts and a nice body. She was wearing a nice top and skin tight jeans with the slits int them that is all the rage these days. We hugged and gave each other a friendly kiss.
I invited her in and she told me her mother and newest husband were at her house visiting, but she said she had told her mother she couldn't come. "He's all mine!" is the phrase I believe she had used. This really piqued my interest. Here was this sexy younger woman whom I had known since she was born, telling her mother I was all hers. I will admit, sitting in a motel room with a sexy young girl had me thinking impure thoughts when she said that, but it was not to be. We talked for almost two hours. By that time, I was totally exhausted. I had driven for over eight hours with two older women to get there, neither of whom were really comfortable with interstate driving conditions. We hugged and kissed goodbye. We made plans to possibly meet up again the next day if time allowed, but it never came to pass. I was driving south again the next afternoon and let her know. I wonder to this day what might have happened if I were alone and didn't have to take the ladies south!I
I thought I had a chance to find out about a month and a half later. After our trip, one of the ladies, the one who owned the SUV we were in, flew back to Florida and found a place to live. She wanted me to drive her SUV back down there and she would pay for my flight home. Of course I agreed! But alas, fate intervened again. I called Susan to let her know I would be in town again, but she told me that she now had a boyfriend. I only half-jokingly told her not to tell him about me and meet me anyway.. We both laughed. It didn't happen. We did meet at a a restaurant next to the hotel and that's where I first met the new boyfriend. I was not very impressed.
He was O.K., but something just didn't sit right with me, besides him cutting into my imagined possibility! We had a nice dinner and closed the place down. The next day I had dinner with Susan, her father and the rest of his family, and then I headed south. Fast foreward a year and a half and I was on an extended road trip across the country and back. Susan and boyfriend now live in Alabama with Susans son. I stopped in to visit for a couple of days.
I was right about the boyfriend. Just to condense things, he doesn't have a job after being there a few months. Apparently hasn't looked for one either. And there are some major legal problems he failed to take care of before moving south, and he doesn't have a drivers liscense. Some of this was self-admitted, the majority of it was told to me by Susan. Even she is not all that impressed with him, but for whatever reason, she is still with him.
When I arrived, I was a little sad to see that he was still with her. I had thought that Susan and I would have all sorts of alone time. It all worked out in the end though. He doesn't have a steady job, but does go with Susan's son to do lawn care on the weekends. I arrived on Friday evening and stayed the weekend. Friday night we spent catching up. Saturday and part of Sunday we were able to spend alone time together. That worked in my favor.
It began sort of like this. We were talking on Saturday and during the conversation I reminded her of what she had said to me the first time we met- when she told her mother that I "was all hers tonight" I came right out and asked her what she meant by that statement.
"Well... Even though we hadn't seen each other in years, I have always looked up to you and truthfully, I've had a major crush on you most of my life. I thought it was special when you came and kiss me to say goodbye. My friends thought you were hot and wanted to know all about you. That got me to thinking of what it would be like to be together with you. It was just a silly teenaged crush, but over time it evolved and became and adult fantasy. For whatever reason, life got in the way, you moved away and hardly ever came home and I got married and had kids. But I never forgot those fantasies." She stopped talking for a moment and was thinking about something.