What is it about a wedding?
Here I was, absolutely faithful for 15 years now, but the temptation was so great I was pretty sure that before this night was over all of that faithfulness would be in the past.
I had tried, I had honestly tried to avoid this. But well, dammit, I'm an assman and this was a truly world-class ass.
Now, don't get me wrong. I enjoy a nice breast, large or small, perky or saggy, just like any other man. I like women's faces, pretty or plain doesn't matter. I like them all. I like legs, even chubby legs with cankles and chubrub. Ditto arms, whether a swimmer's trim arms or gramma's arms with those sexy bags of fat under the upper arm, I like them.
But for me, it's a woman's ass that matters.
I can accept a trim little ass on a skinny swimmer or runner, or that sexy ass that's kind of lost on a fat girl. But if you really want to get my attention, it takes an hourglass or, yet better, a pear.
And the woman who had been assigned to be my escort at my son's wedding, since my wife was home nursing her arthritis, was definitely a pear with a world-class ass. More to the point, she was old enough to be near age-appropriate for my 75 years, with the interesting lines and wrinkles on her face and around her eyes, not to mention those sexy soft pads on her upper arms. Now I'm not some silly kid with big ideas about love at first sight or some such bullshit. But what I definitely felt was lust at first sight.
It had been a near thing, but I made it to the rehearsal on time, albeit barely as I pulled into the parking lot of the outdoor venue as the wedding party was getting organized.
My son, evidently already a few beers into his day-before celebration, greeted me with a bearhug and, "You're LATE!"
He walked me to the porch of the house where everyone would be staged up for the ceremony.
And he introduced me to Audry, Meg's, his bride-to-be-tomorrow's aunt. She had been dragooned into being the substitute for my wife for the ceremony and she didn't seem happy about it. She wasn't hostile, but I had the definite impression she would have rather been taking care of her niece.
She's a tall woman, right at my own 5'10" and I figured she'd top out a bit over 6 feet if she wore any heels at all. She was blonde, and pale eyebrows and blue eyes suggested she was a natural blonde. She had the look of a woman who believed she was plain but worked hard to do her best with what she had. Her hair had obviously been to the salon lately, and her face was a bit overly, but expertly made up. Designer glasses framed wide-set eyes. Tiny ears were hidden under the mass of that honey-blonde hair. A small, straight nose was centered over a tiny mouth with classic cupid-bow lips.
I can't say she was pretty, but she was attractive.
But that didn't matter as I continued looking.
It was a warm day and she had on one of those dresses, a combination of what I think of as a "sundress" and a "beach dress." Maybe a "shift?" I'm not very clear on the nomenclature for women's clothes. It was a bright pattern, yellows and blues predominated with green vines and leaves holding flowers together and patches of bright red highlighting things. Wide straps held it up but then it was pretty shapeless all the way to her feet which peeked out under the bottom hem.
She seemed to be pretty small breasted, at least there was no big rise at her chest, just a small bump. But those hips and that ass, those hips, and that MAGNIFICENT ass, pushed the material of the dress away so that at her feet the dress covered a much bigger circle than at, oh, say, her waist.
She was NOT smiling as I looked up, finished my quick inventory, and met her eyes.
"Take a picture, Phillip," she said, and there was no humor at all in her voice, "It lasts longer."
So I did. I grinned, pulled my little Samsung flip phone from my pocket, opened it, and took a picture.
She finally smiled at that.
"Okay," she said, the smile real, "I probably deserved that."
My flirting skills were rusty, I'll admit it. My wife, number three if you're keeping score, was a jealous redhead and I didn't want to trigger her anger. She's a big woman and, well, if we're being honest here, her spankings hurt. So I walked the straight and narrow. But she was the best part of a thousand miles away, at home, nursing her arthritis, and I was here with this woman with the MAGNIFICENT ass.
So I flirted.
I put on my best boyish grin, the one I used to practice in the mirror, stepped close, putting my hand lightly on the deliciously soft skin at the back of her upper arm, brushed it very gently, and said, "You did. Now mind your manners."
Her eyes got big and then she giggled softly.
Okay, you can fill in your own dialogue. It was a story as old as Oog, the pre-Neolithic Revolution caveman finding Oogla, the pre-Neolithic Revolution cavewoman, attractive, hitting her on the head with his club, and dragging her into his cave for a night of love. I didn't use a club, but I did make my interest obvious.
And she turned out, when she wasn't scowling at me and pissed off about something, to be fun. She was bright and witty. Quick to laugh, quick-witted too, with a wisecrack to match my best. We drew sharp looks from the guy who would handle the ceremony, I later learned a friend of my son's, and that gave us both a bit of the giggles.
I guess I wasn't too rusty.
By the time we had been through the instructions and started the walk-through, Audry's hand on the crook of my arm was squeezing very lightly in that way a woman has that lets her man know that she's interested. We did the walk, second in line behind the mother-of-the-bride escorted by my ex's new husband. We sat and watched as the rest of the ceremony unfolded, sharing little wisecracks and giggles, drawing a sharp look from my ex which made me giggle even more.
When we stood to go back for the second, and I hoped the last, walk through I laid my hand lightly low on her waist, guiding her in that way we men do with our women, both guiding and claiming, and she didn't pull away.
The combination of soft, warm waist and the wide shelf of her hip against the edge of my hand sent a tiny electric jolt from my hand to my groin and I was surprised to feel myself getting hard without chemical assistance.
And, I was VERY aware that she made no attempt to remove my hand.
The second rehearsal went off without a hitch. Audry and I even remained quiet this time.
When Stephen, my son, had walked Meg, his bride, back down the aisle, finishing with a deep dip kiss we all applauded.
"Okay, crew," Stephen said, always on stage my boy is, "Dinner is at
Randall's Restaurant
with service starting at 7:00. See you then," and with a flourish, he picked up Meg and marched out of sight.
I laughed and said, "That's my boy."
Audry laughed and said, "That's my niece."
"Soooooooooo," I said, "can I give you a ride?"
"I have my car," she said, "I'll follow you."
"I'm not at the hotel," I said, "I have an Airbnb downtown."
Her smile said it all.
"Okay," she said.
So I hunted down my son, surrounded by his posse, and exchanged silly pleasantries, while Audry was wrapping Meg in a big hug and saying something very softly in her ear.
I walked her out to her car, well, actually, her truck, a big Ram 2500 with
Hemi
proudly displayed on the fender. I whistled approvingly and said, "I'm jealous."
She laughed and said, "Big girl. Big truck."
I admired the view as she climbed up into the big truck and then buzzed down the window.
"Which one is yours?" she asked.