Thank you to the person who suggested this topic, I named something significant in the story after you.
All of the fictional characters in this story are over 18.
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"Want one last swig, Carrie?" Viv asks, offering me her flask.
"Sure," I say, taking a long sip of the velvety smooth brandy.
"Well, I've got to go," she says as I hand her flask back to her.
The little biplane we are riding in has stopped moving. We both know from experience the motor will stop momentarily. Viv stands up, in a stoop because the ceiling is too low for her to fully extend herself, and she smooths out and straightens her dress.
I shift in my seat and give her a little more room as the motor stops, and she opens the cabin door and steps onto the wing. I move toward the door and see that she is easing herself down on the ground. Bob, the pilot, is still getting out of the open cockpit, climbing down the fuselage side behind us.
"I would give you a hand if you would wait for a second," our pilot says.
"That's okay, Bob, I've done it hundreds of times," Viv replies.
Tony has walked from the house that serves as a combination warehouse, store, hotel, post office, and occasional hospital out here in the middle-of-nowhere. Viv gives him a big hug and says something to him that is unintelligible to me. Then she retraces his steps in reverse.
Tony puts his right foot on the metal stirrup and grabs the hand-hold, stepping onto the wing where my friend had just been. He walks to the cabin door and I sit back into the far rear seat to give him room. He closes the door and sits facing me on the seat diagonally opposite.
"Hi Carrie," he says softly with a smile.
The lightweight airplane moves around a little bit as Bob pulls two big bags of parcels and mail from the compartment directly behind the cockpit. He calls "EZ-JAL" -- the registration code for this DH.50J -- a "balanced" airplane because, with four passengers, baggage, freight, himself, and gas, it hauls as much as it weighs. But we will just have two passengers and a few letters on board when we leave 'The Creek' a rather optimistically named homestead.
Tony is smiling at me when I make eye contact again, so I stand and bend forward doing something unnecessary just so that he can look down my neckline and see my breasts. Getting very close, whispering in his ear I ask him if he "wants to" once we get airborne.
Young and muscular, but shy. Tony lives in the high savannah where there are no accessible women to date. He says "yes" to me with smiles rather than words. As I hear Bob climb back into the cockpit behind us I tenderly run my hand from his cheek to his neck to his chest and his waist. There I adjust and buckle his seatbelt before I sit back and put my own on.
After we taxi, take-off, climb and level out, I take off my seatbelt and reach over to remove his.
"Are you 'up'?" I ask, as my hand lingers on his waist after unbuckling him. "Should I take this off as well?"
"He nods." Baby steps I think.
"Look, Tony," I say, "you are a sweet guy and I know that you want something. Just say what it is that you want. It makes it rather easier to get it." Then I slowly pulled my dress off, folded it, and put it on the seat by the door.