Margaret leaned back in her white wooden deck chair and turned her face up to the late morning sun. It was simply a lovely day; lovely enough that she'd only worked for a few hours on her telecommute and now she was ready for a bit of pre-planned self-indulgent "Margaret time." He'd be here shortly anyhow and then...she'd want to provide him with her full and undivided attention. She looked back at her laptop and thought,
"
You've done so much today Maggie, you were up at six working away. Its half past ten and you've been working hard all week. What's a little harm if two of the seven deadly sins, sloth and lust camp out in your head and you enjoy the Friday. He'll be here in a few minutes anyhow? You don't want to miss that show.. now do you?
Besides girl
... all is going according to plan!"
She slapped a little bit of sun oil on her face and her shapely thirty-five year old form; slathering her firm arms and legs before remembering to get a bit on her feet and her red painted toes.
She waited, and she was correct. In fifteen minutes he arrived and the show was ready to begin at her poolside in the tranquil backyard of her comfortable British home in Weymouth. The "show" happened to be none other than her eighteen-year-old-nephew William, or "Billy."
He was her older sister Marion's boy. The flower of his youth had just opened and blossomed a few weeks before (with his eighteenth birthday) and she'd noticed when it had opened.
Oh he was always a handsome little fellow
and Margaret, or "Auntie Maggie" as she was called by him and his mummy Marion,
was always quite fond of him
. Incidents of late following that milestone of a birthday had turned that fondness into something a little bit... "more."
As Billy walked into Maggie's backyard from the backyard of the house where he and his mummy lived; opening and shutting the gate loudly and armed with an assortment of clattering gardening tools, a few memories of those "incidents" and "happy accidents" came flooding back to Maggie. He shuffled with his heavy load up to his aunt who apparently was lying on her deck chair by the pool, all greased up in her white two piece bathing suit and she seemed to be off in another place entirely although her eyes followed him. He made eye contact with her and spoke;
"Hi Aunt Maggie. I'm here to get started on the work along the pool hedges."
"Oh," said Maggie coming back down to this planet, " th- that's very good, Billy! Thank you for coming over to do the work. I am so happy you'll be spending time here while your mummy is traveling... hope you are not upset you had to cancel plans with your friends and stay with your boring old auntie Maggie!"
"Oh... no bother here, I'll just get started here then. I'll bring my bag of things over a little later n' take 'em up to the guest room?"
"Yes," Maggie said, " that sounds marvelous Billy, please do. You've got a lot to get done I know. I won't keep you a second longer." She was happy she was wearing extra dark sunglasses. Her eyes were completely hidden as she followed him with them; watching his lean torso and his tight compact hips moving around the pool and over to the hedge to commence work. She began to remember... and daydream.
Maggie Cory had been born into a bit of money, (as had her sister Marion). There was a trust fund... a sizeable one. It had gone all the way back to the interwar years and had been passed from her great grandfather to her grandfather, then her father and now down to Marion and Maggie; each time getting a bit smaller and following the death of Maggie's father and mother when she and Marion were in their twenties... it was large enough for them to afford their two houses and provide them with a comfortable monthly flow of money that was to go on until they were both food for the worms or until it was passed to offspring.
The fact that Maggie never had a child meant that the trust would most likely go to her nephew Billy when everyone else was gone. It wasn't that Maggie hadn't known love...
in fact quite the opposite was true.
She and her sister Marion had married into money
as well
and while Marion was a widow and inherited another lovely chunk of inheritance from her late husband's estate; Maggie had found a superb lawyer upon discovering her husband Simon had been shagging his secretary rotten and she'd managed to secure an amount of out court settlement that by most accounts would be considered..."significant." It hadn't been that she'd been a total victim either...
in fact she'd had quite a long list of both male and female lovers find their way into her bed while married to Simon.
It might be said that she'd gotten to the lawyers first.
Once single she looked at the sizeable amount of cash her real-estate mogal of an ex-husband had paid out to her and she invested it; not in the market but in her sister's company. The family business was an off-shoot really of great grand pa-pah's original company that had provided silk for parachutes both before and during the Second World War. After the war, her grand-daddy had the presence of mind to provide silk to a new and emerging market;
that of ladies naughty underthings.
The Cory's became a house-hold name when it came to knickers and naughty unmentionables. With the advent of the sexual revolution and the walls of taboo tumbling down all over the European continent, the family expanded the business to something of a tangent but no less profitable...adult toys!
Besides the trust money, they had regular income as part of their shared ownership in "the company" which big sister Marion ran daily. Maggie, whose education was that of a fashion designer and consultant, continued to provide new and exciting ideas to the company for lingerie and club apparel but unlike her older sister who adored the daily grind...
"lil Sis" was happy to simply telecommute four days out of the work week.
Besides, in the comfort of her home that she'd bought next to her sister's house; she had the perfect
creative environment.
With her lilies and roses in the back garden by the pool, she'd found significant inspiration for her work; sufficient enough that she'd spearheaded an entire new product line of designs for big Sis's (that involved knickers and underwear that appeared to be straight out of the 1800's). The new line of "vintage revival aesthetic clothing" had been taking the Steampunk and Cosplay set by storm. No... money and time to herself really weren't a problem for her;
scratching her "itches" was!
Which brings us readers to the latest "itch to scratch," of hers standing before her; young Billy. What a handsome itch he was now! She'd watched him grow from a bit of an adolescent fawn; all wobbly legs and big head into something of a robust young fellow with a penchant for sport. On his eighteenth birthday she'd been invited over to her sister's house for the party. She wouldn't have missed it for the world, truth be told. There, she noticed Billy as he was speaking to a few of his teenage chums in the kitchen.
The birthday boy had grown into a rather sturdy fellow. The gawky teen was gone; having morphed into a broad shouldered young man with a strong chin and lovely curly brown hair that he was constantly flipping to one side out his hazel eyes like he was some teen heartthrob on a YouTube video, watched over and over by squealing teen girls. Spindly arms had been replaced by rather well defined biceps and veiny forearms that did not escape Maggie's notice; as did powerful well developed legs that he'd developed from a steady regime of football and beach volleyball. He made an impression on her- that much was true, but at the time she thought..."Well some girl will be quite happy with THAT one," then she put it out of her head and ignored a little
chest flutter
she'd felt.
She'd had a conversation with her sister Marion over the phone a few days later that created quite a flutter again; and other things. Apparently late one evening as the two sisters were in bed in their respective houses, Marion phoned Maggie with a few questions she'd had concerning some sketches she'd drawn up. Over the course of the conversation it seems that talk focused less on work and more and more upon bawdy girl talk between two sisters who were letting their hair down.
The discussion turned to men and then to sex and then back to men again; perfectly natural really when you consider the family business that their entire world rotated around
and that put both bread on their tables, and money in their swelling bank accounts.
There was nothing so out of the ordinary with that... it was just that when the bawdy giggling conversation turned to a certain gentleman with whom Maggie'd had a tryst with and our heroine then described the ex-boyfriends generously proportioned sex organ at length; well... there was a pause and Marion said quite thoughtfully,
"That sounds a bit like Billy."
Well you could have knocked Maggie back over with a bit of goose-down fluff from one of her pillows behind her head!
"Ummm did I hear you right Sis?" Maggie asked (not certain just exactly what she'd heard), "Did you say...
like Billy?"
"Well yes," Marion continued with a giggle, "I had to step into the bath to get something the other day and he was using my shower; y'now...
it has the clear glass and the tile you love?
Well there he was scrubbing away," she chuckled, "and there
IT
was hanging down like a limp beer bottle! He's hung like a ruddy draft-pony I swear...
just like his daddy was!"
Marion giggled again. Her laugh made her sound like a bad school-girl who'd been going through her daddy's medical books and now was recalling a photo of a penis to her sibling for the first time.
"Sis!" Maggie gasped; shocked and tittering at the same time, "what are you doing staring?" She couldn't believe what she'd heard,
"he's your bloody son!"
"It was just a harmless glance Maggie; nothing more. He's got a lovely large package down there; just like his daddy had, and I noticed he's got a bit of a "happy-trail" of brown hair running down to his navel and his pubes...
just like my late husband.