Aunt Rita is, well, an "interesting" woman is probably the best adjective. She's short, right at 5'2", and a perfect tube of a woman. You know, the four basic shapes of the female body? Hourglass, apple, pear, and tube? Well, Aunt Rita's a tube.
After she and Uncle John, dead now for a decade after managing to get himself electrocuted pretending he was still good enough to be a lineman for the electric utility he ran, had their swimming pool installed I had spent a lot of summer days at their house so I knew she was flat chested with a muffin top, pudgy arms and legs and, as some character in an old sitcom had described, "cankles," thick ankles making a smaller tube involving her calves and ankles.
She's cute rather than pretty in that round-faced way of plump women. Her most striking feature is that flaming red hair that no set of human genes ever produced without chemical assistance.
"Aunt Rita," I said as she led, well, kind of pulled, me along to Mom and Dad's, no, to
MY
bedroom, "this is..." and I kind of wound down.
"Aunt Rita," I started again but she stopped me with a kiss.
It was possibly the most tender, loving, gentle kiss I have ever received, and that includes three wives and two kids.
"Shhhh," she said softly, breaking the kiss and reaching for the hem of my T-shirt.
When I lifted my arms to allow her to pull the shirt up and off I realized that I slept in these clothes and pretty desperately needed a shower.
"Aunt Rita," I started again and she stopped me with another of those delicate kisses.
"Later, David," she said, "but first we celebrate life on this terrible day."
Her kisses covered my face and my 19-year-old body responded.
She knew, the three decades of experience she had on me making it impossible to hide anything from her even supposing I had wanted to, what I needed. But I didn't want to hide anything. I realized, way down below the level of thinking, that she was right. I needed this, desperately.
When I grabbed her arms and tried to kiss her harder she got her hands between us.
"No, Davey," she said in that soft voice, "Easy. No hurrying today. We're celebrating life, not fucking."
I think it was the crudity of that last phrase that brought me back from the lust I had started to feel.
I started on her buttons then, slowly, one button at a time, enjoying the look of her pale, heavily freckled skin as I exposed it. I remembered from seeing her at the swimming pool that she's a true ginger with that red hair, pale skin, and freckles.
"That's better," she said, her lips finding soft skin on my chest.
I wanted to feel skin against skin, not in lust but for comfort, so I reached around her and unhooked her bra, pulled it free over her arms, and then embraced her.
She's beyond flat-chested. Aunt Rita's breasts look like she started puberty and then, somehow, was frozen. Her pink nipples are puffy, slightly bigger than a boy's, and her breasts are small teacups. They felt firm and warm against my skin as I pulled her to me and started crying.
"That's right, Davey," she said, holding me to her, "let it out."
A dam broke. I was bawling, sobbing like I hadn't since I fell off my bike and skinned my knee, a scar I still bear, when I was seven.
She was comforting me, her hand stroking my hair, telling me, over and over, to "let it out."