Sylvia's grandson, Tim, was the apple of her eye. He had been since the moment he was born. He was a charmer since the day her daughter-in-law had brought him home from the hospital and he'd been capturing hearts ever since. But today Sylvia could see that Tim's mother was upset.
"Mom, we're at wit's end," Meg said. "He's in real trouble. He's a hair's breadth away from flunking out. We just don't know what to do." Sylvia was shocked. Tim was not only attending a prestigious university, he was doing so on an academic scholarship. He was not just intelligent, but brilliant.
"Honey, how can that be?" asked Sylvia. "Tim should be able to handle the course work easily...what's happened?"
"Oh Mom," Meg sighed. "Girls are what happened. He's so distracted it's keeping him from his work. We could keep a lid on it when he was home, but now he's a grown man...more or less... and miles away. We simply don't know how to cope with it. We can't exactly ground him."
Sylvia couldn't help smiling. So that was it! She wasn't surprised...Timmy was a handsome boy. Many young men were handsome, but Timmy was VERY handsome. Thick brown hair and eyebrows, rippling muscles, not to mention that Sylvia had seen him beside his parent's pool one day last summer wearing a pair of bathing trunks without a supporter. She blushed when she remembered the substantial bulge. Sylvia could think of two men who had been as handsome and they were both long gone...Elvis and Ricky Nelson. "Oh Good Heavens," she thought. "I'm getting OLD!"
"Mom?" Meg said tentatively. "He'll be home in a few days on Spring Break. Will you try talking to him? That boy simply worships you. You've always had more influence on him than we do. You're our last hope."
Sylvia remembered the little brown-haired boy who sat on her lap and began asking her to marry him as soon as he could talk. She'd kiss him and say, "I'm already married honey, but I love you just the same." It seemed like only an instant and he was a teenager, and when had he become so big and strong? He would take her into those muscular arms as gently as if she were a china teacup, and then bend down and kiss her neck with those soft lips so that it felt like a butterfly landing. It never failed to send a chill through her. "You're my best girl, Gram," he'd whisper in that deep voice.
Sylvia had been a widow now for five years. At age 62 she was still an impassioned woman and had kept herself in magnificent shape. She could see that much younger men noticed her. She enjoyed it, and why shouldn't she? She pleasured herself guiltlessly. She more often than not fantasized about her late husband. But recently thoughts of Tim beside the pool crept into her thoughts. She imagined herself kneeling naked before her grandson, gently playing with his bull-sized nuts, kissing his growing manhood...Oh My Stars! "What on earth is the matter with you?" she'd think to herself...AFTER having a very pleasing orgasm.
"I'll talk to him dear," Sylvia said. "Send him to me when he gets home."
It was a week later when her bell rang. She opened the door and was delighted to be again swept into Tim's arms. He kissed her and said, "You're my best girl, Gram."
"And you're the most handsome young devil who ever lived," she replied. "But turn off the charm, buster. We have to talk." The boy knew what was coming and was sheepish. For the next half-hour Sylvia lectured him. "Sweetheart, I'm going to do something I shouldn't, because I've always felt that virtue is its own reward," she concluded. "I'm going to bribe you. If you come through and make your parents proud, I'll give you something of your choice, as long as it's within my power to provide...how about it?"
"It's a deal," he replied.
It took more than one semester, and Tim not only improved, he made the Dean's List. Sylvia was again in his arms, utterly delighted, running her fingers through his thick, brown hair. "Ok Einstein," she said smiling. "It's time for me to settle up. What's it going to be? And before you speak, let me remind you that a Ferrari is NOT within my power to provide."
"Um, actually," he said quietly, "what I want doesn't cost a dime."
Sylvia eyed her grandson quizzically. "Nothing?" she asked. "Nothing at ALL?" She was intrigued. "Sweetheart, what is it that you want?"
Tim squeezed his pretty grandmother a little tighter. "You have to promise that it won't make you mad."
"Mad? I give you an open-ended choice, you say it costs nothing, and you're afraid I'll be mad? The suspense is killing me...out with it!"
"Gram...I want to make love to you."
Sylvia heard with perfect clarity. But she couldn't have...Tim said that he wanted to make love to her.