Chapter 2 β The relationship develops
My thanks to everybody who read Chapter 1 and especially to those who left comments. It was partially due to those comments that I was prompted to write another chapter. Chapter 3, which I think will be the last in this story, is in the process of being written.
I woke to a silent house and an empty space next to me in the bed. Descending to the kitchen I found a Post It note on the table. It said 'gone shopping, back at twelve, love S xxx.' It was now just after ten a.m.
Since waking, my mind had been dancing round the edges of thinking about last night, almost like a gourmand pausing before starting his favourite meal. Now, sitting at the kitchen table, I allowed my thoughts to re-play in time-order the scenes in the restaurant, the taxi, the hallway, the sitting room and climaxing (appropriately) in Sylvia's bed. I asked myself if I felt guilty or ashamed or indeed if I felt anything at all. The only conclusion I could come to was that I was immensely, overwhelmingly turned on by my grandmother and by what had happened between us. I had no vestige of remorse; we were, as Sylvia had pointed out, both consenting adults and I wanted it to happen again and again.
Although slightly comforted by this sketchy rationalisation, my lurking anxiety was how Sylvia would be feeling this morning. Would she pretend it had never happened? Would she want to 'talk about it' and insist it must never happen again? Somehow neither of these seemed likely; she had been as much an instigator as I. Besides, the Post It note didn't really support either of those possibilities. Nevertheless, an inner and pessimistic voice told me that people are unpredictable and casting about and endlessly modifying these options, and others, in my mind occupied me whilst I showered and dressed.
Five minutes of staring at an unfinished essay on eighteenth century economic trends in Europe convinced me that university work was out of the question, at least for the rest of the day, so pulling on some jogging bottoms and trainers I tried to purge my mind with a run.
It worked. It always does. I pushed myself round my favourite 5-mile circuit at a pace which left no spare capacity for analytical thought but just enough to concentrate on keeping my breathing ahead of the demand. Back at the house, showered again and feeling high on exercise, I wheeled out the garden mower and cut the lawns all around the house. As I was putting the mower back in the big, brick-built garden store there was the sound of a car scrunching up the short gravel drive. My bowels experienced an immediate and thrilling deliquescence with an accompanying weakness in the knees. The moment of truth had arrived.
Walking round to the front of the house I saw Sylvia unloading straining plastic bags of groceries from her hatchback. She was wearing slim-fit blue jeans and a halter-neck top β she looked fabulous!
"Let me help with those." Smiling, she turned to greet me.
"John, good morning and thanks, I'd love some help. Just stick them on the kitchen table and I'll unpack."
Three trips saw all the bags on the table and I helped by unloading the bags and passing items to be put in cupboards and the fridge/freezer. This done there was a slightly awkward silence. Sylvia broke it.
"Are you ok, John? I mean..."
"Yes, I'm great, really good." Suddenly I had to lift the stone and see what lay beneath.
"Sylvia, I thought last night was fantastic, the most intense experience of my life. You are a wonderful, sexy lady and I would really, really like it to happen again!"
"Oh thank goodness." She skipped across the kitchen to me and flung her arms around my neck.
"Oh darling, I was terrified that you'd wake up this morning and be disgusted with me or with yourself. That's why I got up without disturbing you. I thought you might be horrified about last night, you know, in the cold light of day. I couldn't stop thinking about it in the supermarket; it caused a four-trolley pile-up by the frozen veg!"
Overcome with laughing relief, I tilted her chin up slightly and lowered my lips to hers. Our mouths opened against each other and we kissed long and leisurely. It was different to last night. The urgency was gone and in its place there was a beautiful and languid sensuality. I stroked her back and she placed her hands either side of my head, her fingers twining into my hair. My erection, which had hidden itself away for most of the morning, while I contemplated various awful possibilities, now rose and stretched. Feeling it through her jeans, Sylvia thrust slightly forward with her hips and broke the kiss to look up at me.
"I'm so glad you feel that way, John. You made me feel wonderful last night. Would you believe that that was only the second time I've had sex since Charlie died, ten years ago? And that occasion was a disaster! And yes, I want it to happen again soon too, in fact why not now?"
I smiled with pleasure and excitement.
"Your bed or mine?"
"Let's try yours this time."
We kissed again, briefly, and Sylvia, taking my hand, led me slowly up the stairs to my bedroom, closing the door behind us.
We came together and kissed in the middle of the room. This time there was more urgency, more passion, more like last night. All at once Sylvia's hands were unbuckling my belt, pulling my T-shirt out of the waistband and over my head. Moving apart she removed her own top and peeled the slim-fit jeans down her legs, revealing matching red lacy bra and silk knickers. Almost choking with anticipation I stripped off my jeans, taking my underpants and socks with them. My cock was painfully rigid and leaking a clear fluid which it smeared on her silky knickers as I put my arms around her to unclasp her bra. Once more she guided me to the bed, this time sitting me down on the edge while she parted my legs and knelt between them.
"This time I'm going to suck you dry, darling, you'll last much longer afterwards."
Taking my steel-hard erection in her left hand she commenced stroking the shaft, using her right middle finger to smear the juices over its head. Still stroking she brought her middle finger to her mouth and slowly licked from the base to the dark-red painted tip before sliding the finger all the way into her mouth.
"Mmmm, you taste delicious."