Thank you for reading my short story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England. All email comments good or bad welcomed. I will try and reply to each and every one but please note that all email comments from an incomplete or invalid email address will be deleted immediately and sadly will not be read. Rude or abusive comments may result in blocking. Please note that I am a female and I write in British English.
My nephew had telephoned me and asked if he could come and visit and possibly stay over a few days. He lived in Gloucester and it was quite a journey to the East Riding of Yorkshire, certainly more than could reasonably be done in a single day. Aaron is a property manager for a large brewery. He finds properties with prospects and converts them to one of their signature brands, family friendly, budget or Up Market steak houses. He also manages existing pub properties that are not performing as they should. He either turns them around or flips them. Accordingly he is all over the country with his work, but he told me he wanted a few days off and that it had been a very long time since we last met up.
And he was right, it was a long time. Last time I saw Aaron I was still married, and I think Aaron had a long term girlfriend at that time, but lots of journeys away from home don't really help keep relationships alive and I had heard that they had split up some years ago. Relationships can be quite difficult in this modern age, I know that I haven't really had a long term one since my marriage ended. My then husband had decided that he enjoyed the company of a girl in his office more than he enjoyed mine, and that was fine, he was pretty average as a husband and so I didn't really miss him when he decided to stay away.
Finances were tough for a while, but then, as they do, things improved, and now I am financially stable and could even describe myself as comfortable. I am guessing that due to his senior position at his company, Aaron must be quite well off too, but then, I could be wrong, he could well be frivolous with his spending. I expect that I shall find out when he visits.
I had a day before he was expected and so I decided to deep clean the guest room. I didn't usually keep the bed made, I just had the quilt rolled up on top and the bedding folded and to one side. If I am honest, I don't vacuum it as often as I should, and so a good vacuuming was essential. I went around and cleaned the door and window frames, skirting boards and sills first, and then vacuumed a good two times, three in the corners where dust accumulates. Satisfied that it was clean I made the bed and opened the window a little to allow the room to air.
He would use the family bathroom, I had my own ensuite, and so clean fresh towels went into the bathroom along with a new toilet roll and a spare. Fresh flannel, tube of toothpaste and hand gel too. That was all ready for him, hopefully I hadn't forgotten anything, if I had, well, I would just have to sort it after he arrived.
That evening as I sat watching television the local troublesome kids started shouting outside my house, singing that rude song they always sang, 'get your tits out for the lads'. The stupidity is that they wouldn't have a clue what to do if I did reveal my breasts to them, they were simply being obnoxious and I simply ignored them.
I had a good night's sleep, one of my more settled nights. I don't normally sleep too well when the yobs have been playing up, I guess that because Aaron was coming, I felt more at ease. Oh well. Aaron was due between ten and eleven, so I had a shower. To be honest, it was more of a mini make over than just a shower. I waxed my legs and groin, the latter is always painful, but waxing thins the hair follicles over time, and so each time is a little less panful than the last.
Not that I expected anyone to see the fruits of my labours, but a woman who is neat and tidy downstairs, always is more at ease in company, odd, but there it is. I got rid of all my hair down there some years ago, as I recall as a suggestion from a girlfriend, she said it improved her sex life no end, and have kept myself bare there ever since. To see it hairy now would be very strange. I had tried a 'landing' strip for about a year, but it just seemed silly in the end and so I abandoned it. Hair gone from underarm too, no, the only hair I had grew on my head.
After my shower I sat on the bed and used my dryer and combed and brushed my hair dry and pinned it up into a high pony. Neat and tidy. My eyebrows needed a trim, and so the tweezers came out and they were soon plucked into submission. What to wear? This wasn't a date and so it didn't need to be alluring, but neither did it need to be frumpy auntie wear. A simple blouse over a mid-length skirt would be the best option with decent underwear. I decided that I would push the boat out with my underwear. Aaron would not be seeing it of course, but it would make me feel good knowing that I was wearing my best underwear.
Dressed and ready I checked the two bedrooms, all beds made and tidy, windows open a little to allow fresh air in and any stale odours out. Down in the kitchen I put the kettle on and waited for his arrival. Just as the kettle was boiling the doorbell chimed, gosh, I was surprisingly all of a flutter as I walked down the hall and opened the door.
"Auntie Joan," he said as he rushed to me and gave me a hug and a squeeze. Goodness that was more than I expected and should I really have felt what was obviously his dick getting hard as it pressed against me. I know keys when I feel them and that was not keys.
"Come in, come in, goodness you do look good." I said as I stood to one side to allow him across the threshold, and yes, I looked, and yes there was a bulge where I would not have expected one. I chided myself for looking.
He came in towing a small, wheeled suitcase which he left at the bottom of the stairs, and then he slipped his shoes off.
"Tea or coffee?" I asked.
"Oh tea please Auntie."
"Come on into the kitchen whilst I make our drinks," I said leading the way down the hallway into the kitchen. Mugs were all ready as was the milk and sugar. I flicked the kettle on to come back to the boil, added a teabag to each mug and then poured in the boiling water, before giving them a stir and squeezing the bags against the back of the spoon.
"Milk, sugar?" I asked.
"Just a splash of milk please Auntie," he answered.
"Right, here you are then, Aaron," I said passing him his mug, "let's go and sit in the conservatory and take advantage of the warm weather and good light."
In the conservatory Aaron sat in the armchair, and I sat on the sofa opposite. Crumbs he was a handsome young man, it was a crying shame that he didn't have a partner, and even more so that we were related and that I was twice his age. We chatted about our lives, he said he was saddened when Uncle Mike and I had split up, and that somehow, he had lost touch with his uncle since then.
"Yes," I said, "he moved a few times, the relationship with the girl he left me for didn't really last long. I don't know where he is. I do have his mobile phone number somewhere, but I haven't used that for a long time. I wish him happy birthday each year, and a Merry Christmas, but that is about it."
"Oh Auntie, that is so sad. What about boyfriends for you since? Anyone current?"
"Oh the odd one, here and there, now and then, but no one that has fired up the emotions so to speak. I have a little fun occasionally, but that is as far is it goes."
He excused himself and went to the loo. Oh, that sound, a man peeing into the toilet bowl, I hadn't heard that for such a long time, and gosh, it did make me feel a little unnecessary. Not that I am into games of that nature, but I just had images of him holding himself, something we girls don't need to do, and him aiming into the bowl before shaking off any drips and then putting it back away and it was just so evocative. Silly little things that are part of the normal life that I used to have. I heard the taps run as he washed his hands and then he came back in and sat opposite me.
"Oh, that's better," he said looking across at me as I returned my own looks, his bulges still apparent, perhaps it was the cut of his cloth, perhaps not.
"And you Aaron," I said picking up the conversation thread from earlier, "are you seeing anyone?"