All Characters In This Story Are 18+ Years Old.
Friday Evening, December 21, 1962
At the Plaza Hotel, after a foreshortened dinner in the Palm Court, Phil Maxon hung his suit jacket in the room's closet and casually asked his eighteen-year-old niece, Patricia, who had uncharacteristically declined dessert, "So, Trixie, did the food disagree with you?"
"Oh, no, Uncle Phil," the teen answered. "I feel fine. But, we have had a long day." She moved to the window and continued, "Plus, the snow hasn't let up. Look how it's piled on the sill. And we're fourteen stories up!"
Phil left the closet and stood beside the girl, who happened also to be his stepdaughter. Draping his left hand over her shoulders, he side-hugged her and said, "That's true, but we're snug as bugs in a rug here."
Patricia smiled at him, then looked apprehensively outside again and said, "Gosh, I hope Mom will be, too."
At that moment, fifty-two miles northeast, in Westport, CT, the storm was as bad, or possibly worse, than it was currently in Manhattan. It had been snowing heavily almost non-stop since about nine that morning. Thirty-seven-year-old Roberta Maxon, Phil's wife and Patricia's mother, had already had her drive and walks shoveled by Barney 'BeeBee' Barnes, her eighteen-year-old neighbor. Now, he sat on the couch in the Maxon family room while Roberta stood at the wet bar with her back to him, mixing his third Cuba Libre cocktail.
To be fair, Barney did not know his previous two Coca-Colas and lime juice had been spiked. Nor did he know that for more than a year his hostess had only made love to her husband once a week on Fridays, was therefore generally sex-starved, and was particularly horny tonight. Neither did he have a clue that she had engineered a pretext to invite him in to be seduced and cure her ailment. He only knew she looked like Maureen O'Hara, that he had loved her from afar for at least three years, and that she was his favorite mental image when he lay on his bed pulling his pud.
Barney folded his Green Mountain plaid flannel shirt and dropped it behind the sofa onto a marble top carved wood console table, then stared at Roberta at the bar. He thought about their very close encounter by the fireplace; about her stuffing a dollar bill into his jeans pocket. Her fingers on his thighs had given him an instant erection. When she touched his nuts and pushed her thumbs against his boner, he had feared he would go off in his pants. He was still amazed he had found the actual courage to kiss her on the mouth.
Barney tried to recapture how it had felt to hold Roberta in his arms, swaying with her in an otherwise static dance, while The Modern Jazz Quartet's new LP played on her stereo; but he could not. Shaking his head in disbelief, he wondered why he could not focus his mind more clearly. His eyes crossed a little as he concentrated on guessing what, if anything, she was wearing beneath her robe. "Gosh, maybe this is all a dream," he thought. "If it is, I don't want to wake up, yet!"
Roberta stirred a jigger of Bacardi light rum into the Coke in Barney's re-filled Old Fashioned glass, added a fresh ice cube, and thought, "That ought to do it. Don't want him to be sloppy!" Exercising her increasing power over the slightly tipsy youth, she called over her shoulder, "BeeBee, it's too quiet in the room. Find another one of those albums on to play. I'll be there in a jiffy!"
Roberta's raised voice, underscoring her reality, disturbed Barney's reverie. He leaned forward to the coffee table and grabbed the next record from below the empty 'Lonely Woman' jacket. Rising from the sofa, he pushed the LP onto the spindle, then watched it drop to the turntable. While the needle moved to the first track, he read the label and said to himself with a shrug, " 'Brazil Blues'... guess that'll do..."
Smiling at the opening notes to Herbie Mann's 'Brazil', Roberta carried cocktails to the couch. Stooping slightly, she handed Barney his lowball and apologized, "I ran out of lime juice. I must've put too much in your other Cokes. Sorry!"
Barney enjoyed a close-up bird's-eye view to Roberta's dΓ©colletage at her robe's undone top two braided gold cloth frog closures. He swiftly took his new drink from her and sipped at it as he peeped, hopefully undetected, over its rim at the hinted mountain pass. "Um, that's okay, Mrs. M.," he graciously allowed. "I think I can still taste some from before." Furrowing his brow, he slugged back a larger swallow and added, "Leastways, it doesn't seem too much different."
Roberta, watching closely, was confident her naΓ―ve guest was ready for her next steps. Setting her untouched Rob Roy on the console table, she sat on the couch's middle cushion, with her angled knees bumping his, then edged closer and turned in a quarter to him. Sliding her right hand over his Levi's, along his well-developed left quadriceps, she praised, "Good! I'm glad for that. Also, I see you took off that heavy old flannel shirt like I suggested." When her hand was barely and inch from his packed groin, she raised it to his sternum and rubbed his hardpan pecs through his white T-shirt as she continued, "Are you feeling a little cooler, now? More comfortable?"
Barney blinked and inhaled a deep breath through his nose. Pressure built in his chest under Roberta's light warm hand. His penis twitched in his briefs and a strange heat flashed up his spine from his collarbones to his nape. "Y-yes, Mrs. M.," he answered, hesitantly. "I was, er, I mean I am. Thank you."
"You're welcome, BeeBee," Roberta responded automatically. She pushed her hand further, harder, and slower over his muscles as she observed, "You know, you're not only a big strong man who can fix a neighbor's damper. You're also very polite. And sweet for that." She chuckled softly and said, "I must compliment your mother for bringing you up well."
Barney panicked in his head, "Oh, my gosh! Don't say anything to Mom about this!" Out loud, he ventured, "You don't have to say anything to Mom, Mrs. M. Other people have told her that, so she already knows."
Roberta patted Barney's chest and retreated, saying, "Mothers never tire of hearing things like that, but if you don't want me to mention it, I won't. I wouldn't want to embarrass my big strong neighbor. He might not want to come help me again!" Suddenly noticing the record had moved on to 'Copacabana', she rose from the couch and demanded coquettishly, "Dance with me! I love this song!"