As those of you who have read Part 1 will know this is not a wham bang thank you ma’am sort of story. It’s a slow burner, with regard to describing physical sex between Jayne, a 23-year-old ‘adchick’ and James a 55-year-old retired banker.
For some, age is a barrier, a huge one, a non-starter. Many cannot handle age differences and won’t even try. James and Jayne wondered whether they could? This series of impressions and observations examines what happened when they tried.
Reading Part 1 might add to your appreciation of the couple’s situation, but it’s not essential as I hope this stands alone as an erotic story.
Her
“Oh yes James, I was going to ask whether you were married, but I don’t think I will,” I replied, rather mysteriously, I thought.
“Why not?” You asked.
“Because I don’t really need or want to know, do I? I mean we’re only having a drink, aren’t we?”
“Yes, I suppose we are,” you said looking slightly crestfallen.
I’d felt a big buzz walking through the pub to the loo and back. I loved the sense of incongruity, if that’s the correct expression, I felt from all the young bucks showing out to me, as I then walked towards you, a man old enough to be most of their fathers. ‘What the fuck is she with him for, must be out with her dad?’ they were probably thinking as they watched me sit down across from you.
“Hi, I’m back,” I said perching myself on the edge of the chair, letting my skirt ride up almost to panty level and leaning forward, straining the thin cotton of my blouse, suggesting strongly to the assembled young bucks that you were far from being a relative! “See I did come back didn’t I?” I said sitting down and looking you right in the eye. “Pleased?”
“Yes of course I am, thanks.”
Under the table I felt your leg touch mine. My first reaction was to move, but my second one was to leave it where it was. I went with the second.
“Not at all, thanks to you for the drinks.”
“I wondered if you thought I was trying to get you drunk,” you said, flashing that nice smile that I found quite appealing.
“Now why on earth would I think that, and why would you want to get me drunk?” I smiled, actually enjoying the slight pressure of your leg on mine. ‘Accidental’ I wondered?
“Well, you know,” you replied, maybe regretting saying it.
“Do I?” I smiled looking over your shoulder and nodding.
You saw that and turned your head just in time so see one of the bar staff arriving at our table with a second bottle of wine.
I leaned forward, quite forgetting the cut of the blouse and my lack of a bra, and placed my fingertips on the back of your hand, my white painted, almost square cut nails contrasting with your tanned skin.
“I hope you don’t think I’m trying to get you drunk,” I smiled as the barman filled our glasses. I looked up at him smiling. “Thanks.”
Smiling even broader than me, his eyes reluctantly it seemed moving up to meet mine, the young Aussie said. “Thanks ma’am.”
“And to think I only bought a bottle of wine.”
“Yes, but he thanked you for letting him pour it,” you smiled.
“Oh shit,” I said sincerely, worried that my top was gaping so much. “I shouldn’t have worn this blouse like this.”
“Not at all, I think it looks lovely as it is.”
“Men,” I snorted, jokingly feigning disgust and mild annoyance.
“We just can’t help it can we, it’s in our DNA?”
“So, it seems,” I replied reaching out and clicking my glass on yours “Bless ’em, we often hate them, but couldn’t do without them.”
Smiling, you replied. “Thank God for that.”
We both laughed.
“Tell me more about your job Jayne?” You asked quite out of the blue as you leaned forward resting your chin on your hands.
I rabbited on for ten minutes or so about writing copy for ads, posters, brochures and websites mainly for small companies on a freelance basis.
“It’s bloody hard at the moment getting work.”
“I bet it is, I used to be in marketing and we used freelance staff like you. Well, not exactly like you Jayne, I mean writers.”
“What you mean not young birds like me.”
“Where are they mainly published?” You went on slightly changing the subject.
“Oh, the press, radio, billboards, some on TV, local and regional papers and trade magazines.”
You asked a few more sensible questions and then said. “How do you get the business?”
“That’s the awkward bit.”
“How do you mean?”
Well, I have a few contacts and some regular clients, mainly ad agencies, but when they change or new agencies ask to see me it’s difficult.”
“How?”
“Well supply exceeds demand with copywriters.”
“You mean there’s more of you than there is copy to write?”
“Yes James, that is what supply exceeding demand means,” I said rather unnecessarily cuttingly.
“So that pushes the price down, does it?”
“Yes, and makes persuading copy chiefs to appoint you rather traumatic?”
“How?”
“Some expect more than just a low fee, get me?” I said wondering why the bloody hell I was going down this road.
“Oh, I see,” you said tentatively, your leg again touching mine under the table.
“And especially when the copywriter is a young bird like me,” I replied, not moving my knee away.
“What’s that got to do with it?” You asked, increasing the pressure on my leg adding. “And what age is that Jayne, if you don’t mind me asking?”
“Twenty-three.”
There was silence. I broke it.
“Working out the age difference are you grandad?”
“No, no of course not. Actually, yes I was Jayne.”
“And what is it?”
“Not telling,” you said smiling.
“Come on don’t be daft,” I smiled back.
Putting you hand across your mouth you mumbled something incomprehensible.
“Pardon and take your hand away.”
“Ok you’ve put the noose round my neck, now kick the stool away. “Thirty-two years,” you said quietly.
I was a little surprised at first but as I thought about it, it rang true.
I took a slightly too large swig of my wine. “Men tend to think women like that, like me, are simply gagging for it,” I smiled, looking into your eyes and thinking, ‘I’m being pulled’ as we both left our legs pressed together.
Beaming a big smile, you said. “And aren’t you? Oh bugger, sorry.”
I laughed. “You know what I mean. In fact, in a couple of agencies they call me the ice maiden, and think I’m lesbian, because I don’t put out for them.”
“Bugger, you’re not are you?” you asked, jokingly I thought.
We drifted away from my old hate, the way I am almost expected, but don’t, to prostitute myself to get work, and discussed the job you had retired from a year or so ago. It had been in banking, one of my pet hates, so I changed the subject quickly.
I knew I would have to leave soon for it was almost three-thirty and I had things to do, but I really didn’t want to. I was enjoying myself. And doing that with a man who really, I had just met, was a rarity. I almost never met new men, other than at work and that didn’t really count, and it had been ages since I’d had a spontaneous drink like this.
You had told me you were in London for a meeting, but I couldn’t recall how long you would be staying.
We finished the bottle, both visited the loos and left the pub, the afternoon air immediately going to my head.
“I think you succeeded,” I said as I had the nice feeling of your hand on my elbow as we made our way through the crowd standing outside the pub.
“At what?” You asked.
“Getting me drunk.”
“You laughed, yes two bottles of decent wine on an empty stomach, isn’t too good an idea, unless you can simply lay down and nod off.”
We made our way towards Leicester Square tube station.
“Perhaps we could remedy that?”
“What me being tipsy?” I joked. “Or lying down and nodding off?”
“No, not having anything to eat.”
“How?”
“Well maybe you would join me for lunch.”
“Lunch James? It’s after four.”
“Early dinner then, maybe?” You replied quickly not missing a beat and squeezing my arm a little.
I laughed. “Are you asking me on a date?”
“Er, yes, I suppose I am, aren’t I?”
“Let me just ask you that question now?”
“What question?”
“The one I was going to ask in the pub before I went on the phone.”
“Oh, that question?”
“Yes, the one about a topic which hasn’t been broached, ok?”
“Yes sure, ask away.”
“Are you married?”
Him.
Was that a good or bad sign I wondered, asking if I am married?
“Was,” I replied with a smile. “Got divorced over ten years ago. Two relationships since then, neither of which worked out. So now, I’m on my own. Still waiting for love to strike.”
The laugh you gave was delicious. “Oh, sorry,” you said, those mischievous Jayne eyes peering right through me again. “Didn’t mean to make fun of that.” Then you gave another laugh, throwing your head back this time.
“Very funny,” I mumbled, with a wide grin. I liked hearing you laugh. Your eyes twinkled even more brightly.
“It’s…….” you began, linking my arm. “….. just that you’re a romantic at heart, aren’t you? A rare breed.”
I nodded, enjoying the feel of your breast against my arm as we wandered along. “Yes, that may well be the problem,” I said.
“Problem?”
“Why I haven’t found Ms Right, yet.”
There was that laugh again. And another twinkling of those blue eyes. “What? You think the age of romanticism is dead?”
“Seems like it could be,” I laughed. “But there’s another reason.”
You stopped walking and pulled me around to face you. “Oh, now we’re getting down to it,” you murmured. “Something I need to know, I assume?”
I nodded. No point in withholding information at this stage. “Yep, a story of another woman,” I confessed.
“Hmmm. Do tell.”
“It’s horrible, Jayne. Like being followed all the time. I mean, if things don’t change, the only option may be a restraining order.”
“A stalker? That’s what you’re telling me?”
“Sort of. But not just stalking. I mean, the letters, two every day. And the photos! Included with every letter. And the words, madly in love, offers of marriage, can we just meet and discuss things, it’s never ending.”
“Fuck,” you said, those beautiful eyes as big as saucers.
“Fuck indeed,” I agreed. “There’ve been a couple of requests for that too.”
“It can’t go on,” I said, pulling a face. “It’s ridiculous. I can only imagine how horrible it must be to be on the receiving end.”
I nodded my head. “Me too, that’s why I’m putting an end to it. Once and for all!”
“But how?”
“Simple,” I replied, biting my lower lip. “If Demi Moore isn’t going to reply, I’m going to stop writing to her!”
Your wide eyes narrowed and you slowly shook your head. “It’s not being romantic that’s your problem,” you told me. “It’s the sense of humour.”
I laughed at your expression, giving a soft ‘gotcha’ push on your shoulder. “You’re not the first person to tell me that. Jonathon Ross once said the same thing.”
“The Jonathan Ross?”
I nodded, smiling at the sceptical look on your beautiful face. “The very same, he did some promotions for us, god knows why. And that one’s a true story. But maybe we should save that for another day?”
“Maybe,” you said, linking your arm through mine again as we resumed our journey. The doubtful look in your eyes told me you were unsure if I was kidding again, but the pressure of your boob on my arm seemed stronger, could that be purposeful?
“Honestly,” I said, crossing one hand over my heart. “It’s true. But tell me, what about you, Jayne? It’s inconceivable that someone like you isn’t in a relationship.”
“Someone like me?” you said, wheeling to a halt again.
“Absolutely,” I responded, not letting the sharpness in your tone put me off.
“And tell me, what exactly is ‘someone like me?”
“Never mind, well just dinner then, perhaps?”
“Let’s do a deal, let’s do late lunch, or did you have other plans?”
“No none at all, I have finished my business.”
“You wouldn’t prefer a poker game or visit to a casino?”
You laughed. “What instead of the late lunch? No contest, unless of course you play?”
I cocked my head to one side. And knowing I was being unnecessarily saucy said.
“Play?”
“Poker, I mean.”
I raised my eyebrows as I contemplated trying to make some smartarse remark linked to strip poker, but thought better of it.
“No too cut throat for me, I’m a bit like an open book.”
“Really?”
“Yes, people often say they know what I am thinking,” I said as we strolled along.
“And what are you thinking now Jayne?”
“Honestly?”
“Yes of course.”
“Ok two things.”
“Go on, two’s pretty good for a blonde.”
“Better than a grandad can do most of the time I bet.”
We both laughed. “Come on then one at a time.”
“Yes, that’s the best way.”
“Ok first, I was thinking, “Are you asking me on a date?””
“And second?”
“That I need a pee.”
“Pop in the pub there,” you said pointing to a pub.
“Good idea.”
“Well, that’s the second point, blondie and so you can take the time you need to think things through whilst you have a pee, the answer to the first is yes.”
I laughed back over my shoulder as I skipped through the doorway. When I came out, I realised that we had walked miles and were now near Holborn Station.
“Let me show you something,” I said taking your hand and pulling you into a side road off Kingsway that leads into Lincolns Inn Field.
“Did you have long enough to think?” You asked.
“No not really, us blondes need ages to mull over such a thought as that,” I said pulling you across the road into the centre of the square.
“When do you think you might finish mulling then?”
“Oh, I don’t know, I sometimes mull all evening and then find I still need to mull more the next morning.”
“What all night mulls? You’re a one-night mull then are you?”
“As opposed to being a one night stand you mean?” I laughed.
“Well not exactly, but may I be with you as you mull?”
“Yes, I think that would help my mulling.”
“And maybe we could have a late lunch as you mull?”
“Perfect, anyway what I was going to show was this,” I said pointing to the centre of the square.
“What?” You asked.
“I have flashed my knickers quite often here.”
“Really?” You asked clearly having no idea what the hell I was on about. “Very nice.”
“Yes, flashed them to lots of onlookers.”
“You exhibitionist you?” You said seeing the netball court and realising what I meant. “You used to play here?” You asked as we walked towards the court.
“Yes, at lunchtime, we got large crowds.” I replied opening the gate and walking onto the court, which was surrounded by that wire which is made in triangles, no not triangles, diamonds. I saw that ivy was now growing up two sides of it and that the netball net and post were damaged. “Looks as though it’s not used anymore” I said, feeling ridiculously rather sad.
“I bet the guys loved it. Pity we don’t have a ball?”
“Why?”
“Well, you could then practice flashing your knickers again, couldn’t you?”
For some reason that got to me. We both stopped talking. We looked at each other. Neither spoke for a moment or two. For a fleeting second, for a ridiculous moment, for a short totally outrageous time I actually contemplated saying “Would you like me to?”
Hearing some people walking past laughing broke the spell.
“I’ve mulled,” I said sort of bringing us out of the semi-trance.
“And?”
“Let’s do that late lunch date then daddy o, before I change my mind and flash my knickers instead.”
“You could always do both, I am quite into multi-tasking.”
“Don’t tempt, come on let’s hit Covent Garden.”
Him.
One of the curious things about meeting such an interesting young woman was that I’d done so in Covent Garden, perhaps my favourite place in all of London. Though, not having been to the city since I had lunch with business contacts over a year ago, I was a little out of touch.
That meant finding a spot for our late lunch could be a bit of a problem. I mean, I’m the man (or was it grandad?) and I’m expected to know these things, aren’t I? But I did have one place in mind…
Where the hell was it, though? It had been a while.
“Er, you do know where you’re going?” you mischievously asked after we’d been walking for a few minutes. “I mean at your age. is the old memory still functioning just as well?”
I laughed to myself. The more time I spent with this girl, the more I enjoyed her company. I like sassy birds, women with attitude. That quirky sense of humour never fails to turn me on.
Well, turn me on in an intellectual sense, I mean, not the other. Hell, the way she was dressed, carried herself, and those fucking ‘come to bed’ type eyes were enough to arouse me physically. But the cheeky, unpredictable, flirty, humorous approach was extra. Yes, it added to the sexual ambience, but it was so much more than that.
I just loved that this attractive young, blonde beauty had the quality I admired more than any other in a woman.
Turning a corner into Wellington Street, I stumbled across what I’d been searching for. “There you are,” I confidently said, grateful for such a slice of good fortune, “And you thought I didn’t know what I was doing!”
Your laugh as you glanced across at the Côte Bistro sent a delightful little shiver through me, and the way you said, “Oh, no, James, I’m quite sure you always know what you’re doing,” made that shiver circle around my loins.
No, no, no, I told myself as my pride and joy reared once more. Stop that! God, I’d been semi hard ever since you’d mentioned old chestnuts rearing their heads and then glanced down beneath my belt. Now I was back to full power again. Stop it, I repeated, only too well aware that my body was arrogantly ignoring the instruction.
You’d refused my offer for an evening together, so that vastly reduced my chances of, well, you know what. Or had you refused? I still wasn’t completely sure about that. Either way, I was determined to enjoy my sassy young blonde’s company for as long as it lasted.
And in some ways, pushing sex out of the equation was a good thing. A bit like when England are knocked out of the World Cup. For then we can relax and enjoy the rest of the competition without the tension and worry as to how it will all work out. Yes, I told myself, good comparison!
Even my erection was listening to those thoughts, gently easing back from full throttle to a more acceptable amiable stroll. Yes, this was much better. Enjoy Jayne ‘s company for what this was going to be. A fun time with a beautiful young woman. That made much more sense, didn’t it? And in any case beautiful young women don’t fuck grandads, do they? Or do they?
Who needed sex anyway?
“Okay, grandad chops,” I heard you say as I opened the door to the small, uncomplicated bistro-style French restaurant. “I always get extra hungry when I think about flashing my knickers, how about you?”
With that Jayne-like giggle, you pressed your body against mine as you squeezed through the door. Accidentally? Surely not on purpose? I could feel your tits against my chest as you paused for a brief second, those twinkling eyes looking into mine. What about that, then, you seemed to be saying?
Oh, God! Oh, fuck, how do I handle this? I was out of my depth I knew that as well as I knew that I had to soldier on and see this through to its natural end, whatever that may be. The sexual thoughts I’d expunged from my mind surged back again and ‘rock hard’ instantly returned.
As I followed you as we were shown to a table, I just couldn’t help myself. My eyes instantly fell to the sway of your hips and that perfect bum.
For some reason, the tightish, denim micro skirt was gone, replaced by a gymslip of all things, and the flash of knickers as you bounced the netball across the restaurant floor.
Geez, the ache in my groin told me I was in trouble! Big trouble.
“So,” you said, as you watched the cute French waiter make his way back to the bar after taking our drink order. “You had this place in mind all along?”
“But of course,” I suavely lied. “I love theatreland and this restaurant reminds me so much of you.”
“Of me?”
“Certainly,” I responded with a huge grin. “Can’t you think why?”
“Hmm,” you said, glancing around the surroundings.
“Mulling again?” I asked. “That’s okay, take your time. My grandad memory may be faltering, but I know you blonde’s need a few seconds more than the rest of us.”
“Is that right?” you said, pulling a face but giving me a smirk. “Well try and concentrate on something while I work it out.”
The suggestion was bad enough, given the thought of flashing knickers that wouldn’t leave my mind. But when you arched your back as you sat upright in your chair, the magnificent view of the outline of your breasts pushing against your white blouse, crowned by the twin bullets, was, I swear, almost like studying the Mona Lisa.
Perfection!
“That’s a good boy,” you cheekily added, as if you were putting on some entertainment to keep me occupied while you worked out what I meant.
As much as I tried to keep my eyes on your face, it was a task impossible to any red-blooded male, though I think I did manage to keep my tongue inside my mouth, if only just.
“Okay, daddy-o,” you eventually said. “It reminds you of me because it’s so chic?”
I laughed, and you did, too. “Er… strangely… no!”
“Hmm,” you said, your eyes darting around again. “Because it’s a little bit Bohemian?”
I raised my eyebrows in approval. “Well, getting there, I think.”
This time, you rested an arm on your chair as you glanced behind you. “How about, I somehow remind you of French royalty? Josephine perhaps?”
We both laughed again, still sniggering to ourselves when the waiter brought our drinks and handed us menus.
“That’s damn close,” I said, feeling a little miffed as your eyes seemed glued to the waiter’s backside as he walked away.
“Okay, tell me.”
“You’ve finished mulling?”
“Erm, for the moment. But I may be in the mood for more mulling later.”
“Fair enough,” I said, thinking that I could kill for a quick ‘mull’ right now. “It’s something to do with the waiter you keep eyeing up.”
“I wasn’t eyeing him up’!”
I raised my eyes to the ceiling before grinning at you again. “Really?”
“Come on,” you insisted, ignoring my knowing look. “Tell me.”
“Okay,” I nodded. “This place always makes me think of French women. That, for some reason, makes, me think of beautiful lingerie. And that brings an image of you in those photo’s I rescued from Boots earlier.”
“Really?” You asked looking bemused.
I leant forward, resting an elbow on the table as I propped up my face with my hand. “Okay, blue eyes,” I continued in my best Humphrey Bogart voice. “Either you were on a modelling shoot, or you’re being blackmailed by a gang of international terrorists, Albanian probably, who are using illicit photographs of you in lingerie to get you to carry out some dubious stuff for them.”
“Hmm,” you laughed. “One of those might be right. And what task do you think they have in mind, if indeed, that thought is correct?”
“That’s easy,” I replied. “These things always start with a test. Just to see whether you have the abilities they’re looking for.”
“And the test?
“Quite obvious. They want to see if you can find and seduce an older, sophisticated man. Someone who is so impervious to a woman’s charms, it would be almost impossible to corrupt him. Someone who has an iron will which can’t be bent by even the sexiest of the fairer sex. Someone who would be immune to anything a normal young woman could offer.”
The slow shake of your head told me you were either impressed with my vivid imagination, or thought you were having an assignation with a loonie. I wasn’t sure which.
“Okay, blue eyes,” my Humphrey Bogart accent continued. “Spill the beans.”
Her.
I was enjoying myself. I liked you and found you both interesting and considerate: two traits that rank high on my top of the pops list, I was thinking giggling at the other use of pops and speaking, well thinking of pops, your age and the, what to some, no most, would consider, enormous age gap between us, seemed to be receding, almost as if it didn’t matter.
In some ways that was because I though you were pretty ‘uncool.’ Maybe that was an attraction though. I was so used to dealing with really cool, too clever by half, guys in advertising, the city and the media who had every in phrase and gesture, knew the trendiest places and all the stuff of metroland, that your squareness was, in some ways, refreshing and I was liking that.
I had to admit, though, that as we sat in the oddly named restaurant, I did momentarily wonder what other people were thinking. ‘Daughter out with her father, perhaps, maybe even grandfather?’ I smiled looking round and seeing that there were only a few tables occupied, but then that was hardly surprising at this ‘inbetween time’ of five o’ clock.
Would anyone in their right mind work out our relationship, I wondered as you were asking about the story behind the photos and putting on a phony American accent?
Surely nobody would think that the middle-aged gentleman would have been in the process of pulling the twenty-something blonde, bird, would they? I mean ten or fifteen, twenty or so at a push, years difference between a bloke and his ‘bit of stuff’ was ok nowadays, quite usual even, but perhaps thirty or more was taking things to Bernie Ecclestone levels. I almost giggled as I thought of asking if you were a billionaire, for that does seem to change the rules a little on age differences.
As I listened to you, I did for some reason, put on a bit of a show. Nothing that extreme, like undoing yet another button so that my nips would be exposed, or running my foot up your leg and shoving it between them at the top; a little outrageous I might be, but not that much, well not this soon, at least. What I was doing wasn’t really acting, it was how I, and most other girls of my age on a pick up or first date carry on, I think. Unconsciously, I leaned forward or sat back in my chair, I crossed and uncrossed my legs and stretched them out in front of me, I ran my hand through my hair, touched my face and idly stroked my bare arm. All those seemingly unthought out gestures that I am sure Freud would understand and explain were all part of sexual foreplay. ‘Fuck, is it that?’ I thought almost giggling.
Who the hell was it you were trying to imitate, I wondered?”
“Blue eyes?” I asked smiling, “American blue eyes at that?”
“Humphrey Bogart,” you said.
“What, he had blue eyes? I can’t quite place him and I don’t think I have ever seen a colour photo of him.”
“No, he played opposite someone he called blue eyes in an old film.”
“How long ago?” I asked, not really sure I could place the film star although, I had heard of him.
“Oh forty, fifty years ago, I guess” you told me.
“Shit, my mum wasn’t even born then, let alone me.”
“Ah well,” you said in rather a resigned tone, I thought, as possibly similar thoughts went through your mind as were going through mine. ‘An age gap such as that between us can bring so many problems, memories of music, films, fashion, world events and so on.’ And that, I conjectured as I tried answering why the restaurant reminded you of me, brought into play the other major consideration with such an age gap. Of course, that was sex, but I put that out of my mind, although the longer we were together, the more convinced I became that this was not a platonic pick up. This was not a lonely guy in town looking simply for company, it was not a meeting of the minds, a coming together of common interests. It was more than that, much more, I was now sure. Every glance, every look, every gesture and most of what you said suggested to me, as clearly as it did when I meet men my own age, that you wanted to fuck me. You explaining in a rather convoluted and totally unbelievable fashion, that the bistro reminded you of lingerie, providing you with the link to ask about those photos, confirmed that to me.
‘And how did I feel about that?’ I thought as we ordered, steak frites, of course, with a bottle of red wine and crispy French bread. I didn’t have an answer.
“I told you I’m in advertising didn’t I?”
“What?”
“You asked me to spill the beans,” I told you.
“Oh yes.”
“Right,” I said leaning forward, gesturing for you to do the same. “I’m a copywriter, you know what that is?” I went on as we sat hunched over the table our faces close together.
“Er yes Jayne, I do, I have been around a bit you know, and I was in marketing. And I am not a blonde.”
I smiled. “A bit, that’s for sure.”
“Why have you been peeping, and are you?”
“What?” I queried, now confused, maybe slightly pissed, for the red wine seemed to go straight to my head. ‘Still’ I thought ‘better than going straight to my tits or clit which at times like this seem to be hotwired to each other!’
“You said a bit, about me not being a natural blonde.”
“Yes, er no, I meant you’ve been around a bit,” I tried explaining, not sure what the hell we were talking about. “I don’t know about the blonde, are you?”
“No, are you?” You asked.
“What?”
You quietened your voice as you let your eyes slide downwards so your glance was inside my blouse. “A natural blonde?”
A little embarrassed, but nicely so, I ran my hand through my hair, obviously stretching the thin cotton of my blouse, tightly across my tits. I followed your gaze downwards and saw what you were looking at. I quickly put my hand back onto the table, so that the loosened material hid the frighteningly erect lumps of my nipples.
“Cold?” You smiled, making me laugh.
“Be quiet,” I jokingly admonished you.
I probably blushed as I tried to work out the least compromising position for me to sit. Leaning forward, my blouse gaping giving you a line of sight straight down onto my tits or, leaning back, emphasising my nipples. ‘Why the fuck hadn’t I worn a bra’ I thought, replying ‘Because you never thought you’d get yourself picked up did you, for when does that ever happen? When was the last time?’
“I got co-opted onto a team that was pitching for a big account,” I started.
“Yes good, but are you?”
“Am I what?”
“You know.”
“I don’t, I wouldn’t ask if I did.”
“A natural blonde,” you said, perhaps a little too loudly for I thought a couple at the next table looked up as you said that.
“Oh piss off,” I hissed, smiling. “If you must know, the answer is yes with a little help here and there.”
I was surprised when you lifted your hand and stroked my hair as you said, this time so quiet that only I would here.
“Where is here and where is there, Jayne? Which is this?”
I was amazed that so soon we were talking about the intimacy of my pubic hair colour. It seemed so natural and easy, a bit like talking about your pussy to your gyno, I thought.
“I really wanted to do well.” I said.
“At touching up the blonde bits here and there?”
“No on the new team pitching for the account.”
“Ok, go on.”
“The account was Lejaby, google it, you might like the sexy stuff.”
“What is it?”
“Something that will remind you of Cote Bistro, lingerie, check their website.”
“Are you on it?”
“No of course not.”
“So how come the photos?” You asked rather pointedly putting your hand on the folder which was on the table beside me.
“Well not wishing to sound too much like a drama queen, I really wanted to understand what the Lejaby brand was all about.”
“Sexy undies? Don’t you know?”
“Well not really, I have never worn a suspender belt and have hardly ever worn stockings, I don’t own a basque or a corset and I had no idea why women buy all those things.”
“So you don’t wear sexy undies then?”
“Not really, just thongs and bras.”
“And sometimes you forget those don’t you?” You said looking straight at my boobs.
“No, never.”
“What?”
I smiled. “I never forget either, I don’t go commando and I choose sometimes not to wear a bra, I don’t forget either. I’m a frustrated sixties, hippy woman, bra burner really.”
I liked seeing you laugh at my simple jokes.
“For some reason and I had no idea why at the time, they had paired me up with an art director, Barry, who was well into his forties. A nice guy, but a bit of a rarity in creative departments.”
“See blondie, you just attract older men.”
“Yes, I seem to, don’t I?”
“So where did the photos come from?”
I looked you straight in the eye and said. “Barry took them.”
“Why?”
“Because we both felt that by me wearing the gear and him seeing me in them, we would gain a much better understanding of the brand.”
“And did you?”
“Well, we won the account.”
“How?”
“Not sure, but we came up with the simple tag line, ‘Underneath.’
“How did that work?”
“We did a series of magazine and newspaper ads, there was no TV or radio budget, using that word.”
“How?”
“Using shots of thirty and forty-year-old women mainly in a range of different underwear with the messages. Underneath you can be whatever you desire. Underneath you’re not a wife, but a lover. Don’t tell him what’s underneath. It’s your secret what’s underneath. That sort of stuff.”
“And it worked?”
“It sure did?”
“And with Barry?”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, he didn’t have to work at finding out what was underneath did he, you showed him. That must have been er, difficult?”
Smiling I replied. “Yes, it had its moments,” as my mind went back to him photographing me and how I felt at the time.
I could hardly believe that we had eaten the steak frites and drunk the wine, our third bottle of the afternoon.
“Dessert Jayne?”
“No, I never eat them I have to watch my figure, I’ll have an espresso though please.”
You ordered that and asked what I would like to do after dinner. I replied that I had no idea and that I would leave it to you, wondering just what you would come back with, hoping against hope that it wouldn’t be a club for the idea of dancing with you didn’t appeal as visions of David Brent came to mind.