Too Old to be YOung - Chapter 2 – Part 1 of 2

 

Too Old to be Young

By Karen Singer

 Chapter 2 – Part 1 of 2

 There were two golf carts parked in Jackie’s driveway.  One of them belonged to Jackie, the second one had brought two of her friends who had ridden together from the next street over.  The third visitor in Jackie’s house had simply walked directly across the street.

“Four hearts,” Beverly bid as the four ladies sat around the card table in Jackie’s living room, playing Bridge.

The women all glanced around the table.  Jackie threw her cards down. “I guess that makes me dummy,” she said as she began arranging her cards so everyone could see them, and her usual partner, Beverly, could use them.  “Coffee anyone?” she asked as she got up since she wouldn’t be doing anything else until the next hand was dealt.

“I’ll have another cup,” Lisa replied.

“I could use a warmup,” Pamela, Lisa’s usual partner added.

“Me too,” Beverly said as she reached for one of Jackie’s cards in front of her.

Jackie went to the kitchen and came back with the coffee pot. 

“I can’t believe we’ve got a pervert like that…in our community!” Lisa complained.

“Not only that,” Beverly said as she picked up the pile of cards she had just won, “but he’s living right across the street from me.”

“I just can’t get over it,” Pamela said as she threw a card out onto the table.  What can we do about it?”

“Nothing!” Lisa told her.  “Not a thing.  He bought the house.  He’s living here now.”  She looked up at Jackie as she was pouring Pamela another cup of coffee.  “How do you feel about it, Jackie?  He’s living right next door.  You’re the one who actually talked to him.”

Jackie shrugged.  “To be honest, I think I’m finding it amusing.”

“Amusing!”

“Yes!  Believe it or not, I woke up this morning…laughing!  Most fun I’ve had in years.”

“Hm!” Beverly grunted.  “It is pretty funny.”

“It is,” Pamela replied.  “But it’s also…disturbing.”

“For sure!” Beverly agreed.

Jackie carried the coffee pot back to the kitchen, then came back to the table to watch the rest of the hand being played. 

“You actually laughed?” Pamela asked as they finished the hand.

“Believe it or not, I was sleeping.  Somewhat anyway.  Well, I was trying to sleep.  You know how it goes sometimes.  But I kept thinking about what I saw and all his outrageous fantasies, and I just couldn’t help it.  It struck me as so funny, I burst out laughing.  I gave up trying to sleep and got up.  I haven’t been able to get him off my mind since.  And let me tell you, I’ve had more than a few chuckles over it.”

“I believe it,” Lisa said. 

“But what can we do about it?” Pamela asked again.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it,” Jackie replied.  “But I’ve had a lot of fun thinking about just that all day.  Enough fun that I’m thinking about talking to him about it again.”

“What for?”

“To see if he’s seriously interested in further exploring any of those fantasies of his.”

“What?” Beverly exclaimed. 

Everyone was looking at Jackie.  Nobody was thinking about cards anymore.

“Why?” Lisa asked.

“I don’t know,” Jackie replied.  “I guess, just because I found it so funny.”

“Just what is it you’re thinking of doing?” Beverly asked.

“Like I said, see if he’s interested in exploring his fantasies.”

“You mean, you want to help him try to live some of those perverted things?” Lisa asked.

“I’m thinking about it,” Jackie told them.

“Why?” Lisa asked again.  “I just don’t get it.”

“What would you get out of it?” Beverly asked.  “Are you planning on charging him money?”

“No,” Jackie replied, dismissing that thought.

“Sex!” Lisa said.  “You’re looking for a man to have sex with.”

“Not with him!” Jackie replied.  “You all know that with all my female problems, penetrative sex hurts.  I can’t do it.”

“But I know for a fact that you still want some kind of sex,” Lisa told her.  “You’ve talked about, I’ve talked about it, we’ve all talked about it.  You may not be able to have penetrative sex, but oral sex is still on the table.”

“Not with him!” Jackie replied, repulsed by the thought.  “My vibrator and I are just fine, thank you.  No, if I have any kind of sex with a man, oral or otherwise, I want a real man to do it with.  Not someone like…him.”

“I would think not,” Beverly said.

“Then why?” Lisa asked.

“I’m just not sure,” Jackie told her.

“Because she’s bored!” Pamela stated.  “Isn’t that right?”

Jackie thought about it, then nodded.  “I hadn’t figured it out myself yet, but that’s pretty much it.  I’m bored.  I’m bored to death.  And this is the first thing in years to come along that’s even begun to spark my interest.”

“I can’t believe it,” Beverly said with a shake of her head.

“Oh, I don’t know,” Lisa replied.  “I guess it could be fun…in some ways.”

“Fun?” Pamela asked.  “How?”

“I don’t know.  Fun.  I guess it all depends on what she does with him.”  She looked at Jackie.  “What did you have in mind to do with him?”

“I don’t know.  I hadn’t thought that far yet.  I just met him yesterday.”

“What were the fantasies you mentioned?” Lisa asked.  “Spell them out again.”

“He only mentioned two,” Jackie told them.

“The closet full of shoes,” Beverly said.  “But who wouldn’t want that?”

“But a man?” Lisa laughed, which made them all start laughing.  “Can you imagine his embarrassment if he had to go to the store with no other choice but to have a pair of high sexy heels to wear?”  Her comment made them all laugh harder than before.

“It was the other thing that I can’t get over,” Pamela told them.

“The diapers?” Beverly asked.  “Totally disturbing!”

“True, but funny too,” Pamela said.

“That’s where I’d probably start,” Jackie told them.

“He wanted what?” Lisa asked.  “To be kept in them…”

“Forced to be kept in them,” Jackie corrected her.

“For how long?” Lisa asked.

“He mentioned a couple of months, but I have no doubt that a week or two would straighten him out pretty quick.”

“Why just a week or two?” Beverly wondered.

“Because the reality of it would sink in.  He’d be done,” Jackie told her.

“But wait,” Lisa said.  “You said he wants to be forced to keep using them.  That’s what you said his fantasy is.  The shoes the same way.”

“Yes,” Jackie agreed.  “Which I guess would mean more than just a few days.”  She shrugged.  “Could be fun though.”

“Except for one thing,” Pamela pointed out.  “Eventually, you’d get bored with it.”

Jackie nodded.  “As much as it seems interesting right now, I’m seventy-four years old.  I’ve seen it all.  Most things anyway, until this.  But Pam is right, no doubt it would get old, and I’d be bored with it pretty quick and lose interest.”

It was Lisa who said, “Not if you made an effort to keep it interesting.”

Every woman at the table looked at her. 

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 Jackie’s phone rang at nine in the morning.  As much as she’d rather sleep late, her aches and pains didn’t usually allow that.  She wound up taking a couple of short naps during the day instead.  Picking up her cellphone, she noticed it was Lisa calling.  “Hello?” she said.

“Hi Jackie,” Lisa replied.  “I just had a few thoughts about what we were talking about last night.  Are you still thinking about it?”

“Marginally,” Jackie admitted.  “I’m not sure if it’s more than that.”

“Well, if you do, I was just wondering, what if he doesn’t want to do something and gives you trouble about it.  If you’re going to try and keep things interesting for you, then you’ve got to think about that.”

“Yeah.  You’re right.  That’s going to take some thought.  Thanks Lisa.”

“No problem.  See you tonight.”

“Yup.  See you then.”

An hour later, Jackie’s cellphone rang again.  This time it was Beverly calling.

“Hi Bev,” Jackie said.  “What’s up?”

“I was just thinking about last night.”

“You too?”

“If you make him do something, how are you going to make sure he does it…when you’re not there?”

“Good question,” Jackie replied.  “I’ll have to think about it.  See you tonight?”

“Of course!”

Twenty minutes later, Jackie’s phone rang again.  She wasn’t surprised to see Pamela calling.  “Hey Pam,” Jackie said. 

“Hi Jackie,” Pamela replied.  “After last night, I’m having trouble getting a few things off my mind.”

“Yeah,” Jackie agreed.  “Lisa and Bev have already called me this morning.”

“Oh.  Sorry.”

“No problem, believe me.  Look, I’ll call Bev and Lisa, let’s meet at the community center an hour early tonight and we’ll talk about it.  I don’t know that I’m going to do anything at all.  And it would be a big stretch of the imagination if he really did go along with it.  So he’s got his fantasies, and my fantasy right now is to be amused by something…which, right now, I am.  So before the Bridge game tonight, we’ll all get together and talk.  How’s that sound?”

“Sounds good to me,” Pam replied.  “See you tonight. 

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 Jackie and her friends got together at Jackie’s house to play Bridge every Tuesday night.  Every Wednesday night, the Community Center held a Bridge night.  Lisa and Pamela were a team, and Jackie and Beverly were a team.  They had been playing and competing at cards for years.  It was one of the few things that really interested each of them. 

It was an hour before Bridge was supposed to start when they met.  That early, there were almost no other players in the room.  They all sat at a table and discussed problems and strategies, not for Bridge, but for Jim’s fantasies.  In the end, it was decided that more than a little research was needed.  They each agreed to try and find some workable solutions for the concerns they had brought up. 

As far as Jackie was concerned, even though it wasn’t very likely that she was going to be doing anything at all with her new neighbor, for once, she had something new and interesting to think about for a little while. 

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 Thursday evening, Pamela picked Lisa up in her golf cart and drove around the block to Beverly’s house.  Jackie walked across the street.  As the women arrived, they each noted that they were all carrying computer printouts.  Over coffee, there were more than a few bulging eyes, more than few gasps, and more than a few laughs. 

“I don’t know why we’re even thinking about this stuff, let along looking at things like this,” Beverly said at one point.  “He’d never do it!”

“Of course not!” Pamela agreed.  “But I can’t tell you how much fun I had looking at some of this stuff today.  I had no idea how much junk like this was out there.”

“Yeah!” Jackie replied.  “I felt like I was looking at pornography all day, and all I was doing was going to legitimate company websites.”

“You were looking at porn!” Lisa said.  “As far as I’m concerned, all of this is porn.”

“Yeah, but at least it brought us a few laughs,” Pam replied.

“True!” Lisa agreed and they all laughed again.

“Okay,” Lisa said.  “Since this is all just for fun anyway, what would be the next thing we’d have to do?”

It was Pamela who said, “Now we need a list.”

It was much later that evening when they all quieted down.  They had been having such a good time that none of them realized how much time they had spent.  Pamela looked across the table at Jackie.  “We’ve all been going under the assumption that this is all just in fun.  He’d never agree to any of it.  And if he did…”  She shook her head and laughed.  “He’d deserve it!”

“He already deserves it!” Beverly pointed out.  “A pervert like that…living right across the street!”

Pam looked over at Jackie.  “You talked to him.  It was your idea.  We’ve simply had a good time thinking about it with you.”

“A great time,” Beverly agreed.

“Are you going to talk to him, or at least bring it up with him?” Pam asked.

“I doubt it,” Jackie replied with a shake of her head.

“Why not?” Lisa said.  “It’s been fun playing with it.  Maybe it would be fun to find out what his reaction was when she actually posed the idea to him.”  That thought earned a few more laughs, but not for long.

Jackie smiled.  “You do have a point.  I wonder how flabbergasted he’d be if I suggested it to him.”

“But what if he does agree?” Lisa posed.

“Yeah,” Jackie said.  “I guess there is that to consider, but I don’t see it happening.”

“None of us do,” Pamela replied.  “But Lisa does have a point.  What if he actually agrees?  What if he decides he wants it?”

They all looked around the table, but the looks all ended on Jackie. 

“Would I want that kind of commitment?” Jackie asked.

“You could always end it whenever you want,” Beverly reminded her.

“Yeah.  And it would only last until I got tired of it anyway,” Jackie stated.

“So are you going to actually bring this up to him then?” Lisa asked.  “After all the fun we’ve had talking about it, I’m kind of dying to know how he reacts if you actually talked to him about it.”

Jackie thought about that, then smiled.  “You’re right.  It would be fun to push his buttons a little.  I have no doubt that just the thought of it would make him squirm.”

“And he deserves it,” Beverly said.  “The pervert!”

“And if he does actually decide to go along with it…”  Jackie shrugged.  “It would be something different for a while.”

“So you’re going to do it?” Lisa asked.

Jackie nodded.  “Yeah.  I might.” 

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