Peachy Situation

Peachy Situation

"It's quite a peachy situation we find ourselves in, don't you think?"

That was what Tannin told you after you made love to her for a second time within forty-five minutes. What you just did was not an earth-shattering record, but a very good accomplishment for a man of your age (63) and hers (72). Although her body did show signs of her age, her appetite for sex was like that of an eighteen-year-old. She needed no vaseline. And she came quickly and in quick succession and noisily. She made you feel good about myself. Already, she told you she loved you more than all the men who had arrived before you in her life. And she had had plenty, after two marriages and numerous liaisons. She also said that the "fault" was entirely hers. She should have trusted her instinct better and made the first move sooner. She was flattered that you did notice that she was interested in you. You had met her eight months prior on a tour bus of the western states of America. You were traveling with your on-again, off-again, strong-willed, spouse. Tannin's traveling companion was a fellow widow, Mouseata. Your spouse and Mouseata went to the same high school back when they were in Costa Rica prior to their emigrating to America. The four of us were visiting California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado by bus, run by a Chinese tour company. The price was quite cheap, $497 for 7 days including night motel accommodation and breakfasts.

Tannin was a widowed retired dentist. Her deceased spouse was also a dentist. She had four sons and they were all oral surgeons. Needless to say, Tannin was loaded with money and she was kind and generous with her friends. You, on the contrary, was tight with your money, a consequence of childhood poverty and a victim of financial swindles by your first wife. Tannin was friendly with your spouse but kept asking you all kinds of probing personal questions whenever she was out of the earshot of your spouse. She also let you know she was very impressed with your looks and physique, fair command of several (5) languages, general knowledge, and basic decency. Tannin didn't look bad for her age. She kept her figure well from her daily exercise in the pool and on the treadmill. She had an easy laugh and agile mind. You liked her company. She was accommodating and easy-going. Compared to your insolent spouse (your two unmarried daughters would fall to pieces if you ever divorce), Tannin was a breath of fresh air. You certainly didn't insinuate that you didn't have any money. You used to be quite wealthy myself until you I lost most of it in the stock market in 1999 and 2007. However, you still have some (mid six figures) left in 401 K accounts and $100,000 in cash. The monthly annuity payment for pension and the social security payments more than take care of your daily needs. In addition, you work part-time for a consultation company, which nets you around $2,000-2,500 a month. You are not as rich as your spouse or Tannin, but you are not poor and thus have to watch your pennies. But you do watch pennies. Habits die hard. Tannin knows about your frame of mind and accepts that.

By the time the bus trip ended and you had to get off at Las Vegas while your spouse, her friend, and Tannin moved on to Los Angeles to catch a flight back to Houston, you sensed that Tannin was pretty much taken by you and she herself was often on your mind, but you were outwardly cool and uninterested. You were a proud man. And 72 was a big number to overcome. You didn't know if she still liked sex or not and how much she liked you. You kept your feelings under wraps and hid your affection for her in camouflaged poetry and late night reveries.

Three months ago you jumped in with both feet when your spouse asked you that if you would like to join her on a South Pacific cruise. You always wanted to see for yourself Hawaii, Samoa, Fij, and the Caledonian Islands after reading so much about them in geography books. Nobody told you that Tannin would also be on the cruise until she showed up at the airport for the flight to Rome. And a "miracle" happened: Mouseata backed out at the last minute due to family obligation. So Tannin had a cabin all by herself albeit with a slight increase in rate. You took Mouseata's absence as a sign, a good omen for things to come between Tangerine and you. ". Anyway, you were lonely despite being married.Twice (twelve and six years ago) you thought you got rid of loneliness for good, but you were wrong. Since then several women played you for a fool and you went along until they discovered you were not as stupid and naive as you let on. They moved on to other targets and you moved on with your life with books, writing, and poker-playing to occupy your time when you are not called to do consultancy work with lonely and disturbed individuals. You are quite good in the consultancy business. It takes one to know one. You would venture to say a majority, if not a big majority, of people in your profession are quite unhinged themselves.

There was an instant attraction and chemistry between Tannin and you when you two first met eight months ago. She understood what you tried to say, which was not as easy as common folks assumed. And you were tremendously touched by her caring ways and her unspoken loneliness. On this cruise she spent most of her time with your spouse (okay, her name was Daevela), at meal times (you only joined them at dinner), and daily activities and nightly shows. You spent your time reading, sleeping, working out at the gym, and playing poker until the wee hours of the morning.The cruise lasted for eleven days. Things happened on the 9th night. You were playing poker as usual when somebody touched you on the shoulder. You turned around and saw Tannin smiling tenderly at you. She then asked you of how you were doing. You sighed and replied that you were a bit over $200 in the hole. She looked upset and emphatically said that you must quit now and join her for a walk on the deck. The way her eyes looked at you told you that you should not turn down her request.

It was a beautiful night. The full moon was in the sky. The South Pacific sea was calm. There was hardly a breeze. A lot of people were milling around on the deck, some of them were walking and talking, like Tannin and you were doing. She asked you a lot of questions, especially about the relationship with Daevela. You told her the truth, unadorned and unembellished. When you were through, she took your hand into hers and said, "my poor baby. You deserve better." You said nothing to that remark and didn't withdraw your hand. Then she huskily asked you if you liked her. You nodded your head and said, "from the very first beginning we first met." She then pulled you close to her and planted a kiss on my lips and wordlessly embraced you and then led me to the elevator and to her cabin. We were like two teenagers overcome with lust. She tremblingly inserted the cabin card into the door slot while holding tightly to your hand. You two barely got inside the cabin when you locked lips and touched each other hungrily.

Although her body showed the ravages of time, she made up for it by her sexual ardor and effusive praise of the magnificence of your body which you kept in a youthful shape by almost daily Yoga and strength exercises. She made you feel so wanted that you had no problem achieving the desired state of hardness in no time. When you were in her, she kept her legs intertwined on your back and kept saying your name overlaid with terms of endearment. Soon you were no longer affected by the age discrepancy and now saw love had transformed her into a beautiful mature woman. And when she urged you to quicken your tempo because she was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of pleasure, you let yourself go and you called her name over and over again and finished it up by pressing your pelvic region hard against hers.

Satisfied and contented, she stroked your face and massaged the nape of your neck, in the aftermath of the unforgettable sexual encounter. You soon passed out in heavenly peace. You woke up when you found myself hard again by her skillful lingual maneuvering. The second time you two were at it was less intense and more leisurely but much stronger in terms of tenderness and peace. Both sensed that what each had for each other was more than carnal lust and physical desire. The feeling was an old-fashioned love and caring. That was when she asked you what you would do about the future because she now realized she wanted to be with you at all times for she had found peace.

You told her the divorce was out of the question. There were complications, most were posed by your daughters and your unwillingness to bring embarrassment and humiliation to Daevela. You further explained to her that you must remain in Las Vegas for at least ten more years to see how you would fare with the consultancy business and the poker avocation. You then concluded that as much as you disliked the furtiveness of the situation, it must remain so until Daevela dies. Life is never perfect and is not designed to please us. We must adapt and endure. She could always fly to Las Vegas and be with you as long as she wished and as long as we kept our relationship a secret from Daevela. Tannin said nothing and tears flooded her eyes. She then said you needed to get dressed and go back to your cabin before Daevela came looking for you.

After you kissed her and were about to leave she asked me if you really loved her. You stepped towards her and held her in my arms and looked into her eyes and said softly that she was the one you had always wanted in your life and you had thought you would never realize your dream. You had always longed for an unselfish, unpretentious, intelligent woman who understood, respected, and cared about you. You were arrogant and conceited, but you were fair-minded and loyal. You told her that she took a big risk in loving you and time would tell her if her love for you and yours for her was real and not a flash in the pan. True love always has a way to manifest itself. What has held it back are selfishness, ego, greed, power, and fear. Of these, you are only aflicted with ego which could be intimately tied with a carry-over of feelings of inferiority complex in the past, but ever since you realize you am gifted at logic, philosophy, and words, the ego is very probably soundly based and not an overcompensation from the distant past. If she could handle your ego, she had nothing to be concerned about your feelings for her. She said nothing to your speech. And once again her eyes welled up with tears. She just raised her feet and kissed you on the cheeks and gently pushed you out of the cabin and into the lonely night.

Wissai
Noviember 21, 2012