Cape May

The Seduction of Bobby Joel

"Wow! That was some promise. You remember that night, Gaby?"

"Do I remember? Boy, not a day goes by without me thinking of it. And you know what?"

"What?"

"You can have that again Bobby. That and more."

I thought back to that night, the passion, the emotions, the rawness of it and suddenly I had an intense desire to get her on all fours so we could re-live that night right there and then.

We walked the garden in silence, her arm around my waist and mine on her ass.

I broke the silence.

"Hey Gabby, what you do with all those letters I wrote you. Did you throw them away or what?"

"Oh Bobby, I would never throw them away. I kept them in a safe place at home and every now and then when John was away on a business trip I would take them out and read them."

When I went away to college in Tampa we would talk on the phone every night. Most of it was phone sex. She would masturbate, as would I, to fantasies we had of each other, of things we've done and things yet to be done. We did this for a while, but as time went on I started writing her letters. Hot steamy letters lovers write in the midst of loneliness. Then I would read them to her over the phone as she read along. I must have written over fifty or sixty letters to her, the last one being about six years ago.

"But I started getting paranoid that John would find them, so five years ago when I visited mommy, I brought them with me, and I put them in a really safe place Bobby. Guess where I put them?"

She turned facing me, walking backwards in front of me while holding my hands, skipping like a little girl. There was only one place she could have put them. In her room, just to the right of the entrance to the bathroom was a slat of floorboard that had come loose when we were just kids. We pulled it up one day and there was a space about a foot long, half a foot wide and about eight inches deep. It became our secret hiding place where we would put whatever could fit in there that we did not want mommy to find. With the floorboard back in place, no one would know it was there. It was the perfect hiding place.

I smiled at her, "Under the floor in your room."

"Yessss, she squealed with excitement. "You remembered. Our secret hiding place. Anyway, mommy would never find them and now I didn't have to worry about John finding them."

I stopped and pulled her to me. I could not resist her when she was so happy, almost childlike.

"Ohh Gabby, my little Gabby, if anybody ever found those letters, we'll be in for it."

"Nobody's gonna find them Bobby, plus remember mommy never goes upstairs especially now with her bad knees."

"I know, I know. We did some crazy shit didn't we? I was crazy, you were crazy. I never imagined when I seduced you that I would feel such strong emotions. I never knew that that small kiss would lead to all this. And I'm sorry I messed up your lif...."

"Shhhhhh." She put her finger to my lips.

"Like I already told you Bobby, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. And since you're feeling so guilty thinking you messed up my life, I'm going to tell you something, something you never knew. Something you could never imagine."

"Really?

She had my attention.

"Yeah, really, but first let's sit down. I think your gonna want to be seated for this.