The Invitation by Margaret K Johnson

Author:Margaret K Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: women, confidence, norfolk, women friends, sensuality, women love, women fiction, women and men, women and sex, women and love

Reenie

‘That was good, that was.’ Ted Rodgers rolled off his wife and laid on his back to get his breath.

Reenie smiled at him with affection, sitting up and arranging the covers comfortably over her large breasts. ‘Good,’ she said, and then she reached for the cigarettes on the bedside cupboard and took two out. She didn’t bother to ask Ted if he wanted one, because they always had a cigarette after sex, and, apart from for one-off occasions like death or childbirth, they always had sex on Saturday nights.

Of course, when they’d been a bit younger, it had been more often than once a week. But now they were pushing sixty, Reenie thought once a week was pretty good going. Lots of their friend didn’t get up to anything at all anymore, and Reenie thought that was sad. Even after all these years, she still liked to be physically close to her husband. He might have a bit of a gut, all right a lot of a gut; but after bearing four babies, so did she. And sagging breasts to boot. Less of the Marilyn Monroe and more the African tribeswoman these days, they were. But Ted still liked to bury his face between them, and that was all that mattered.

Ted wriggled up in bed and Reenie passed him the lit cigarette. ‘Ta, love.’

They sat smoking, shoulders touching, not talking. Unlike Reenie, Ted wasn’t one of life’s big talkers. He was a doer instead – DIY, gardening, fishing, darts; anything active. But he did seem to enjoy a bit of a chat after sex, so Reenie generally tried to keep quiet and wait for him to introduce the topic of conversation instead of jumping in about the girls at bingo or what one of their daughters had been getting up to.

‘You know my mate George from darts?’ he said finally.

‘Wife had a fling with the fishmonger?’

Ted smiled, amused as always by the way Reenie remembered people by the juicy titbits of their lives. ‘That’s the one. Well, I saw him tonight, and he says there’s some saucy course coming to the church hall. He’s seen a poster.’

Reenie frowned. ‘What’s he mean, saucy?’

‘You know,’ Ted said, ‘women’s stuff.’

Reenie was no further forward. ‘What d’you mean, women’s stuff? Some sort of cookery course?’

‘No,’ said Ted with a grin. ‘Not the cooking sort of sauce.’

Reenie looked at him. ‘You mean… the sex sort?’

‘Yes, he said. ‘Sex. Orgasms, he says. To help women have better ones.’

‘Orgasms?’

‘Could hardly believe it myself. Doesn’t seem like something the vicar would agree to, does it?’ And he started laughing. ‘Liven them all up a bit, won’t it?’ he said. ‘The Parish Council.’

‘Blimey!’ Reenie said, starting to laugh herself. ‘I can’t believe it.’

‘I know,’ said Ted, putting out his cigarette and lying down.

Putting out her own cigarette and moulding her body to Ted’s in the darkness, Reenie giggled. ‘Well, fancy that,’ she said.

After a moment, Ted cleared his throat. ‘You could go on it,’ he said.

‘What?’ Unable to believe her ears, Reenie sat back up and clicked the light on again to look at him.

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