Chapter 1637 C

• After dinner we played a few simple card games and an old "Chutes and Ladders" I still had around from when my girls were little. After lights out, alone in my sleeping bag I realized I had never slept this close to a woman as beautiful as Allison. My dick was as hard as it had been in years and yet there was nothing I could do about it. It took what seemed like forever for it, and me, to calm down and finally fall asleep. Allison and Brendan ended up spending three nights at my house before the power came back on. By the time it did, we were all fast friends. To Brendan, I was now "uncle Dave." Allison confessed she'd been a little bit scared of me at first, seeing as how I didn't talk much and all, but through Kimberly she had figured I was probably all right, and now that she had gotten to know me better, I wasn't so scary after all.
• We talked fairly often throughout the rest of the winter after that. I shoveled snow for her, did a few small household repairs, that kind of thing, and I agreed to accept a "home-cooked family meal" as repayment for my help. I offered to watch Brendan for her if she ever needed a babysitter. I confess I really enjoyed playing with that kid. It wasn't long before she, with Brendan's enthusiastic support, took me up on the offer.
• By the time March arrived, Allison, eleven months after her ex moved out and three months after her divorce became final, went out on her first date since college. She met a lot of guys through her work, and once it got around that she was single, she had no shortage of offers. She was not quite 30, and nowhere close to wanting to spend the rest of her life single. If she was going to get back out there, she was going to need someone to watch Brendan. I was happy to do it. I really liked the kid. I really liked Allison too, but I was almost twice her age and only when I was alone in my bed at night, masturbating to mental images of her, did I give even the slightest thought to making a run at her myself. That was fantasy, and I knew the difference between fantasy and reality.