Evadne’s mind was a blur: indeed her whole life was a blur. She was even obliged to squint at the Specsavers adverts. Things had reached the point where she needed to act, but this presented her with a problem: how does one find an optician? She had determined the location of one on the internet (she could sit really close to the screen)but actually locating it on the street was another matter. Evadne anxiously hoped that it had a really big sign, which, when you think about it, would make sense. It did have a big sign, but since it was called Aye-Aye-Sir it took her some time to locate it. She had allowed herself plenty of time though, and so was still a bit early. She however failed to see that the glass door was automatic, and tried to push it open, resulting in her falling through the opening and landing, discomfited, on the doormat the other side.
She was squirming with embarrassment when she became aware of a large presence close by. She looked up and through the fuzziness a handsome face appeared. It belonged to body which crouched down beside her and offered her a hand.
“Damned door!” it exclaimed “I’ve been caught out like that and I work here”
Evadne didn’t believe for a moment that this employee would have fallen foul of the door, but appreciated his efforts to deflect her embarrassment.
Once she was up on her feet (he was still holding onto her hand at this point) she said “I’m a bit early. I’ll just take a seat”
“Oh no. Come straight on through. I don’t have any other appointments til much later” and, still holding her hand, he guided her through the premises to a room down a corridor at the back. He closed the door gently behind him. The room was dimly lit, with a soft rosy light. His hand holding hers was strong and manly, and she imagined it cradling kittens and stirring casseroles.
He sat her in the big leather chair and placed himself in another, close by.
It was a long time since Evadne had seen herself properly in a mirror: she was able to do a bit of makeup (that was close-to) but when she pulled clothes on she was unsure of the end result. For this reason, whilst she knew her jeans were on the tight side, she had not given much thought to the jumper. This, as it happened, was also on the tight side, and this elastane-mediated style statement had made an instant impression on Gary “Goggles” the Optician. He has seen her walking slowly and anxiously past the windows, squinting at the sign, turning back and preparing to come in. So her hourglass figure,- buttocks doing battle with denim, and nervously heaving breastolators pumping against wool – was already impressed on his consciousness by the time she sprawled through the doorway.
“A girl with a welcome mat” he had chuckled inwardly as he helped her up. Now she was sat in front of him in the dimly lit room, the soft lighting playing on her cheekbones. It was very quiet, so he could hear what it was playing.
He watched he closely as she looked around, absorbing her blurry surroundings. Then he asked her to relax, and reached forward with a large pair of oculists’ testing spectacles, with adjustable sections and big metal rims to fit an assortment of trial lenses. As he came closer with them, she leaned away, looking worried. “What are they?” she cried, fearing he might be proposing them for her glasses.
“Don’t worry” he said, but he was being distracted by the sight of her, (all soft and breathy, her jumper clinging in a desperate bid to restrain her warm jubblies) and his explanation lacked technical accuracy whilst on another level shedding light on his thoughts:
“Don’t worry” he said, “These are just my oculists’ testicles”
There was a long, meaningful pause.
“I’m guessing he doesn’t work here any more” Evadne replied.
Gary laughed. Evadne laughed. Laughter tends to work like that. And she relaxed, and let him, everso gently, fit the gadget to her head. His soft, firm hands adjusted the earpieces and the width with great attention, and Evadne became aware that she found having her face and hair touched in this way was remarkably erotic.
She had lovely hair, silky and soft: the sort of hair which lifts and moves flatteringly in a light breeze, and is ideal for tossing. A point which had occurred to Gary, who was keen on such things. They both held the moment: he was close and could smell her perfume: he was so close that she could see his nostrils whiffling.
Gary clicked a button on a little remote control device and some letters appeared on a screen on the far side of the room.
“What can you see?” he asked
Evadne looked. She looked and looked. She squinted (rather cutely)
“An N? Or perhaps an H?”
Gary reached into a big tray and deftly slotted two lenses into the frame Evadne was wearing.
“Now?” he asked, his voice resonant with masculinity
There was an urgency in that question which set Evadne’s heart beating. “Oh gosh! I can see it’s an M!” she exclaimed
He put a black disk into one side and then for the next few minutes Gary was flipping lenses in and out of the frames, asking “Is that better? Or worse?”
After a while they reached a joint decision for both eyes. Then he swung a huge machine across in front of Evadne and whispered “Rest your chin there. Press your forehead here, and keep very still while I look into your eyes”
Evadne did so, enjoying his quiet strength. She held the position well, leaning forward, and Gary spent a few delicious moments looking at her chest pressing eagerly towards him. But her eyes would not wait forever: he returned to his measurements, complimenting her on her retinas.
Finally he had taken all the measurements he needed. Evadne got the chance to see him in focus, – albeit whilst she was looking through the huge adjusted frames. She got a shock, but it was a very nice one which travelled through her body to its natural focus deep within the tight jeans. He was very handsome, with chiselled features suggesting his father was a dab hand with a chisel.
He had the sort of jaw which can set as required in a crisis, and brown eyes with long lashes. There were other bits too – all the ones necessary to keep the jaw and eyes in the correct relative positions, but it was these features which caught Evadne’s now-roving eyes. Then he smiled, and she added “lips” to the list.
“Wow!” she said innocently, and then blushed. She hurriedly added “I can see you in focus!”
But they both knew what she had meant, as clearly as if it was written up on the eye chart.
“You’ll need to choose some frames next” he said
“How will I see what they look like?” she asked
“I’ll help you” he said, adding that he thought she would look fabulous in any. She turned slowly towards him, looking meltingly at him through the big lenses “Even in these ocular testicles?” she asked
Gary laughed, and assured her that Yes, she did. The he lifted them oh so gently off her, reducing her surroundings to a rosy haze, brushing her cheeks and hair with those strong hands we mentioned before. Evadne shivered, or shuddered (depending on your preference)and leaned closer – so that she could still see him.
“I hadn’t realised how vulnerable I was feeling” she explained
“Don’t worry” said Gary, though his hand trembled a little as he put the equipment away.
“There’s no hurry to go yet – as I said I have no more appointments for ages. I’ve just got to get my stuff sorted out”
“Me too” Evadne replied, wriggling a little in the big leather chair “Go ahead.” she giggled “Don’t mind me…I mean I can’t see anyway!”
Gary slid his chair up close to hers, and murmured into her hair “I’m so familiar with it, I can do it by feel”
Evadne, her own adjustments as yet incomplete, whispered back “Or I could help?”
She could, for with her poor eyesight she was also very accustomed to doing things by feel. It is a system which has worked down the centuries, and it certainly worked here in the rosy glow of the examination room, with its ample leather chair, her ample bosomage, his chiselled jaw, that jumper…. She had been flustered by the compliment to her retinas, (no-one had ever said that before) but when Gary began to gaze deeply into her eyes without the intervention of gadgets, the moment was so intense as to do what intense moments do: Clothing is a distraction at such times; Quite soon Evadne was gazing in the direction of the eye chart and crying out….but “O! O! O!” were not the letters on the screen.
Somehow that didn’t matter. The oculists’ testicles had prevailed