"Till Death Do Us Part"
By Heather Caroline
"Acknowledgements"
I wish to acknowledge and thank Ms Vickie Tern for being my inspiration
and encouragement to write this story idea that has been rattling around
in my blonde brain for a very long time. I just couldn't get motivated
to get started nor believe enough in myself to write a good and
entertaining story. Vickie's writing style encouraged me and then she
gave me the push to start. Everything she told me was so true; because
once I got going I had so much fun and enjoyment with my very first
plot. Vickie warned me that my own creation of characters would take
control and direction, causing the twists to an end. I hope you will
have as much fun reading my story as I did creating and writing it.
"Thank You" again Vickie for all your encouragement and coaxing. And
for "editing". Your inspiration and mentoring is the credit for my
story.
I also wish to acknowledge and say "Thank You" with hugs to my real
"life inspiration", Dr Samantha Grace, for helping me with issues of
pharmaceutical correctness and reality. "Thank You Sweetheart!"
"Till Death Do Us Part"
"Cast of Characters"
Isabelle Henrietta (Cox) Warren 10-24-1917 till.... Married (at age 85
to Carl Ryan Warren) 06-07-2003 to 07-04-2028 (As our story starts it is
Isabelle's 111th birthday party) (Isabelle is Rachel Anne's great aunt)
Rachel Anne (Cox) Phillips 03-01-1952 till.... Married (first time at
age 22 to her childhood sweetheart Thomas Michael Phillips) 07-15-1974
to 08-10-1999 / Married (second time at age 52 to Charles Daniel Adams)
07-15-2004 to 11-14-2027 (Rachel is 76 at Isabelle's birthday party)
(Rachel is great niece of Isabelle)
Thomas (Tom) Michael Phillips 01-10-1950 till 08-10-1999 (killed in a
tragic plane crash accident at age 49) Married (at age 24 to his
childhood sweetheart Rachel Anne Cox) 07-15-1974 to 08-10-1999
Carl Ryan Warren 2-22-1930 till 07-04-2028 Married (third time at age
73 to Isabelle Henrietta Cox / 1 divorce & 1 widower) 06-07-2003 to 07-
04-2028
Charles Daniel Adams 12-07-1959 till 11-14-2025 (died at age 66 as a
result of being shot and bleeding to death in a blotched hold-up)
Married (first time at age 44 after a very secret hot and passionate 7
year affair w/to Rachel Anne Phillips) 07-15-2004 to 11-14-2025
Dr Kimberly (Kim) Babbitt: (Endocrinologist / OBYGN) Paternal twin
sister of Charles Dan Adams (Kim is 68 at Isabelle's birthday party) /
(Kimberly is intimately and passionately involved with Dr Matthew
Schmidt)
Dr Matthew Schmidt (Major General Retired / Service specialty: Army Mash
surgeon w/plastic surgery and major bone reconstruction specialist in
active war zones) / (Matthew is intimately and passionately involved
with Dr Kimberly Babbitt /Matt is also a close personal friendship and
professional relationship with Charles Daniel Adams)
Additional Cast of Characters: (Minor roles/importance)
5 Children to Tom and Rachel (3 daughters / 2 sons) (married with
children at the time of Isabelle's party) / 15 Grandchildren to Rachel
(3 born before Tom's death and 12 after Rachel marries Dan) / 1 Great-
granddaughter named after Isabelle)
Residences and Schools of Importance to our story:
(in order of appearance)
Vineyard Haven Sunrise Retirement-Assisted Living Facility in Vineyard
Haven, Massachusetts (where Isabelle is living at the time of her 111th
birthday party as our story opens / where she met-fell in love and
married Carl who lived there too / Rachel and Dan move her there to care
and watch out for her)
Yonkers, New York (Isabelle's birthplace and home growing up / Rachel's
growing up years and the first years of her marriage)
New Rochelle College for Women in New Rochelle, New York (Isabelle's and
Rachel's college)
Wichita State University-School of Business and Entrepreneur (Where Tom
earns his bachelor and master's degrees) Sugar Loaf, New York
(Isabelle & Rose's home after Yonkers till after Rose's death / a small
art's and craft's community on county road between Yonkers & Middleton,
New York)
Fall River, Massachusetts (Rachel & Tom's home till Tom's death / Rachel
& Dan's home till after his death)
Eagleville, Rhode Island (at a small horse ranch and surgical infirmary
outside of town that where Matthew Schmidt M.D. lives and performs the
"miracle of our story")
Now: "Till Death Do Us Part"
i.
It was October 24th in the year of our Lord 2028. The place was the
elaborate banquet hall of the very exclusive and elite Vineyard Haven
Sunrise Retirement and Assisted Living Community. It was Isabelle
Henrietta Cox-Warren's fantastic 111th birthday, a joyous and delightful
celebration on a grand scale for sure. It had been planned for some
time now and finally the day had arrived to honor our precious lady on
this milestone of her life. There were dignitaries and loving guests
and her family partying with her this day. The governor of
Massachusetts spoke in her honor. The mayor of Vineyard Haven, on the
north end of the same Massachusetts' island where Martha's Vineyard is
located, commemorated this blessed occasion by presenting Isabelle with
a plaque and the key to the city.
However, a certain ex-United States Senator of Massachusetts, who now
was quite old and feeble and still well pickled, was not invited. He
was still politically connected and offered to make an appearance but
was bluntly turned down. Isabelle's political beliefs drastically
opposed his and she thought he was directly responsible for a young
lady's drowning death that wasn't his wife. There was news coverage
and a writer for a well known magazine in Boston there to do a human
interest article.
Kate Snow, who had replaced the well respected Diane Sawyer, from GMA
had already done a featured spot on Isabelle and the DVD of that was
being loop-played on a TV in the hall. And of course attending were
many of Isabelle's cherished companions at Vineyard Haven Sunrise. She
had a beautiful birthday cake decorated with 111 candles, which of
course were not lit because of safety reasons and fire regulations
although the fire marshal was present and celebrating with her too. It
was a good thing that all of the cameras were digital with large memory
sticks. The cost of film would have been prohibitive, but then again
maybe it would have kept Kodak afloat another year or two.
Isabelle was a very beautiful woman even in her old age. Much like
Sarah at age 90 was still beautiful to Abraham. She had a very willowy
figure and exuded a refinery in her presentation. Isabelle always
dressed impeccably with rich Victorian fashion. Her grandparents and
parents were very old fashion and old school to that age of richness and
elite respect of their well-to-do status, so they had instilled these
virtues in Isabelle. She was very elegantly dressed in what would be
considered a formal evening gown made of the finest rich eye pleasing
light and soft fabrics. Her gown was basically dark green satiny
brocade.
She was encased luxuriously from just below her pretty rounded dainty
chin to just shy of sweeping the floor lightly. The dress scooped from
pillowy puffy gatherings at the shoulder/sleeve to a low cut bodice that
would have exposed the full cleavage of her well endowed bosom, if not
for the white pleated high sheen satin, covered with white lace from her
high neck stiff collar to join the low cut bodice seamed completely with
a green satiny ribbon. Her sleeves flowed to her wrists and over the
back of her hands, with a loop of cord to make then like fingerless
gloves around her middle fingers. This only brought pointed attention
to her gracefully French tipped clear coated nails. The sleeves were
overlaid in white fine delicate lace to join the wrists with a green
satiny ribbon again.
From her bosom to her hips, Isabelle's waist narrowed almost obscenely
so that her hour glass figure although slim and trim was exaggerated
femininity that any model would die for. Obviously she must have been
wearing a very tight and restrictive corset making this pleasing to the
eye contrast by the narrowing and the ridged uprightness of her posture.
The waist area of her dress was encircled in a wide banding of satiny
green ribbon with a huge bow in the back with long tails. Her skirt
flared off of her womanly rounded hips and backside. It fell naturally
flat in the front but flared out on the sides and back. The bottom hem
of her gown was a combination of satiny green ribbon and intertwining
ruffling white lace.
She wore what appeared to be dark green lace up broad heels --they
appeared once when she turn quickly to set down gathering up the back of
her skirt to smooth it under her. Isabelle's accessories consisted of a
rich ivory cameo tied to her neck by green satiny ribbon and dropped
pearl earbobs. She still wore proudly her wedding bands of the last
twenty five years of her life. She also wore a multi-colored band on
the third finger of her right hand. She had another band matching hers
on a chain around her neck under her dress that fell so close to her
heart that no one could see. Her hair, if it were not wrapped and
coffered richly on her head, probably would have hung to her waist. But
then probably only her hair dresser and loyal confidant in personal
makeup knew for sure every whim and need and care Isabelle desired for
her appearance. It was a brilliant sheen of silver gray accented by
dark green combs and satiny ribbons. Isabelle always took very great
care to keep as fit and pretty as possible. Even her face was only
lightly touched by expensive complimenting cosmetics.
Isabelle's husband Carl had assured that both of them would stay
physically active in their public as well as private intimate lives
together. Exercise and health were of the greatest importance to their
every day routine even right up to Carl's death three months earlier.
He had died very healthy and fit in his sleep at the ripe old age of 98.
No one could believe that Isabelle was a day over 80. To say this day
for her was a "gay olde day of delight" would have been an
understatement.
Isabelle was overjoyed by the presence of her great niece Rachel Anne
(Cox) Phillips-Adams. Rachel had been married twice and widowed twice.
Her first husband was Thomas (Tom) Michael Phillips who died in a
horrible private plain crash in the remote wilderness of Manitowoc
Canada in August of 1999. Tom was only a young 49 years of age and left
Rachel widowed at 47. They had celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary in July of that same year. Rachel, at age 52, would again
marry to Charles Daniel Adams, age 44, on the exact date of her first
wedding date five years following Tom's death. Rachel and Dan, as he
always went by, had been having a torrid and passionate love affair for
a little over seven years, two of those years prior to Tom's tragic end.
She would be married to Dan for 21 years as well. Rachel had much in
common with her great aunt Isabelle, whom Rachel loved with all of her
heart. And Isabelle loved Rachel equally.
Rachel was Isabelle's closest living relative. The family tree between
them didn't have many branches at all. Rachel's great grandparents had
had only two children, Rachel's grandfather and his little sister
Isabelle. Rachel's grandparents had only one son born to them, Rachel's
father. Rachel herself was an only child, and her parents had been
killed in an auto accident not long after Rachel and Tom were married.
So over the years Rachel and Tom drew extremely close to Isabelle and
Isabelle to them.
Rachel and Tom also believed in the biblical principle that the Apostle
Paul instructed Timothy about 'if a widow had children or grandchildren,
these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by
caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and
grandparents, for this is pleasing to God'. Even though Isabelle was
their great aunt and not their grandparent, Rachel and Tom didn't view
her as different from their own family. As Isabelle grew older, their
caring for her only increased with greater joy. Isabelle by her own
desire and stubbornness lived very modestly but very comfortably thanks
to her great niece and great nephew-in-law. After Tom's fatal accident
in a plane crash, Rachel continued to care for Isabelle. As a matter of
fact, Rachel and her secret lover and eventual husband Dan would move
Isabelle from the small arts and craft villa of Sugar Loaf in New York
State where she lived alone after Rose's death to Vineyard Haven Sunrise
Retirement Community in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. That occurred
about two years after Tom's demise. Both Rachel and Dan felt a real pang
of responsibility and deep commitment to Isabelle. For very good
reason.
All of Rachel and Tom's five children and families were all present out
of respect for their mother's love for her great aunt. Rachel had
requested that all of her kids, grandchildren, and brand new great
granddaughter, named Isabelle also, be here this day. They all made it
and were so happy for their grand-aunt Isabelle.
Isabelle had been an old maid all of her life till the ripe old age of
85, when she fell in love with and married Carl Ryan Warren, a long time
resident of this community. He was 73 when he made Isabelle a beautiful
"June Bride." Carl at age 98 made Isabelle a widow in her 110th year
of life, just three months before her next birthday. Isabelle had a
warm rich glow from her 25 years of marriage to Carl, whom she loved
deeper than she had ever thought possible in life. She worshiped her
man. Isabelle was like Abraham's Sarah, seeing joyfully through
sparkling eyes, feeling and believing that Carl was her master. There
was no greater love between a man and a woman than theirs. Carl was a
very rich man who enjoyed a luxurious villa at Vineyard Haven Sunrise,
with no cares in the world till he was smitten by Miss Isabelle and
started trying to court her in the old fashion way, according to the old
school of romance. So he was deep in her heart and mind as everyone
gathered around her to rejoice in her life's longevity.
The birthday celebration had gone on for several hours and many of the
crowd had come and gone. Isabelle was a wee bit tired and overwhelmed
by it all, but she was still determined to talk in depth and length with
Rachel, now that the two of them sat in a small comfortable alcove off
the banquet room. Only one other event needed to happen before these
two precious and beautiful women had their own private time together.
Isabelle had promised an interview on her life to Beth Ann, a lady
writer from a magazine, who wanted to write her life's history. So
Isabelle and Rachel sat with this woman as Isabelle related her life
from childhood to now.
"Isabelle"...Beth Ann asked... "please be kind to us by relating your
life, from the earliest childhood years that you may be able to remember
up to today, sweetheart." Beth Ann sat across from Isabelle with her
legs crossed, pencil in hand and an open steno pad.
"I remember very well my early childhood years from the time I was
three. We lived in a very exclusive part of Yonkers, New York on the
Hudson River in a three story colonial style home with so many windows
that the sun always warmed up all of the rooms with bright brilliance.
My father was an investment banker and commanded respect both at home
and at the bank. I hardly ever saw my Father when he was not wearing a
three piece suit with high gloss-shined winged tipped shoes, and his
gold watch-fobbed pocket watch chain glistened as it left the watch
pocket on his vest to attach to a button hole. Father had a full head
of dark black hair and sported a well trimmed mustache. He was tall and
lean and extremely handsome. Mother would always be dressed in a modest
full length dress that was very elegant while also very practical for a
homemaker. She was thin and oh so pretty and she always beamed with a
bright smile. I seldom ever saw Mother without full lace bodice-
covering aprons. Mother always had a maid and a cook, but she was
always busying herself in the kitchen, overseeing and preparing meals
for Father, my older brother and myself. I remember clinging to
Mother's dress and following her all around the kitchen. It was always
a warm and fun place in our home to be. Mother never seemed to mind me
being literally under foot."
"When I was five, Father arrange for private teachers to school us in
our home. We were given all the basic education for our social
standings. I also was taught as I neared my teen years how to do needle
point, crocheting, dress making and the fineries of the piano and the
violin. Mother and our cook would have me covered in flour kneading
bread, rolling pie crusts, and making biscuits for Father and my
brother. This was always to my joy and hers. Mother loved watching my
cooking adventures, and we would laugh and dance in our kitchen, which
was the heart of our home for Mother and me. She would say that I would
make a wonderful wife to make some man a king one day. I didn't really
desire the company of 'boys' then anyway."
"In 1935 Father gave me the opportunity to attend New Rochelle College
for women, in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle College was a very
private school for women started in 1904. Here I refined myself to the
lady-like social graces and the elegance of the "upper crust". I was a
very studious young lady living in an on campus dorm. This is when I
first discovered the fruits of my roommate Rose, and learned more in
that year than in all my young naive childhood put together. I had been
very sheltered in sexual intimacy, and Rose brought on my blooming,
flowering and de-flowering. I felt her satiny soft creamy skin and
pillow lips in so many places that I never desired to every look twice
at the young men at all. I was in a forbidden love that had to be kept
a deep secret from all. I couldn't embarrass my family in anyway. Never
could I have given this interview to you back then, but today it seems
to be absolutely common place and well accepted."
"Rose and I remained together till we graduated and were forced to part
for our different homes. We kept in constant touch and it would be a
few years before fate would bring us back to each other's arms again. I
saw no need for the love of a man and so remained single and became a
very old maid as far as everyone thought. Rose and I had a "spiritual
dedicated union" together. It was as rock solid as any marriage could
ever hope of being. That is of course until I met, was courted, and fell
head over heels in love with Carl. However, I am getting way ahead of
myself aren't I?"
"In the summer of my last year in school, my brother, Rachel's
grandfather, fell in love and got married. I was one of seven
bridesmaids, thinking it wouldn't have been so many if she didn't choose
me because of my brother. It was a great celebration and we danced and
partied through the night. My brother and his wife honeymooned at
Niagara Falls for a week, and that is when Rachel's daddy became more
than a twinkling gleam in her grandfather's eyes. I became an aunt and I
spoiled the devil out of that little baby. It was a wonderful time of my
life. Oh, how I longed for and churned the idea of being a mother
myself. But I loved and adored Rose and didn't want any man touching me
ever. So my baby would be my precious nephew instead. I think that is
why I felt so close to Rachel too, making her my precious baby just like
her daddy when she was born. We all lived close together in Yonkers. I
was always there through their growing up and I loved them."
"My grandmother died while I was away at college and soon after my
grandfather died of a broken heart. That devastated my mother and she
turned sad and depressed for years to come. Our home in Yonkers was
never again as bright and warm-feeling. I came home after college to
take care of our home for my parents, especially Mother. I always tried
to cheer mother, but she just pined away. We lost her two years later,
probably from inheriting grandfather's broken heart. I was in my
twenties and war was breaking out in Europe. There were brave young men
full of piss and vinegar; I believe today they call that over-
testosterone-charged, or raging hormones, or something silly like that,
volunteering and signing up to go fight. We hadn't yet entered the war,
but rumors of our involvement were on the horizon. My brother joined up
to fight as an English soldier and shipped out. I never saw him again.
He lost his life on a cold damp bloody beach in Normandy, France. When
we received the news by Western Union telegram, the shock caused Father
to have a heart attack. Father lived for about three months, never
recovering. I took care of him in our home till he died."
"I inherited Father's investments and property. I took in Rachel's
grandmother and her daddy into our big old house and once again tried to
make it a bright and warm home. It was, for many years after that.
That is how I became Rachel's daddy's teacher. Rachel's daddy was just a
teenager when he got Rachel's mother in a family way. Today it's no big
deal, it seems, for babies to be having babies -- as I understand the
phrase to be. However, then it was taboo and we hurried a quickie but
elegant wedding. When Rachel's daddy married, both his mother and I
were in the front pew in our "mother's dresses", mine being Victorian of
course. Rachel's mother was so beautiful in her flowing white wedding
gown and her daddy was very handsome and dashing in his long tailed tux
and top hat." I beamed and again felt that old warm glow in my heart
that we had missed for several years."
"Father's wealth and my wise investments kept us living very comfortable
and well. We didn't long for much. I had made sure that Rachel's
grandmother had investments too and that helped Rachel's daddy and momma
to find a good home not far from our home. Rachel's grandmother
continued to live with me till she died. When Rachel's daddy moved out,
I contacted Rose who was having some hard times thanks to current world
conditions, and asked her to come live with me. I was so overjoyed when
the one love of my life and my bed agreed and once again we became one.
Rachel's grandmother never objected, and in fact grew to love Rose as a
very dear and close friend. Past our doors, no one else ever knew."
Isabelle turned to Rachel as she continued. "This is probably the first
time you even heard of your Aunt Rose being more to me than you
suspected, Rachel. Rose was so soft and delicate to touch and to kiss.
We spent hours in each other's arms, our lips locked to the other's, our
breasts providing eager touchability and ecstatic pleasure, or our faces
between each other's thighs licking and sucking and kissing each other's
love mounds. Rose and I with Rachel's grandmother as a witness
exchanged "love union commitment vows" and sealed our marriage with
matching multi-colored bands. We were in love and we totally shared that
love completely, till Rose passed away sleeping in my arms in our older
years. 'Till death do we part!'"
At this point Isabelle took a deep breath and became silent for a while.
Beth Ann glanced over at Rachel and their eyes met. She'd noticed that
Isabelle referred to Rachel an awful lot in Isabelle's accounting of her
life to this point. Of course Beth Ann wasn't overly concerned by it,
since Rachel was sitting alongside Isabelle, and she knew that Rachel
was a very dear part of Isabelle's life, and still deeply was. However,
Rachel sensed by Beth Ann's look that she was questioning Rachel as more
involved in the story more than need be. Rachel herself was feeling a
few pangs of guilt, and squirmed a little bit in her chair. Beth Ann
didn't notice or catch any meaning by that, though. Rachel looked at
Isabelle and wondered if she should tell Isabelle all.
Rachel excused herself for a few minutes for a trip to the ladies room,
and then returned with a tray with a tea pot, three cups on saucers, and
cream and sugar. "Would you like some tea Aunt Isabelle?" Rachel asked.
Isabelle seemed to return to the present as if someone had gently shaken
her. "Yes, please, and thank you Rachel!" "Would you care for a cup too
Beth?" Beth nodded and asked for a little milk in hers as well. Rachel
served them both and settled back with a cup and Isabelle started
talking again.
"I digress. Please forgive me for my lack of attention," Isabelle said.
"I was remembering something very deep and personal to me."
"That's fine, no problem, please take all the time you need, Isabelle"
replied Beth Ann. "I know you have deep memories and have had
intimacies that are precious to you, and it is good for you to remember
them. Please start again when you feel ready and comfortable to do so."
Isabelle twisted the multi-colored band on her right hand a little and
resumed with her story. "Rachel was born in the wee hours of the
morning to the joy of her daddy and momma, grandmother and of course
Rose and myself. We were all at the hospital, holding her daddy's
anxious hands. Her mother was in labor with her for over ten hours. I
do believe that Rachel didn't want to join us and made a valiant effort
to remain in the womb. But as you can easily see, she did join us after
all. We made such a fuss and commotion that the nurses tried to make us
leave. However her grandmother and I had influential friends on the
hospital board, so the nurses never succeeded. I held this little girl
in my arms within the hour she was born. Rachel's daddy was so proud of
her he was giving cigars away to total strangers. I always wondered
later how many cases of cancer he was responsible for?"
"Rachel and her momma were in the hospital almost a week before we
brought them home to our house to care for them, at least till her momma
could get back on her feet again. They all stayed with us for about a
month before returning to their own home. But we, Rose and I and
Rachel's grandmother, made sure that Rachel was under our roof at least
half the time she was under her mother's. Rose and I made over a bright
and sunny room into a beautiful nursery just for our little girl. We
were all very much a close knit family, and we made sure Rachel's
parents had plenty of time to be by themselves intimately as well."
"As Rachel grew and started walking, Rose and I were pleased that she
was as underfoot as I had been with my own mother in our kitchen. We
made sure the kitchen was the heart of our home for her. I inherited my
mother's aprons, and had scores of other fine and fancy ones on my own.
I collected aprons then as most girls do matching bra and panties' sets
from Vickie's Mystery."
"Aunt Isabelle, don't you mean 'Victoria's Secret'?" interrupted Rachel.
"Yes of course, they weren't around when I was growing up, or when you
first pulled on my apron strings. I even made fancy little matching
aprons for Rachel to go with all of the fancy lacey dresses we kept her
in at our home. I loved dabbing a bit of flour on her nose and we all
laughed and tickled each other often and then we would hug and kiss each
other. It was so much like my childhood and it felt so grand. Rose and
I taught Rachel to cook, to sew, to crochet, do needle point, and to
play and appreciate the piano and violin as she grew into her teens. I
also home schooled Rachel through the lower grades. There was no
question about it, since I'd graduated with a teaching degree from New
Rochelle."
"There was a boy who lived next door to us. His Father was a very
successful business man, greatly respected in Yonkers, who took him in
and taught him all the ropes of his businesses -- he had several. When
he retired, he turned them all over to his son to manage and grow. The
corporation was called 'Phillips and Son'. This young boy's name was
Thomas Michael, but we always called him 'Tom'. When Tom was old
enough, I contracted him to care for our lawn and shrubs, and our
vegetable and flower gardens. Tom spent as much time around our home as
he did his own till his Father decided it was time for Tom to accompany
him to the office. Tom's Father was very good with Tom, for riding
bikes, playing tennis, swimming, and playing catch and baseball with him
at home, when he wasn't taking Tom to see the Yankees. Tom's Father
would always ask Rachel if she wanted to go to the games too, which was
an all day outing. Of course Rachel would plead with me to go and I
would smile and nod. Sometimes he would take his whole family, and
Rose, Rachel's grandmother, and me too. We had such great times then."
"Tom spent as much time around Rachel as we would let him, which was
most of the day, summers. Tom couldn't see her as often during the
school year, since he went to a private school a few miles away. Tom
liked to tease Rachel mercilessly, till he reached his teen years and
his 'piss and vinegar' started to kick in. I noticed that Rachel seemed
to have an eye for this young lad as well. Rose and I chuckled a lot to
ourselves and made sure we kept them both well under our own watchful
eyes. Rachel's grandmother beamed at their closeness and awkwardness,
and at their courting later on. She like Tom very much and hoped they'd
become sweethearts. She wasn't ever disappointed, nor were Rose and I."
"Now please don't take me wrong, or assume that Rachel didn't have
parents or a home life. She did, and she was close and loving with them
too, always. Rachel's daddy started out working for a Yonker's lumber
yard and hardware before he met Rachel's momma. It wasn't much at
first, but he worked extremely hard and was totally loyal to the owner.
The owner lost his three sons in the big war, so he had only one
daughter to pass the business onto. She had little interest in the
family business and spent most of her time in New York City with her
mother. So Rachel's daddy eventually took over running his business and
in time bought out the business for a good price. He kept the name,
since it was well known. Rachel's momma took over all of the book
keeping and secretarial management for her husband, letting him devote
all of his time to supply end of the lumber yard. They built the
business bigger and better over time. So while Rachel's parents were
involved there, Rachel was always with us for her schooling, and her
training as a young lady in the fineries of making a loving home for her
future man and family. Rachel did spend some time in the summer at the
business, with her momma, learning those skills as well. Somehow
though, when that was the case, my landscaping would suffer a bit
because Tom always seemed to have a need for items from the hardware or
lumber yard. Rose and I would just gleam and spend time ourselves with
our flowers."
"We, Rose and I, decided that Rachel should spend her high school years
in a private school. We discussed this with her parents, who agreed.
So we sent her off to a very exclusive school not far from home. It was
amazing, although not surprising, that Tom somehow talked his parents
into sending him there as well. Tom's Father would always drive them
there in the mornings and his Mother would bring them home in the
afternoons after her club and social responsibilities. A few times a
week Rachel would help Tom's Mother cook dinner and dine with them,
while a few times a week Tom would join us in our kitchen. We were all
so very close. Rachel and Tom were exceptional straight 'A' students and
excelled in many of the school's clubs and organizations. They would
alternate beating each other out for class president and vice president
-- each held both offices the last two years there. They graduated with
honors as co-valedictorians their senior year. Rachel and Tom gave each
other their class rings that year as well. We all approved!"
"Let's take a little break and refresh our tea" Beth Ann said. She
excused herself for about five minutes.
"I'll get more hot tea and some cookies" Rachel chimed in, and picked up
the tray and disappeared to the banquet hall's kitchen. Before Rachel
had finished, Beth Ann joined her there. "Did you notice Isabelle seems
to be having a little difficulty talking about this Tom's involvement
with your life Rachel?"
ii.
I was a bit uncomfortable about how Beth Ann asked that question. Of
course I had seen the near tears at times welling in Isabelle's eyes as
she talked about Tom and especially when she talked about us becoming so
intimate. I knew it would only possibly get worst as we went on and she
talked about our getting married, and about the birth of our five
children and all of our fifteen grandchildren. A cold shiver and goose
bumps shook me for a moment, unnoticed by Beth Ann. Again, I spaced out
briefly, wondering if I owed it to Isabelle to tell the truth. Was
Isabelle remembering things that I hope she wouldn't in front of Beth
Ann?
Beth Ann startled me back to consciousness "well let's take the tea and
cookies back into Isabelle and continue on with her story."
I paused in guarded thought for another moment and replied "yes" and
picked up the tray.
Isabelle was seemingly daydreaming as we re-entered the small and cozy
alcove room again. I poured hot tea for her and Beth Ann, remembering
to serve milk in hers. I glanced again toward my Great Aunt and once
again felt a severe pang of guilt as I sat back down beside her. If we
get through this interview without Beth Ann knowing something was very
much amiss it would be a miracle. I certainly didn't want to panic, but
I felt my heart beating rapidly. I took several deep breaths and nodded
for Beth Ann to resume her interview.
"Isabelle are you up to going on?" Beth Ann asked as she had settled
back in her chair across from us, ready to listen and take notes.
Isabelle took a dainty hankie from under her sleeve at her left wrist
and sniffled lightly and nodded. "It was decided among Rachel's parents
with lobbying from me that Rachel should attend New Rochelle College for
women. Rachel was a very elegant and very beautiful young woman. As
you can easily see Beth Anne, she still is even now in her older years.
You always kept yourself fit, trim and extremely pretty Sweetheart.
Rachel has always been tall for a woman but not overly. She was thin,
maybe a bit too thin then, but she was well proportioned and firm if you
know what I mean. You broke a number of hearts without realizing it,
Rachel, since you seemed only to think Tom was the only young man on
this planet. So sending her to an all girls' college was our idea.
Rachel wished to major in business and her parents hoped to turn the
lumber yard business over to her once she did and retire."
"Tom went to a not too well known university in Kansas as far as New
Yorkers were concerned. Wichita State University had an excellent
entrepreneur college. There were a number of rich and successful
businessmen there. The Koch family, who resided mainly in New York, had
their main business ties in Wichita. Two young men by the last name of
Carney started and grew one of the largest pizza organizations in the
world. Wichita was also known as the 'Air Capital of the World,' with
Beechcraft, then run by the wife of its founder, Olive Beech. Clyde
Cessna also created one of the fast growing aircraft companies as well.
The Boeing Airplane Company had one of it's largest operations right
there in 'River City', as Wichita's called. Tom's dad believed an
education under these giants would make Tom very much ready to take the
reins of his corporation. Of course Rachel and Tom would be far apart
for the first time since their childhoods. But this only deepened their
love for each other, as well as giving them ample reason to support the
phone company."
"In Rachel's junior year, her grandmother had a stroke, and died a week
later. Rachel was excused from her classes for a time to be at her side
that week and a few weeks of mourning afterwards. Tom flew home as well
to be with us."
I saw a trickle of a tear roll down Aunt Isabelle's check and I
instinctively placed my hand on hers and gently squeezed. Beth Ann
didn't say anything and Aunt Isabelle lifted her head and with a slight
smile continued on.
"Rachel and Tom graduated the same year with honors and Tom decided to
go on to graduate school for his masters. Rachel worked at the lumber
yard and hardware business with zest, determined to make it grow more.
The business had made her parents rich, and now they were ready to make
Rachel the chairman of the corporate board and semi-retire. When Tom
received his masters, he celebrated by taking Rachel to Tiffany's. He
made a special arrangement that Tiffany's would be open only to them."
Isabelle sobbed a little at this point, but seemed to recover and
continued on. "Tom proposed on one knee before Rachel with the staff of
Tiffany's applauding them. Then Rachel and Tom picked out beautiful
rings for each other. It was May and they decided that in July they
would tie the knot."
"Rose and I decided that our home was much too large for us and Yonkers
was getting much too busy for our tastes. I was going to turn 57 that
year and it was time to settle into a much calmer and relaxed lifestyle.
Rose felt the same way. We had loved a little arts and crafts villa
north and west of Yonkers, fairly close to Middleton, New York. It was
off the main highways, accessible via a county road. It had quite a
history, dating back way before the Revolutionary War. And it had a
most unusual and charming name, 'Sugar Loaf'."
"Rose and I had been there a number of times crafting and just spending
long weekends in each other's arms to our delight. We had placed an
offer on a quaint little cottage on a small lake just off of the main
tourist area of town. We were ecstatic when the owner accepted without
any haggling at all. The timing was perfect, what with Rachel and Tom's
engagement announcement. I saw my real estate broker and arranged to
deed and gift our old family homestead to Rachel and Tom as a wedding
present. It was a great idea as far as I was concerned, and Rose smiled
in full agreement, since Rachel had grown up here and Tom had spent as
much time there as he had at his birth home. This would be priceless
for them and for Rose and me as well. Rose and I moved to Sugar Loaf,
New York in June, giving our love birds time to start getting their
wedding present fixed up according to their own tastes, ready for their
return from their honeymoon."
"It was a wonderfully sunny and warm day July 15, 1974. I had a special
dress in pink. It was a rich Victorian frock with a satin sash
cummerbund at my waist to tie into a large bow behind. The front bodice
area was of satin covered with lace, flowing into a high collar covering
my neck. I wore a cameo tied with a pink satin ribbon and these drop
pearl earbobs. It had full length sleeves made of pink lace. I wore
pink kid gloves. The occasion was special, so it called for a very
elegant full matching hat on my coiffed wrapped hair, one of satin
ribbons and lace. I was escorted down the isle on the arm of a young
handsome man and seated in the same pew as Rachel's mother, beside her.
When Rachel's mother was seated, a little girl made her way down the
isle tossing rose pedals. Then came a little boy bearing the rings on a
pillow. Then the best men escorted the brides' maids one by one down
the isle to meet Tom and the Minister in the front. Then the 'here
comes the bride' music started to play on the organ and there in the
back of the church on her daddy's arm was the most beautiful bride in
the most beautiful wedding dress I had ever seen. And as I stood and
turned with Rachel's mother, I...."
Isabelle broke down sobbing and shaking as she told Beth Ann about my
wedding to Tom. "Isabelle are you alright?" Beth Ann asked immediately.
I pulled Isabelle in my arms to my shoulder and gave a glance toward
Beth Ann that all would be ok in a minute or two. I held her and felt
her shaking. "Its ok let it out sweetheart!" I told her.
After about ten minutes Isabelle patted her eyes with her hankie and
pulled herself back straight in her chair and tried to smile, but it was
weak. "Please forgive me!" she said. I was still holding onto her hand
with both of mine. "I am not at all sure what came over me. It is so
confusing, and I am embarrassed to have been so overcome. It's just
that as I was telling you, I suddenly felt that 'I was the one standing
beside the minister, looking through Tom's eyes as if they were mine,'
and I felt that his heart was mine. I felt at that moment that I was
seeing my precious Rachel coming down to met me. I was in a fog and
everything was so distant feeling as if I were seeing all of this
through a dream. Please forgive me Rachel."
I felt a strong shiver wave its way through my body as Isabelle squeezed
my hands and looked into my eyes. She was remembering something that I
truly didn't want Beth Ann to recognize or question. I was near panic
but needed to act as if it was just the whim of an old lady's mind
wondering in confusion as many do in their twilight years. I looked at
Beth Ann and gave a glance that would suggest the same and she returned
an accepting glance back.
Then Isabelle said "I also gave Rachel another wedding present that I
knew would bring a special smile and hug from her. I had a beautifully
wrapped box in wedding colors and ribbon. Do you remember that gift
Rachel?"
I smiled and squeezed Isabelle's hand affirmatively. "Yes, Auntie, it
was a beautiful full bodice apron in pink with ruffles trimming all
around it and pink satin apron strings. Your gift spoke to my heart of
all of the grand times we had in our kitchen, which was now my kitchen,
and my children would be under my feet as I was under yours. It was the
best present of all of them, Auntie."
Isabelle continued telling her story to Beth Ann. However, she didn't
mention anything more about Rachel and Tom's married life. She didn't
mention anything about her five great-great nieces and nephews, the
first being identical twin girls, then twin brother and sister and
finally a last son. Nor did Isabelle speak of her great-great-great
nieces and nephews, fifteen in all born to Rachel's children or the one
great-great-great-great niece named Isabelle after her. The only other
reference to that branch of her family came again with great sobbing and
shaken sorrow in the mention of Tom's tragic death in a plane crash in
1999.
Later, after the interview was completed and Isabelle was resting
comfortably in her bed for the night, Beth Ann and I talked more about
Isabelle's emotional break down. I was on pins and needles not to give
away the real truth about what Isabelle might know or be remembering
about 'Tom'. "My aunt was very distraught over two deaths in the
portion of the story she omitted," I said. "First she lost Rose, her
heart's soulmate and lover, about seven years after our wedding. She
never got over Rose completely. We would always bring Isabelle to our
home for all of the holidays and birthdays, but she wasn't ever again
quite the same. She would sit and watch my little ones crawl and toddle
under my skirts in the kitchen and always smile, but she missed her
Rose. It was harder on her later on when we moved from the old
homestead to a large estate in Fall River, Massachusetts. Tom and I
wanted a lot of acreage, and horses for our children to grow up on.
Tom's business ventures kept evolving successfully and we needed to be
closer to Boston, where his corporate headquarters were. I had grown
the lumber and hardware as big as I wished and then liquidated it,
retired from the business world to be a stay-at-home mom and eventually
grandmother.
Then another crippling blow came to all of us when Tom was lost in a
horrible accident in Canada. He had been on a hunting trip by himself,
which he took often as a 'man's get away back to nature', and his plane
crashed in the wilderness of Manitowoc. Search parties never did find
his body, but they found evidence that a wild or wild animals had
probably dragged him off, and.... Isabelle took that news as hard as I
did. We hardly ever talked about it again. I'm sure, as she was
recalling everything to you this afternoon, that this hit her hard, I'm
sure she just couldn't bring herself to tell it over again."
"I appreciate your filling in a lot of the gaps that Mrs Warren couldn't
bring herself to share as well as a few she doesn't remember." Beth Ann
said thanking me. "I find it so heart warming how you all loved each
other so closely and how you and Tom and later Dan have cared for her
over the years. It is so obvious how much she loves it here. You moved
her here from Sugar Loaf about two years after your first husband's
death, is that correct?"
"Yes, it was about the time I believe. Dan felt that for safety and
security reasons, she was too far away from all of us and that if we
brought her to Vineyard Haven we could be closer and care for her
better. Dan was hired by Tom as a body guard for our family when the
corporation catapulted us into the multi-millions and onto the Forbes
500 list. Tom gave Dan card-blanche to build up a security network
around all of our family, even after the children grew up, married,
moved away and had children. Not only had Dan succeeded in our
protection, but he also became a very close friend to everyone of us.
How could he not, being with us all 24-7. All of the children loved
Dan, because he always 'played' with them as he protected them
regardless of what it was or where they were. Tom and Dan would do a
lot of hunting and fishing together as well, all again as Dan was
guarding Tom. I would even take Dan on shopping excursions to the
cities and he would 'shop till I dropped' all the way. Dan had teams in
place, but was usually always personally with us at home. Dan also had
security watching over Isabelle, so the move to Vineyard Haven was a
good move for all of us we felt."
Beth Ann was still writing with fervor as we talked. She asked
"Isabelle's move here was probably a blessing in disguise after all for
her health, well being and safety, but also because she found Mr Warren.
Wouldn't you say that he was the spark that put the twinkle back into
Isabelle's eyes again?"
"I would say a very emphatic 'YES' to that question Beth Ann! After
living here for about two years, Isabelle married Carl Ryan Warren. I
believe that Carl took a liking to Isabelle right from the first time he
met her, but she had little interest or desires for the male sex. She
lived in the throes of femininity and softness of Rose. Now there was a
much coarser and roughed suitor for her affections with an entirely
different scent altogether. Carl was extremely handsome and intelligent
and witty. He always could make all of us laugh to a point of aching
sides. He was always polite to everyone, but more so to Isabelle. He
loved everything about her even right down to her Victorian style of
dress and manners. Carl was a very determined man who was going to have
his way. He was that way in his business life and so he set out to
close the deal to his success. It would be to Isabelle's success once
he did too."
"Carl lived in one of the small individual villas on the grounds of
Vineyard Haven Sunrise Community. So he enlisted Isabelle's talents to
redecorate his villa. He wanted her to bring her Victorian touch to it.
She was over joy to accomplish what he wanted, knowing it was for her he
was doing this. She could tease and taunt as good as she got. Although
they always had the choice of eating their meals, prepared by world
class chiefs, Carl would cook just for Isabelle several times a week.
Then Isabelle started taking over his kitchen as she did years ago in
Yonkers. She still had most of her aprons, and wore them for him.
Isabelle was smiling and loving life all over again."
"Then in May of 2003, Mr Carl Ryan Warren invited Miss Isabelle
Henrietta Cox to a very special romantic candle light diner at his
villa. He had one of the staff's chiefs prepare lobster tails with a
small filet mignon with bake potatoes and asparagus. Soup and salad
preceded the main course and bake Alaskan was the finishing touch. Carl
made sure that Isabelle's wine glass was never empty and he never left
her side from the moment he lit the candles till the time he genuflected
on one knee to her side with a sparkling two carat diamond ring that he
placed on her third finger of her left hand never saying a word but
confidently smiling. Isabelle held her hand up to the sparkling of the
diamond in the candle light to see Carl's face behind it. She instantly
said 'YES' and bent forward and kissed him deeply. Isabelle has told me
that story hundreds of times and it has never changed once in her
recounting of it."
"Isabelle was a beautiful 'June Bride' and her wedding dress was very
Victorian. She was ravishing and radiant for her man. He was in
Victorian dress tux and tails and top hat with a fancy cane. The
ceremony was held right out there by the lake with all of their friends
from here in attendance. Dan walked her down the lawn and gave her hand
to Carl. I was her maid of honor. When the minister presented 'Mr and
Mrs Carl Ryan Warren' to the crowd, they almost danced back up the lawn
to the reception. They were very eager to start their honeymoon. I
believe Carl totally deflowered Isabelle in every satisfying way he
could and she wanted, because when they returned he looked prouder than
a masterful rooster every did in the hen house and Isabelle had a glow
about her that I'm not sure ever faded in their twenty five years of
marriage."
"I hope I have filled in the little gaps so that you can put together a
very interesting article about my Great Aunt Isabelle, Beth Ann." I
will look forward to seeing it in print. And I want to thank you so
much for treating her so respectfully and caringly. Will you be
returning to Boston this evening?"
"I will be traveling first to Yonkers and Sugar Loaf to document her
life with some pictures of her past homes." Beth Ann stated. "There
will be a big lay out to go with this story and it will cover a number
of pages in our magazine. We will send you a number of copies after the
publishing is done. It has been a pleasure meeting and interviewing
your Aunt. Please give her my best and thank her personally for me. I
don't want to disturb her much needed rest now."
After Beth Ann had departed, I sat thinking in Isabelle's room as she
peacefully slept. I had hoped that I had covered all the open holes in
Isabelle's story so that Beth Ann didn't feel a need to do further
investigation into some of the obvious oddities that arose from
Isabelle's minor outbursts of tears. Especially I didn't want her to
make anything of Isabelle's confessed confusion and feelings that she
was Tom. That could be devastating to all of us. However, Dan had made
sure that all of Isabelle's life history as we gave Beth Ann was covered
a number of years ago. So if Beth Ann noses around, especially in Sugar
Loaf, she would find what we told her is documented and factual. Its
just that Isabelle's memory had come apart a few times today. Now
should I tell my darling sweetheart Isabelle the real truth about her
and me?
As I sank back trying to get comfortable in one of the two overstuffed
chairs in Isabelle's bedroom, I started daydreaming back to my youth.
'There was Tom teasing me mercilessly as he came over from next door to
mow our lawn. He irritated me a lot but Grandma, Rose and Isabelle just
laughed and encouraged us both to play together. I remember the day
that Tom was teasing me about my pig tails when he grabbed my hand and
turned me to look into my face and he froze. Then after moments that
way, he kissed me. I kissed him back. From that time on we were
inseparable and we were sweethearts. I made up my mind that day that
Tom would marry me and be the father of my children. We were going to
grow old together for life. How strange that truth would become.'
I looked once again at my very first true love of my life lying
peacefully sleeping in her bed and I sighed. My heart was churning at
all of the water that had rushed under our bridge. I knew no matter
what I still loved Isabelle as deeply tonight as I had loved her that
first day he kissed me so many years ago.
We had done so much together in our childhood, teen years and college
ages together. Except for the time apart when we were both going to
college, we were always at home together during all breaks, arm in arm.
Isabelle made sure we were always somehow properly chaperoned even when
we were alone. I saved myself for Tom and he saved himself for me. I
was a virgin bride, but Isabelle and Rose made sure that I was not at
all ignorant about sexual acts, the body's titillation zones, how to
treat Tom, and how to teach Tom to treat me. I discovered on our
honeymoon that Tom's dad had taught him about 'the birds and the bees'.
Tom was not ignorant about me the very first time he gently undressed me
and graciously devoured me completely. I looked again at Isabelle in
bed and easily remembered how we spent that first night entwined
together, melted as one.
Here I sat restlessly in the semi-dark room with Isabelle and my mind
went back to that special day when I stood on my daddy's arm in my
beautiful white wedding gown at the back of the church looking anxiously
at my Tom standing at the altar waiting for me to make that long last
journey apart from him down the aisle. He was as anxious as I was to
have my daddy put my hand into his. And yet I would make him agonize in
the slowness of my stride, making it seem forever. Everyone was
standing to watch us become one. I looked at my mother as I came down
the aisle and there beside her was my great aunt. Both were the most
beautiful women. I had tried so hard to imitate them all of my life.
And then I saw no one else but my Tom and like in a fog I heard daddy
say "her mother and I do" as he lifted my arm from his and placed my
hand into Tom's.
At the time I married Tom, a very handsome young man, he possessed a
very gentle loving spirit. Tom never lost that spirit ever. Even here
today, that spirit is Isabelle completely. I felt that my man would
literally die for me, and he always strived with all of his generous
love to give me everything in his power and ability to give me. He was
no taller than I was and he was thin, trim, fit and deceivingly strong.
He had soft features and turned many heads (both female and gay male
heads). But Tom never seemed to ever notice any of them except mine.
My mind snapped back to the present once again and I caught myself
sobbing a little. I couldn't help myself. There was my precious Tom
lying peacefully asleep in front of me in Isabelle's form. Yes, when
Isabelle was telling how she stood beside mother as I started down the
aisle, and then lost it, felt so confused, telling Beth Ann that she
felt like she was looking through Tom's eyes and that his heart was
really hers, 'it was her' standing at the altar looking for me to join
her in oneness of union. How bizarre this would appear to anyone if
they knew. My great aunt Isabelle was definitely in the pew beside
mother, which was true enough. However, my great aunt Isabelle telling
Beth Ann about her life story just a few hours earlier was my precious
Tom -- that was true enough too. I really twisted up a number of lives.
It is somewhat confusing to me even how I allowed all of this to happen.
Let me see if I can retrace it and make it make any kind of logical
sense at all. I must get my head on straight here if I am going to tell
Isabelle, my precious Tom really, that truth. I must trace it all from
that day Tom slipped the ring on my finger, promising to love, honor,
cherish, and obey in good times and bad, in health and in sickness 'till
death we do part'. I placed a ring on his finger vowing the same. Now
can I make good those vows 'till death we do part'? Oh, wow, I'm not
sure I can even explain all of this to my Tom, now Isabelle, if I try.
Tom lifted my veil and kissed me long and deep in front of everyone
present. The silence of the moment was broken by cheerful applause and
cheering. The minister turned us to the crowd and said "I am pleased to
present to you Mr and Mrs Thomas Michael Phillips." We were so happy as
I grabbed the skirt of my gown and Tom's arm and we danced down the
aisle to the back of the church. Then there was a whirlwind of family,
friends and guests all gathering to wish us congratulations and prepare
to leave for the reception at the country club. We had pictures to take
first with the family and wedding party before we could join them. When
we arrived we were ushered in grand fashion into the spot light. We
welcomed everyone in turn, through our reception line being kissed and
hugged more than I had all of my life. Would I ever be able to kiss and
hug Tom as much as everyone was doing to us that day? Our photographer
was more under foot than I had ever been under Isabelle's skirts the
whole time Tom and I did anything.
We all ate a superb multi-course dinner prepared by two different famous
chefs that daddy knew. The champagne flowed and I was very light on my
feet. Thanks to Tom for holding me ever so close I was able to remain
upright. I was so hot to get him alone and there were a few times
dancing close to him that I felt he was as hot as I was. We finally cut
the cake and smeared some on each other with joyous laughter. We drank
our wedding toast to each other, as if we needed more.
Tom sat me down on a chair in the middle of the room and without using
his hands, he nosed up under my dress and grabbed my garter in his teeth
and pulled it down my leg and over my high heel. Then he eagerly jumped
to his feet waving my garter over his head as if he had won the world
cup. He then sling-shot it over his shoulder to the bachelors in the
crowd. I then gathered all of the single girls, including Rose and
Isabelle, and tossed my bridal bouquet over my head to be caught. No,
neither of my aunts snagged it. It was a teenage girl who was so bright
red with embarrassment after the photographer snapped off a number of
shots of her.
Tom and I disappeared into a small room off of the banquet hall and
changed out of our wedding finery and into less dressy of clothing.
Although he donned a suit and tie and I a fancy top, skirt and jacket
with hose and heels. I easily could have pulled on blue jeans and a
sweat shirt, but daddy wouldn't have approved. Then it was time for us
to make our honeymoon get away. The gauntlet exit line of family,
friends and guests with rice was torturous, in great fun of course. I
haven't seen too many New York snow storms like that blizzard. I
believe I was still cleaning rice out of my hair a month later, Tom too,
but it was so much fun finding it on him or letting him find more on me.
Our limo rushed us to the air port to fly us away to somewhere special
that Tom had planned but intended as a total surprise to me. I would
have to 'wait and see'. Right now, any port in the storm that had a bed
with Tom in it was all I cared about. I was hot and wet and ready to
have my virginity lost to my husband and lover. I snuck a number of
feels against his crotch on the plane. I am sure Tom thought the plane
wouldn't ever arrive where we were going.
We flew direct to LAX and changed planes there for the final leg of our
mysterious -- to me -- honeymoon destination. It was night time when we
started our approach to a very beautifully lit city. I still was in the
dark myself as to where we were. It seemed as if we were in the air for
weeks instead of hours. I don't want to leave the impression that I was
anxious to feel my man between my legs, but that is exactly where I
intended to keep Tom for days. It was about ten when I saw a sign in
the airport that cued me in that we were in Costa Rica.
A limo was waiting for us and it was another forty minutes once all our
luggage loaded and we pulled away from the loading zone. The lights of
our resort were so romantic and inviting as we were led to our beach
front villa. The bellboy opened the door and Tom scooped me up in his
arms and carried me across the threshold and into the room and gently
sat me down on the plush leather couch and turned to oversee the
depositing of all of our bags just inside the door. Tom must have given
the bellboy a generous tip from the smile I could see on his face. In
that economy, it may have been an obscene amount to him. And Tom took
the 'do not disturb' sign off the back of the door and hung it on the
knob on the hall side of the door and closed and locked it. That click
was music to my ears and my eyes caught a huge bulge tenting up in my
husband's pants.
Tom walked over to the bar and took the magnum of champagne from the ice
bucket that was already chilled and waiting just for us. Tom had
thought of everything to impress me and it was working. Pop went the
cork and a bit of overflowing champagne foam shot out. Tom poured two
champagne flutes full and came over to where I sat and eased down beside
me offering me one of the glasses. I took it and we wrapped our arms
around each other's and drank, with our eyes lustfully gazing at each
other. Then we passionately kissed long and deeply. After we parted, I
downed the rest of my champagne and arose to look for a specific piece
of luggage. I spotted it, retrieved it and started for the bathroom,
asking Tom to top off my glass again and then wait right where he
currently sat.
I quickly undressed till I was standing completely nude in front of the
full length wall mirrors. I starred at myself thinking that the next
time I entered this room; I would have been fully deflowered and well
fucked. I was looking at a virgin staring back at me for the last time.
I opened my bag and started laying out my wedding-bed seduction attire.
I had a baby doll camisole that hid nothing. I pull up matching satin
panties with lace trim and a satin bow on the front. I dabbed an
enticing perfume under my ears, on my neck, on my elbows, my belly
button, and behind my knees. I then slipped into a satiny matching thin
cover robe and fluffed up my hair with both hands. I took a deep
breathe and held it momentarily before spinning around and grabbing the
door knob and opening the last obstacle between me and Tom.
I was not ignorant of male anatomy or the various sexual positions and
acts of seduction and performances. I was just totally inexperienced
was all. I had taken related courses in college, and between my mother,
Aunt Isabelle and Rose, I had a number of 'girl talks' about this very
time I was now facing. And I was facing it with expectancy, excitement,
joy and great anticipation of fulfillment for both of us. I intended to
be an exotic goddess for my Tom and give him anything he so desired this
night, tomorrow, this week and for the rest of our married lives
together. And I believed that the boy, now the man, who tormented me by
teasing me in our childhood, would torment me in a whole new and welcome
mind-blowing way. I would find out later that Tom, who had never
engaged in any sexual acts with anyone else other than the natural one
of 'taking his own in hand', was prepared, educated by the same means I
was to make me all his and melt into oneness with me.
He was eager and waiting as I glided gracefully toward the couch he was
reclined on. However, even in his eagerness, I would come to know that
his father had taught him something that no young buck ever learns till
a very frustrated doe eventually demands that they slow down and give
their lover satisfaction too. Tom's f