College Daze Our First Year TogetherChapter 6 Meeting Carson Sommers
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Jeez, it was cold and wet on that hill. Doesn’t matter who you are, cold and wet is cold and wet. We were sent here, repurposed “special operators”, backing up a last-minute operation to take out a really bad dude. Not the tough kind, the just yucky kind. Without his army of crazed minions, he’d be a nothing burger. He was just in the right place at the right time to take over leadership. They say he’s married to somebody’s sister or something. You know, actual qualifications for a radical leadership position. That and the correct pattern of cloth around his head.
Point being, even our country’s toughest, best trained, most durable soldiers get wet, miserable, and cold. I was, my team was. It was a mess. But we were here to do a job. Not our real job, by any means. Our main purpose was to save and recover downed pilots. Wherever that may happen to be. Mountains, deserts, oceans, anywhere in between, we trained for all of it. But we were handy, and there were no sorties going out for a couple days, so we were loaned out to some Marine Raiders squad as backup. I knew their boss. He was an OK guy, and his team members were top notch, so I didn’t mind. Just another assignment, and it’s good not to sit around too long.
Long story short, they had a SEAL with them, and we all knew what that meant. Boom. In just the right place, at just the right time. Gotta love ‘em. And he did his job perfectly. Boom. In just the right place and at just the right time. A few bad guys got out the back end of the target area but were quickly dispatched by two of my best. Our intel, very reliable and very current, indicated no innocents, so we were prepared, very specifically with hunting rifles. Danny had his .308 Remington deer rifle and Gus had his .338 Lapua AR10 Bushmaster with a 24-inch barrel. Both were government issue. More realistically ‘government procured’. Only the finest for our country’s finest, and these guys were definitely two of them. Danny could outshoot Gus, but you had to get them quite a ways down range to actually declare a winner. This was a 100-yard turkey shoot.
Now normally, the Marines or the SEALS would have their own snipers and back up and all that, but things had been pretty busy, and our special operations brethren were spread out all over the Middle East and the Pacific at the moment, keeping our country safe. This wasn’t normal. On the four-hour Osprey flight from our base in Florida, we never were over water for more than a few minutes. Do the math, but it was all within the intent of the law, if not the letter. And no, that we know of, no Latin types were injured in the making of this movie, even though it was their country. We were hunting radical terrorists from the sand box who were setting up for a major catastrophe on American soil.
All threats and targets neutralized, we backed out, with no brass left behind, our boot prints matching the initial issue of the local military, and got the hell out of there. This time we crossed water, almost touching the swells, purposely. This time, someone would be watching.
The news of a shooting and subsequent fire and explosion at a tire dealership, in a small town, in a foreign country, doesn’t make the news here, so no one will be the wiser. The fifteen people on this mission, the pilot, copilot, A/C crew chief, six US Marine Mountain Raiders, 5 USAF PJs, and your token SEAL, and then our SOCCOMM commander and crew, and a couple of people in Washington are the only ones privy to it, and we ain’t talkin’.
My wife and stepdaughter were used to me taking off in the middle of the night giving them a peck in their sleep and coming back a day or two later. I’m sure it bothers them, but they let us tell our families, in some generalities, what we do for a living, just to keep them sane. Cindy and Sandy (yeah, tell me about it) know enough to know that their husband and stepfather, Chief Master Sergeant Chuck Sommers, known only to family as Charlie, is an Air Force Para Rescue Flight Superintendent with enough experience to make me valuable on missions. And I like to tag along. My desk is OK one or two days a week, but I’d rather be with my teams, and I’ve been asked before. They know I can help. You see, I’ve been doing this, and other Special Ops work for twenty-two years. Joined right out of high school and haven’t looked back. I had to take a couple of years outside the Para Rescue realm for my career’s sake, and wound up in the space program for a couple of years. I learned more than I thought I would about my own job and where we all fit in. Eye opening experience, to say the least.
Anyway, we were off that hill, out of that village, on the plane and on the way back to Florida. With a flyover of Aruba and an aerial refueling. Yeah, out of the way. Waaay, out of the way.
Cindy, Cynthia to her mother and father, God rest their souls, was pretty distraught when I got home late that morning. I threw my bag in the extra bedroom slash home office and went back out to sit with her. Sandy was sitting with her, eyes red, Kleenex in hand, tear tracks recently wiped leaving pink on her cheeks. Cindy looked up at me and said, simply, “I’m sorry. I had the appointment yesterday after you left. It’s not good.”
She had made an appointment to follow up on some abdominal pain and intermittent vaginal bleeding we thought may be brought on by menopause. It’s not unheard of in 40-year-old women.
“Charlie, they found a mass and took a biopsy. The results came back a bit ago. It’s big, and it’s cancer. I have to go back in tomorrow to look for any spreading. I have an operation one way or the other on Monday. I’m so sorry, Charlie, I didn’t want to be a burden on you and Sandy.”
I fell to my knees in front of her and held her. “You’ll never be a burden to us, honey. Never. Don’t ever say that.” I reached out my arm and Sandy came over for a group hug. We all bawled for about a half hour. “We’ll know more tomorrow. Let’s don’t sink our ships ‘til they have holes in them, OK?? I’m going to call the General. I’ll be right back.” I went into the kitchen.
Thumbing the Air Division Commander’s office number, I raised the phone. “Colonel Bennet, please. Chief Sommers here.” (Pause.) Thanks. (Pause.) Sam, Chuck. Is he in? (Pause.) Cindy was at the doctor’s yesterday while I was out, and she got some bad news back from the tests this morning. Cancer. Looks like lady parts, and more, but we won’t know much more until tomorrow. If we don’t have anything pressing, I’d like to call Dana, I mean Sergeant Perkins, and have her put me in for at least a week, open ended, until we can get something straightened out. (Pause.) Yeah, thanks for that. She has a surgery scheduled for Monday morning, anyway. Not much time, this being Thursday. (Pause.) OK, I hate to trouble you, though. No, I don’t care if Elaine does it. Can you have her call Dana, so the office knows I’m out? It’d be better coming from you or her anyway. They might leave us in privacy for a few days. (Pause.) No, I don’t want my house full of PJs and SEALS while we deal with this. It’s bad enough at the parties. (Pause.) Thanks, Sam. I owe you. Bye.”
“Sam will take care of some time off for me. He’ll take care of letting General Patterson know, too. Look Cindy, I love you. We’ll be OK. Try to think positively about this. No need to worry and make it worse than it is, OK?” She nodded. I kissed her and held her for a bit.
Sandy came over again and melted into our arms. “I’m scared, Charlie.”
“Hang in there, Punkin’. Let’s go see the doctor tomorrow and then we’ll know what’s happening. We’ll get through this together.”
Dinner, and after dinner, was a sullen, mopey time for all three of us, me trying to cheer the others up now and again, but it was hard. Of course, it was. Cindy had just been kicked in the face, and all Sandy and I could do was watch and hold her hand. Such a helpless feeling. We finally all trundled off to bed, quiet good night kisses all around.
About midnight, Sandy came in and snuggled into my other side, opposite her mom, and held her hand, over my chest. I was just as scared as Sandy was, but I had to maintain some sense of normalcy. I had to help my girls through this the best I could. I just wrapped my arms around them and held on to the most important part of my life. Sleep was fitful and not a bit restful for any of us. When the alarm went off, we all moaned, collectively not wanting to start the day. Not this day. With no rest and unknown news on the horizon, no one was smiling. The appointment was at nine this morning, so we got ourselves cleaned up, fed, and out the door. The cleanup, which normally consisted of Cindy and me having fun and committing copious groping in the huge walk in shower we had in our master bath suite was a somber clean and dry operation today.
The doctor’s staff had us taken right in and set up in an exam room. After getting her vitals recorded the doctor came in and talked with all three of us, trying to keep things positive, but had scheduled us for an emergency PET Scan and an MRI which was going to take hours and blood was taken aplenty.
Sandy and I tried to stay occupied with each other and our electronic devices, with some modicum of success. I didn’t get one call from the office, which I thought odd, so I checked on them.
Dana answered. “First Up, Sergeant Perkins, how may I help you?”
“Just tell me everything is still in one piece, and the lieutenant hasn’t broken anything yet.”
Dana laughed. “You disrespectful piece of crap. Do you have any idea how much trouble you could get into if he heard you say that? Hey Lieutenant Pearson, Chief just asked me if you’ve broken anything yet?”
(in the background – “Tell the old fart to go to hell. Better yet, ask him how Cindy is doing and send her our love.”)
“You get that?”
“Yeah, I got that you ratted me out to our token foreign exchange student from the Navy. I’ll pass that on. She’s doing as well as can be expected. A little pain, but we don’t really know a lot yet. Full up PET Scans and MRIs going on now. I know she’ll appreciate that y’all are thinking about her.”
“Chuck, about that. You need to know that Elaine put the fear of God in everyone over here in the Special Ops Building. Her word is as good as General Patterson’s, you know that. She said you called the General’s XO and spoke to him while the General was out. She basically gave me enough info about Cindy to share with Lieutenant Brad and told us that come hell or high water, under the threat of Elaine’s violent providence, that we were not to bother you. Please, please, please, if you need anything at all, call us. Please!”
“I will, sweetie, I will. Go hug the commander for me and tell him thanks. And keep the joint together until I get back.”
“Will do, Chuck. Tell Cindy we’re praying for her and thinking about her. Miss Sandy, too. Please call. Bye.”
“Bye, hon.”
I knew she’d hug the lieutenant for me. They were having a secret love affair, real love if anyone asks, me being the only one that knew about it. Officers and enlisted don’t mix well legally. They were on thin ice, but I loved her and liked him, so ... She was leaving the Air Force to be with him when her enlistment was up next year. I’d miss her. She was sharp as a tack and kept us all organized and in line, but I’d rather she be happy. She deserved it. She deserved him. Him?? I dunno if he deserved her or not, but she thought so, so I guess ... He was a cross service plant that we have throughout Special Operations. A SEAL officer, assigned as our commander. Lieutenants in the Navy are equal to a Captain in the Air Force. Their Captains were like one of our Colonels. Anyway, he was no rookie, and he caught some teasing about being a lieutenant from us Air Force types. He was, however, a great leader, a fantastic strategist, a great tactician, and braver than a rabid wolverine.
All in all, we could do a lot worse, and had before he showed up. Our last “commander” was a butter bar fresh out of PJ school, with a chip on his shoulder and a head as big as Gibraltar. The Air Division Commander had him shipped out to Spain about 6 months after he got here. “Special Duty Assignment”. Yeah, he got shifted to a deputy commander slot so a Major over there, with some actual experience and credentials in the field, could slap the snot out of him. And it worked, so we hear.
Meantime, back at the hospital’s radiology department, Cindy was still in the grinder. I felt for her. All that noise, all that time to think. To think about things no one wants to think about. What was it? How bad was it? Would I be there to take care of Sandy? She told me about her thoughts later that night. She couldn’t help it. Morbid, but necessary thoughts about what the future might look like for us without her.
They finally got done, and we went back to the doctor’s office. When they called us back it was to a different exam room, a little larger, with a couple of huge computer screens ... and an oncologist. She introduced herself to us, then she and the OB/GYN went through what they’d found. All of it. She was going home tonight, and back into the hospital tomorrow. There were two clusters, lymph nodes, and the mass, and they needed them out now and to start directed radioactive treatments on some other places. That combined with chemotherapy was going to be tough, but the consensus was that she should be able to handle it, and the prognosis, while not good, was not terrible. We all went home in shock.
We never even made it to bed. Cindy sat in my lap on the couch and Sandy snuggled up to us and we cried ourselves into oblivion. The prep for the surgery was a nightmare for Cindy. She spent the entire evening drinking from a gallon jug of what she called “liquid chalk”, and most of the night getting it out the other end. We tried to sleep, but one of us got up with her each time. Four a.m. came pretty early. We showered, Sandy and I grabbed a banana and a juice each, behind Cindy’s back, and got ready to leave. We had a bag with some pajamas and personal stuff for Cindy packed up and ready to go. Cindy walked into Sandy’s room, took off her earrings and an emerald anniversary ring, her wedding rings, and without saying anything to anyone, with us watching, she opened Sandy’s jewelry box and set them inside. She hugged her daughter and said, “Don’t ask. Please. Just keep them for later. You’ll understand.” Then walked out. We followed her. Sandy started crying. She was old enough that she understood what her mom just did but didn’t want to accept it. No one would’ve.
She never made it back home. The operation was a success, in part. The mass was removed, but had ruptured before the operation, and the lymph nodes were cleaned as best they could be. The sepsis brought on by the ruptured mass was too much for her system to take, and they couldn’t reverse the damage before it shut down her liver and kidneys, then everything else. She wasn’t in quite as good of condition as we thought. And now, she was dead. Gone. That quick. It was only four days from “we’re worried” to “she’s gone”.
Sandy and I collapsed on each other and cried for hours. Dana came and got us at the hospital, on Elaine’s request. She took us and one of the guys drove our vehicle home. Being close to catatonic, it didn’t even register that we were at home, on the couch, snuggled together, grasping at all we had left. “She knew. She put her rings and earrings in my jewelry box. She knew.”
“Probably so, baby, prob’ly so.”
“What now?”
“I don’t know yet. Let’s talk about it later. Right now, I just want to crawl in a hole and die. You know, if not for you, I’d not have a reason to go on without her.”
“Don’t leave me, Charlie, you’re all I have now.”
“I won’t, baby, I won’t. I love you. I’ll be here for you. Gives me a reason to go on. For you. For her. For us.”
Yes, I was so ... Catatonic is a good word, I didn’t notice Dana sitting across the room crying for us. I didn’t know what to do when I saw her there.
“Dana, you don’t need to be here watching us fall apart. We’ll be OK.”
“Chuck, you’re not in charge right now. You’re in shock. Grieving. As it should be. I’m here to take care of both of you until you can muddle alone. I’m to find out what you want to eat, and make sure you’re OK and tucked in before I leave for the night, if then. Sandy, can I do anything for you right now? Anything you need?”
“A hug from a friend would be nice.” Dana came over and sat on the coffee table and pulling Sandy into her lap, hugged her with just about everything she had.
“Anytime, doll face, anytime. Sandy, I know you’re old enough to take care of yourself, but if you need anything, anything at all, please call me. Your father is the most unreliable person in the world when it comes to being where he needs to be, when he needs to be there. Please let me help. I’d consider it an honor.” Sandy nodded and kissed her lightly on the lips.
“Thank you, Dana. That means a lot. I know you’ve always been there for Mom. All the wives, but I know you took a special interest in us. I appreciate that. And I will. I promise.”
“That was just because I was in love with your father, doll face. That’s the only reason. Hell, if he wasn’t married to your mama, I’d never have taken up with that nasty old squid.” Sandy laughed.
“Stop it. Brad’s a prince among idiots. You know that.” Sandy said, smiling at her.
“Yeah, I know. I’ll take second place, and you keep first. Remember. Call me if you need anything.”
“I will. I promise. Chinese. Mai Fun, House Special Mai Fun.”
“Chuck? Chinese OK? You don’t have to eat. You may not be able to, but it’ll be here and I can warm it up for you later if you get hungry.”
“Yeah, that’s fine. I don’t care.”
“Get ‘im a broccoli beef and a large egg drop soup. We can all share that.”
“OK. I’ll go order.” She left and came back in about 5 minutes. “Brad will be by with a six pack and the food in a little bit. You guys need anything else?” Both of us shook our heads, looking out the window at the woods behind the house.
We were going to miss it here. We aren’t from here, it was just an assignment. We bought a nice house in a nice neighborhood, because we could, and I wanted Sandy in the best schools we could get her in. This is close to a private school she really liked. I’d talk with her later, but I couldn’t see staying in the service if I was taking care of Sandy with no Cindy here to help.
Brad stopped by, we shook and he hugged me. He’s a lot bigger than me. That’s saying something. We sat around the table, not saying much. Sandy and I were both still stunned. We did finally eat a bit, then wandered off to bed. I heard Brad say goodnight to Dana, and he left her there. Sandy went down and got her and took her back upstairs to her room. That’s the last coherent thought I had. I cried myself to sleep.
I’ve lost a couple men in combat, and it’s rough. We live, eat, and sleep together, lie to each other about stupid stuff, fight like siblings, and pour our true hearts out to each other when the time is right, but losing Cindy was a whole ‘nuther thing. For a week, I could barely tie my own shoes. Without Dana and Sandy, I would have been lost.
Then about a week after she passed, I had a dream. I think it was a dream. Cindy came to me in bed. I was lying on my back. She sat on my stomach, hands on my chest, all five feet one of her, red hair hanging down over my face, and kissed me. She was naked and beautiful. She looked like she’d lost a few pounds and might have been a touch younger. She told me she was fine. She was with her mom and dad and she felt better now. No pain, but she missed us. She’d try to keep an eye on us, but this was not going to be a regular thing. They weren’t allowed to do this, but maybe once, just to get someone’s head out of someone’s ass. I took the hint. She kissed me again, told me to take care of her daughter and keep her away from her jackass sperm donor. She got up, rubbing her hand across my cheek, told me that Sandy really loved me and not to worry about anything, then she put on a silky white robe, tied the sash, looked over her shoulder, blew me a kiss, waved and walked into the bathroom. And right through the wall where the sink was. I woke up smiling. With Dana and Sandy looking down at me.
“We heard you say, ‘Goodbye, Cindy, I love you’ and came in to check on you. Are you OK?” Dana looked like she was pretty concerned about me.
“I am now. We’re starting over. We need to talk, but this is our last assignment. I’m gonna get my princess through high school and into college and find something constructive to do with my worthless self.”
“Why are you smiling, Charlie? Daddy?”
“Oh, baby, come here.” I pulled her to me and held her in my lap. “I like it when you call me that. You know that, don’t you?” She nodded. “I had a dream about your mother last night, and in slightly different words she told me to get my head out of my ass and get on with life. Yes, I miss her. I will miss her. But she wants me to take care of her baby, so that is my new lot in life. If it’s OK with you, and you want to stay, we’ll stay and finish high school here. One more full year, right?”
“Yep, then what?”
“If you’re still wanting the engineering program at Washington University in St. Louis, we’ll head home. Otherwise, we’ll figure it out when we get wherever we go. Cross that bridge when we come to it, as they say. We’re not hurting for money, so we can pretty much do what we want, once I decide to change professions. Until then, though, I owe my soul to Special Ops store.” I sang the last part in my best Tennessee Ernie Ford imitation. Both the girls smiled, the funk was lifted. I felt like my old self. Almost. I was still lonely. But it didn’t hurt quite so bad.
“Daddy, you mentioned money. I know it’s not something we talk about, but I know we’re not poor. Did mom have life insurance?”
“Yes, Sweetie, she did. You don’t need to worry about anything. Probably ever, but just in case, you should have a marketable skill. That’s why when you mentioned that school in St. Louis and their engineering program, we were so happy for you. Much better than a liberal arts degree. ‘You want fries with that?’ or ‘You’ll need a bigger transformer relay circuit switch crossover thingy.’ Take your pick.”
“Daddy, there is no such thing, and you know it.”
“Sweetheart, the important part is that you’re a 16-year-old beauty queen, and you know it. That’s the real deal! I hope you grow up big and tall and strong so you can just go out and engineer the hell out of the whole world. You need to be at least five feet two to do that, right?” She and Dana broke up laughing.
“I guess I have one more inch to go then. But like you said, I’m only sixteen. Maybe, just maybe. But Mom was only five one, so I’m probably not going to do much better.”
“We’ll raise all the bars but that one then. You’ll be fine, doll. They have machines that move stuff around now. You don’t have to be Brad’s size to work these days.”
We got up and got around. Monday I’d go back to work and Sandy would go back to school. They had let her out for her mom’s death, but she had some make up to do, and I needed to start taking care of myself again. This was Friday, the funeral had been either Tuesday or Wednesday. I’ll have to ask. I was in too much of a funk to know. We had her cremated and were taking her home with us for burial later. Dana slipped out back home, kissing me on the cheek and making sure I was OK then kissing Sandy on the lips. “See you, honey.” They were closer than I thought, I thought. I looked at Sandy in askance. She just shrugged. “We’re close. You never gave me a sister.”
“Well, it wasn’t for lack of trying!!”
“I know. Mom told me it was her. She explained that, and lots of other things and gave me enough advice to last right through menopause.”
“EWWWW. WTMI. Way too much information.”
“Oh hush. You’re my mother now, too. Get used to it.”
“Oh crap.”
The weekend was spent with Sandy doing makeup homework and studying and me looking on the web for property in Missouri both northwest and southwest of St. Louis. I did not want to live in the PRI. The Peoples Republic of Illinois. But I did plan on us moving back to the St Louis area when she went to school. I’d retire from the Air Force and maybe consult or something if I could find something suitable. I’d put feelers out over the next few months to see what I could come up with. I still had friends there from when I was stationed in Arnold and found Cindy and Sandy. The only thing that bothered me, was the fact that Sandy’s “sperm donor”, as Cindy would say, may still be in that area.
Life sucked for a few weeks after that. Cleaning out Cindy’s stuff was hard. Thank God that Sandy could wear almost everything Cindy owned. Cindy’s bust was a bit bigger, B versus an A plus, but Sandy fixed that with padded bras, and just a ‘not so tight’ fit. She got some beautiful gowns and dinner dresses, lots of shoes, some nice lingerie, and a lot more out of my closets. Some of it, Sandy didn’t really want, so we passed those things on to Goodwill to find a home for them. She also took all of her mom’s personal stuff from my bathroom and took it to hers. Including the perfume. That would help a lot, over time. She had her own en suite, so some of the reminders would be out of reach. I never went in there.
Cindy had already removed her important jewelry and put it in with Sandy’s when she left for the hospital, so I simply called Sandy into our room and handed her a tall jewelry box. There were chains and such hanging down inside, and drawers full of earrings, rings, pendants, brooches and the like. Most of which I bought for her mother, but some were heirlooms from Sandy’s grandparents. Sandy and Cindy were close enough that she knew which was which and what was what. When I gave her the jewelry box, she wrapped her arms around it and lost some more tears.
“Not a good time?”
“It’ll never be a good time for stuff like this. I miss her. I hate this, but at least it’s more pieces of her I can keep close. You want me to have all this?”
“Yes, Baby, all of it.”
“You know there is a lot of money in here, right?”
“I bought most of it. And anyway, it’s the same alarm system, Sweetie. You’re just moving it across the hall. She’d want you to have it all anyway. I do want that long heavy necklace out of there, if you can find it for me. It’s the only thing of hers that I think I can wear without putting holes in my ears.”
She smiled at me and took it to her room. “Daddy, come here, please.” I did. She opened the bottom drawer of the box and jiggled it all the way out. She reached in and pulled out a stack of hundred-dollar bills about an inch thick. Then another. Taking out a bill, she handed it to me. “Here. Lunch money.” And broke down on her bed laughing. She was not expecting me to grab her, throw her over my knee and spank her bottom about 5 times. The laughter got worse, or better, depending on your point of view. Bringing her back into a hug, I did, and rocked her. “I miss her so much, Baby, but I have you, and that’s a lot. No, you’re not your mom, but it’s a lot, and it’s you, and I’m very thankful. Can I have another hundred? I think I I’ll buy the guys a beer after work Monday. She peeled another hundred out and handed it to me.
“Thank you for everything, Charlie. Daddy. We’ll be fine. We’ll be fine.” She put her arms around my neck, kissed me lightly on the lips and hugged me closely, rubbing my neck in the back. “We’ll be fine.”
I patted her on the back, picked her up, spun her around, and set her on the bed. “Yes, baby doll, we will. The alternatives are unacceptable.”
I was walking out, but she called me back. “Daddy, here. This is both long enough and thick enough for you to wear. Put this on it,” she slid a little pendant of some kind onto it, “when you go on a mission. Wear it for both of us. No, wear it for all three of us.”
“Thank you, sweetheart. I’ll cherish it.”
I was back in my room, arranging the closet, when I hollered out. “Oh, by the way, where’d y’all grow the lettuce?”
“What?”
“The money. What’s that all about?”
“Oh, Grampa gave that to her before he died. Said that someday you were going to get into trouble, and she’d need it to bail you out. You know he loved you, right?”
“Yeah, doll, I do. He told me he’d do what he could to help us, even if I didn’t ask. Makes more sense now. I loved him, too. Treated me like the father I wished I never had. Well, stepfather.”
“Daddy, be nice.”
“Do I beat you, Princess?”
“No, why?”
“Not all step-fathers are like that. Just trust me on that one. I loved your grandfather, like he was mine, even though I only met him twelve years ago.”
“I understand. It’s all in the past. So much is in the past now. It’s hard to believe.”
“I know, princess, I know. Hey, don’t forget to put your money away. Do we need a safe or something?”
“You aren’t going to take it?”
“No, baby, I gave you the box. It was in the box. Have I ever gone back on my word with you?”
All I heard was a squeal and a very loud, “NOILOVEYOUDADDYILOVEYOUILOVEYOU,” and she hit me at a full run. Knocked me down on the bed and started kissing me all over my back.
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"Hello darling, I've missed you," Karen said when she picked up the phone and heard Charlie's voice. "Me too. Good news, I'll be back on Thursday afternoon. Have you got any plans?" "Only for your cock. I need it so bad." "Okay, can you meet me at Alfie's shop? He called me and asked us if we would go around." "Yes, I'd love to." "Don't get the wrong idea. You're not putting on another show, at least not on Thursday." "Oh, okay. I'll see you there then, what...
Chapter 38 At St. Matthew’s Parish, they pulled into the gas station to fill up the tank for the remainder of the trip. Nathan took a moment to call the house, letting his mom know they were only 30 minutes from home. After the call and while Charlie packed up her computer, he sent that quick warning message to his sister. He could only hope his hard-headed sibling would actually listen for once in her life. As they got closer and closer to his parents’ house, Charlie began to fidget more...
Haley stared at a painting on the waiting room wall. It was a rural farm scene in pastel colors and she found herself wondering what farmer would paint his barn powder pink. The artwork was terrible and she was curious if the depicted objects were blurry on purpose. Why did all waiting room artwork have to be so terrible? Haley forced her eyes away from it, her head starting to hurt. Jack was sitting next to her, bent forward as he looked down at his lap. One of his knees was bouncing with...
It was between my sophomore and junior years of college, I would come home for summer break and Charlie and Daniel resumed their sexual abused of the timidly afraid young man. It was doing my return from college after my first year that Daniel and Charlie rekindled their contact with me. Reminding me that they would not hesitate to let my folks know that their baby boy was their sex pet. On numerous occasions they two of them would take turns sneaking into my room at night to have sex with me...
Chapter 25 Day 1 gave her ‘I wanted to.’ Day 2 was simply quiet. Day 3 welcomed her with a ‘Good morning, sunshine’ and nothing else. Day 4 pissed her off when he told her to get some sleep. Day 5 dragged because her insomnia was riding her full force, and all Nathan had to say was ‘LOL.’ Day 6 came with a ‘Be home tomorrow. Shelley says hi.’ The morning of Day 7 meant Nathan would be home soon. Sometime, that day he would be home. Charlie couldn’t focus on her work. After re-opening her...
Chapter 9 The bouncer moved the rope out of her way, and Charlie entered the club. Music assaulted her ears. The smell of smoke, alcohol, and bodies filled her nostrils. It was just the distraction she was looking for. She pressed her body between different people to get to the tables in the back corner. Melanie always had a table for entertaining. Periodically, Charlie would have to rub against the back of some random male. One guy actually turned to say something about being rubbed with a...
Charlie and Daniel, the two brothers of the three brutal bullies of our school, managed to cut me off on my way to school and took me to the empty apartment that they had commandeered and turned in to their fuck room. It was up on the third floor of a condemned building where they had cut a hole from one apartments closet to another so they would not be caught easily. In one of the rooms was a couples of ratty mattress that was stacked on top of each other. Numerous amounts of discarded...
Chapter 1 The tech chat room was busy when it suddenly appeared, ‘DB ex crash cash end. Charlie.’ Now to many people that ad meant absolutely nothing, but to me it was pretty clear that Charlie was desperate for a database geek who would work on a crash project for no money until the job was done. I didn’t like the cash at the end, since I was broke. In fact, I had been evicted from my studio apartment a few days earlier and had been freeloading on a friend’s couch. However, database...
Personally I found her gorgeous. Her hair was a hybrid of blonde and brunette and she had incredibly thin legs which were accompanied by knee socks or the standard type of tights and a miniskirt which generally left very little to the, or in this case my imagination. Her breasts were just the right size, not too big and not too small either. I had talked with her on several occasions and it seemed to me that she, in personality terms was just as nice as her body. Her personality...
Chapter 33 Nathan sat on Charlie’s bed with his head in his hands. How could this girl not understand what just happened? Did she not feel anything about the way he touched her? What the fuck? He let go of his head and looked towards the bathroom door. For a brief moment, he smiled when the sound of the door lock engaged. With a small huff, he moved to the bathroom door and put his hand in the middle of it. Though the door stood between them, he could feel a larger chasm building. It was time....
Charlie was struggling to get free from a swarm of opponents when he heard the referee’s whistle and the siren indicating the game was over. His team had been defending hard for the last few minutes protecting a three point lead in their first Northern district Rugby League final. Now as reality set in they knew that they had achieved what was deemed impossible by the critics. Against all odds their small country town had broken the games longest running drought by defeating the highly...
Charlie called into his own home on Friday afternoon and found Diane waiting for him in her car. "What do you want?" he asked in a cold tone. "Just to talk," she said softly. "Can I come in?" He didn't think it would do any good but, being a polite person, he agreed and even offered her a cup of coffee. He knew just how much of a mistake that had been when he came out of the kitchen with two steaming cups. "This isn't easy for me," she said when he came into the living...
Chapter 29 Nathan stood in a bit of shock. Those weren’t the words he was expecting to hear from Charlie. Yes, they were what he wanted to hear, but definitely not expecting them. Her hands on his back were making it difficult for him to think. The only thing that kept crossing in his mind was how close she was standing to his erection. The soft feeling of her lips brushing against his was not helping either. A voice in his head kept telling him to grab her and rush her up the stairs to his...
Chapter 21 It was about five o’clock that same afternoon, when Charlie’s phone beeped. She was laying on her bed, half dozing and half reading a book. Nathan: Need movie night Charlie: I’m okay. Nathan: I need one! Charlie: Okie dokie She rolled onto her back, wondering what weird movie Nathan would play this evening. It even made her smile that he would need a movie night, and that it wasn’t just about her lack of sleep. Sometimes, everyone needs a ‘Chinese comfy movie’ night. It was a...
Chapter 1 Charlie stood on the balcony, watching the rain fall from the darkened sky. It made a soft cascading noise that felt vaguely comforting. She inhaled another puff from her cigarette and exhaled it just as easily. Charlie took a moment to think back on some of her past experiences. Sure, there were men that had stirred some feelings within her. There were others that satisfied a few primal needs and urges. However, none in particular stood out in her mind, there just hadn’t been the...
He woke up the next afternoon not remembering what had happened the night before. He stumbled to the telephone and quickly dialed his boss in a heated rush as he wouldn’t be showing up for work that day, and judging by the crumpled crème-colored card that he found in the palm of his hand, he also had an appointment with Artie Tedesco that he hoped to avoid, considering how nauseous he felt. He swore that he would never go to the bar to drink again, regardless if this Artie Tedesco brokered...
My name is Sam and I manage a small company offering leisure services. There is a small team of staff and the nature of the business means that some weeks we just see each other at team meetings and work independently the rest of the time.Four weeks ago I was working on my own at a computer in the office. I needed to research something on the internet and opened the browser to look for the information that I needed. When I started typing something into the address bar the autofill came up with...
‘I was afraid to admit that I even had a problem. After my first week here I almost snuck out in the middle of the night. I had a bag packed and everything, but then my boyfriend called. Well, my ex-boyfriend, I guess. He told me how proud of me he was and that he loved me. It reminded me that I still had hopes for our future, you know? I want us to be together, but I realized it would never work if all I did was drink every night at a frat house until I blacked out in some strange guy’s bed.’...
Karen was ready and waiting when Charlie arrived a few minutes before eight. She was dressed in an almost transparent white blouse through which a bra would have been visible if she had been wearing one. It barely covered her nipples which were standing out invitingly through the thin fabric. Her black skirt was the shortest she had and didn't quite cover the lace trimmed tops of her hold-up stockings. She had never gone out in it a few times but never with stockings and always with shorts....
They found the door unlocked when they got back to Karen's. Gilly was sitting in the lounge with one of Karen's videos playing. She obviously had something on her mind as she was hardly taking any notice of what was happening on the screen. "I guess things didn't go too well at home," Karen said, sitting beside Gilly and hugging her. "Come on, tell us what happened." "Mum had talked to him but it made no difference. We tried to make him see reason and relax his rules but he...
While our business partnership was growing at a slow, steady pace, our personal relationship had become a wild, impetuous sexual growth with no boundaries. We loved each other and both of us sought to bring pleasure to the other. While I was no longer a virgin, my sexual experience and knowledge was at a beginning point. Charlie was a considerate and vocal lover who pushed me to experiment and seek higher and higher levels of sexual fulfillment for both of us. She insisted that we talk to...
Chapter 5 Charlie’s eyes felt like they had been glued shut. It took a herculean effort to open them. There was a steady stream of fuzz on the television screen. Nathan’s legs were propped up on the coffee table. The pillow and her head were now completely in his lap. As the rest of her body gained a bit of consciousness, she realized that one of his hands was wrapped in her hair. The other one rested on the side of her body. She shifted her head slightly to look up at him. His head had lolled...
As soon as Charlie stepped into the cool interior of the castle, he knew that when Artie Tedesco tells someone to do something that he just better well do it. Artie had his gym shorts on and a muscle tee- shirt that exposed a pair of meaty arms that could have been pistons in a V-8 engine. His body was bronzed from sitting out by the pool for most of the morning. Charlie spotted his open laptop and a pile of his legal papers spread out on a patio table that touched the edge of the pool. He...
Within a few minutes of his arrest, he noticed that the handcuffs were way too tight on him. The female officer had locked the steel rings tightly against the bones of his wrists, and he couldn’t move them without it paining. It was hard to walk down the stairs, and he tried to keep himself balanced as she led him by the arm. On the street below, three squad cars waited for him, their lights flashing in the dead of night as though a rocket ship had landed amidst the quiet cool of the evening....
When he finally went to bed, he fell into a dream that hovered just beyond the thin cover of wakefulness. He could have sworn that he had been transported to yet another garden of sorts, where pinkish blossoms hung limply on the branches of a bush. He saw cherubs frolicking behind this bush along an emerald expanse of lawn that was both brightly-lit and endless. But the sunlight that doused this field in the brightness had a certain dullness to it that didn’t make the look of the scene all...
Charlie, episode 1 It began in the late fifties when my wife Dot was still a teenager. Back in those days, Dot, along with the rest of her family, was much too busy with basic survival in post-war Germany to consider that any activity outside of that could be fun or even pleasurable. So social amenities for young teenagers were a luxury and non-existent. Life for this mischievous girl-woman, was nonetheless exciting and new every day. She was always the most outgoing and...
Charlie Andrew Macintyre was born in to this world on night of Friday the thirteenth seven minutes before the clock struck midnight on that October in 1933. The president was FDR and the flag had forty-eight stars on it. It was the height of the great depression, none of these things mattered to the new infant though. The Macintyre family was a large one like many farm families of the time. Little Charlie as he would later be known was the ninth child of the family, and the fifth son. The...
The conditions of one’s own entrapment varies by degrees, and what may seem like entrapment for one man is freedom to another. Take the man who suffers from his inability to rise above the vices of the street or the ghetto. Charlie had seen some of these people, both white and black, stumbling home drunk, sometimes from his apartment window. They were fierce when he passed them. They liked to own the public streets. They were loud. They cursed openly. They played loud music from their...
Chapter 17 They reached the edge of the lake and hauled the gear down to the edge. Charlie was already digging out the PowerBait, and Nathan had finished setting up both of their lines. She handed him the container of his favorite color to use, neon green, and he handed a pole to her. She occupied herself with attached a chunk of her rainbow bait to the hook. They casted their lines and stood watching the water. After a few minutes, she laid down her pole and grabbed a thermos. She filled the...
After getting the new staff settled in on Monday Karen arranged another visit to Luke's SM studio. Charlie wanted to go to see if he could learn Luke's technique and Helen wanted to be punished by him again. She fixed it for Wednesday night but asked if he could get more guests there. "Especially men, there'll be two of us to be used this time." Karen wanted to set off early so they could have some fun with Helen on the way but Charlie said no. "It's not fair to leave Gilly to do all...
Jim’s day hadn’t started well. He’d forgotten to set the alarm for an early start - and so had almost missed the train. His relief was short lived. Half an hour into the journey the train had stopped. A major points failure, was the explanation. After another half an hour standing still he’d realised he was never going to make the meeting. He phoned to let his boss know - and eventually he managed to get back to his home station. At around 10.30 he was unlocking the door to the home he’d left...
BisexualIt began in the late fifties when my wife Dot was still a 16 year old teenager. Back in those days, Dot, along with the rest of her family, was much too busy with basic survival in post-war Germany to consider that any activity outside of that could be fun or even pleasurable. So social amenities for young teenagers were a luxury and non-existent. Life for this mischievous girl-woman, was nonetheless exciting and new every day. She was always the most outgoing and sometimes outrageous one in...
IncestThe thought of killing someone due to his own frustrations did follow him down the sidewalk that morning, as a woman’s stare was merely a fleeting announcement that he was at least handsome in some imperceptible way, but by no means a thoroughbred who could ensure her survival. As much as he wanted this pipe dream out of life—the ability to support someone like the girl he had seen, and perhaps a child who would have been the result of their union, just weren’t possible anymore. He had been...
Charlie was one man who really lived up to his name sake. He personified both "good luck Charlie and "hard luck Charlie" in his life. However, what he lived the most was the song Good Time Charlie's got the Blues. It wasn't always like that though. At first, it seemed like he had it made right from birth. Charlie was born to a wealthy investor and a woman who not only had a successful modeling career, but was often sought after to perform in various commercials. Even though most of them...
We walked into Olsen's office on Monday morning. He escorted us to the conference table and we all sat down. "What progress have you made? Is it too much for you?" he asked. "No, Mr. Olsen," said Charlie. "We're done and everything seems to work." "Bullshit." "No, sir." We gave him the new program and left. We met the next morning. "It works," he said. Charlie just grinned. "I'll have a check cut before you leave." Charlie and I had talked about the fee. In our own...
Karen remained completely naked for the next two days. When Gilly saw the marks left on Karen's body she said, "I wish you'd woken me up, I would have liked to see you being whipped." "These are the marks of a cane," Karen said, wincing as she sat at her computer. "The only whip that would leave marks like these is one of those long bull-whips but it needs great skill to handle one of those properly." Helen called on Friday afternoon, Charlie answered the phone and passed it to...
Chapter 13 Nathan did not realize he had fallen asleep. It took a moment to register that he was still on Charlie’s bed since it was almost pitch black in the room. The closed curtains were keeping out the sun. There were a few rays escaping through the bottom and sides of the curtain, however, they had dimmed since it was early evening light. He was completely stretched out on the bed, pillow under his head, and he couldn’t move his left arm. As he did a slight tug, he heard a moan. Shit!...
It’s dusk and it’s raining, the sky is dark and brooding. We climb out of our taxi and head towards the upmarket restaurant. I’m wearing a long black coat, hot pink heels, black stockings and under my coat is my pvc corset and short, black pencil skirt with suspenders. I am wearing my collar. This is not a romantic dinner. My hair is pink and down, my makeup dark and heavy, my lips dark too. You are wearing your deadliest black suit with a hot pink tie that draws the eye up your body to your...
It’s dusk and it’s raining, the sky is dark and brooding. We climb out of our taxi and head towards the upmarket restaurant. I’m wearing a long black coat, hot pink heels, black stockings and under my coat is my pvc corset and short, black pencil skirt with suspenders. I am wearing my collar. This is not a romantic dinner. My hair is pink and down, my makeup dark and heavy, my lips dark too. You are wearing your deadliest black suit with a hot pink tie that draws the eye up your body to your...
CuckoldThey were woken the following morning by the sounds of the young couple at it again. Alan left just after lunch and Gilly decided to go exploring by herself. "Naked is okay anywhere in the house," said Charlie when Gilly said she wasn't going to wear clothes all day. "But if you go out into the grounds stay away from the guards lodge unless you're fully dressed." He repeated the request that he'd made of Karen and Gilly agreed. "I'll take a tee-shirt when I go out but I'm not...
When all else fails, there should at least be the possibility of having sex—any sex at all. It can be the quick sex that satisfies a tight schedule, or the slow and sultry kind of sex when nothing else is taking place that day, especially when the two people involved are unemployed and have nothing else to do but engage in sex. Or how about the type of rough and angry sex that follows a caustic argument or drawn-out fight that seems to last for days until the sex itself serves as a final...
Karen was going for a shower when the doorbell rang so Charlie answered it, it was Gilly. "Hi Charlie," she said brightly, "Karen said I could pop over whenever I liked, that's alright isn't it?" "Sure, come in. Karen's just gone for a shower, she won't be long." They hugged and went into the lounge, "We had some fun here last night," she said, looking around, "I don't think I said thank you to you both properly. Thank you, it was great." "What do you remember about last...
The urge to kill Artie Tedesco had been mollified by his remembrance of the man who had come to visit him in his apartment with the package of brown sugar. He could still feel the man’s blunt index finger sticking him in the chest as he said, “don’t contact us. We’ll contact you.” He wasn’t so afraid about the threat. The man was intimidating, as he could have easily killed him with his bare hands if Artie ordered him to do so. But what concerned him more was what the man represented...
Charlie felt really exhausted now so decided to cautiously head for his home cave acknowledging Old Tom the wisened old centaur who was part of the team of four who watched over the small hidden settlement deep in the thickest remotest part of Hailey,s Forest. Any sign that men were near would send a guard centaur to tell everyone and all would disappear into the background till the danger was over. Men had once used dogs, but learned fast when the wolf people drove the dogs off. The wolf...
One of the real joys of the holiday season is how the kink community comes together to celebrate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory One of the real joys of the holiday season is how the kink community comes together to celebrate.? It seems that everyone is allowed to let their hair down that much more, to party like pagans, and to lose him or herself to pure hedonistic pleasure.? This holiday season, the Houston kink community was coming together not only to celebrate in grand style, to...
It was a drought of Biblical proportion and the curse of no rain stretched the full length of several valleys and extended almost to the far-away Coastline and up into the mountain range that still had tantalizing snow at the upper elevations. Charlie was content with a harem of four dedicated bitches that catered to his every dark and evil desire. The first pair was the twisted Russian girl Natalia and the dizzy waitress Daisy who seemed more interested in Natalia's pretty shaved pussy...
Holly Levine was hooked on Charlie,s Norse, cock as she savoured the hot fresh taste of his sperm rolling it round her tongue prior to gulping it down loudly so Charlie could hear as well as see her pay tribute to his prick. As she swalllwed she suddenly felt an intense surge of senses course through her body like a jolt of electricity and realise for a rare occasion she,d had an orgasm with just a cock in her mouth. She sometimes came with her titties being sucked and obviously tofingers, but...
Of course this is fictitious tale yet some legends started somewhere. Charlie the Centaur looked at his reflection in the calm water of the lake that ran past the thick forest he lived in. He knew his enemy rarely ventured into this forest so felt fairly safe as his breed were very endangered. As usual what mankind Didn,t understand they wanted to destroy. After all he,d listened to his mother Helena describe the death of his beloved father Henry ten years before when he was on,y eight. His...
"Who's that," I said, as we walked down the hall. "Her? You can't afford her," said Marissa. "Besides you've got a date with a switch. So, let's try to focus shall we?" she said. "Yes, yes of course ma'am," I said. For the price of $100 an hour, once a month for the past year, I had had the extreme pleasure of having my hide tanned real good by Marissa. Indeed, during that time, Marissa had been my exclusive date at The Chateau where she worked as a dominatrix. Nevertheless,...
I've heard about sites you can go to on the Internet and read about cheating wives. Who would want to write about the pain it causes to the husband? I suppose there are stories about cheating husbands too, but not so many. Maybe because of the double standard. Who knows? There must be equally as much pain brought on by either the wife or the husband cheating. Some wives make a mistake and some go out deliberately to cheat. I'm not sure which category my wife fell into but I know the pain...
Charlie tried not to mix business with pleasure. The combination never seemed to pan out for him in his short 26 years. Tonight was an exception. He had an hour to kill before the pick-up so why not indulge? Especially when the results were this good. Maria was working her magic and Carla was relaxed on the couch with glazed eyes and a mindless smile. Charlie grabbed Maria's neck to show he was enjoying her hard work. A blow job was still a job, after all. This was nothing new...
Charlie woke up the next morning badly having to pee. He hurried across the hallway and closed the bathroom door before relieving himself. When he finished, he washed his hands, opened the door, and was going to go to his bedroom, when he smelled breakfast cooking. "Mmmm, smells great," he said to his mother, as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "It'll be ready in a few minutes. Did you sleep well?" she asked him, hoping she didn't sound as nervous to him as she did to...
That the nights that followed were long and lonely, as there was little he could do to avoid being alone, and while it had proved to be a tough challenge when he had drunk himself silly and had the luxury of the prostitutes beside him—that same challenge that he thought he could work his way around without forces higher than himself getting involved in what he originally thought to be very common and innocuous crimes, this challenge of loneliness now seemed less threatening, since he was no...
* A/N: This is a story I wrote a while ago. I've made some editing and proofing changes. And for those that read on Lit as well. Yes I am Kushiel. Please bare in mind when reading this I was trying to write from a seventeen year old's perspective. Hope you enjoy! * This is a story about me and my Uncle Joe. He was kind of the black sheep of the family; the no hoper entrepreneur that never really made it you know? There’s always one in any family. But that didn’t make him a loser. Well at...
IncestThe door was yanked open and there he was! He loomed in the darkened doorway, his features cast nearly black in the shadows. He was still dressed in his party attire. He’d loosened off his tie and undone the top two buttons of his shirt to be comfortable and he was barefoot, but it only made him look hotter! I felt my stomach drop and rise, like I was on a rollercoaster ride and I swallowed as I exhaled. I heard his low, urgent growl of “Charlie!” And then I was in his arms. His mouth was...
IncestCharlie checked the traps in the morning and found two had been taken. The high-tech system allowed him to find the recordings from the two cameras with ease and after only half an hour he knew who was responsible. He told Karen what he'd seen and asked her to gather everyone together in the lounge. Karen was upset by what she'd heard but didn't let it show as she called everyone down. "First I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not making accusations," Charlie said when they...