CHARLES CLAIRE KALISTAChapter 39
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“Yes, Annie, you did say that out loud?” Sarah said, causing Mom to blush a great deal.
“Mother, from the look on her face, Kalista needs an explanation of that remark, don’t you Princess?” I asked K directly.
“Actually Charles – I think I do understand, the other night I stayed up for a while going through the dictionary, and I came across a word, Or-e-gassum. Most of the definition was full of words I had to look up, but it has to do with something called explosive e-jack-you-lay-shun.”
This little girl and her burgeoning language skills stunned everyone and caused our mothers to blush.
“Would one of you ladies like to help us out here? Sarah, why don’t you help, so Kalista understands more about an orgasm?” I said with a smirk on my face.
Nobody was willing to say anything, so I opened my mouth, but I heard Claire’s voice.
“Kalista, have you ever gotten a kiss from Charles where you thought you might have accidently peed your pants, just a little, but when you checked, it wasn’t what you thought?”
“Claire!” Sarah said reprovingly, “Don’t! She’s only nine years old, let her ... grow up.”
“Kalista, did you? – It’s all right to answer, if you want?” Claire said, glaring back at her mother.
“Yeah, Claire – a couple of times Charles made me ‘wet myself’ like you said.”
Just then a young couple walked in and joined us.
Claire leaned over to K and said, “To be continued, K.”
Claire, Kalista and I all jumped into the pool for a while, swimming and just having fun. Kalista asked Claire if I could kiss her, and Claire smiled and allowed it. We were all just treading water, but K took her hands to my face and started a really wonderful kiss.
After a little bit K pulled away and said, “Ooh! It just happened again Claire - my goodness, why does this happen?”
I looked at Claire, who allowed me to explain.
“Kalista, my kiss is causing you to feel excitement throughout your body, because you have become ‘sexually aroused’ by the kiss and the result of having an ‘orgasm’ often is accompanied by the ‘discharge’ you are having. Nothing is ‘wrong’ with what’s happening to you. You are just so excited; it results in your having contractions down ... below. The same kinds of contractions are involved when a woman is getting ready to give birth to a baby, only those usually don’t have a ‘sexual arousal’ involved.”
“Do boys have this problem as well?” Kalista asked as we moved to the steps of the pool.
“Princess, I think I should ask Sarah if it’s OK to answer that particular question. It involves multiple explanations of things you may be too young to completely understand.”
“You just explained orgasms to me, why not boygasms as well?” K responded.
Claire and I just laughed for a moment, “Princess, let’s go upstairs and Claire and I’ll explain this all to you, I promise. Remember that this is all very adult stuff; you shouldn’t share with anyone other than the two of us. Annie and Sarah get very nervous when discussions about any of this starts. They are especially worried that Claire and I might just decide to start having sex with each other, which we haven’t, and cause trouble. Let’s get out...”
We walked by the two hot babes who were really enjoying the spa, and I told them we were going up to our room. Mom pulled me down and said, “Be a gentleman, Charles.” I hopped in the spa and gave the both of them a great big kiss, in front of the other couple. I got out, re-dried myself off, and caught up with my two girls, slapping them both on the butt as I came up to them. We all grabbed hands and went back to the room together.
After we all showered, separately, and changed, we all sat down on the bed to continue our discussion. It was now three am in the morning.
“Kalista, do you know all of the differences between boys and girls, I mean the physical kinds of differences?” I blushed deeply. Claire grabbed my hand saying, “It’s OK, go ahead?”
“Well, Charles – girls get boobies, I have to get a bra myself, mine have gotten so big on the tour; uhm, we don’t usually get as tall as boys, and we have an opening down there and boys don’t?” She blushed and giggled, causing Claire to join her. K grabbed Claire’s other hand.
I was gripped with apprehension over how to proceed.
“Princess,” I followed up, “Everything you said is accurate, but what do boys have that girls don’t?”
Poor Kalista was just shaking with anxiety over this question.
“I think ... it’s called a pee-pee?” she covered her face and started to cry. Claire went to her and they held each other.
“Do you want to continue Princess, it’s your decision completely?”
“I don’t know, Charles,” she said as she was still crying.
“OK then, we’ll stop and talk about this some other time, when you feel ready to move on, I love you Princess, you know that. I am a little tired from the swimming and the Spa, why don’t we all take a nap?”
I woke up, saw it was nine am and grabbed the laptop and decided to check out poster sales.
“Hey girls, come over and listen to our latest poster sales?” I yelled.
They were in the bathroom, combing their hair. Kalista yelled, “Hold your water old man, we’re coming.”
“Old man excuse me missy – If, I am old ... then you are middle-aged. How are you doing, Princess? Are you all right?” I said with a chuckle in my voice.
“Yeah, Claire explained to me that what I said was ‘old information,’ she told me the current terminology for ‘that.’”
I heard a knock and the connecting door open and yelled, “Come in foxes, I am getting ready to update you all on poster sales.”
“Oh, goodie,” Sarah said, “I’ll get to see if I have knocked Claire off her number one perch from last time. Go ahead, Loverboy?”
“MOTHER,” Claire said, giggling.
“Sorry, Claire – I have been calling him that for so long, it’s hard to stop, kind of like giving up alcohol, skinny dipping, and young nake...”
“So, Charles,” Annie interrupted. “What’s our new total?”
I press the reload, and announced,
‘Nine million, two hundred and sixty-nine thousand,
seven hundred and sixty-six posters sold, producing over $61 million in gross revenue.”
“That’s gross all right,” groaned Annie.
They were all sitting on the bed in a circle, waiting for my next announcement.
“That’s over $44 million in total net income for C-Cask LLC, using the most conservative multiplier I can. So, you want to know whose poster is doing the best, ladies?”
“Duh, Charles,” said the beautiful and single-purposed Sarah.
“OK, like Letterman - of 21 total posters on the market, the 21st in sales, by count is;”
“525,000 Annie & Sarah in Yellow – that’s three quarters of a million dollars per boobie!
They all giggled loudly!
“Number 20;” 537,000 Charles in Blue Suit – my favorite of me!
“Number 19;” 541,000 Sarah & Charles.
“Number 18;” 545,000 Annie in Black
“Number 17;” 546,000 Annie & Charles
“Number 16;” 547,000 The Five heads – Best poster to get signatures.
“Number 15;” 550,000 Charles w/Open Collar
“Number 14;” 551,000 Charles Claire and Kalista – Original picture
“Number 13;” 555,000 Annie in Pink Dress – “I really like that picture of me,” the lovely Antoinette remarked.
“Number 12;” 561,000 Claire & Charles – The New one
“Number 11;” 587,000 Kalista in Green – “Kallie,” Claire said, “That exact pose, with big boobies will sell a ton of posters, I’m sure of it!”
“You really think so?”
“Yep, that position is used a lot in TV and the movies to show off the bosom of a woman, whether she is speaking or not!”
“Top Ten coming up, I got to pee first.” I took the laptop with me.
Annie yelled, “Hurry up, only shake it once or you are playing with it.”
With her newfound knowledge, Kalista led the laughter on that, as I saw Sarah giving Annie grief as I walked back in.
“All right, the top ten C-Cask poster sales are in, and:
“Number 10;” 594,000 Kalista in Blue
“Number 9;” 610,000 Annie and Sarah kissing Charles
“I am close to having a nuclear problem there,” Sarah said as we were showing the picture as it was being mentioned.
Claire said, “Ken may have had a stroke, if you had mom.”
“You are so bad Sarah,” mom said. “But hot, I wish mine looked as good as yours, maybe I’ll get surgery.”
“YOU WILL NOT!” I said, “Mom, that is so wrong – women who get things done like that have no self-esteem, you are magnificent, whether you are a B-cup or a Double-J cup, I think you are simply fabulous.”
I leaned over and gave her a kiss.
“Naughty, naughty Charles,” said Sarah.
“What’s a Double-J cup?” asked Kalista.
“Kalista,” Sarah said, “I am a full D-cup – imagine if my boobies stuck out to here?” she said putting her hands about six inches in front of her bust line.
“Wouldn’t you fall over?” Kalista reasoned.
“My points exactly,” Sarah said, causing Annie to start snorting big-time.
“Number 8;” 611,000 Claire in LBD
“Number 7;” 622,000 Charles between the Moms.
“Number 6;” 661,000 Sarah in Red lowcut dress – Sarah looked like she was about to say something, but didn’t?
“Number 5;” 678,000 Kalista & Charles dance pose.
“At least our picture isn’t showing any flesh,” I said. “It has the smallest increase of any of the original five pictures.”
“Number 4;” 700,000 Charles & Claire in Dance Pose – It’s good to know that some dancing purists are buying our picture, the names on the bus are Charles, Claire and Kalista!”
“Number 3;” 719,000 Claire in her Shimmy Dress
That got Claire off the bed doing the shimmy move.
“Gosh, Claire – do we need to get you bigger bras? I’d swear you must be a small D-cup by now,” Sarah said.
“I don’t know mom,” Claire said, blushing but proud.
“Claire, you can try one of my bra’s – I am a full C cup?” Annie said.
“Number 2;” 744,000 Kalista in her Red Dress
“Darn,” Special K said. “}I liked being on top!”
The room went silent...
“A new number one, with 775,000 total posters sold, is Sarah – Braless – I guess the older mature man must be buying her poster.”
I remember saying we wanted every 7, 8 and 9-year-old boy in America to have that picture. Hmmmm, hand me my phone please, somebody?”
“Uh-oh, everybody - Charles has ‘the look’ again,” Sarah said.
“Hello, Ken – Hi, this is Charles – we’ll be home in just under three weeks, we want to replace some of the early posters using the same poses, but just put the girls in different outfits and such. Are you available? – Great, I’ll call you when we get home. – Yeah the sales are fantastic. Also, what about sales from other countries for when we go to Germany and Sweden and such, will the site be able to handle that? – Fantastic.”
“Thanks for thinking ahead like that. Should we get a mirror UK site as well, you know ending in UK? – Well that’s what I get paid the big bucks for. Shipping will obviously change to FedEx and UPS exclusively, or should we choose one over the other? – FedEx it’ll be, exclusively worldwide. They can be the official Charles, Claire & Kalista shipper then, right? Check into that, please?”
“We’re having a blast, your mother actually sang a song with Michael one night, and then promptly blew chunks after she got offstage – Yeah; none of us knew she could sing – Really? OK – see you then, bye.”
I turned and said, “Sarah, your son told me that your singing debut got on YouTube and you now have a cult following, and three million hits on the video. Let’s take a look at it.”
After opening YouTube and doing a search, we found it. The person who did it, must have been a guy, used a smartphone and kept the shot on Sarah the whole song, occasionally zooming into her cleavage, I mean really close, but other than that, it was OK.
I looked over at Sarah and saw her blushing a little. I got a nod from Claire and I went to Sarah and said, “You deserve to be a star, Sarah. YouTube or not, you are an amazing woman, all you need is a guy to tell you that all the time.”
“To paraphrase Kalista’s remark from a long time ago, ‘I don’t want a guy my age, I want Charles.’” She blushed, realizing the implications of what she’d just said. I wrapped my arms around her, just holding her. She felt so nice in my arms, sobbing a bit but molding herself to me. I pulled back and saw her smile – I fought the impulse to kiss her, but I still reacted to her closeness. Her smile broadened as we separated completely. I went to Claire and hugged her as well, telling her just how much I love her.
“We have all been up all night, and its lunchtime everybody ... let’s go get something to eat,” Annie said. “Change into something comfy, and do it fast people,” she went on to say.
“Charles, be careful with what you may be feeling towards Sarah, OK?” Annie said.
“I understand what you are saying, mom? I just find myself always thinking about her, how she looks, how she feels, how she...”
“Hold it right there, Charles. You have got to be extremely cautious around her right now. She’s vulnerable and looking for comfort ... you specifically. Think about the ramifications for a minute if you two did actually ‘hook up?’ What would change, and what would stay the same? What about Claire? Kalista? And me? Think with your big brain, not your little one, OK?”
“Slap me?” I asked.
“What.”
“Slap me, please – don’t think about it, just do it please?”
Annie slapped me, real hard. She may have hurt her hand. I held it and kissed it.
“Thank you, mom, I love you.”
After we got back from lunch, I called a meeting and we all sat down in a circle on the beds.
“This isn’t really a C-Cask meeting in the strictest sense. I need opinions and ideas for something that has me a little troubled.”
Claire took my hand and said, “Just start Charles, it will be OK ... whatever it is?””
“I misspoke a few days ago when I said that purchasing the poster property would offset taxes. To offset taxes, we need to donate to charity, which I am not against the idea, but I do not have a glimmer of how to do that!”
“OK, Charles,” Sarah said. “I can pursue that sometime in the future, Anything else, X-man?”
“
“It’s about our engagement, Claire?”
“Go ahead, as long as you don’t want the ring back?” Claire remarked.
“I am worried that people may react negatively when they hear about our engagement at such a young age, and our plans to get married at the age of 16. Granted the few people we have told, thought it was cute or a wonderful expression of love, but as role models, aren’t we potentially sending a dangerous signal?” I asked my quartet of ladies.
“It’s not like Jerry Lee Lewis, Charles. He was 23 and he married his first cousin, who was only 13. That was scandalous for multiple reasons,” Annie said.
I came back with, “What about people who have ‘fallen in love’ with Charles & Claire? Will parents stop letting their kids come to our performances and competitions, feeling we have done something unacceptable to them? These people, and their kids, have purchased over $62 million dollars in posters, and are putting down innumerable amounts of money to see us in concert with Michael Bublé.”
“Charles, I didn’t realize how much this bothered you?” Claire said. “Why don’t we just wait until we’re 17, or 18?”
Although I started to cry a little, I sallied forth and said, “Because I love you now, and if I could, I would marry you ... right now! Not because we can have sex, but because we can go to a hotel or to a theme park as Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newman.”
“Because we can showcase our love to everyone we see, and they’ll see our love oozing from every pore. I am not only deeply in love in you, I also consider you my partner in life and in love, forever and ever.”
“I have an idea Charles - but it would involve keeping things on the down low for a little bit longer?” Sarah mentioned.
Annie added, “This sounds like a juicy idea already, Sarah. What is it?”
“We rent Ohio Stadium for your wedding!” Sarah exclaimed.
“You mean the stadium where the Buckeyes play?” Kalista queried.
“The very one, Kalista – we rent it for the day, allow them to make money on the cars coming in, but here’s the icing on the proverbial cake. We include a ticket for your wedding with every order of all 21 posters, capping it at 100,000. We advertise that the wedding is on a specific date; that you would have to pick soon, based on availability, it would be best when the Buckeyes have an away game. I tell whoever, that Ohio Stadium is where you two had ‘always wanted to get married,’ but if they can’t or don’t want to help us, we say ‘that’s all right. I am sure that Michigan Stadium can help us instead.”
“Oooh, I like this idea, Sarah,” Annie said. “The Buckeyes and the Wolverines haven’t liked each other for years, so playing one off the other would be perfect. What do you say to that, young lovers?”
“I’m game, that’s a really great idea, but we can’t do anything else until we have a place and a date, correct?” I asked.
Together they said, “Absotively, Posilutely.”
“Discussions could take up to a month possibly, so just don’t mention you are engaged until we have a place, then we blanket advertise on the Internet and our website. Pick a date, and a backup date - and a backup to the backup for us. It would need to be a Saturday, of course, OK?” Sarah mentioned.
“Hand me the laptop please?” I said.
“Claire, here are the first three Saturdays after we get back from the International SST. Sarah, why does it have to be a Saturday? Why can’t we schedule it on a specific date, like maybe ... Thursday, October 15th 2015?”
I looked and saw first Kallie, then Sarah, Annie, and Claire all burst into tears with this idea. I pulled Kalista in my arms as she cried, and we hugged one another.
Pushing aside her tears, Sarah said, “Excellent idea Charles, I can’t wait until we dance together at your wedding. Remember, Michael promised he would sing, so as soon as I can confirm one of those two schools. What would be your third choice Charles; Beaver Stadium, where the Penn State Nitanny Lions play? All three hold over 100,000 people?”
I looked over at Claire, whose eyes were still full of tears and love, and she mouthed to me, “You choose?”
“My ‘A’ choice is Ohio Stadium, Then my ... Our ‘B’ choice is Michigan Stadium and our ‘C’ choice, Beaver Stadium, on October 15 or not at all.”
They all burst into applause as we all lay down for an early evening nap.
“TWEET”
My computer was set to tweet like a bird if I got an email from anyone. This was from Sarah,
From: [email protected]OHIO STADIUM IS OURS ON OCTOBER 15, 2015
They want $750,000 to open the place up. They are willing to open concessions at minimal prices to your guests and ‘your wedding party’ and will handle entry to ‘invitation holders only,’ if we want them too.
SARAH ROLLINS
I got up off my bed and knocked on the connecting door. Sarah was waiting for me. Everybody else was still zonked out, so we grabbed each other and kissed, and kissed some more. Her hands had moved to my butt and I didn’t acknowledge it, it felt so good. I felt my hand picked up and placed on her covered but loosed breast. When we separated, I softly said, “Book it, Sarah.”
We kissed one last time and then closed the door and I went back into the bed that had my fiancée in it. The second I climbed in, she rolled over and placed her hand on my naked chest, and it felt quite nice. I really want hair on my chest, just as bad as K wants boobies!
We all got up around nine am and started getting ready for the day. Sarah and I agreed to keep this to ourselves for a day or two. Every time my laptop tweeted, I thought it was her with news, but most were spam. After unsubscribing for the umpteenth time, my email was clear, finally.
It being late January in Philadelphia, we didn’t go outside much, but after telling Mom and Sarah, we walked across the street to the Convention Center, where we walked in and heard the orchestra tuning up and practicing, and we caught Michael’s eye. He waved us over, and we all said our hellos to each other.
“Charles,” he said, “You guys aren’t supposed to be here until tomorrow, what’s up?”
“Michael, we just got a little antsy, so I thought I would bring my fiancée over and we could see what’s going on and maybe scope out the place a little.”
“Now you are calling her your fiancée in public, Charles?”
“Actually, do you have a minute, Michael? Claire and I need to bring you up to date on a few things that you can’t talk about yet, but we still need to give you a heads up.”
“Sounds intriguing, what’s up?” he responded.
“We have set a date and place for our wedding, the date is October 15, or about 45 days after we all get home from the International SST in 2015.”
“And the place?” Michael asked.
“Ohio Stadium, where the Ohio State Buckeyes play NCAA college football. It holds over 100,000 people, and we have a plan to have it be completely full. Before we give you any more details ... can you still sing at our wedding, as you suggested you could?”
“I promised I would, and I’ll give that date to my planner and we’ll be there for you. Do you want the orchestra as well?” Michael added, adding a sincere smile to his face.
“Can you configure them in a circle to surround us with a walkway path through them for the wedding party?” I asked.
“Sure, Charles – anything for you two, I have grown quite fond of the two of you and we still have over 21 months to go.”
Claire left my side for a moment and went to Michael and gave him a peck on the cheek. He blushed.
“Thank you, my dear,” Michael said, “So, you don’t want to announce this yet, is that right?”
“Yes, Sarah is still hammering out some of the details, she’s quite the force of nature when she wants something. They’re asking for $750,000 to open the place up? Does that sound about right to you, Michael?”
“For what you are doing, yeah, but if you want to bill it as a Michael Bublé concert, alongside your wedding, I could probably get that price down to $500K.”
“That’s nice of you to offer that, but we need the event to be attended by Charles & Claire fans, which will bring Michael Bublé fans. Starting a year in advance, this coming October 15th, we’ll be giving away about 400 tickets each day, to anyone who orders all 21 of our posters. Those people will get a set of posters, a pen for getting autographs and a single ticket to the show ... er, uh, the wedding.”
“We’d like the fact that you’d be there, to be a surprise the day of the wedding. We would have a few songs we would request you sing, besides whatever else you would like to sing, such as ‘The Wedding Song’ and others. How does that all sound to you, Michael?”
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“Wow, Charles—that’s quite ambitious and crazy, like you said. The minute we touch down, I will do all I can to make that happen. You certainly have been the showman this past year, introducing me, special guests that I sprung on you at the last minute like Idina and adding those fantastic musical routines that include all of your ... harem,” Michael said. “That’s what you pay me the big bucks for Michael,” I said, feeling a pull on my shirtsleeve. It was Claire, who wanted a kiss. Never...
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We all looked at one another and did not understand what she was saying to us. She tried again, “That man who just left here ... is ‘John McArthur,’ not Daniel. It was Daniel who died in June’s arms, all those years ago. John swapped ... all their credentials and took over the life of Daniel, including, being the f-f-father of all of my children.” She was sobbing very hard again. I remarked, “It seems like John and Daniel played the same kinds of tricks on everyone, being twins? Including...
Last year, being thirteen-year-olds meant we danced on Tuesday, but this year (2013) since we both will be tuning 14 in late July, we’re probably moving to Thursday nights. However, we got a letter from Jimmy with the upcoming Cotillion schedule. Things have changed considerably; Monday is now 17/18-year-olds, Tuesday 13/14-year-olds, Wednesday 11/12-year-olds, Thursday 15/16-year-olds, Friday is the 9/10-year-olds, and Saturday at ten am, will be the 7/8-year-olds. This was explained by an...
“MOTHER!” She was on a roll, so Sarah kept going, “Sorry Claire, but the truth is the truth. Most girls your age are getting ready to go to high school and plan to sleep with every boy they meet, until they find the one to bring home to Mom and Dad. You, however—hit the mother lode; he’s cute, he’s smart, he treats you like he’s known you for a dozen years, but it’s been barely over a year and a half, from when you first met.” “I know I didn’t originally understand what was going on with...
“You had me worried there for a minute, Tiger,” she said giving me a new nickname. “I thought I felt your hands moving towards my butt.” “They did ... a little, but I was in control of my hands the whole time, OK Love.” “OK Love,” she repeated quietly. Jimmy told us that during the next week we would likely still be working on the Tango and Cha-Cha. Claire and I only needed to refine our steps and learn a few more. We must keep Jimmy satisfied. ==== It was Saturday night, and Annie and...
“I am in a spa with four very healthy and attractive women; my mother, my girlfriend, my soul mate and my potential mother–in-law. The last thing on my mind is having fun. Wait a second ... that didn’t come out quite right.” “Charles,” Claire said swimming over to me, “Do I make you nervous right now?” “Not n-nervous, Claire. More uh — uhm, well ... uncomfortable,” I lied. Claire started to walk towards me with water dripping off ... everything. “Claire,” said her mother, “Don’t tease...
The next couple of days were something of a haze, with the practices, the new routines and such. Mom repeated that the musical guidelines for time are, to avoid a penalty, between 150 and 210 seconds. “Annie’s Song” was 180 seconds, but a song that goes 223 seconds, like “Footloose” does, might be stretching it just too much. Claire told me that Josiah could trim music from the front or the end of the song to make it fit the 210 maximum. So, I asked her to have him cut the opening eight...
Breaking the mood, Sarah said, “He’s not the greatest dancer ever, but he’s darn close. Thank you for stopping by,” she added, rubbing my back saying, “She’s not too far from the truth, Charles?” I leaned into Sarah and cried for a bit. Fed, showered, and dressed - we showed up early for our second Carnegie Hall Performance, these folks paid $2,500 each to see us, so we really needed to be jazzed and ready. Walking up to Michael, I saw he’d actually put on the T-shirt we got him. “Hey...
“Back to the Countdown, all right?” I hopefully asked. That settled them all down, at least a little. Claire said, “You were at 14, Charles.” “Thanks honey,” I said with a kiss. “Number 14;” 955,000 Sarah “Marilyn Monroe” pose “What’s that mean?” Kalista asked. I said, “There was an actress in the 40s, 50s and early 60s named Marilyn Monroe, Kalista. She exuded sexuality and one of her many famous pictures was with her bent over in a low-cut all-white dress, with her ‘girls’ pushed...
“Let’s get back to the hotel everybody,” Annie said. “Michael, when do we leave for Russia?” “In three days, we fly from here to Novosibirsk, Russia, about 2,950 miles, then on to Moscow, an additional 1,730-mile leg, after that to St. Petersburg, our final Russian stop,” Michael said. “Good, I might just sleep for the next two days Michael,” I said. Claire leaned in close and said, “Not without me, you won’t?” The realization of the previous evening, hit me when I woke up. I had my arms...
When they saw us walk up to their ticket windows, there was a scream from within, and they called their supervisor who gave us all free passes for the day. Ever-present Sarah showed me she had autographing pens with her. First thing we did was to take the Behind the Scenes Tour that showed off their zoological support area, and Jonathan, our guide, made a prideful point of mentioning all of the endangered species they had at their park. After the Tour was over, our guide, Jonathan stayed...
What was that? Did they say we had moved on, or were they telling us to leave the floor? The crowd was stunned and started to applaud very loudly. I guess that meant ... We made it! We waved back to the crowd, and Claire took me by my collar and kissed me in front of everybody there. I knew this was likely to come back on me, but I responded and kissed her back causing the other dancers around us to start applauding as well. We broke up both equally embarrassed, but happy as can be — we...
FIFTEEN YEARS LATER (2032) “Charles?” K said, now 28. “Yes, Princess?” I responded, now 33. “Everybody’s gone, leaving us alone.” “Where did they all go to?” I asked. “Claire, Annie and Sarah with Rose and Michael, along with Ken and his brood, went to check on the newest Charles & Claire Dance Studio in Pittsburgh. On their way back they were going to Columbus for the day, to check on the studio that Brian and Susan, and their family, are in charge of.” “That leaves us all alone,...
Well, again, Tuesday night couldn’t come soon enough for me. This week, Brian’s mother took us to Cotillion getting us there early so Claire and I could confer with Jimmy. We told him about the BBQ and about all the steps we learned. Mr. Bradshaw looked at us flabbergasted and said, “You have learned The Natural Turn Progression? I usually don’t even try to teach that to anyone under fifteen; they ... just can’t grasp it. You two really are something special, you know. Next week, I will be...
We got up, showered and met up with the group for a small and quick breakfast. Sarah got us a room in the hotel to practice in, we went through all of our newly restored routines two additional times letting the girls flash them up a little. We took a cab ride out to Wembley Stadium to check it out. We saw a very large dance floor being setup, it was maybe 80ft across by 100ft deep, easily the biggest we’d seen so far. As fast as they were setting it up, Michael and his merry men were...
That caused Jimmy to smile big as he said, “Now ... Charles & Claire will show us all, the Tango,” starting “Hernando’s Hideaway,” a different version than we had danced to before, but quite lyrical. Claire turned to me and said, “Charles remember, No rise and fall!” What a wonderful dimpled smile was on her face. We proceeded to Tango ourselves into a lather using steps that we know Jimmy wouldn’t be teaching tonight, but when you love to dance ... you do what you do, and what you...
“OK, last subject – turning professional and going on this tour. I am beginning to believe, that we are going to like dancing for people on this tour more than anything else, so I suggest we all turn professional right away, informing the NDCA at the proper time. We go on this US Tour, and maybe even Michaels’ World Tour as well.” “Then we maybe find out about going on the World Dance Council International Tour, or starting our own Tour, something along the lines of ‘The Claire and Special K...
“Ooooohhhhh — That was a joke, Charles? That was my soon to be fourteen-year-old sons’ idea of a joke. Ha-Ha. Hmmm ... you knew I was behind the door, didn’t you? Well, you got me pretty good there, Chuckles. I must admit.” She started laughing with us; so, I guess she was OK, but I am going to start being more careful, generally speaking. RING “Hello, this is Charles Newman, who may I ask is calling?” “This is Kalista McArthur, Mr. Newman. Calling to see how you are doing?” “Kalista. So...
Not having been there for over five years brought back memories. It was an all-new orchestra, with a new conductor, Herbie must have retired or passed on. After getting everyone settled, I walked up and introduced myself and met the new conductor, Harold Watson, better known as Hal. He was aware of who we were and had a large number of our music ready for us. There was no live singer this evening, just a nice meal and dance music. I sat between my wife and my daughter. “Daddy,” Rose said...
The next morning, after working out and coming back to take a shower, I looked at our list of cities we’d gone to so far and determined that we have been to 30% of the total cities, and we’re about eight months into our 24-month long Tour so far, which ... matches up. We’re less than two months from Kalista’s 12th birthday. Our second Anaheim performance was as electric as the first, then we had a day off, then Fullerton for a single, the next day was our ‘Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon...
I chuckled, put the phone down and ran to Mom in the kitchen asking her if Claire could come over in the morning to practice. Of course, she said, “Are you ready to be a proper gentleman this time, young man?” I bowed my head and said, “Yes, ma’am. I have got Claire holding on the phone. Could we get her this time, instead of one of her family having to drop her off, please?” That probably sounded a bit needy. “That was the perfect amount of groveling. Go tell her we will be coming to get...
The performances the next four days in Sydney, were quite outstanding. Kalista was extraordinary, and Claire was at the top of her game as well. I’d begun to go to the gym now and work out every morning. I did look up the latest news on Happy Birthday, finding that only three weeks earlier (On September 22nd) a judge in Los Angeles ruled that none of the companies that have collected royalties over the years, held a valid copyright claim. An attorney for the plaintiffs, Randall Newman (No...
Claire said, “I guess we’ll find out who wins the battle of the chesticles, won’t we, Mom?” Sarah did a shake and said, “In sheer size, dear – there’s no comparison.” They all laughed and snorted. “All right let’s go ... Dammit! The stat site is down, I need to call Ken about this!” “Oh,” Sarah said. “We got a request from Disney to make our posters available in the non-USA Parks. Without running it by anyone, I said to go ahead, but only in Japan. I figured we could find out how...
“Both of our mothers, along with our future stepdaughter, would kill us both if we did something as stupid as that,” she responded. “You’re right Claire, and when you are right – you are right,” I said, first looking over the delicious body of my soon to be wife, then starting another kiss. “I am so horny, and you are so gorgeous – a deadly combination, my dear.” “I am up for a little ‘afternoon delight,’ Charles?” she said grinning at me, reminding me again of that wonderful June evening...
After we got home, I changed into a swimsuit and practically jumped into the spa. Being that everyone else was of a like mind, within a half hour, I was joined by my entire C.A.S.K of ladies. Kalista came up to me and asked, in an alarmingly sexual tone, “Whatcha doin, Loverboy,” and she sat down on my lap, spreading herself out in a leisurely manner. “Well, Special K, you sexy lump of clay, you, I was looking at the final leg of our US SST tour.” I had my laptop on a stool...
“Can we wait and not have sex, until we’re married? Too many kids rush into their first time and end up regretting their decision.” “Absolutely Charles, that’ll make it that much more exciting, when we finally do make love to one another, for the very first time.” Of course, that was exactly when Sarah walked in, knocking and saying, “I want the two of you to know something about love. There’s lust, and it is a very powerful and strong emotion, that can break up friends forever. It can ruin...
“I am so excited,” Annie said. “How do you calm down when you get this excited.” Michael knew, so he walked over to her and gave her a nice kiss, possibly the best kiss they had yet shared. She touched her lips and seemed calmer. “He certainly takes after his father,” Kallie said. “Charles did that to Sarah once, and she was never the same again.” “Five minutes please,” our tech girl announced through my headset. I passed that along to the gang. Turning to my wife, I said, “Ready for...
We all laughed for the next hundred miles or so as we headed towards our, 31st City Salt Lake City One Night SLC Marriott City Center We arrived in Salt Lake City about three am. Sarah had gotten us a large suite with two queens and a rollaway. We’re performing at the Salt Palace the day after tomorrow. We were emotionally drained from the last six hours of things happening, so Kalista got in the rollaway, provided I give her a goodnight kiss, which I did, and I crawled into bed with my...
Eventually, we all changed into rehearsal clothes again. We had less than four full months before we leave on ‘The Next-Generation Tour’, and these routines needed to be automatic. I introduced the third set into our regimen, two weeks later we added set number four. Six weeks later all seven sets were worked into the rotation. Sammi was right — the kids were catching on, smiling as they were barely out of breath after a day’s rehearsal. My daily workout did its job; I was back in the best...
The rest of the day was a blast, the farthest thing from dancing we could do. Occasionally, Sarah grabbed my hand as we walked to the things we wanted to see and accomplish. We’d gotten tired, and let our guide give us a mini-tour, while we stayed in the cart. We weren’t being bothered for autographs that much, but if someone asked, we’d stop and gladly do it. We were all dried out now. I’d seen a place on the Park Map I wanted to go to, so I asked to go to Topper’s Hat Shop. I got a light...
I opened the door to a wonderful scent, thank you Ken, and Claire and I quickly started a load of laundry, then stripped and got naked into our spa. I got a text from K, “Can I spa with U?” I asked Claire and she said ‘Sure’ and I texted K back. She was over in a flash. I was planning on putting on some boxers, but my legs felt so good, I stepped into the spa, naked. K came in already in a suit. “Princess, right now - naked only.” She got in, put Claire between us and stripped herself...
“Kallie?” I said pulling her to where we could talk and not be heard. “Yes dear,” she replied giving me again that smile that radiates love. “I found an ALS Research Center in San Francisco. They are expecting records from your doctor regarding your preliminary diagnosis. I have emailed you their information and would love it if you took care of doing that in the next 24 to 48 hours,” I asked. “It isn’t that important, Charles,” she said. “It is to me, please, Special K, do it for me,...
Things were breaking up and our group quickly surrounded us, as we exchanged hugs and kisses. I looked around and didn’t see Kalista anywhere, at least not until she was in the air, on her way to me and I caught her. I won’t be able to hold her much longer, she has gotten taller and thus, heavier; I certainly wouldn’t say that to her face. She went for the deep kiss, but Annie and Sarah were there in time, to stop it from happening. After signing autographs for over half an hour, Annie...
We laughed all the way down to the kitchen. I pulled the chair out for Claire and we went about our business. I made her a salad and brought it to her, then made us each a cheeseburger and grabbed some chips and took it to the table. Lastly I poured us a couple glasses of water and realized I was the only person moving at all. The ladies seemed perplexed over Claire’s ‘ensemble,’ but nobody actually said anything. Claire looked up and said, “Are Charles and I the only ones having lunch...
Our Three Sports Stadium Performances were not technical sellouts, but they were the loudest frikking amounts of people we ever had, with Dan the Man in his elements. Well, back to the Tour: 40 cities left in California; starting in Oxnard, then Ventura and Santa Barbara for 3, Santa Maria for 2, Bakersfield for 3 (In a new multi-use stadium capable of holding 125,000), followed by Visalia, Clovis, and Fresno for 2, Modesto, Stockton and Sacramento for 3. We were planning an extra two days...
“Yes, a Terrible Tango routine,” I said. “Must find just the right music,” as I started rummaging through our music collection. “What about ‘Hernando’s Hideaway,’ Charles? We have practiced to it a couple of times?” Claire suggested. “No, Claire ... it’s a great song to Tango to, but I want something that works for only you and me ... so nobody else will dare dance to it, after we do.” “Aren’t we getting a little full of ourselves, Charles?” mom asked. “No Mom, the music is important;...
Finally, we went back to dancing. I thought we could now practice the Cha-Cha and the Tango. Those were the dances we were expected to know for Cotillion later. We went back over the four Basic patterns, the New York step, along with both the Spot and Walkaround turns again. I added to that, the Crossover steps, and a really cool derivative step called The Chase. After going through this without music, I looked at their selection. They had the Eliane Elias version of “Oye Como Va;” a perfect...
Disney’s Hollywood Studios was impressive. With twenty attractions to choose from, including Rock ‘n’ Roll Coaster, Star Tours in 3D, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, that Annie and Sarah wanted nothing to do with, Toy Story Mania, the newly refurbished Fantasmic, and a 25-minute long Live truncation of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ with five of the wonderful songs from the movie, including the Oscar winning ‘Be Our Guest’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ We also watched the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt...
She pounced on my slightly diminished erection, enjoying it like a kitty cat that just got a fresh plate of milk. She got me clean and pushed me on my back. She dropped her butt down on my erection, causing her to practically scream bloody murder. I threw her a pillow, as she performed at first a ‘Cowgirl’ then without stopping turned it into a ‘reverse.’ I pulled out and got her on her hands and knees and I plowed right into that beautiful butt of hers, again doing most of the work. Only...
My girls all came up to me wondering exactly what I was going to say. As usual, I said that I didn’t know yet, I’d planned to wing it. The cameraman was getting instructions through his earpiece and I got Claire and Kalista on either side me. He backed up a bit and gave me a 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1. The reporter handed me her mike, and I said, straight into the TV camera in front of me, “Ladies and Gentlemen, and kids of all ages, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Welcome to the Columbus Mall, in...
We got back to Caesars about twenty-five minutes before things started. The same gentleman we’d spoken to before helped us to our seats. The lights dimmed. As part of her show, she does many of her most popular musical selections, including practically all of her music that we had. After her first couple of songs, she took her microphone and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, last fall I was lucky enough to be part of a very special wedding event. It was at a football stadium in Columbus, Ohio....
“I plan to ask her to marry me at graduation, not to marry me at graduation. I know many teenagers as well as older folks seem to think two or three months is plenty of time to be engaged. I hope to be engaged for two full years so when we turn twenty, that year’s McArthur Family BBQ could become our Wedding Day.” “I know you usually hold it in June, Sarah, but that year it could be the Sunday between my and Claire’s birthday’s in July. Could that be planned? Maybe you can get that dunk tank...
We landed in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the first of four performances in the 49th state. Fans in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau all loved our Next Generation Tour. Our hop from there to Hawaii was wonderful. Our Tour of Pearl Harbor was amazing. Michael explained it to his ‘girls’, causing all three of them to cry a little. Sammi did the same with Lily. My Great-great grandfather, Richard Noble Newman, was shipped to Pearl Harbor during the late summer of 1941. By the grace of God, he...
The next night’s performance was something of a letdown. Michael Bublé performed flawlessly, but every one of us fumbled something. After saying goodnight to him and getting our money, I called a meeting for when we got back to the hotel to pick up Sammi and her crew. After we all assembled outside our vehicles, I said, “What happened tonight was totally unacceptable! Even I messed up!” That garnered a laugh. “In the entire history of Charles & Claire, that has never happened. I don’t...