10th Ki Ladki Ki Chut Mari
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The next day, Mrs. Parsons and I went to the country club in her car. After my lesson, we played nine holes and then had lunch together. I hadn't played that well, and I felt a little upset about Brenda's hanging up on me, and her refusal to take my call that morning. It was two thirty, so I changed and went to the pool. Brenda was there, sitting with four other kids that I'd seen around the pool before. I went over and said hello to her, asking her if she wanted to start practicing early.
"I don't think so. It's a nice day, and I'd rather stay here, talking with my friends." She didn't invite me to join in, or even to sit down with her and her friends. The way she talked to me made it seem like I was intruding on her by even coming over and speaking with her. I guess I got upset, and I know I was embarrassed by her casual dismissal of me. I turned and walked over to the other side of the pool, putting my towel on a lounge chair about fifty feet away from where she was. I sat back in the chair, pretending to be enjoying the sun, and the nice day.
After fifteen minutes or so, Brenda decided to go swimming. When she got up and went into the water, one of the boys she had been sitting with decided to follow after her. I turned over, laying on my stomach, letting her know that I wasn't paying attention to her or her friends now. Inside, I was really mad at her. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. She never once explained why she got mad at me. I guess she thought I could read her mind. I heard her laughing and talking in the pool, but I refused to turn around to see what she was doing.
By the time I just couldn't stand not looking anymore, I decided to get up, take my towel, and leave the pool area. I'd look over at Brenda in the pool, as I was leaving. That would look natural, not like I was trying to find out why she was laughing so much, or talking to that boy. When I did that, I saw the two of them standing in the water, up to Brenda's neck. They were about three feet apart, and he was saying something to her, something that she seemed happy to be hearing. I turned away and started for the pool gate.
"Kenny, where are you going?" I turned around and looked at her. At first, I was going to just shout out something mean to her, but I decided not to.
"I'm going to change and call Hans to come get me. I'll see you."
"Don't leave yet. I think I've changed my mind about practicing. Meet me over at the tennis courts in fifteen minutes, okay?"
"I don't think so Brenda, I think I'd rather go home now and talk with one of my friends." I walked over to the pool gate and went out. I had to walk over to the member's locker room and change clothes before I went upstairs to call Hans to come get me. When I got to the pay phones, Brenda was waiting for me. She was still in her bathing suit and had a towel wrapped around her too.
"Why are you mad?" Brenda seemed upset that I thought I had a right to be mad too. I guess she thought mad was a one way street, and she was the only one entitled to get that way. When she hung up on me, I'd been mostly puzzled by it, although not too surprised that she'd do it. When she told her mother she didn't want to take my call that morning, I started being mad, but I didn't say anything to her mother about being that way. But this little display of hers by the pool was more than I was willing to swallow from her. She was about to learn that I didn't need her to be my friend, and wasn't willing to keep letting her always decide to turn the friendliness on and off all by herself.
"I'm not that mad, I just decided I don't want to be your friend anymore. It's too hard trying to keep from making you mad, and when I do make you mad, you never tell me why. I'm going to find another friend, one who isn't so temperamental."
"You know why I'm mad, it's because of what you said about me doing to you what Claudia did to Richard."
"Okay. I'm sorry. Didn't your mother tell you I asked her to say I was sorry."
"She said something like that, but you never said it to me. This isn't the first time you've said things like that to me either."
"I'm sorry. I won't say things like that to you anymore."
"Good. Quit pouting, let's go practice."
"I'm going home. You go back to your friends. I told you I'm finished with being your friend." I stepped around her and put money in the coin box of the phone. When I got a dial tone, I called the house. When Gerta answered, I asked her to have Hans come get me. After I hung up, Brenda was still standing there. She was crying. I didn't want to watch her cry so I tried to step around her. Just as I was going past her, she hit me on my back. It didn't really hurt, not physically at least, so I just kept walking away from her, down the stairs, towards the path out to the parking lot. I didn't look back at her, or reply to any of the things she was yelling at me. When I got to the parking lot, I kept walking down the country club's driveway, towards the street below. I got there about five minutes before Hans got there to give me my ride home.
All that afternoon and evening, I was a sour puss. I didn't even go in the kitchen to talk to Gerta or try to get a snack before dinner. I was sitting on my bed, listening to the radio, when my phone started ringing in a funny way. I picked it up, and it was Gerta telling me that I had a phone call. I asked her who it was, and she told me it was the Connor girl.
"Tell her I don't want to speak with her."
"Shatze, she's crying."
"Good. I still don't want to talk to her."
"I'll tell her you'll call her back?"
"No. Don't tell her anything except I don't want to talk to her. Tell her I told you to ask her to quit calling me here." Gerta didn't say anything, and my line went dead, with no dial tone. I hung it up and tried to figure out why I was being like I was. I was acting like I really didn't want to speak with Brenda again, but I really did want to. I couldn't just tell her that I wanted her to stop doing what she always did whenever I made her mad. What I was doing was the only way I knew to make her see how much I didn't like her doing that all the time.
At dinner, Mrs. Parsons and Bea were both asking me questions about Brenda. I knew that Gerta must have told them both about Brenda's call, and about my refusal to speak with her. I tried telling them both that I didn't want to discuss it with them, but Mrs. Parsons told me that she had a need to know about whatever situation I was in, that it was her duty. She asked me if I wanted to go somewhere private after dinner to tell her about it.
"It isn't really anything. Brenda keeps getting mad at me, without ever telling me why she's mad. Today, I told her I didn't want to be her friend anymore."
"This was before she called here?"
"Yes. I went to the pool today, after you left, and Brenda was there talking to some people. When I went over to say hello, she said she didn't want to practice tennis today, and would rather talk with her friends. She made it plain that she wasn't including me as one of those friends, and that she didn't want to talk with me. It was only when I told her I didn't want to practice tennis with her, that she wanted to talk to me again."
"You said she didn't want to practice." This was from Bea. Mrs. Parsons looked at her, like she was mad at her for speaking.
"She didn't at first, but when she saw me leaving the pool, then she did want to." I answered Bea, because I didn't mind telling her about this too now. If I told her and Mrs. Parsons, I was sure one of them would know what I should do. Mrs. Parsons asked me why Brenda got mad at me in the first place. I knew she'd be mad at me if I told her what I'd asked Brenda for. I didn't want to lie to her though. "It was personal. I said something to her that made her mad."
"Something you're ashamed of having said?"
"No, I'm not ashamed. Maybe I shouldn't have asked her, but I'm not ashamed. She could have just said no. I've already told her I was sorry, several times. This isn't the first time she got mad at me without explaining why. That's why I'm mad. If I keep letting her do that, she'll just do it all the time."
"He has a good point there. You know he does." Bea looked back at Mrs. Parsons. Even though she knew Mrs. Parsons didn't want her taking part in this discussion, Bea kept herself right in the middle of it. Mrs. Parsons stood up then.
"Kenny, I don't think we're getting anywhere right now. It's obvious to me that you believe you have this situation in hand. Very well, we'll leave it at that. If you want or need my counsel, you need only ask for it." She turned around and left the dining room, heading for the staircase and her bedroom. After she was gone, Bea told me that I was definitely doing the right thing.
"Kid, you don't ever want her thinking she's got you pussy whipped, and that's exactly how she's been acting so far. She feels "the power", and needs to find out there are limits to it. You'll teach her those limits this way. In fact, you didn't take it far enough. You should have told her off in front of those other friends of hers, let her know how it felt being talked down to in public. You're too nice to her. Women don't respect nice."
"I don't want to make her more mad, Bea. I want her to stop getting mad."
"You're doing the right thing, believe me. Let her think she's lost out on her chance of bagging you. When we were all at the pool before, it was so obvious that she thought she had you trained. She even told us about it. Her mother has been advising her too. It's all part of the con. She shows you a little something, and then pretends to not understand when you ask her for more."
"I'm sure she likes me, Bea, from some of the things she did when she wasn't mad at me."
"Because she kissed you and touched your wiener? Doesn't mean anything. She let you play with her little treasure?"
"Only a little."
"She's just baiting the hook, kid. That's how we all do it. She's interested, and maybe she does like you, but it's been on her terms so far, not yours. You need to change that, show her who the boss is. I told you yesterday you should play the field. It was good advice then, and it's even better advice now. Make her the one that's always a little bit off balance. Make her care about you more than you care about her."
"Why can't it be equal?"
"It just can't be. It never is. There always has to be one of you that cares more than the other. So far, it's been you, and you haven't been that happy. See how you like it when it's her that's always trying to get on your good side."
I left Bea, going back up to my room. I locked my bedroom door, turning off my light. I liked the quiet that darkness always brings. I could think better in the dark because there were fewer distractions then. I thought about what Bea had said, but even if she was right about things, I didn't want to boss Brenda around. There were things about Bea that I didn't like. One of these things was the way Bea always needed to find an advantage over people. Bea didn't have any soft side. It would be hard to ever trust her. I felt the opposite about Gerta, Mrs. Parsons and Mr. Chalmers. Even Mr. Parsons did favors without having to be paid for them.
In the dark, I started making a mental list of things I'd like to see changed in Brenda. The way she always talked about money and wanting to be rich was first on my list. Her thinking it was always okay for her to get mad, usually without ever explaining why. Her always wanting her own way, and expecting to get it. That was about it.
There were so many things that I liked about her that I wasn't going to try to list them. She made me feel good when we were together, when she wasn't either mad at me, or talking about being rich, or marrying a rich person. I really hated the thought of not having her for my friend, but not as much as I hated the thought of letting her keep on doing the same thing to me over and over again. I knew that Bea was right about that one thing though. If I let her keep doing it, she wouldn't stop. I turned on my reading light by the bed, and got up to get undressed.
I only had two people I could discuss this with, Mrs. Parsons or Bea. Neither one of them seemed right for helping me come to a good decision, or for finding a way to solve this without either me giving in, or Brenda being forced to change in a way I didn't want to make her change. I thought about Mr. Chalmers, but I didn't think he'd be able to help me make a good choice either. Really, of everyone I knew, Brenda was the one person I'd have the most faith in to help me find a way for us get along better. Not the Brenda that was mad at me, or the one that saw me as a possible rich catch. The other Brenda, the one I thought I loved. How could I get in contact with that Brenda?
The next morning, I was up, cleaned and dressed before seven. I went into the kitchen and had my breakfast in there. Gerta seemed a little bit angry with me. I figured it was because of what I said about being glad about Brenda's crying. I told her that I really liked Brenda, but she kept getting mad at me every time we were together, or on the phone, and then she wouldn't tell me what I did wrong before she got mad.
"She wasn't mad mit you when she called, mein liebchen. She was sad. Why you want to make her more sad?"
"She makes me mad too. I tried to make up with her, but she didn't want to. She expects me to be nice to her, but she doesn't have the same rules for her being nice to me."
"Call her, tell her why you're upset. Ask her what she will do about that. To be mad back, it solves nothing for either one."
"The way she is, Gerta, if I called her, she wouldn't talk to me, and that would just make me mad at her again."
"I'll call her. You sit there and eat your breakfast. I'll tell her she better talk to you. She will do it." Gerta picked up the telephone, and I went back to eating my pancakes. She was on the telephone for a long time. It didn't sound like she was talking to Brenda. After about five minutes, she hung up the phone. "Now we wait. Florence will talk to her, then Brenda will call you."
"Who's Florence?"
"She is like me, a cook and in charge of housekeeping for the Connor family. She doesn't have a husband, or any other help over there. Sometimes, we talk, or go out to a movie together. She is very nice for an American woman."
Gerta and Hans had been in America for over forty years. Both were American citizens, but only on paper. In their hearts, they were German. I'd have to say this was more true of Hans than Gerta, but she said things like that all the time too. It wasn't political with either of them, it was more they believed everything German was just naturally better, and German things were their standard for excellence. They had come to America, separately, in their teens, both of their mothers having gotten remarried to American GI's after World War II. Neither Hans or Gerta had wanted to leave Germany, but had been forced to do so because of their ages. They had met shortly after Gerta came to the U.S., and had fallen in love soon after, and been married. Their original plan had been to marry, find work, and save up the money to return to their native homeland.
Gerta had gotten a job in the Chalmers household first, hired to do housekeeping, and some fill in cooking for the regular cook on her days off. Hans was hired later to assist the regular family retainer who had gotten too old to continue caring for the upkeep on the vehicles, the house and the grounds. As the years passed, and their responsibilities grew, their planned return to Germany kept being postponed, until it was now planned as something they'd do when they both retired. Mostly, they talked about it now, each of them knowing that it was more a fantasy than something that would ever be realized. America was their home now, and had been for over two thirds of their lives. They wouldn't ever admit it to each other, but neither wanted to leave their adopted country any longer.
The phone rang, and Gerta picked it up. I had been sitting in the kitchen, talking with Gerta after I'd finished my breakfast, and she had been telling me about the new brochures she had gotten depicting an area of Germany that she and Hans were considering for their retirement years. I heard her speaking on the phone for a minute, then she signaled to me that the call was actually for me. I pointed towards the living room, meaning I'd take it in there, but she put her hand over the receiver and told me it would be better if I took it in my room instead. I left the kitchen and ran upstairs to my room.
I lifted up my phone and I heard Gerta talking to Brenda. I didn't want to eavesdrop, so I told Gerta I was on the line.
"Kenny, why are you being like this?" Brenda launched right into her attack, still trying to make it seem like it was me that was being unreasonable, that she was the victim.
"Is this the only reason you called me, Brenda? If it is, I don't want to keep fighting with you."
"I'm not the one who's fighting, Kenny, you are. I don't even know why you're upset with me. Flo said that you wanted to talk to me, that's why I called you."
"Flo must have made a mistake. I told Gerta that I was unhappy that I'd lost you for a friend. I think she was hoping to get us back to talking again, thinking we could work our problems out."
"I want that too."
"I don't want to be friends with you anymore, Brenda, not the way you do things. You only want to be friends when I'm doing exactly what you want me to do. When I make a mistake, you get mad, and then you do something to punish me, without even telling me why you're mad."
"I don't have to tell you, it's obvious."
"Not to me it isn't. Why did you hang up that last time?"
"I already told you at the club. That thing you said about me doing what Claudia did for Richard."
"Why didn't you just tell me no, rather than getting mad and hanging up?"
"Because I was mad. It's the same thing every time with you, Kenny. You do something, and then pretend you don't see anything wrong with what you've done."
"Bea told me that you're just playing a game with me, doing what your mother tells you to try to get me trained to do what you want."
"She's crazy then. I'm trying to get along with you, but you make it hard, because you're always saying or doing things that you aren't supposed to. I do talk to my mother, but she's on your side half the time, like right now. She says I need to have more patience with the things you say, but she doesn't know all the things you've said, or what you've done to me already. She still thinks we're arguing about what kind of kissing we'll do."
"I told you before, that I don't know anything about how to get along with girls. You shouldn't get mad if I do something wrong, you should just explain to me so I can learn better."
"You already learned all about girls from Bea."
"I only learned about sex from Bea, and about her ideas on how to do things. I never felt the way about Bea that I do about you. She doesn't have the power to make me feel bad like you do. I don't love her."
I heard Brenda gasp into the phone. She didn't say anything for awhile, but I heard her breathing, so I knew she was still there at least. My heart was beating faster because I'd just given Brenda information that she could use to crush me. I hadn't meant to tell her that, not until I'd gotten to a point where I thought I could trust her to not use that against me. I'd gone ahead and done what I'd always promised myself I'd never do, I'd made myself vulnerable to someone else.
"Does that mean you love me?" Brenda's voice had lowered. She spoke to me in a different way, maybe less guarded, but certainly not with any kind of anger.
"I want to love you, but you make it hard to do."
"Kenny, if you did love me, I'd try not to get mad at you, I promise. If I really thought you loved me, those things you say to me would seem different, less scary to me. I'm not saying I'd want to do any of them, not right away, and I thought that was what you were trying to talk me into before. If you loved me, it would be different."
"I'm not sure if I love you, only that it is a lot different feeling I have with you than with Bea. I know I don't love her. I can't tell because I never felt like this before. I don't think I'd be this upset with you if I didn't love you."
Back in Glasgow I was kept busy between working different hours at the restaurant and my school work. What time I had off I spent studying and still managed to keep up a correspondence with Emma. I could go dancing on the weekends, so getting dates was not a problem, keeping them was because of my busy schedule.In her letters Emma was still telling me about her supposed dreams, in which she would be explicit, and pressing me to tell her what excited me. "Did I love her Soosi more than her...
Lesbian... I told her that she could be friendlier to me. I was going to ask her if she knew any card games that we could play, but before I got a chance to ask her, she opened up her robe and she was naked underneath. "Is this friendly enough for you?" Except for me, none of the other boys at the orphanage were older than eleven or twelve. That was because most boys got adopted by someone eventually, and St. Cecelia's tried to take younger boys in to replace the ones that left. The younger you...
After I said good night to Mrs. Parsons, I returned to my bedroom and started putting my clothes away. The very first thing I did was gather up all of my old clothes and put them back in the garbage bag that I had brought with me. I hoped that I'd be able to send them back to the orphanage so that some other boys could get some use out of them. If not, I was sure that Mr. Chalmers would know what I should do with them. I was halfway done going through the boxes and putting my clothes away...
This time, Mrs. Parsons drove us out to the country club in her own personal car. It wasn't as big as the one that Hans had driven us in, but it was a nice car. She didn't speak to me at all on the drive over to the country club, and I was afraid to ask her if she was mad at me for what happened the night before. As soon as we got there, she took me down to where Mr. Chalmers had taken me. She didn't bring any golf clubs with her though. We went past where I'd stopped the first time, with...
That Friday night, a little after seven, Mr. Parsons came back home. Even though Mr. Chalmers and Mrs. Parsons had both assured me that Mr. Parsons was going to leave me alone, and, I'd been told to stay out of his way, right after dinner he asked me to join him in his study. I'd never been in this room before, since it was reserved only for Mr. Parsons. I was a little nervous when he led me into the study. It was a smallish room, maybe fifteen feet by fifteen feet, and one whole wall was...
Mr. Parsons came back home that Friday night. I saw him mostly at dinner time, because he was in his study most of the rest of the time. On Saturday, Mrs. Parsons and I went to the country club and played eighteen holes. I had a hundred and seven, but she shot a seventy three. We didn't stay at the club for lunch because we were going to have an early dinner with company coming over. I went into the kitchen when we returned, and Gerta took pity on me, making me a nice sandwich. We were...
I started playing tennis with Brenda the next Wednesday afternoon. I came in early for my golf lesson, then I played eighteen holes with Mrs. Parsons, before having a late lunch by myself, and was out on the tennis court before four o'clock. Mrs. Parsons didn't really encourage me to play tennis with Brenda, but she didn't tell me that I couldn't do it either. It was unusual for her to skip lunch with me, but I assumed she had something else she wanted to do. I didn't really care for...
Friday night came, and with it, Mr. Parsons. He sat down to dinner with us and that was supposed to be all I saw of him for the whole weekend. Mrs. Parsons made a comment that he was under enormous pressure because of the pending merger, and she told me not to bother him during his stay. As if I would seek him out for anything. I went up to my bedroom after dinner, and sat on my bed, listening to my radio, and thinking about my next idea for "accidentally" running into Brenda. It had been...
Brenda had asked me to phone her at seven, but Gerta informed me that we were sitting down to dinner at seven. I decided to try to phone her before dinner, but I still didn't have her phone number. I could either go in and disturb Mr. Parsons again, something I didn't want to do, or else wait and ask him at dinner if he'd get me her phone number. Gerta noticed me just standing there, trying to decide. "What? Why are you staring at nothing?" Gerta had a superstitious nature, believing in...
At ten o'clock I knocked on Mrs. Parsons door, wanting to tell her that I was leaving for my golf lesson. She didn't respond to me at all. I went downstairs, and found Hans in the kitchen with Gerta. I sat up front with Hans, in Mrs. Parsons car, for the trip over to the country club. I took my golf lesson, and we mostly worked on my mid irons. Dave kept trying to show me the difference between picking the ball cleanly from the rough, and hitting down on it from the fairway. I didn't get...
After I returned home, I checked in with Gerta to see whether Mrs. Parsons had eaten anything or not. She hadn't. According to Gerta, her last bite of food, or drink of any liquid refreshment, had been the evening before. When I came back out from the kitchen, Bea was scurrying away from the door separating the dining room from the kitchen. "Hi Bea, don't tell me you're still mad at me?" She continued moving away from me. "I guess you don't want to hear about what happened at the pool...
I went into the library, as soon as I got off of the phone with Brenda. I waited for Mrs. Parsons to come back downstairs like she had promised she would. My thoughts were centered not so much on the questions I wanted to ask her, but on the more general idea of me finding a way to fit in. I hadn't fit in very well at the orphanage. The sisters had told me many times that it was because I refused to make any attempt to. They were right. I hadn't wanted to fit in there. Here, it was an...
We left the pool area to go over to the club house restaurant. By the time I had gotten to the pool, Bea and Brenda had already befriended Carol, telling her that I had insisted on them inviting her to have lunch with us. Both Brenda and Bea had described me to Carol, Brenda telling her that I was the boy that had been here with her before, the time when Carol was standing in the pool and smiling over at me. Bea then told her that I was the boy she had teased by exposing herself to me. Carol...
Once again Mrs. Parsons was in a good mood when she came down for breakfast. She had me call over to Brenda's house to ask them if we could come by to pick them up on our way out to the country club. She told me to tell Mrs. Connor that they would be leaving after lunch and that Hans would return to pick Brenda and me up after we were done with our tennis practice. I called them, and spoke with Brenda for about half an hour. We didn't talk about kitty's, but there was an undercurrent to...
I was up a little before six thirty the next morning. I ate in the kitchen with Gerta and Hans, telling them a little bit about St. Cecelia's, and how my life had been when I still lived there. Gerta waited until I was finished telling them about it before asking me why I wanted to go back, even for a visit? I told her about Marie, sister Clara, and some of the kids that I had gotten along all right with. "I want to go back so I can tell them how lucky I am now. Not to make them feel bad...
I got up earlier than usual to see Mrs. Parsons off on her trip to Chicago. She asked me several questions about my reconciliation with Brenda, seeming quite satisfied with my answers. She kissed me lightly on my lips when she gave me a hug goodbye. "After tonight, Kenny, the company will effectively be out of my family's hands for the first time ever. I'm going to hate signing everything away. It isn't the money that I wanted, it was knowing that all of the employees and their families...
After Bea left with Mr. Chalmers, Mrs. Parsons started coming downstairs again. On Thursday, she came to the country club with me, and we played eighteen holes. I shot an eighty seven. My putting was improving, and I had learned where to hit the ball to avoid big trouble areas on the course. Mrs. Parsons and I started talking more out on the golf course. There was no one behind us anyway, so we talked in the cart between shots. She started telling me about how happy her early childhood had...
It was almost eight o'clock before dinner was finished and I could go up to my room to call Brenda. Mrs. Parsons came downstairs when Hans, Gerta and I were about halfway through eating dinner in the kitchen. She was drunk and weeping, dressed in her robe, and obviously rumpled from too little rest. She sat with us through the remainder of dinner, but refused to eat anything. Gerta had to help her back up the stairs, and sit with her until she finally fell asleep. This was the first time I...
We picked up Brenda a little before ten, and it was already getting hot outside. Brenda seemed happy to see me, but she started right in about wanting us to practice together in the afternoon too. I didn't want to get into a big argument about it, so I said that we would wait and see how the morning practice went, and then decide. We practiced for a little over an hour before I stopped playing. Brenda wasn't ready to stop, arguing that a few more minutes wouldn't hurt either of us. I...
It was decided that I needed to keep away from the country club for at least two weeks. Part of this decision was to allow Mr. Chalmers to return before allowing me outside in public again, and part of it was that Mrs. Parsons wanted to try to help Mrs. Connor and Brenda to come to terms with my not being sent away to the orphanage. Mrs. Parsons waited until Wednesday before calling Mrs. Connor. She asked about Brenda, but then said her main reason for calling was to ask Mrs. Connor to join...
Mr. Parsons liked to drive fast. We were in his car, on our way out to the country club to get my clubs. I told him that I wanted to keep practicing so I wouldn't get too rusty. When we pulled up in front, he went in, telling me to stay in the car. Five minutes later, he came out with one of the employees who was carrying two sets of clubs. Mr. Parsons opened his trunk and the attendant put the clubs in there. I saw Mr. Parsons giving him some money, but I didn't know what denomination the...
On Monday, after Mr. Parsons went to work, Mrs. Parsons told me to get ready for my golf lesson. It hadn't been two weeks, but I didn't argue with her. We took the limousine, and Hans drove straight to Brenda's house. When we pulled up outside, Mrs. Connor, Brenda, and Richard all came out together. I got out and opened the door for them. Since Richard was carrying his mother's golf bag, I didn't offer to help. Even Hans stayed in the driver's seat, and just pushed the remote button to...
Hans drove me over to Holton the next morning. Mrs. Parsons came downstairs to sit with me at breakfast, and to see me safely off. She looked more natural than she had the night before, but still very tired and wan. I told her that I needed her to try to eat better and to regain her strength. She said that she had already checked with the school and cleared it with the administration for me to be picked up Friday after five P.M. It was school policy to try to be responsive to the wishes of...
On Friday, my last class got out at three o'clock, but I still had to wait for my weekend pass to be processed, and then brought over to our apartment by Terry. I was the only boy from the room that was leaving for the weekend. As such, I was being given lists of items to bring back with me on Sunday night. Nigel gave me a twenty dollar bill, and asked me to buy him some condoms. Jerry said he was broke, but gave me a list of snacks and magazines that he said he really needed. How could you...
Sunday Morning I got up and got dressed before eight o'clock. When I came downstairs, Gerta was in the kitchen and Hans was working on changing the outlet in the garage. I went out back to see Hans. He was already finished putting in the new outlet, and had replaced the fuse with one that was for the correct amperage. He went and turned on the main power switch and the lights came on and stayed on. After about ten minutes, he went and put his hand on the outlet box, feeling to see if it had...
Mr. Chalmers and Bea were sitting in the living room talking to Mr. Parsons when Mrs. Parsons and I got back from the club, at around six. All three of them had drinks in their hand. Dinner was at six thirty, Gerta told us, then she went and made a drink for Mrs. Parsons. I was glad to see Bea. I knew she was leaving the next day, and I wanted to have a chance to tell her goodbye before she left. "So, Kenny, how's that fancy school you're going to? Bunny says there are no girls allowed...
School dragged by slowly. Our teachers were very good. Too good, if you were used to going to a school where you were one of the smartest kids. In my classes, that was definitely not the case anymore. The teaching philosophy at Clement Academy was simple. Each teacher would push you as hard as he felt you were capable of absorbing information from him. It didn't help me that I never volunteered in the classroom either. At CA, they didn't ask for a show of hands to see if you wanted to...
Mrs. Parsons was feeling a lot better, but still, she wanted to wait until the next day to go to the country club with me. After Elena decided to take the job, she left on her motorcycle to get her belongings. She told me that she had a green '63 Ford pick up that she'd be moving her stuff with. After she left, I went into the kitchen to have something to eat. Gerta was happy about a few things. She was glad that Elena had accepted the job, and that Mrs. Parsons was doing well again. She...
Sunday, Mrs. Parsons was feeling good, and we went out and played eighteen holes of golf together. We teed off at ten thirty, and finished up at three o'clock. We were behind two other foursomes, and it was the foursome in front that was slowing everyone down. While we waited, I tried to keep Mrs. Parsons focused on her learning center idea, rather than on the slow pace we were able to play golf. After golf, I walked over to the pool area while Mrs. Parsons was in the pro shop talking with...
Mr. Chalmers helped me with my mother, moving her into her bedroom, Gerta followed close behind us. The three of us spent the next hour with her, Uncle Bunny (that's what he asked me to call him) telling mama how difficult it had been for the two of us to bring her back this time. I decided to ask her about the place she went to. "Did you want to come back to us?" She looked at me for a minute, and then closed her eyes before speaking. "Kenny, that is too hard for me to answer. Going...
Uncle Bunny joined us for golf Saturday morning. He refused to bet with Mr. Parsons because they couldn't agree on the number of strokes he needed to be given. Mr. Parsons offered him five strokes a side, but Uncle Bunny wanted a stroke per hole. When they finally gave up trying to make a money match, I offered Uncle Bunny two strokes a side for a ten dollar Nassau. When he found out that Mr. Parsons was giving me eight a side, he accepted my bet. My mother was a little off her game,...
By the time we drove back home, all the good feelings had been stripped away. I could see and feel the tension on Mama's face as we neared the house. I reached over to her, and placed my hand on her arm, trying to send her a signal of my love and support for her. "Kenny, I'm not sure I can do what we talked about. When it was just the two of us, everything seemed possible to do, but, now, I don't think I can face telling Thomas that I forgive him. I still have angry feelings about what...
We didn't stay up too late Friday night. Mama had two more drinks before we turned in. After saying goodnight to her, I went into my own room and got ready for bed. A lot had happened in a short time. I had been on an emotional roller coaster almost since the time my mother had picked me up and taken me to the club that afternoon. I was beginning to feel the strain of all of the changes that had been set in motion by the words spoken within our family. Earlier in the evening, although it...
I was back in school in the early part of January when my mother had another of her serious depression withdrawals. Everything had been going fine, one minute she was laughing and happy, and the next, she went up to her room and started the painful process of guilt and overwhelming sadness. It was like one of those long slides they had in the playground at the school I had gone to. Mama would go anywhere from two or three days, to two or three months, seemingly perfectly normal, then, for...
I got back to school just in time to be there for all of the drama of Nigel finding out that his whole family was going back to England, and that, they were planning on leaving him behind to finish out the school year. Nigel's father had been promoted, and was heading back to run the marketing department for the entire auto company. Naturally, this news was devastating to Nigel. He had felt rejected by his family before any of this happened, but hearing the news made it seem far worse. He...
In the library, Mama was having a highball before dinner, when Emily and I walked through the open doorway. We joined her, with Hans fixing each of us a lime tonic. It looked like a real drink, but it had no alcohol in it. "Emily, I knew your father in high school. My brother and I were in the class right in front of his. Tell him that Bertie Chalmers says hello, won't you? He wouldn't know me as a Parsons." "He does remember you, because I heard him talking about that with my mom. He...
We all teed off the next day from the white tees, even Mama. I was sure the extra yardage would have a big effect on her scoring, but it didn't seem to have any effect at all. She finished up at one over, beating Uncle Bunny, dad and I. I only won one hundred from dad and two hundred from Uncle Bunny. It hurt having to pay it all to Mama. I had shot an eighty seven, but it was a forty on the front and a forty seven on the back. The back nine score had caused me to tie my bet with Uncle Bunny...
I called Emily, but only after telling my mother and father that Brenda had agreed on Emily coming on the trip with us. I told her that we'd stop by her house to pick her up soon after one o'clock, when my father was scheduled to leave. When I came back downstairs, Mama told me that dad was waiting in his study to speak with me. I went there and knocked on his door. "Come in Kenny, and close the door. I wanted to speak with you about what happened this morning. I'm not sure what all of...
We spent the next two hours of our journey with Brenda and Emily covertly competing for my attention. Mama and Mrs. Connor were both drinking. They drank a whole bottle of champagne together, and then another bottle of some white wine they both seemed very happy with. After an hour, you could tell they had been drinking quite a bit. I had already given Brenda a little make up kiss, and then I had to give Emily one as well. It was after this that the whispering began. Brenda was the first to...
It was the week before our Spring break, Nigel tried to hang himself in his bedroom. It was on Tuesday night, after we were all in our bedrooms. I heard a loud thumping sound, followed by the light in my bedroom going off. The sound had come from Nigel's room, and when I opened my door to get some light, I discovered that all the lights in the building had been knocked out. We found Nigel slumped on the floor with torn sheets wrapped around his neck, and the lighting fixture pulled from his...
After what I had hoped was a suitably impressive command speech, I looked at each of the group. More to enforce my leadership than anything else. As I squatted down by the fire, I started Chuckling. “So, bigfoot, eh? What makes you boys think you can track, let alone catch Mr. Fuzzy?” As the apparent leader, professor Burroughs was the first to speak up. “Mr. Reynolds, if you’re going to tell me that you are a disbeliever, I expected that before I even contacted Mr. Wadsworth. Most people...
Series 9, Episode 13: Britney Morrow (33), from Bristol An establishing shot of a residential street in Bristol, just around the corner from a primary school. Kids are being walked into school by mothers, older kids being dropped off at the curb. We can tell from the nervousness of the children, and the occasion tear being wiped from a mother’s face, that it’s the start of the school year. And then our host, former pornstar Renae Russell, steps into frame ... As usual – her cute dimples and...
The college widow was born in 1850. During the war she lost her heart to an older boy who went off to the Union Army. He was killed in the fighting. After the war, she was educated at one of the first new colleges for young women. A visiting male professor courted and married her. They were wed the day after her graduation and went off to honeymoon in Europe. He was 48, she was 22. He was virile and experienced and on their honeymoon he taught her the art of love. She had her first orgasm on...
Author's note: This is a work of fiction and fantasy. References to the Vietnam War and Naval Aviation in general as well as to Naval Air Station Miramar in particular were done for story background; there is no actual resemblance to real persons, Navy Fighter Squadrons, Aircraft Carriers or factual happenings. These characters, entities, and events took flight solely in the "theater of my imagination." There they will remain. Suffice it to say, I have nothing but the...
"Tiffany" After another week long vacation in New York City I was back on the plane headed south along the eastern seaboard. But we didn't get far because only minutes after take off we were diverted. Weather and delays had forced an overnight in Boston once again. After making the trip three or four times a year I had by now gotten used to the layovers. I got off the plane, then went to retrieve my luggage and was soon wheeling my suitcase down the concourse as I juggled my purse...
This is kind of wordy, but bare with me.I use to work at an art museum where I was one of only four black men there. One night, I call Anita, one of my fwb's & arrange for her to meet me at my apartment when I get off. She says she's bringing some whip cream & chocolate syrup with her. Just 30 minutes before I get off, four cowers show up asking if I'm going to a party that is being thrown by another coworker. There were two guys & two girls. Now one of the girls was the hottest...
The roar of the engines could be heard overhead as a girl struggled to keep her red dress from flipping up in the backdraft. She smoothed the slinky red thing down to her mid thigh. She was waiting here for Danny, the friend she had made online around six months ago. He was coming down here just to visit her, but she was a little worried. The guy had never sent her any pictures of himself, but she trusted him more than anything in the world. She waited and waited, looking down at how her...
LesbianSRU: HALF AND HALF By Roy Del Frink A disgruntled lady walked up to the counter, holding a paper bag in her arm. "Listen here, buddy," she said to the old man behind the counter, "you sold me a potion that would turn my husband into the next thing I said. I said, 'Change my husband into a Chippendale dancer,' and look what happened!" She placed the bag on the counter, and opened it. The lady pulled out two chipmunks, dressed in tiny top hats, tuxes, and canes. One had a...
Halo all ISS readers. I have been a regular reader here but this is my first posting. Please do let me know if I have been able to arouse some feeling in you. Do get back to me at my e-mail I am a mature man in my 40’s who lives in Mumbai and would like to correspond and possibly meet woman over 30… there is no upper limit though. Lol. This is what happened some seven years back when I was in my late thirties. My name is Prem. My wife Sneha runs her own business and most of the times she is...
My mother recently turned 45, and to celebrate this we had a party at our house, we invited quite alot of people round to celebrate. Me, my mates, mothers mates and fathers mates. Party was going well when my mothers mate turned up and it suddenly took a massive turn, she wasnt the best looking but she had this thing about her, she looked right dirty. Anyway i took no notice and started to have a dance with my mates and a drink with a chat etc. I caught her looking over at me a few times and...
My 28 year old wife was drinking vodka from a flask at an out-of-town concert. She had already been drinking all day Saturday when we left for the concert.She was beginning to stagger by the time the show began. About one hour into the show, during the intermission between bands, she started falling down and slurring badly. I managed(barely) to get her back to the car. I struggled to get her into the passenger seat in the parking lot. I drove back toward out hotel with her u*********s in the...
Captain Foster poked at my wounds, pronounced me healthy, and sent me into Philadelphia to listen and learn. I was back on the report-every-fortnight schedule that we had tried to use in New Jersey. Getting into Philadelphia was easy, but it was not always as simple to gather information and get it back out again. George Reedy and I went in together, but then separated. He was on a different schedule, and we did not see each other again until the spring. That was a good assignment for me...
June and I had been married for five years when we took our driving vacation. Usually we climbed on an airplane and went to some city or another, but this year we had decided to take the car and just drive. We didn’t even have a plan, we’d just make it up as we went along. It was a fabulous vacation. We started in Niagara Falls, went to a little artist community called Niagara on the Lake, through the Adirondack Mountains, through Montreal, up to Quebec, and back to the states. Each...
At Emma's I waited in the car while she ran in and got my stud earrings, concerned that I might have some problems sleeping in the black-pearl- drop-earrings I'd worn that evening. Opie took the pendent I'd worn off and I returned it to my sister-in-law as well. When we got home, Opie was very frisky as we walked towards the front door. Her hand was exploring the rear hem of my skirt and just as we reached our front stoop, she realized that my butt cheek was exposed beneath the...
Author's Name: Lee Anne Montgomery ([email protected]) Story Title: Woman Partner (Chapter 22, Club Eros) This work is copyrighted to the author (c) 2003. Please do not remove the author information or make any changes to this story. You may post freely to non-commercial "free" sites, or in the "free" area of commercial sites. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to, and hope that I receive, your feedback....
On my birthday, my friends all came over and told me that they had a special surprise for me. They were both dressed up in such sexy clothes; my best girl friend, Rachel, and best guy friend, Mike. We were students in college and it was about time for a night out. They gave me a few shots, and took me in Mike's car. It felt like he drove for a long while. When we finally came to a building, it had a sign outside saying "The Fantasy Bar." I was now officially nervous. They led me out of the car...
Group Sex“Oh shit!” he cried out silently. “Jason? Come on, we know you’re in there,” Elizabeth called out. “Do you think he’s asleep Liz?” Amy asked. “I don’t know. Maybe? Give his cell phone a call, see if he picks up,” Elizabeth told her friend. Jason, given his enhanced senses, heard all of this and his mind was racing. He was trying to form a plan to handle things, as he didn’t want Amy and Elizabeth knowing about him being a Druid or his connection to Gaia. At least, not yet. He went to Mina...
Upon her return, Jennifer found she and Ron had been invited to the opening of a new art gallery. The evening turned disastrous however when they got into a petty argument on the way home and Ron ended up sleeping on the couch while Jennifer cried herself to sleep. She could see her marriage beginning to crumble. She tried talking with Ron the following morning, but he seemed preoccupied and left for the office saying he really didn't want too talk about it now. It seemed to her that Ron...