Melodic RedemptionChapter 5
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Stoney's turn:
I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but life with Johanna had turned me quite a bit more optimistic, even if some bozo broke my leg. Yeah, I can drive again. Insurance popped for a replacement of my SUV, mostly. By this stage of the game I could be mobile if I needed to be, on my own. Bumping around the apartment was not a problem. If I started getting messages from my leg, I just eased it straight on the sofa or in the recliner.
Walking out to my parking spot, though, was still a little longer than I desired on my own. I did it with Jo, though. Jo's an incentive.
And this morning, Friday morning, we have a goal, a general aviation airport not too awfully far from the apartment. The redhead who's driving is excited.
"An adventure," she said. "First time I've ever flown in a light plane." Giggle. "Cindy flies it herself, she says."
"She's too young to get a license," I said.
"Yeah. It's funny hearing her say that. Says Dan sits in his seat with his arms folded and lets 'er go."
"When did she tell you that?"
"She called me yesterday between classes. Mine, not hers. We talked for half an hour. She's something."
"I can imagine."
"I don't think you can, sweetie. D'you know that she's part of a government research project? Got a security clearance? She and her friends built a railgun and the government bought it from them?"
"No. Really?"
"Like I said. Interesting. I'm excited to meet the rest of that bunch."
I chuckled to myself. My Johanna was impressed.
"Oh, come on," she said. "We wouldn't be taking this trip if you weren't intrigued, would we?"
"Guilty," I replied.
"And I know YOU know how to handle any situation," she smiled.
My iPhone rang. "This is Stoney," I said.
"Stoney, this is Dan. We're about twenty minutes out. Just checking on you."
"We're on the way," I replied. "Jo's driving me."
He laughed. "I'm paying real close attention, but Cindy's in the pilot's seat today. She insisted. You'll see soon enough."
"I'm looking forward to this," I said. "So's Jo."
"The whole gang's waiting on you two," he said. "See you in a few minutes."
"Okay, buddy," I said.
"'Kay. Seeya!" Click.
"Checking on us?" Jo asked.
"Uh-huh."
We finally pulled into a parking slot at the airfield and went inside, explaining what we were here for.
"Once they're stopped, you can go out to meet 'em," the guy at the counter said. I guess he noticed my limp, even though I tried to hide it. "Uh, I have a golf cart. I can take you out there."
"That's wonderful," I said. "Had a car accident a few weeks back. Still kinda stoved up."
"Oh, well, sorry. I'll get the golf cart."
That's a neat little perk. I heard the speaker for the aviation radio squawk, "Harris traffic, this is Cessna 5-5-2-3 Uniform, five miles east, inbound for landing on one-five." I recognized the voice. Dan.
Jo and I sat outside at a table and we saw the Cessna (I do know a LITTLE bit. At least what a Cessna 180 looks like) enter the pattern, touch down, and taxi up. And just like Dan had said, there's a headphone-clad redhead in the pilot seat. And Dan held both his hands up. Cindy in control.
They taxied to the fuel pumps and the engine stuttered to a stop. The doors swung open and the occupants exited. One of them practically ran over and hugged Jo. The other walked over and shook my hand.
"You made it," I said. "And she really flies."
He smiled. "Insisted. I flew the last time into Houston. She watched. This time I let her fly. I handled the communications and made sure she understood where she needed to be. Houston's very busy airspace."
"I can imagine," I said.
"I see her and Jo headed inside. I need to make a trip myself. Four and a half hours is a long time. You need to go?"
"I better," I said, "since you mention it."
Everybody dispensed with that task and returned to the lobby. Dan signed the ticket for the refueling.
"This is our longest non-stop trip yet," Cindy chirped.
Len, the guy behind the counter, asked, "Where'd you come in from?"
"Auburn, Alabama," Cindy said. "As direct as we could. Until we hit Houston."
He looked at Dan. "She flew?"
"I handled the navigation and communications," Dan said. "She's good, just too young to get a license yet."
One word. "Wow!"
"Oh, it's easy," Cindy said. "He feeds me headings and altitudes and we both watch out for traffic."
"And you can fly?"
"Tie-down to tie-down," Dan said.
"But I'm sitting in the back seat for the flight back," she said. "So I can talk with my friend."
"And I can straighten my leg," I added.
We collected our luggage, two overnight bags, locked the car, and then let Len golf-cart us to the plane. Dan took care of stowing our bags securely. There's my banjo case and Johanna's flute on top of the stack. Cindy did her preflight, explaining things to Jo, who tagged along. I listened. She seems to have the knowledge.
The girls got into the back seat and with a little effort I got into the right front seat.
"Pull your seat all the way back if you need to, Stoney," Cindy said. "I don't need the legroom. You might be more comfortable."
"Thanks, Cindy," I replied. Four and a half hours, I'm sure that a stretch might be just the thing.
Dan slid into the pilot's seat, opened the window and shouted "CLEAR!", and started us up. I glanced over my shoulder, saw Jo smiling, the intercom headset on her head. Smiling? Make that 'eager'.
"You okay, babe?" I asked.
"Which babe are you talking about?" Cindy chirped over Jo's giggle.
"MY babe."
"I'm fine."
"Everybody tied down?" Dan asked. He looked at the affirmative nods. "Then let's do it."
I don't remember the details, but I do remember him talking almost interminably with various air traffic facilities as we wended our way across Houston. Ten miles on the east side, though, we were climbing and headed east-northeast towards Alabama.
"Whewww," Dan said over the intercom, "That still makes me nervous. But now we can relax."
"Yeah, relax," Cindy said. "Just like riding in a pickup truck on a country road."
Jo's giggle was in my headphones too. "It really is! This is neat!"
"If you could see your face right now, baby," I said to Jo.
Cindy elbowed her. "I was the same way. First time I was ever off the ground, it was in this thing."
"I've been flying in commercial flights all my life. This is the first time I've ever done this," Jo replied. "It's ... The other stuff is so sterile. You're disconnected from what you're doing."
"One of these days I guess I need to do a commercial flight. But I like this," Cindy said.
"And if you'd tried to fly commercial, it'd take you a lot longer on this trip, when you could have to change planes and rent cars and pick up bags and get through security," Dan said. "Believe me, I'll fly myself unless it's more than eight hours in the air. In this. And then I might talk myself into taking this."
"I think I can understand that," I said. "At this altitude, it's like the difference between driving the Interstate and taking the scenic route through the countryside."
Dan nodded. "That's a good analogy," Cindy said. I regarded the use of the word 'analogy' by Cindy in open conversation. Of course, I was still mulling over the 'let's talk about dI/dT' from earlier. The summation of all that in the package of a fifteen year old girl who was, darn it, just CUTE, well. Of course, I looked at Johanna and thought that Cindy might be what Jo looked like six years ago. Except Jo's hair was a couple of shades brighter red. Cindy's was aged copper. Jo? Just copper.
"Baby," said Cindy, "you know how Susan says that Terri is her 'mini-me'?"
"Yeah," Dan replied.
"I think I'm Jo's mini-me."
"They're close enough," Dan said. "You've seen the pictures of the gang. Susan's eleven years older than Terri. Sweetie-pie just turned fifteen in September. How old are you, Jo?"
"I'll be twenty-two in March."
"So seven years..."
"I can accept that," Jo replied. "Can't think of a better little sister. And Mom is getting a picture of THIS."
"Your mom?' Cindy asked.
"Oh, yeah, her mom," I said. "Red hair. Freckles."
Johanna giggled. "Here's Mom and Dad," she said, pulling photos up on her iPhone.
Cindy looked, adding her giggles to the sounds over the intercom. "Oh, I can see the resemblance. Your dad, he's a big guy!"
"Yeah," I said. "Viking warrior and his Irish captive."
"Really?" Cindy squealed.
Jo told her the story. "Almost as improbable as me and Stoney, you know..." So she told that story, too. I guess it was just about as normal as meeting by the side of the pool in the summertime, if you took away that whole forty versus thirteen angle.
"So what did you think of Jim and Ann?" Dan asked.
Jo laughed. "I thought it was a rift in the universe when we found out that they know you two."
"Good people," Dan said.
"They are," Cindy added. "He's the one that sort of sent me on this quest."
"Quest?" Jo asked.
"Yeah," Dan said. "He ACTUALLY paid attention to the testing they do. Caught my Cindy up out of the thundering herd. She went from eight grade to high school graduate in a matter of months."
"We're sort of attached to them," Cindy said.
"I can see why you might be," Jo stated.
The miles trailed off behind us. "Alabama," Dan announced.
"Looks just like Mississippi which looks just like Louisiana which looks just like Texas," I said.
"Yeah," Cindy interjected, "straight-line route stays over the archetypical southern forests."
"Really, it's interesting, though," I said. "Great country. Best view of it I think I ever had."
"It is, isn't it," Johanna said.
A bit later Dan hit the radio transmit button and announced our arrival at their home strip, and did a leisurely approach and landing. He taxied us directly in front of a hangar and locked a wheel, pivoting, leaving us perfectly lined up to put her away.
Cindy, Dan and Jo shoved the plane back into the hangar after extracting Dan's truck.
"I would have liked to fill the tanks," he said of the plane," but the pumps're locked. I need to get a key."
I asked why he was concerned and Cindy answered with an explanation about temperature changes and condensation. "But we check very carefully," she smiled.
"Dan, she knows so much."
"She pays attention. Soaks stuff up like a sponge. Takes a fact and runs with it."
I glanced at Jo, recognizing some of the same in my chosen mate, although her path was into the beauty of music instead of engineering esoterica. My new friend Dan? He had a great example of his own bit of heaven.
Jo and Cindy scooted into the rear seat of Dan's huge truck. I had to take a few seconds to position myself in it.
"Nice truck," I said.
Cindy giggled. "That's what I said the first time I rode in it. I got the 'it's a tool' speech."
"It's a necessity. Or at least it WAS a necessity when I was towing a travel trailer around," Dan said. "And I didn't know I was so predictable.
Cindy playfully stuck her tongue at him. "Oh, it's more than that. I talked with Tina and Nikki and they both got the 'It's a tool' speech from their husbands," Cindy laughed. "Maybe you're from a more genteel land, but around where I grew up (GREW UP!?!?! She's FIFTEEN!) a big pickup truck was almost a measure of a man's success as well as his testosterone level."
"Sweet Cindy, we're living in TEXAS, the Big Pickup Truck Capital of the World!" Jo laughed. "And I' married a guy with a Japanese SUV!"
"And a sailboat. Don't forget the boat," I said.
Jo giggled again. "He said it was forty feet. It's really thirty-six," she smirked.
"Really? A sailboat?" Cindy chirped.
"Yes. It's our magical place," Jo said.
"I think I understand what you mean. We have a travel trailer that's like that for us," Cindy said.
"They're dangerous together, Stoney," Dan said. "I think their minds are melding."
We walked toward the door of the restaurant. Now I was thinking that here I am, meeting her family for the first time, and public displays of affection might not be on the agenda. After we worked our way past the maître d' (yeah, I don't usually eat at restaurants with a 'maitre d'' even though I know they exist) and into the dining room, Jo's hand hooked the inside of my arm. Apparently she knows more about me than I give her credit for. "There they are," she said, smile broadening....
"You were in the hospital for a while, I imagine," Jo said. "The whole spectrum. Infection. Orthopedics. Recovery. Rehabilitation. I do okay now, but every now and then one thing or another talks to me." "Like that walk we took in Austin," she said. "Now I understand why. You should've said something." "And miss a chance to walk down the street with you? I'm not stupid." "Sit!" she commanded, patting the sofa beside her. "Lemme go put my other clothes back on," I...
The rest of Friday dragged but eventually four-thirty came around and I was out the door. At four-forty-five I was in traffic and my phone played me a flute solo. Jo. "Hello, princess," I said. "Hi, Stoney," she said. "Are we still on for tonight?" "I'm headed home right now. Whenever you want to show up." Giggle. "I'm on the way. I'll get there about the same time you do." "Okay," I said. "I was hoping to have time to clean up, though." "You work in an office, Stoney....
Okay. So Key worries about Jo. Can't fault her for that. I worry about Jo too. It's not hard. I close my eyes, let my mind drift, and there's Jo. So she was grocery shopping on a Saturday morning. I picked up my phone, pushed the button and said "Johanna". Siri replied, "Calling Johanna Solheim mobile". I held the phone to my ear. "Hi, Stoney," she said. "Hi, my baby," I replied. "Why didn't you call?" "Let you sleep late. I'm just getting some groceries for the week. The...
We were timing things and that's what kept us moving. At my apartment there was time for the washing of faces and brushing of teeth and then there was a flurry of kisses and I'm not sure who initiated that but we ended up in a knot on the sofa, hot, breathless and quite happily bothered. She was mostly on top of me, I was noticeably erect inside my jeans, and she knew it. I know she knew it. She smiled, cradled my face between her hands and kissed me, adding a wiggle to her snuggle that...
We came up with a plan pretty quick. After all, this wasn't Columbus looking for the Spice Islands. We planned a menu. Talked about what would happen if the weather cratered on us. "We can stay home." "No," she said. "I don't have a home. Key's, well ... there's this guy she's been seeing and I told her that she'd have the place to herself. Which likely means she won't be by herself. And I get very uncomfortable with the idea of a guy staying in my apartment." "Oh." "So...
The old boat had been, from the day I brought her home and made her mine, a refuge. Yes, there were days that I brought friends along, but mainly the boat was where I went when I wanted to get away from the world. Now I was on her, and I was clothed only in my boxers and before me, beckoning, was Jo, in my mind the epitome of red-headed perfection, herself clad only in hip-hugger panties and a dark blue sports bra. And she was beautiful. Absent any light from the skylight hatch, we had a...
Sunlight pushed through the tiny cabin portholes, brighter on the starboard side because the northerly wind had our bow pointed into it, swinging at anchor. Okay. One sensation. It was morning. Second sensation. I was on my boat. Third sensation. Wasn't my boat any more, it was OUR boat, because I had a soft, naked form beside me, breathing softly. Jo. Twenty-four hours ago, she was my girlfriend. After last night, she was my wife. Unless I was dreaming. I touched the smooth skinned flank...
Going to tell everybody. "I know. I think I'm gonna lease the Goodyear blimp," I said. "Can we get rings?" "Yes, we can get rings," I said. "What does your taste in wedding rings look like?" "I think I would like a simple band. Gold. Yours?" "I shall match yours. You sure though? No large rock?" "Oh, come on, Stoney. This is me and you. Married by the light of the full moon. I need to ask Mom what the appropriate Celtic take would be." "She collected a Viking..." Jo...
Mark it on your calendar. Today's a first for me. The first time I ever woke up to a work week with my partner. The alarm went off and I did not want to get out of bed because when the music started, Jo slid down and wrapped her arms around my waist, purring. "I really don't want to leave, sweetness," I said. "But I have work to go do." "Mmmm, I know, baby. I have a class at nine, too." "Let's just do what we have to do. At the end of the day, though, we come home...
Jo is ticklish on the bottoms of her feet. A lot of people are, I know, but finding that a fingertip dragged gently down the sole of her foot leaves her uncontrollably giggly and therefor perfect for scooping into one's arms for loving. Monday was the previously discussed informal practice session. Tuesday was the real thing at the music department. Still, Jo is a responsible sort and we missed nothing of her schedule. So am I. She's an accomplished musician, and that translates to...
I didn’t have to be psychic to read Jo’s mind. The touch of her hand in mine was usually a delicate thing. This time she was tugging. I couldn’t understand, so I did the one thing that husbands have been doing since the beginning of time. I said, “Yes, dear.” “Don’t be condescending, Randall Jackson,” she said. “We need to talk.” Less than twenty-four hours since she and I stood in front of friends and family and God and pledged marriage to each other. Now I was wondering exactly what I’d...
Stoney: She loves me. She REALLY loves me. We're married. I killed a guy. I'm supposed to feel remorse. I'm supposed to receive counseling by caring professionals who will help me grieve or some such crap. Therapy? I'll tell you what therapy is. It's having the woman you just protected put her arms around you and tell you that she loves you. And when the thought crossed my mind that this scum wanted to touch my Johanna, I tensed up. "Stoney?" a little voice said. "Yes,...
Johanna and I discussed the idea of taking off from our lives for a few days for an abbreviated honeymoon, but neither of us were really at points in life to do so. I mean, I could have just begged off, but I was in the middle of a project with a time limit, I'd already given my word on its completion, and Jo? "I really shouldn't take off in the middle of the semester. Academically it's not good. And musically, we have the Veterans' Day thing in two weeks, and then a couple of big...
"Somebody you know?" Jo asked. "I saw the 'USA Retired'." "My platoon sergeant in Iraq," I said. "Good guy." "I'll let you read it, baby," she said. She started to turn away. "Where are you going?" "Was giving you some room. Privacy." "I don't need privacy. I need Johanna. This is just part of the past. He's a good guy. Wonder what he's got to say." I opened the envelope. A single printed page was inside. I read: Dear Lieutenant Jackson- I haven't heard from you...
Johanna's turn: Glorious Saturday morning, drifting along with the light pushing its way through the little gap in the drapes. I hear soft, regular breathing next to me, calming, protecting. That would be my husband. He's sleeping. He's slept all night and I get the best feeling about that. We've been sleeping together two weeks. Married, that is, 'officially' with the public ceremony and a marriage license, for a week today. In that two weeks, he's wakened in the middle of the night...
Johanna: Yes, it's primal. The urge to mate. Sociologists talk about it. Religions talk about it. Poets talk about it. It gets couched in various cloaks: love, duty, morality. But it's never right until two people decide it's right for them. And I'm thinking this in the dim light of the sun streaming into the cabin through the portholes. I hear the sound of waves slapping the hull and the whistle of the wind on the mast and the rigging. And the breathing of this guy next to me. Sometime...
Lovely, languid, quiet Saturday morning. Waking up next to a soft form. I have to touch that sweetly curved hip, just to tell myself I am not dreaming. The touch elicits a purr and a movement, several movements, actually, one of which put an arm around me. The hand at the end of the arm started exploring, finding morning wood. "Mmmmm, Stoney, is that for me?" "Yes, but be careful. It's loaded." "I thought we emptied it last night," she said, twisting in the bed. Her head dipped for...
The week went by with nothing major going on to interrupt our lives. Waiting on Friday. Before Johanna, I wasn't one of those people who worshipped Fridays, but now it was not a matter of escaping FROM something, it had become a matter of escaping with somebody, TO something. The weather was warm in the afternoon, cooler enough at night to be comfortable, and a cold front was due through late Saturday. When I got home Friday, the weekend's provisions were stacked by the door. I walked...
Johanna's turn: Almost magical, waking up in the morning on the boat. Not sure exactly what time it is, reminding myself that it really doesn't matter, feeling the form of this MAN touching me, rolling to face him, snuggling in against him. The boat is rocking gently and there's the wind and the waves and the sound of our breathing. I know my guy is drifting along because he hugs me closer and resumes his even breathing. I know several things that would be very pleasant for both of us,...
Stoney's turn: Aside from the idea of leaving Jo behind, I was not feeling bad when I left for work. After all, I had her kiss still tingling on my lips when I got in my car. A push of the button and I had the classical music station on the stereo. Oh, yeah, I have the iPod plugged in, too, but I liked giving the radio station a shot at titillating my ears on the way to work. This technique insured that my tastes received some variety. I hated the commute. Traffic is aggravation. After a...
Johanna's turn: I brought my Stoney home. My poor, broken, battered Stoney. Well, actually, a medical transport brought him home and ceremoniously deposited him in bed. The bed is a rental hospital bed, at least for the time being. I have home health technicians setting up trapezes. One over this bed. One over our bed. One over Stoney's favorite recliner. He's got crutches. "But do NOT try using them for a week," the doctor said. "And not while under the influence, either. I just...
Back to Stoney: Wasn't bad enough that I got T-boned by an illegal alien a couple of weeks ago, but now my beloved wife has thrown me under a bus. Admittedly, it's a bus full of musicians. Doctor Bob, the conductor/instructor of the university's chamber orchestra is complicit. Early in the relationship with Jo, she'd intimated to me the desire to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, an idea I'd mentioned to Bob. When Jo saw that I was somewhat adept at my banjo, she railroaded...
Stoney's turn: Okay, I do admit that meeting Dan Richards and his surprising wife Cindy left me thinking. I was serious. Cindy, barely fifteen, was a cutie. "Jo, drag out the baby pictures," I said. "Baby pictures?" "Yeah, I want to see what you looked like growing up." "I don't have 'em. Mom keeps those." "I wanna see 'em," I said. "You might've been a horribly ugly child. I want to prepare myself for our offspring." She slapped the back of my head. "I was a wildly...
Johanna's Turn: According to the stories I heard at my Momma's knee when I was little, I should be looking for leprechauns. This stuff got surreal. First, there's Dan and Cindy. Cindy could be a pixie. Dan showed up to talk with Stoney about picking up where Stoney left off on an engineering project when he had his accident. So I figured 'another engineer? What could it hurt?' Except this engineer shows up with a fifteen year old redheaded pixie of a wife, and we had a delightful...
Stoney's turn: It actually WAS in Cindy's words, 'a riot'. I never did 'band camp' or anything like that when I was in high school. They didn't have 'science camp' and 'math camp' in my school district and I wasn't in band. Jo told me about her own experiences. "Wasn't anything like this," she said. Our trip home was as wondrous as the trip there. I can definitely see why Dan and Cindy (and everyone else in the bunch, apparently) would cling to personal aviation as a...
Johanna's Turn: I walked out of the classroom with a definite spring in my step. I had several reasons to bounce, you know. Let's see. That test paper I laid on the GA's desk was, to the best of my knowledge, close to perfect. Stoney was home waiting on me. The semester was almost over and for the first time in my life I was not packing up to go spend winter break with Mom and Dad. The test. How ironic that I was testing at the end of a class on the history of Europe since 1945. I smiled...
Still Johanna: Semester's over. Christmas break. And this was new. Ever since I started school, Christmas break was with Mom and Dad, even in college. Well, this year, people, it's different. Little Johanna Elise Solheim is now Mrs. Randall Jackson and with that status comes a whole new life. Christmas dinner. "Do you think we can manage something close to a Christmas dinner, Stoney?" He smiled. "Yeah, I think we can do that, in a restrained fashion." "Turkey. Little one. With...
Stoney's Turn: That was a surprise. Of course, since last September I've had lots of surprises. That was pleasant. Same thing. Since I touched fingertips one day with this startling redhead, I've had lots of 'pleasant', too. I parsed Jo's comments, "A little girl with family issues." "I get the feeling..." I concurred. "She's quite comfortable when she's playing, though." My partner smiled. "I've seen the family issues. Us military brats get an introduction." She paused....
Stoney's turn: When I was walking out of the building, headed home, I called Jo. "Hello, sweetness," she said. "Hi, princess," I returned. "Did Kara come over?" "Oh, yes," she said. "We're cranking out the music. Come home and join us!" "I'm on the way. Pedaling as fast as I can." My wife giggled. "Just drive careful. You know how you are!" Ten minutes later I was parking. Locked the SUV, walked to the door. I could hear the music as I unlocked it. It stopped with the...
Johanna's turn: It's not about sex. We're cuddled together. The sex is over for the night. And I still love him. Of course, right now we're both glowing. I mean, if we tossed the covers back, the room would light up. The post-coital (coital? - Damn you, Sheldon Cooper!) tingles will subside in a bit, but that loving glow hasn't. Nope. Hasn't. Not since I first admitted to myself that this was the guy for my life. I trust him. He trusts me. Kara's turn: Kara Sevinsky. That's me. I...
Stoney's turn: I punched the button on my office phone. Rang twice. Sweet, happy voice. "Hi, my love." "Hi, my princess," I replied. "I'm getting ready to walk out the door. What's up for the evening?" "Me and you. Some deli roast beef. Muenster cheese. Artisan ciabatta rolls from the bakery up the street. A bottle of Reisling. And then ... I have designs on your body..." "No Kara this evening?" "Nope. We talked a bit ago. She's got a Skype session with the bunch in...
Kara's turn: I feel like Balboa. You remember him, don't you? And no, NOT Rocky. He's the guy who 'discovered' the Pacific Ocean, at least from the Eurocentric point of view. That's how I feel after meeting Jo and Stoney and subsequently the girls in that community in Alabama: like I walked out of the jungle and there's a whole ocean just waiting for me. I'm seventeen. It's time that I start taking some actions to control my own life. It hasn't been easy. I'm not a poor kid, at...
Stoney's turn: So let's see where we're at now. I have a rollicking good life. There were long, lonely nights in the not too far past that I despaired of finding the person who would fill the void in my soul. As I sit here, eyes closed to repair the strain from staring at the diagram on my monitor, there's a little metallic blue Japanese car leaving the campus of the university, headed to what used to be my apartment. It's not my apartment now. It's ours. The driver of that little...
Johanna's turn: Friday! I was never one of that 'TGIF' bunch who LIVES for Fridays before. Before Stoney. Now? Maybe. Just a little bit. We swapped vehicles this morning. He drove my little hatchback to work. I took his SUV to campus. And at three, after class, I was loading bags into it at the apartment. That way, when he got home, we'd be ready to head to the marina. I can't wait. Yes! I get excited. I know, really, we have as much privacy as two people could possibly ask for here...
Johanna's turn: Two more weeks. That's it. Two weeks! I will graduate college. Stoney says he's the first of his family to receive a college degree. For myself, both parents have degrees, Dad's masters includes four years from West Point, Mom's from Trinity College in Dublin. And now I'm getting ready to graduate here in Houston, Texas, US of A. Double major, too, music and business administration. I have that 'music' part nailed. I could take a position with the local symphony,...
Johanna's turn: Back from ten wonderful days in Norway. Spent some time living out of Great-uncle Jan's place. He's got a beautiful home up a mountainside above a fjord overlooking one of his shipyards in the distance. It's a little shipyard, and this is Norway where shipbuilding is part of the national psyche, so it counts as scenery, understand? We did the touristy things, visiting museums and churches, seeing sights, absorbing the culture like a sponge. Phone call. I looked at the...
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I at the time was living in Lewiston, Maine. One day I went to check my messages act a particular BDSM site. I had seen that I had gotten some mail. It was from a woman whom said she really enjoyed some of my pics on my profile. We talked and she had mentioned to me she was a swinger. Along with herself and her husband. She had expressed the idea several times during the conversation that she wanted to meet. I said no. I explained to her that swinging in and of itself is not the same as bdsm....
THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It involves two of my close friends (male and female) who wanted to accompany me on a touring holiday to Wales,UK. We would be travelling altogether in a campervan for the week. As time drew closer to the departure day I asked my frineds over to my house where I could then pack the campervan with their luggage and everything we needed to take with us.The afternoon before the departure for the holiday arrived and with all their bedding and suitcases there was a lot to pack...
I looked across the restaurant, watching Kate glance around as she came in. I had arrived a few minutes early and the maitre d’ had already seated me in a booth near the back. It’s comfortable there, a little apart from the tables. A good place to talk. Kate had called yesterday to ask if I could meet her for lunch. I picked a quiet, upscale place I frequent. It is quiet and secluded, but relatively easy to find. Kate and I had worked for the same company. Actually, I had worked for her. At...
Sven, Michi, Sascha, Petra und Jenny saßen wie jeden Tag in der Bahnhofshalle und tranken ihren Wein aus der Plastikflasche! Alle 5 einte das Schicksal dass sie ihre Schulausbildung abbrachen und somit in der Berufswelt kaum Chancen hatten. Irgendwann trafen sie aufeinander und bildeten eine Clique. Sven war der Dominante in der Gruppe und somit der eigentliche Chef! Michi und Sascha widersprachen ihm nie und die 2 Mädls himmelten ihn an, wobei sie auch eine lesbische Ader hatten! Da alle 5...
BDSMDear Diary continued ……. April 9thOscar and I had just finished eating and packing up our picnic lunch when it started to rain. Little drops started to spot our clothes. Taking my hand he began to run for cover. I pulled back and he stopped. Turning around he looked at me as I grinned naughtily at him. I had always thought it would be so romantic to kiss is the rain. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pressed my lips on yours, signaling I was not ready to leave. Instead of running for...
Love StoriesShe is what dreams are made of. She is a blond goddess with the perfect body, a body you'd spend a life time to get to know. Her name is Julie. One of her hobbies is bike riding, which keeps her in excellent shape. A blonde stunner in her mid 30's, she has the tight body of a 20 year old. And she has inspired a fantasy.It goes like this. Julie and I are riding bikes down a dirt path. She is wearing one of those tight spandex outfit that bike riders wear. Her top is pink and the bottom is black...
A RELUCTANT SPIRIT: VENGEFUL SPIRIT By Ingrid Halb "Okay, I believe you," Larry said, plopping down across from the little man sitting at his kitchen table sipping tea. "Finally!" the little man said with relief. "You're a difficult man to convince." "Yeah well, it's not every day you get a three-foot tall genie pop up in your kitchen and tell you he's going to grant all your wishes," Larry pointed out. "Enable. Enable your wishes," the little man said with...
Max POV.... I leaned back on the bed and groaned, I was sore after our trip to the gym. Alexa just laughed and stretched, watching me die from exhaustion. "I told you that last set would destroy me," I complained and felt the smooth and wonderful sensation of relaxing my muscles. Alexa looked at herself in the mirror, still in her small blue crop top and tight black shorts. She was flat and athletic but my best friend had a really cute face. "At least that's the worst thing you have to complain...
Mind ControlMera naam raj sharma hanumangarh hai.Main paper dene k liye bikaner gya.Wahan aunty ko aur uski nanad sangeeta ko choda….Ye bikaner ki chudai ki 4th story hai.Ab aage ki kahani…..Hanumangarh pilibanga suratgarh ki koi bhi lady bhabhi aunty girl wife mast sex ka maza chahti hai to jarur contect kare.Aapki pahchan kisi ko nahi btayee jayegi.Chut ko maza dene k liye jarur mile…Kahani kaisi lgi jarur btana.Mail agar jyada aaye to aage ki kahani likhuga… Sham k 6 bje meri aankh khuli to dekha ki...
Note: This is the last chapter BlackIrish was able to edit for me. Monday September 7 Today was Labor Day, so I didn’t have anything I had to do. Tami had been shocked by my revelation last night that I was no longer in love with her, and for the first time in my life she didn’t have anything to say. She’d just left me so I could get back to sleep. When I woke up, I went downstairs looking for my uncle. He and I had to have a talk. I found Aunt Bonnie. “You want some...
Abe had risen, and offered his hand to Nola. SHE was as fascinated by him, as he was by HER. If she had been asked, she couldn't have explained the reason. It was just THERE. Their first real embrace was immediate. They held each other, kissing, and exploring each others bodies. The sensations left both of them breathless. They went up the stairs, arms around each other, looking into each others eyes. "Hey Girl!!!" Irene called to her. "Ya better look where yer goin! Y'all gonna stub a toe, or...
Nick, a teenage boy seduces his uncle John. The story charts his evolution from a shy infatuated lover to an accomplished slave-concubine. Nick becomes Nikki and relishes his role as a sex-slave. Uncle John is a stern master who uses Nikki in every possible way.A Natural Slut By Nikki Part 1 Nick was getting out of the cab in front of his grandparents' home for the first time. He had never met them. He was alone at 18, his Mom having been killed in a car accident. The youngster was nervous....
She’d had a horrific experience in her very first year at college. Away from home for her very first time, Kathi had experienced a most frightening occurrence she will scarcely overlook. But once he found out he was there. Her daddy jumped out of bed and threw on some clothes and her daddy was there to comfort her and “take” her into his arms. “Oh honey…ohhh baby…are you alright?” he asked as he held her full figured like body in his arms. It looked like it but he couldn’t be sure. Her mother...
IncestPsych eval, coffee, hallway, metal detector, commissary. That list could go on for a while. It’s a word-association of an experience I wish had not been necessary. An experience borne of someone else’s lie, and one that will stay with me, as well as everyone else involved. I will never forget the night I was at a party, went to my car to get my phone, called her back. ‘They arrested him,’ she said. I can think of no more fitting analogy than the environment in which I was in when I heard those...
Hi everyone….I am Rajeev from Chennai…just finished my Eng and waiting for my placements….this is my first post in Iss-hope you like it….I am a big fan of Iss for a long time and I love the site for its simplicity and no-strings attached service…great work guys….keep it up… Some intro about myself….I am 22yrs old….stay with my parents in Chennai…only son…prototypical middle class guy :) the incident which I am going to share now happened two weeks back….I had just finished my grad and like my...
It had been a while since my last girlfriend. It is this reason that I jumped at the chance to date a friend of one of my buddy’s girlfriends. She was a lot younger than me and hotter than hell. It was summer, hot outside, and we went to the lake so I could teach her to fish. As I stood behind her, I put my arms around her to help hold the fishing pole. I could smell her hair and perfume. The way she dressed let me know that she was no stranger to flirting with men. She had on a silk tank...
I responded to an advert for mature, larger sized models. It said no experience necessary, and the photo shoot was local, so I thought what the hell, I could do with a bit more cash. I e-mailed a photo to the agency, and within a couple of hours got an appointment, Saturday at 1100. On the morning, I went to the address I had been given and found it was a large country house. I signed in at the reception and told to wait for my photographer Sue. Well within a couple of minutes Sue is...
Group SexHi, guys it’s me Arun again, with yet another experience. I have altered the names of the main characters. This is not a story but a true account of my sexual encounters with my first girlfriend that lasted for nearly five years, starting from 2001 when both of us were had just completed our Management Degrees in a famous college in south India I have had numerous sexual encounters since, but this remains my most memorable, mainly because both of us were discovering sex together and were...
Ty piloted a slow course to the marina. When we docked, I gathered my things, making sure the gold was safe in my purse, and helped with the picnic supplies. We walked slowly back to Ty's car and I considered my options while he stored everything in the trunk. He smiled at me as he closed the trunk. "Did you have a good time?" he asked. I nodded without hesitation. "I did. Thanks for inviting me out. I hope we can do something like it again soon." "I promise." Edward Stanton was...
so that night after dinner I told my son that tonight he's in for a bit of play time and he look at and smiled and kiss me and said see “you tonight then mum” and he went to his room and I put the plates in the dishwasher and got ready for tonight and I went in to my son room and he was ready for me with his big hard cock and I told him to stay on the bed and close his eyes and he did and I put a blindfold on him and handcuffed him to the bed and he said “mum what you doing I can’t see” and I...