Felicity Ch. 06

Her recliner was next to his with one of her small tables between them. She loved her recliner but knew that she would not be in it as often. She now preferred to sit on Jim's lap on his recliner.

Her loveseat complemented his couch, as did her wingback chair. The living room furniture looked like a set and Wendy began to appreciate just how big his house was. Their house.

Wendy went into the kitchen and found that her stuff had seamlessly merged with Jim's. It in fact appeared that she had the small appliances he did not. His pantry was very full as was his refrigerator and her own freezer. The freezer was missing a duck. The duck she had been saving for a special occasion was defrosting in the sink.

She smiled at Karen's hint; she knew it was a special occasion duck and that day was a special.

Wendy walked to their bedroom expecting to see a major upheaval. Her dresser was to the wall on what was already her side of the bed as was her night table. Her roses were on it. She realized that she was so out of it that morning that she had forgotten to take them to work. It was time to throw them away, but she kept one.

Her photographs of the family were on the dresser and the wall above it. Her HDTV was on the wall opposite the bed. That was the extent of the upheaval.

Their dressers clashed but then again his dresser clashed with everything else in the room anyway. She knew that a mostly free weekend was all she would need to fix that little problem. Re-finishing furniture was one of her many skills.

She did expect a major problem in the bathroom, as there was little space for her considerable stuff. However none of her stuff was there other than her tooth brush, mouth wash, and her stuff for her contact lenses. The rest was in an apparently new cabinet to the left of the mirror. Someone had visited the hardware store. But a quick look into the cabinet revealed only her deodorant and razor. There was a new shower curtain. It was transparent.

As she stepped back to the bedroom she saw that a vanity table and bench on the other side of her dresser by a window. She had not seen it before she walked into the bathroom. She raised the lid and saw a mirror and a sunken shelf that had her make up and brushes inside. Her perfumes were on a small glass shelves either side of it. The vanity had two drawers one of which had a box of cotton balls and a box of tissues.

On top of the unit there was a card wishing her the best from her nephews and nieces. She paused in her explorations for a happy cry.

Neither had many clothes that needed to be hung in a closet so there was plenty of room for both of theirs although she conceded that her stuff took more than half the space. She saw an Air Force dress uniform in the closet. There were two stars on its lapel.

"Wow!" Wendy thought. "My man had been a general."

She had some "come fuck me" high heels on the floor of the closet that were suddenly an embarrassment. She found an empty box and after putting the shoes in it pushed it to a back corner of the closet. That was when she knew that the Wendy of a week ago probably no longer existed.

Wendy sat on the bed and sighed. She forced herself to calm down. She knew she was not scared. She knew she was not worried, apprehensive nor any of those "I'm-in-over-my-head" dreads.

It suddenly dawned on Wendy that the strong feeling inside of her was excitement. Her new life started that day. The life she had stopped hoping for many years before had just embraced her.

She was in love with a beautiful man that loved her too. She was half of "A Couple."

Suddenly Wendy started to giggle and continued to giggle off and on for at least five minutes. Tears sometimes joined her giggles but never interrupted them. By the time her fit of happiness ended she had changed clothes and was left with a big grin.

She walked out of her bedroom knowing she was home.

Wendy first checked that Karen and Mike had finished their "exercises" then joined them on the porch. After kissing and thanking them she sat on the swing and called Jim.

"What would you like for supper?" Wendy asked him.

"You."

"That is for dessert. Would roast duck be OK?"

"I love duck. Where are you?"

"On our swing. Karen and Mike are here; they just finished exercising in the hot tub. Did they tell what they did?"

"Yes, they kept in touch with me all day. Do you want me to tell you I love you now or wait until we are naked in bed?"

"Now, before and after dinner, while we shower together, before, during, and after our evening exercise."

"I love you."

"I love you too. At what time will you be home?"

"This is my long day. I will not be back until after seven. I will call you as soon as I am headed south."

"I love you. Be careful. Bye."

During her phone call Mike had gone into the house and a still dripping Karen joined her on the swing.

Karen said, "Jason, Maggie, James and Charlene helped in your move. It went more quickly than I expected and that is why your townhouse is already completely empty. The six of us will return tomorrow to clean it up. Expect Aunt Amanda to have it listed before the weekend.

Teachers and pickup trucks are nice to have around if anyone needs to move during the summer, don't you think?

You may not have noticed yet but this house has four bedrooms, the other three are on the other side of the living room, Mike's room, Jim's office, and one other that was empty. That is where your iMac, desk, worktable and jewelry making stuff are. We took Mike's single bed apart and replaced it with your queen. His is in the storage shed. We put your day bed in your office."

Wendy hugged her wet niece and said, "I will need to do something for all of you soon, a party maybe. I will call James and Maggie now."

After Wendy was done with her phone calls she had invited her helpers to a sumptuous dinner and wine evening on that Friday night and a cookout for family and friends Saturday night.

"How does it feel?" Karen asked her aunt.

Wendy knew exactly what she was talking about and said, "I am as excited as I have ever been. I just now spent a long time giggling for no reason at all."

Karen said, "I know exactly, I was so giddy Monday night after I moved in with Mike that people thought I was drunk."

"Actually your mother told me you were," Wendy said with a laugh. "How does it feel a week later?"

"Like it has always been and will always be this way. As you may have noticed I love the sex part but it's a lot more than that. Even if he is thirty feet away from me I can feel him. If he is next to me and his hand is not on my ass I bitch about it. He makes detours just to kiss me. I make detours just to kiss him. He even stops the car on the shoulder of the highway just to kiss me."

"I know where that trait came from. I thought Jim and I were going to get arrested before we got here Saturday night. A state trooper slowed down as he drove past us as we sat on the shoulder of the highway. Like father like son seems to be a good thing for us."

Karen and Wendy shared an extended kiss and hug that lasted until Mike came out carrying Karen's clothes.

"You are not staying for dinner?" Wendy asked.

"I would not dream of it. We are going to Mom's and tell her the news. Expect lots of phone calls."

"I will turn my phone off now," Wendy joked. Wendy hugged them goodbye and as she watched them drive away a tear suddenly welled in her eye.

"I have a son" had flashed through her mind.

Her first call as expected was from her sister Mo, Karen and Maggie's mom. They were closer in age and temperament than they were with the other sisters. That call came as she was scoring the duck. She put her phone on speaker and it remained that way the rest of the evening. About half of their conversation was over the type of spices to use on a roasted duck.

The next two, her sisters Martha and Amanda, came as she was rubbing spices on and in the duck. Typically half of their conversations led to disagreements on what to use on the bird.

Her sister Allison and Wendy's best friend Janice were the next two to call. Allison lived a hundred miles away and and had been trying to call since Amanda called her. It would be weeks before Allison would meet Jim. Their first meeting would happen at Karen and Mike's wedding.

Janice was ecstatic and told Wendy that Jim and and her husband Ben had known each other for years.

Wendy did not mention to either that she was preparing a duck.

She had answered six calls before she got the duck in the oven. Over the next hour one by one her nieces and nephews called. All complained that her phone was always busy. All were gushing with happiness for her. Wendy reminded herself that her family was the most loving family ever. Her giggles and tears returned.

Jim called an hour later to tell her he would be home in thirty minutes.

She decided that yellow rice and green peas would do as side dishes. She took another three calls, one from Janice's daughter Jana and her friend Shawna, one from her friend Juanita, and one from her friends Maryanne and Yazmin, and then she turned her cell phone off.

She took the duck out of the oven and allowed it to rest. She had just placed the rice and the peas on the stove but had not turned on the burners when Jim walked in. He brought her roses in a vase.

Wendy did not try to hold back her tears. She kissed him hard, told him she loved him, and kissed him hard again. They held each other tightly for a minute as Jim told Wendy he loved and adored her.

They eventually released each other and Jim said, "I need a shower."

They kissed one more time then she allowed him to escape her embrace. She placed her flowers on her own dining table and wondered why she had not noticed it there until then. She decided it was because Jim's only table was in the kitchen and his dining area just had one bookcase in it. Her more formal dining set fit perfectly in the space, bookcase and all. "Yes, I am home," she thought.

She returned to the kitchen, checked on the duck and turned on the burners for the rice and peas. After basting the duck with its own juices she turned down the heat under the rice as soon as she saw the water begin to boil and turned her timer on for twenty-five minutes.

She had twenty-four minutes. She was naked and stepping into the shower with Jim before she knew she had a plan. She knelt in front of him and swallowed his cock. Jim's groan was music to her ears. Wendy did not mind sucking cocks but had never allowed a man to cum in her mouth and only once had she allowed any man to spew on her body and that had been over thirty years before.

But the cock in her mouth belonged to Jim. She wanted to give him her best. She ignored his warning and took all of his semen in her mouth. She swallowed.

Jim lifted her to him and kissed her deeply, he wanted her to know that he knew the importance of her gift.

Somewhere in her pink haze Wendy remembered that she was in the middle of cooking. She left the shower and dried her body but did not dress. She opened and drank a coke remembering her big sister Martha telling her it cut through the taste of cum. It did help.

Her rice was ready so she scooped it onto a serving dish and scattered peas over it.

She was setting the table when she saw a shadowy monster come into the porch. Wendy reminded herself of how much her life had changed and took a milk bone out to Celia.

She seemed not to be even mildly surprised that it was Wendy and not Jim with her treat. After Celia consumed her milk bone Wendy opened the screen door for her and Celia again chirped to her on the way out.

Wendy had dinner plated on her table as a still naked Jim re-joined her. Before they sat they exchanged a long deeply felt kiss. "I love you" each said simultaneously. They kissed again and then sat for their first dinner as a formal couple.

They enjoyed the dinner. Jim said, "I am glad to see that some goddesses can cook. It was the best meal of my life."

Wendy giggled at both parts of his outrageous statement but made sure he knew she appreciated it with a swarm of kisses.

After they put the leftovers in the refrigerator they opened two Dos Equis and went to the porch. Wendy settled against his shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her. They slowly rode the swing and drank their beer.

"How was your day?" Wendy asked Jim for the first of several thousand times.