Felicity Ch. 28

"Well, fuck," she said. "The iguana ate it."

We tried to sympathize with her outrageous claim but her friends and I could not help but laugh.

She slapped my butt then hugged me. "It's your fault. You distracted me all week," she said.

"You distracted me and I still have mine," I said confidently as I tapped my pocket and noticed it was not there.

The ladies read my facial expression correctly and burst into laughter.

After they hugged me her friends walked away from us, they wanted to give us a last five minutes together.

We clung to each other silently before she said, "This must have been the best summer fling in the history of the world."

"Summer romance," I corrected.

"Romance," she said.

Her flight was boarding when I gave her one last soft kiss.

I walked with her to her gate. We held hands.

She stopped suddenly and said, "Felicity puts on a big Fourth of July party. It is a three day weekend this year so if you find yourself with nothing to......."

"Could you find me a place to stay?" I interrupted.

"Already have," she said as she disappeared down the ramp.

I could feel the grin on my face. It almost hurt. The fourth of July was just ten days away.

"We still have a lot of summer left for our romance and I still have lots of vacation days left," I thought.

"I could tack one or two days around the Fourth of July, maybe around Labor Day too.

August is boring. I could take a few days off then too.

Hell, summer in Texas lasts until Thanksgiving.

We have lots of time left for our summer romance.

On Monday I called her at her office. I had found one of her cards alongside both our phones in my luggage. Her secretary told me that the county judge was with the sheriff and to leave a message.

"County Judge?" I asked myself.

As soon as I told the receptionist who I was she interrupted me and said, "Hold on, she will take your call."

Thirty seconds later I was confessing to Lydia that I missed her. She reminded me that only one day had passed since we had been together. She thankfully added that she missed me too.

I told her that the reason I called was because I had found her cell phone in my suitcase, that mine had been next to it in there too.

"Yes, I know. I put them there," she said.

"Did I just fall for a ploy?"

"Yes you did."

"Thank you," I said. "I just now realized how frustratingly impossible it is to kiss somebody over the phone. When do you need your phone back?"

"Now. The kiss first. Can you make it for the weekend?"

"I can be there by seven o'clock tonight, stay the night then go back down on Friday because I forgot to bring your phone with me."

"An excellent plan. Dinner will be ready when you get here. Your dessert is more than ready now."

"Life is short, I will have my dessert first, then again after dinner."

"Another excellent plan. Get pencil and paper, I will give you my home address and phone number."

When she opened her door for me at her house all she was wearing was the necklace with the green stone I had gotten for her in Cancun City. I ate her up, we ate dinner, and I ate her up again. The nearly two days that had passed since our last love making session made us ravenous for each other. We even fucked on the dining table in mid-dinner since we both felt the bedroom was too far away.

Her dog Sasha had been suspicious of me at first but by the time Lydia and I concluded our third fuck we were friends. I was very happy that Sasha had not insisted on sleeping between Lydia and me. It would not have been safe for her there.

The next morning we had our now usual watersport/fuck combo then she went to work. I gave her the phone before she left.

Somehow I missed my flight back. We had brewed Ruben's coffee for us that morning and I had simply dawdled around her house as I sipped. Before I knew it was too late to drive my rental car the eighty-five miles or so to the City airport.

Actually I did not bother to lie to myself, I knew I was simply not ready to leave Lydia.

I was driving around Felicity when it occurred to me that I could take Lydia out to lunch. Instead she locked the door to her office and we devoured each other again. It was the most delicious lunch I had ever had and told her so.

She asked me if leftovers would be OK for supper.

A few minutes later we stepped out of her office and Lydia told her secretary that something had come up and she would not be returning that afternoon. Her secretary answered Lydia with just a nod and a big grin. We hurried to her house because something had indeed come up and did again two more times before we fell asleep in each other's arms that night.

We began our Wednesday as usual but that morning I did manage to catch my flight. Lydia had reasoned that we would be apart for just two days and as educated adults we could handle it.

She was wrong.

She called me early Thursday morning and "casually" wondered if I could drive down that day.

I said that I would do my best.

I was throwing my suitcase in the trunk of my car at the time.

Being away from her made me feel very uncomfortable. I was there for dessert and supper.

Jana and Inga treated me as if they had known me forever. Lydia's friends took their cue from them and at a get together at a good friends house I was treated as a member of the clan. I was after all Lydia's novio.

At Lydia's suggestion I had decided to just take the following week off and stay with her through the Fourth of July.

We resumed our schedule from Cancun except for her going to work instead of outings part during the week. We did manage a few mid-day quickies one of which took place in the parking lot of a dog park and another in the private bathroom of her county building office.

One evening as we waited on my cock I asked Lydia if I was romancing a lesbian. During the week I had seen her relationship with several women included diving tongues and tit squeezes.

She laughed and said, "The best way to describe me would be as a partial bisexual. I love making out with women and I love tits. I like fingerfucking women that need an orgasm as you already knew. I am a lot more conservative here.

The behavior you saw from me in Cancun was because of the I-am-on-vacation-nobody-knows-me here-syndrome.

That included you too for what I thought would be a one night stand."

"What made you decide it wasn't?"

"Two things, one when you did not freak out when I peed on you, and two when you refused to fuck me unless I fully joined you in the fuck. I would have never guessed a man could do that."

"I would have never guessed I could do that either but giving you pleasure had already become very important to me, I did not want to risk you thinking I was selfish."

She smiled and said, "You are a special man. I..."

She stopped in mid sentenced and kissed me hard but fucked me gently

Most evenings we made an appearance somewhere. I learned that Lydia was a big deal in Felicity. She was the County Judge, which is sort of like the county president, an elected official.

I decided I needed to be better dressed for her at those civic and political events and one day after she went to work I drove to The City and bought two suits and three sport coats.

When Lydia saw what I had bought she nearly crushed me in her arms and said, "I knew it, I knew it," before bursting into tears. I had no clue what she meant or why she was crying but since her embrace never waned I decided I was OK.

We had both known we were madly in love with each other before we left Cancun but we had reservations about our five hundred mile separation and the suddenness of our relationship. Neither of those things meant anything to me now.

As her unexplained embraced continued I decided to let Lydia in on my not so secret, secret.

"I love you," I said.

Her tears returned and she again crushed me in her arms.

Eventually she said, "I knew it. I knew you were the one. Wendy told me you were but I had badly misjudged another so I kept a little bit of reserve as protection. But you understand who I am and will be with me in whatever I become. You really are the one for me. I am now defenseless against you. I love you. I am yours."

I crushed her in my arms and poured all my love for her into a kiss. I said, Then marry me please."

I never left Felicity. I resigned my job over the phone. I sold my townhouse over the phone. I moved my belongings with two phone calls.

I again became a Geography teacher.

Lydia and I married on the Saturday after Thanksgiving apparently upholding a tradition.

We went to Playa del Carmen for our honeymoon but that's another story.

Epilogue:

The sites and experiences described in the story are as close to factual as I can remember. Regrettably there is no Lydia.

I have been to Cancun three times, Playa del Carmen three times, and Cozumel once on a dedicated three night trip but made the ferry trip to Chankanaab for a day on each Playa trip.

Chinen Itza is awesome but climbing the pyramid is not for those afraid of heights. It is a somewhat expensive very long tour bus ride from Cancun but for me it was worth it.

Chankanaab may be the best snorkeling experience in the western hemisphere because the reef comes up to the beach, (so no boat is needed), and it is a short scooter ride from the dock in Cozumel. Scuba divers will love it too.

Yes you can get to Cozumel from Cancun via a ferry. If you are brave and speak Spanish there is a public bus from Cancun City to Playa del Carmen where the Cozumel ferry docks, an $8 trip as opposed to a $40 tour bus.

Of possible interest to some Cozumel has a legal whore house.

The lagoon and the waverunner experiences were as described, including all of the creatures noted, (except the no Lydia thing).

The market in Cancun City is also as described but I regret to say that on a subsequent trip I learned that Ramon, (a real person) no longer owned the restaurant. Cesar's shop had become a small bar. One of the other shop owners told me that both had shops somewhere across the avenue but I never found them. I ran out of Ruben's coffee years ago. Fortunately Cafe DuMond will do.

I really did have a carnival mask that looked like Richard Nixon.

Xel-ha is great and as described. Love the place.

Xcaret, not so much.

The contrast between Carlos and Charley's and Senor Frog is as described. (I felt old in the Cancun Senor Frogs but loved the Playa location. It was at that one that a guy asked me to dance and my companion told I was busy. She was amused, I was confused.

Playa del Carmen really has the most beautiful beach I have ever seen and several all-inclusive resorts.

Four day all-inclusive vacations from The City (Houston) to Cancun and Cozumel often really cost less than air and two nights in NYC from anywhere near the Gulf Coast. Those trips need to be in your bucket list.