Life after the Lottery Ch. 72

I am so sorry it has taken much longer than I expected to get this chapter out. I went ahead and split it because the end is taking me some time to complete. I am working at combining many things into the final chapters. I have had to slow down because of this damn arthritis. Copyright 2021, LATL.

Life after the Lottery, CH 72

Things begin to fall into place

The alarm went off at 6:30 Monday morning, and I woke everyone up. Amy and Samantha sat up in bed for a minute before Samantha got up and headed to her room. Dawn got up and followed her.

"What time do you have to be at school?" I asked Amy.

"9:30."

"We have some time then."

I had Amy straddle my head so I could look up at her while I ate her pussy. She smiled at me and ran her fingers through my hair while I enjoyed her. I worked my tongue deep in her pussy as she smiled. By the time she was working her pussy on my mouth, she was squeezing both her tits.

"James...do you know how much I love you? I am so happy I am going to be having your child."

Amy kept working as I tongued her pussy.

"Ohh, that feels so good! Keep going!"

Amy moaned louder and louder until she came in a gush and filled my mouth with her tasty juices.

"Oh, yes...James..."

She looked down at me then began moving back so she could straddle my cock. First, she leaned down and kissed me for several minutes before she sat up and worked my cock into her.

"Honey, I love you very much also," I said.

Amy smiled as she slowly worked her pussy down on my cock. I rubbed her tits while she went to work. She smiled at me as I softly caressed her breasts.

"Do you feel different?" I asked.

"Yes."

Amy took her time slowly working her pussy on my cock. I could feel that she did seem different. I had a much closer and intimate feeling with her energy now. I had always had to work to feel that from her, but now it just flowed.

I ran my fingers through the hair of her red patch as she wiggled. She just smiled at me.

"It is so different now. I don't have to work at getting off. It just happens," Amy said.

I used the tip of my finger to slowly rub her clit.

"Emmmmm...yes..."

After about 30 minutes, Amy was growing to a huge orgasm.

"Ohhhh! Wow!"

Amy kept going until she began to come.

"Oh...my...god!"

Amy started coming hard. I thrust up into her and she screamed as she kept working her pussy. She kept screaming as I erupted inside of her. She finally collapsed on top of me, and I wrapped my arms around her and held her.

"Oh, my...sex is just getting better and better," Amy said.

"You two don't stay up here all morning," Dawn said from the door.

"Dawn..." Amy said.

"Yes?" Dawn replied as she came back into the bedroom.

"Do you have to work aa hard at getting off anymore? I mean...I feel so pleasured, I don't need to work at it," Amy said.

"Honey, I have never had to work at getting off with James. I'm happy that you're feeling things differently," Dawn told her.

I held Amy until she wanted to kiss me for a while.

"I guess we better eat," she said.

We got up and went down to the kitchen and sat while Samantha and Dawn made breakfast.

"Will you two be ready at 3:00?" Dawn asked.

"Yes," they both said.

"What's at 3:00?" I asked.

"We have an appointment with our GYN," Dawn replied.

"I guess I'll have to start using condoms."

"In a few weeks," Dawn replied with a smile.

After we all finished breakfast, I went down to my darkroom and worked to get the two prints of Ashley and Raven finished for the printer. By 10:00, I had them printed and dried. I grabbed the prints and negatives for Ashley and Raven's posters and headed to town to the printer. When I got there, I found the guy named George that I had talked to about the posters. We looked at the 24 X 36-inch prints I had made.

"Damn, these are hot," George said.

"Can you still get me 100 of each by Friday?"

"Sure. We can have them done by Thursday afternoon probably. What are they for?"

"These two are going to sign them to raise money."

"They should raise a lot of money then!"

"Do you want to use the prints or the negatives?" I asked.

"What size are the negatives?"

"8 X 10."

"Let's use the negatives then. For four-color printing, it will save me a step, and these will be very sharp and clear with that size negative."

"You got it."

"Let me keep the prints too for matching up the color balance," George said.

"No problem."

I left everything with him and headed back to the house. When I got there, I went straight to my darkroom.

*****

A little after noon, I went up to grab a sandwich. I took it and went to my study to check my email. I was about to go back to the darkroom when my phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Dr. Smith, this is Lieutenant Dan."

"Hey Dan, what's up?"

"I wanted to let you know we picked up that guy you told us to look out for last night for drunk driving."

"You did? Where is he now?"

"In lock-up. I was on duty last night when I got a call they were bringing him in. The word is out about him."

"How long can you keep him locked up?"

"Probably a while. When they stopped him last night, he resisted arrest. The two officers had to get pretty physical with him."

"Are they going to charge him with resisting?"

"They will now. When they had him in booking last night about 2:00 AM, I was with them. Dumb son-of-bitch started a fight with me, wouldn't you know it!"

"What happened, Dan?"

"Well, I had to defend myself, you understand!"

"I'm sure you did!"

"He has been charged with assaulting an officer and DUI. We'll keep him in lock-up a while."

"Thanks for letting me know. When he is released, please call me."

"Will do."

"Thanks, Dan."

"No problem."

After he hung up, I called Linda.

"Hey, James."

"Good news. Our stalker got picked up for DUI last night."

"They have him!"

"For now. It seems he resisted arrest and assaulted a police officer."

"Can they hold him?"

"They are right now. The officer he assaulted is my friend that teaches Krav Maga. He said the guy was pretty beat up right now and in lock-up. They are going to charge him with DUI, resisting and assaulting an officer. He'll be locked up a few days at least."

"Great! I need to make a few phone calls. I'll talk to you later, James."

Linda hung up quickly.

*****

I was coming up from my darkroom about 2:00 when Samantha came in the front door with Amy and Dawn.

"I can't get used to your new schedules," I told them.

"What are you doing?" Samantha asked.

"Finishing the prints for the club and the store."

"Can I help?"

"Sure. I have some good news."

"What?" Dawn asked.

"Our friend that has been stalking us got stopped for DUI last night. Dan called and said he was in lock-up."

"For how long?"

"A few days at least. It seems he resisted arrest and attacked Dan when they were booking him."

"Really?" Dawn asked.

"Well, that's Dan's story. They have him locked up and are charging him with DUI, resisting and assaulting a police officer. I called Linda and told her."

"Maybe they can keep him locked up for a while!"

"I told Dan to call me if they were going to release him."

"Great."

"I can drive my car now?" Samantha asked.

"For now," I told her.

"Good! What prints are you working on?"

"The ones for the store and the club."

Samantha went to the darkroom with me, and we went through the proofs and the negatives for the color prints and found the next one. I put the negative in the enlarger and moved it up so I could make the 36 X 48-inch print. I turned off the lights and focused, then got everything ready.

"Damn, that is big," Samantha said.

I turned off the lights again and felt around and opened the box of big paper and got out a sheet and put it in place. I exposed the paper and then put the large sheet of paper in another box and turned on the lights.

"How do you know what you are doing in the dark?" Samantha asked.

"I just have to make sure everything is where it needs to be and take my time."

"Why can't you use the red light with color?"

"Because it would expose the paper. I can use a dim red or yellow light with black and white because the black and white paper is not sensitive to those colors."

"Oh."

"Another reason printing color is harder. Come on. We will run this one print and check it."

We went out the door to the other room with the color processor. I turned off the lights and got the print out of the box and fed it into the processor, and waited.

"What did Dawn have to say?" I asked.

"She told me I have to be careful now."

"Me too."

We waited a few minutes in the dark.

"Okay, we can turn the light on," I said.

We went to the other room where the prints came out and waited.

"Why don't you have to keep the lights off until the print comes out?"

"The color print processing machine is light-tight," I said.

"Is that machine expensive?"

"Oh, yes. Very few people will have one at home that can make prints as big as this one can. It was something I splurged on when we built the house."

"Why do you make the black and white prints in trays of chemicals and not a machine?"

"Color is much more complicated and higher temperatures. With black and white, I have more control when processing it by hand. There are black and white machines, but I prefer processing by hand."

A few minutes later, the print started coming out slowly. We watched until it was out all the way.

"She looks hot, James."

I put the print on the table, and we looked it over. It was the lady realtor in the snow.

"She looks hot in the snow and that black coat," Samantha said.

I bent over and looked closely at the lady's face.

"What are you looking at?"

"Spot on her face."

Samantha leaned over and looked.

"That tiny white spot?" She asked.

"Yes. It's from a piece of dust on something."

"You can't see it from a distance. No one will know it is there."

"I'll know it is there."

"What do you do now?" Samantha asked.

"Two choices. Clean the negative and everything and make another print or color in the spot."

"How do you color in the spot?"

"You using spotting colors and a tiny brush. If you want to learn, I will teach you."

"Cool."

"But I am going to make another print. I need to make a minor adjustment to the color. Once we have this one right, we can print all the others with less trouble."

We went back into the darkroom, and I grabbed the end of my air hose and sprayed the negative and the inside of the enlarger.

"That will clean off the dust, but I think there was a piece of lint on the paper. The spots would be bigger than that if it were dust on the negative," I said.

I turned off the lights and made a minor adjustment, and made another print. We went and fed it into the processor and waited until we could leave that room.

Samantha looked closely when the print came out.

"It's gone," she said.

I took the print and laid it on the table, and looked it over.

"There is a spot right here. With really big prints, it is hard not to have a tiny spot. You will get to learn how to color them in."

We went back into the darkroom, and I located the next negative to print and got it ready, and turned off the lights. We worked until they had to leave at 3:00. I kept working for several more hours until I had a stack of twenty prints.

"Come eat!" Dawn said over the intercom.

I looked at my watch, and it was 6:00. Time had gotten away from me.

I went up and joined them for dinner.

"What did the doctor say?" I asked.

"You need to start using a condom soon," Dawn replied.

"That sucks," I said, and they laughed.

"I have all the prints ready for the store."

"Already?" Dawn asked.

"Yes. Once I got the first one right, the rest were easier. I'll have to spot them."

"That takes time."

"I want to learn, but we are leaving for class," Samantha said.

"I'll have plenty for you to learn on."

Amy and Samantha headed upstairs after they finished eating.

"How did the prints come out?" Dawn asked.

"I think they look great. I made two of each. One for backup in case something happens. I made a few other prints for Rick."

I headed back to the basement and went to work on the rest of the prints.

*****

"Are you coming to bed?" Dawn asked over the intercom.

"What time is it?"

"11:30."

"I guess."

I went up to Dawn in the den, and we went up to the bedroom. Amy and Samantha were already asleep. We got in bed with them and turned off the lights.

*****

I was up at 5:00 Tuesday so I could work. Amy came and got me about 7:30 to eat breakfast. After we finished, Amy headed off to school.

"What time do you have to be at school today?" I asked Samantha.

"10:00"

"I am going to make some big black and white prints. Are you going to help me?"

"Sure."

We helped Dawn clean up a little then we went down to my darkroom. I had used 2 X 4 lumber to make frames to put plastic in for processing the large black and white prints. I had them down on the floor and was pouring the chemicals into them.

"That one stinks," Samantha said as I poured chemicals in the second tray.

"That is acetic acid. It stops the paper from developing anymore."

"It stinks."

We got all the chemicals poured into our makeshift trays. We looked at the proofsheets for a few minutes.

"Print this one of Ashley," Samantha said.

She had picked one of the low-key light shots that did look pretty good.

I stuck the negative into the enlarger and adjusted the print size for the 24 X 36-inch print. I used a print analyzer to get my exposure in the ballpark after I turned off the lights. I grabbed a piece of 8 X 10 paper and made a test print on it. I put it in the developer and waited. I moved it to the other trays and then turned on the light.

"What do you think?" I asked as I handed the test print to Samantha.

"Her skin looks too white."

"It is. I need to expose it longer."

I turned off the lights and made another test print. Once it had developed, we looked it over.

"That looks better. I can see all the little bumps on her skin now," Samantha said.

"I find that sexy," I said.

I looked at the test print for a minute and made a minor adjustment to the exposure timer.

"Ready to make a big print?" I asked.

"I guess."

We got out a big piece of paper once all the lights were off except the red one. I placed it under the enlarger and exposed it. Samantha helped me get the whole piece of paper into the chemicals at one time. I watched as the print became visible.

"Oh, that looks hot," Samantha said.

Once it was fully developed, I pulled it out of the developer and slid it into the acetic acid for a minute, then moved it to the final tray and waited a few minutes, then turned on the lights.

"Oh, that is nice," Samantha said as we looked at the low-key print.

We waited a few minutes, then moved it to a tray I had created to wash it for a while. I made several more of the same print of Ashley.

"Let's look at the ones of Raven," I said.

We looked over proofsheets and picked out a black and white shot of Raven. We made a test print and got it where I wanted it, and then we made some more copies. They were all in the wash water after a few minutes. I pulled out the prints of Ashley and hung them up to drain. We looked them over closely.

"I see a few tiny white spots in the black," Samantha said.

"Those are no trouble to color in. Any on her body are harder, but not as hard as color."

Once it drained for a few minutes, I took it out to the basement and laid it on a table so we could see it under full light.

"That lighting is so sexy," Samantha said. "Did you shoot any in color?"

"I did."

"You should make a few for Rick to sale," Samantha said.

"I'll look at the proofs and pick one in color."

"I have to go," Samantha said and kissed me, and left.

I went back to work and picked out a color shot that was very close to the black and white one and worked for a while to get a color print right. I had it lying next to the black and white print in the full light.

"Those are hot," Dawn said when she came down.

"The color is nice, but I still like the black and white one."

Dawn helped me make about two dozen different prints. I had strung up a clothesline in the basement to hang them from so they would dry. While they were drying, I cleaned up the darkroom and put the chemicals back in bottles.

"James, these look really hot," Dawn said.

She was looking at the prints as they hung to dry. We looked over the prints for a while.

I got my spotting colors and went to work on the color prints. Amy and Samantha came down about 3:30 and looked over the prints. I kept working until after 5:00. Brenda and Sherri were coming to look over the prints for the store.

We were eating a light dinner with Samantha and Amy until they went to get ready for their boxing lessons.

Later, Sherri and Brenda buzzed themselves through the gate.

"Hey, you two," I said to them as I let them in the front door.

"Hi."

"I have the prints done for the store."

"Good," Brenda replied.

Dawn joined us as we looked over the prints of the lingerie and swimsuit shots for about an hour.

"Are we through with these?" Brenda asked.

"If you are happy with them."

"They look great, James."

"If you decide on more, let me know soon," I told them.

"Where are the girls?" Sherri asked.

"Downstairs with their boxing instructor," Dawn replied.

"Sounds like they are really getting into the self-defense thing."

"They are. They need to," I said.

Amy and Samantha came up with Daryl later. They were all hot and sweaty.

"Hi, Sherri and Brenda," Samantha said as she headed to the kitchen.

"Daryl, let me know how much I owe you."

"No problem," he said.

Samantha came back with bottles of water for Amy and Daryl.

"Do you like the prints?" Samantha asked.

"We do," Sherri replied.

"I'm helping print them," Samantha let them know.

Daryl left a few minutes later.

"Are the prints ready to mount?" Brenda asked.

"We should let them dry more tonight."

"Okay. We can get them mounted and up in the store. Will come and pick them up."

"Great."

We talked awhile, then Sherri and Brenda left. Samantha and Amy headed up to shower.

"You want some wine?" I asked Dawn.

"Sure."

I got us some wine, and we sat in the den and talked.

"If you are finished with the prints, are you done until the fashion show?" Dawn asked.

"Yes. I'll have all them spotted by lunchtime tomorrow, I hope."

"Good. You need to take a break."

We talked and sipped our wine until 10:00. The girls had not come back down.

"Where did they go?" Dawn asked.

"Let's go to bed."

We went up to the bedroom. Samantha and Amy were lying on the bed asleep, still wrapped in towels from the shower.

"Hey, you two," Dawn said as she shook Amy. "Get out of the towels."

They stirred and pulled their towels off. Dawn took them to the bathroom.

"Hey, sit up so I can pull the sheets back," I said.

They finally moved enough I could get the sheets back.

By the time Dawn and I were undressed, they had gone back to sleep.

*****

I woke up about 6:00 Wednesday morning. Amy and Samantha were curled up next to each other between Dawn and me. Dawn was watching them sleep too.

"You're staring at me," we heard Samantha grumble.

"I didn't think that bothered you anymore," I said.

Samantha rolled over to me.

"I guess," she moaned.

Dawn and I watched the two of them sleep for a bit before we got up and went to shower.

"Sam had stopped waking up when we watched her sleep," I said.

"I know. I bet she feels it more now."

Dawn and I got in the shower.