There Must Be a Mistake Ch. 05

Gordon answered for both of them. "Mommy has been ready since 5 o'clock this morning. I don't believe she slept all night."

"If you think your mother didn't sleep all night, you must have been up all night listening to her. I guess everyone must be excited to go home. I know I am."

I put the 5 pieces of luggage into the back of the Yukon, transferred the child safety seat from Jennifer's car into the rental, and put Gordon in it.

"Don't you think I'm a little bit too old to sit in this baby seat dad?"

"No, not until your 9 years old."

"9 years old, I'm going to be in high school by then."

"Really, are you that smart?"

"Yes."

"You are going to love Delicious."

"Who is Delicious?"

"You will meet her when we get home. She is very smart also."

"I will test her to see which one of us is smarter."

I looked at Jennifer and shook my head.

The ride to the airport was dominated by Gordon. Question after question came out of his mouth. He reminded me of Delicious, and our ride to Austin. Our house should be a lot of fun with those two in it. Then I thought about Rod and his six children.

"Gordon have you ever played with a lot of children at one time?"

"No, I am mostly by myself or with mommy."

"My friend has six children and they live very close to me. Do you think you would like to meet and play with them?"

"Yes, that would be fun."

"Trust me Gordon it will be much more than fun. You will have a wonderful time every time you are with them."

I pulled into the airport parking lot and parked the truck in the space marked for the rental agency. I paid the dollar for one of the carts, put the luggage on it, and walked towards the general aviation section.

As soon as we walked in the door, a captain, co-pilot and two flight attendants approached us.

"Doctor Luck, we are your flight crew to Denver. The aircraft is ready to go. You and your luggage have to go through security. Then we will take you to the aircraft, and get you on your way."

"Thank you very much, I appreciate you all being here. This is my fiancé Jennifer Stars, and my son Gordon Stars."

After the introduction were taken care of, and we went through security successfully, the flight crew led us to the aircraft. The captain was in the lead, and when he started up the steps of a Boeing 787, I stopped.

In a loud voice I said, "I AM GOING TO KILL HER. SHE DID THIS TO ME ON PURPOSE."

Jennifer asked me, "WHO?"

"THE DEVIL HERSELF: DELICIOUS."

Jennifer laughed.

Gordon didn't care at all. He scrambled up the stairs, following the captain, and into the giant size jet without any help.

"I guess we should follow our son?"

"I haven't lost him in four years. I would hate to lose him now."

We walked up the stairs, hand in hand, into the jet. I bypassed first-class and Jennifer asked me what I was doing.

"We met in coach. I don't want to break our tradition, until after we get married."

"I'd like to find out where Gordon is?"

I stood up and shouted, "Gordon where are you?"

He stood up by a window seat, and said, "I'm over here."

"Okay, sit down, put your seatbelt on, and make sure it's tight."

He did it. "It's all done dad."

"Stay that way until I tell you that you can move around the cabin."

"Okay."

"Jennifer, I don't know what you did with that young man. He is so well behaved it is unbelievable."

"I didn't have to do anything. He came that way."

I tried to tickle her. "Really, his mother had no influence on him at all?"

She shifted away from my fingers and said, "Well, maybe a little."

The flight attendants checked all three of our seatbelts, as we felt the engines start.

One flight attendant sat next to Gordon and explained to him the safety rules of the aircraft. The other flight attendant stood by us as we read our cards and followed along with her dissertation.

An aircraft designed for 180 plus people, and there were a total of seven of us onboard. I was going to kill that little devil.

I don't believe I have ever enjoyed a flight more than this one. Jennifer sat on my lap, feeling how excited I was. We kissed, whispered and snuggled most of the way home. We only had a few little interruptions. All of them were made by a little man named Gordon. His head would pop up from the seat in front or behind us. He would ask, "Is mommy crying? Can I help?"

Jennifer would bury her face is my chest and laugh. Finally, she would look at her son, and say, "No Gordon, I am not crying. I am very happy. I am talking with your new daddy. We are getting to know each other better. Adults like doing this alot."

"Yes mommy, I know. You watch that kissing stuff on television all the time."

I rang the bell for the flight attendant, and asked her if it would be possible to get Gordon into the flight deck and show him around.

She said she would speak with the captain.

When she came back she nodded her head and talked to Gordon privately. He came running down the aisle and said, "Mommy, Daddy, they are going to show me how they fly the airplane."

I said to my new son, "Make sure you listen to everything they tell you. Do not touch anything unless they allow you to touch it. You can ask any question you want, but always been nice, because they don't let just anyone onto the flight deck."

"I promise I'll be good dad. I'll be extra special good." He turned on his heel and disappeared down the aisle at warp speed. We didn't see him again for 90 minutes.

Jennifer did not mind at all. She put her head in the crook of my arm and fell asleep. I loved listening to the sound of her breathing. I stroked her hair, arm, and thigh, but never touched anything remotely improper.

My ministrations must have woken her up, but she never gave me a hint that she was awake. After a time she said to me, "Even, you are a very special man. Anyone else would have had his hands all over my breasts and up my skirt a long time ago. You have been purposely avoiding touching those areas. I am on fire, and the man I love won't touch me until after we are married. All I can say to you Mister Luck is be prepared for our wedding night, because you are getting no sleep at all."

I laughed and Jennifer wondered if I was demented. I went through the story of Rod and Rosalynn's wedding night, and she understood my warped sense of humor.

"Do you see what I mean Even? It happened to your best friend already, and he was a sex fiend. You are a virgin, or as close to one as is humanly possible. I am going to take you to places you've never dreamed of, and you will want to visit them over and over again?"

I looked at my soon to be wife and asked, "Jennifer, exactly how experienced are you?"

She smacked me, and blushed. "Does it matter to you?"

I kissed her deep and long, and when I let her go she looked up at me and said, "I guess not."

"It doesn't matter to me at all. As far as I'm concerned, the night we get into our bed together is the first night of our lives."

She had an angry look on her face. "Even don't do that to me or I will rape you in the aisle. I want you so badly right now I would do anything to have you."

"Let's go for a walk?"

(I must remember to duck sooner when I do something like that.)

Gordon came running down the aisle yelling, "We're going down dad. They are bringing the airplane down. That's why they had me leave the front of the airplane, because they get very busy up there."

"Did you learn anything while you were up there?"

"Yes I did. The flight deck is made out of glass, and the airplane flies on wires."

I laughed so hard I nearly knocked Jennifer onto the floor.

"Gordon that was very close to the truth. As you get older I will explain exactly what those things mean, okay?"

"Okay. Can I sit with you now?" This

"You can always sit with us, even when mommy is sitting on my lap."

"When I watch my programs they say sometimes adults need to be alone. It looked like you and mommy needed to be alone."

"Gordon have you ever been to a baseball game?"

"No."

"Do you like baseball?"

"I don't know. What is baseball?"

I looked at Jennifer. "You never let him watch a baseball game?"

"It was not on my things to do list for a four-year-old."

"Gordon, you and I are going to have a lot of fun together. We are going to go shopping for a baseball bat, gloves, balls, hats, bases, and everything. We will go see the Colorado Rockies play baseball in Denver. They get paid for playing because they are so good. I think you will love it. In the wintertime, we can play football. Do you know what football is?"

"No."

"Gordon do you know what tennis is?"

"No"

"Do you know what golf is?"

"Gordon did your mommy ever spank you for being bad?"

"Mommy use to spank me when I was bad."

"You're not bad anymore so mommy doesn't spank you anymore."

"That's right, because I'm good."

"Gordon after I marry your mommy I'm going to give her a spanking because she has been bad. She did not let you learn some of the most basic things for a boy to learn. She didn't let you learn about sports. Sports make your muscles grow, which makes you healthy and strong. Is that reason enough for me to spank mommy?"

"If mommy was bad, and she kept me from growing and being healthy and strong she deserves to be spanked."

I looked at Jennifer with an evil smile on my face

"You wouldn't dare."

"Darling you heard the judgment of your son. He is unbiased and only knows how to tell the truth because of his age. You did not allow him to learn what boys are supposed to learn at his age. You brought him up almost like a girl. It will be easy enough to fix, but I will take a great deal of joy in meeting out the punishment to the person who was a bad influence on him; you bad girl balls you."

"I didn't know you had a sadistic streak running through your body."

"Sadism does not run through the body. It runs through the mind. I have a very active imagination, and right now it's thinking very evil thoughts of you."

"You are enjoying this moment aren't you Even."

I pulled her to me, kissed her quickly, and grinned. "I think I'm going to love being married to you. Actually, I'm going to love it forever." I kissed her jaw, her neck, and her ear, before I took her ear lobe into my mouth and bit it.

"I love you Jennifer Stars. There is no place in this universe you could go where I would not find you, and bring you home safely."

She laughed. "Spanking me all the way home for being kidnapped I take it."

"Yes, and loving every minute of it."

"What have I gotten myself into?"

"We are not married yet. I have not taken you out to dinner yet. You can use that as an excuse to back out."

"How could I possibly leave you after you proposed to me in a Wendy's."

"You could try to get it annulled at a Burger King."

The flight attendant came down the aisle and asked us to put our seatbelts on because we would be landing in five minutes.

I took Jennifer's hand and said, "Jennifer Stars, this is your last chance; my house or yours."

She didn't hesitate. "Yours Even, for the rest of my life I am yours."

"Young woman, if you had said anything else you would have been spanked on this airplane." I kissed her until the wheels touched the runway and broke us apart.

Gordon unbuckled his seatbelt, climbed into his mother's lap, and put his arms around her neck. "It's okay mom. You can cry all you want. I am here, you will be all better soon."

As I watched him take care of his mother I thought to myself that he was going to be the next Rod in high school and in college. Girls would not stand a chance against his good looks and smooth demeanor. I felt sorry for them already. I should publish a book warning them that he was cumming for them.

Our aircraft dwarfed every other at the general aviation facility. The steps were brought out to the 787 and we deplaned. We had to be the talk of the flight line because everyone stared at the three of us as we walked towards the terminal. Three people walking out of a Boeing 787; who the hell were we?"

Peace and tranquility did not last long. The sound of aircraft engines behind us were muted compared to the scream, "UNCLE EVEN!"

She charged and left the ground 10 feet from me. The impact of her body against mine probably registered as an earthquake on the East Coast. She knocked me back five steps before I could regain my balance.

"I am so happy that you are home. I am happier that you are alive."

"I am happy to be alive also; but if you keep hitting me like that I will not be alive for long. I love you little girl and I missed you terribly. You gave me the will to survive."

"I told everyone that you were alive. I told them I would not allow you to be dead. It was too soon for you to die. You have too much work to do."

"We can talk all about that later. I have someone very import to me I want you to meet."

I took Delicious by her hand and walked her over to Jennifer. In order not to give anything away I said, "Delicious, this is Jennifer Stars my soon to be bride."

Delicious said, "Wow are you gorgeous. Why are you bothering with him? You could do so much better. Come with me, we have to talk."

I'm sure my mouth was open as Delicious walked away with her.

Gordon yanked on my sleeve again and I said, "What?"

"Dad shouldn't we follow them?"

God this kid was smart.

I told the skycap to follow us, as we followed them. I had no idea where Delicious was leading us.

We caught up to them standing by a pair of gray doors with bars across them stating, "Emergency Exit Only: Alarm Will Sound If Opened."

Delicious reached for the door and I said, "STOP. What the heck are you doing Delicious?"

"I'm opening the door."

"It's an emergency exit."

"Do you believe everything you read Uncle Even?"

"At a Federal Airport I do."

"You have no faith in me at all, do you Uncle Even?"

"Please tell me you didn't tamper with the alarm system. We will all go to jail, and I was looking forward to getting married."

Delicious held Jennifer by her waist. "He really does love you, doesn't he?"

Jennifer lifted up her left hand, and showed her the diamond ring on it.

Her mouth malfunctioned. "Holy shit, can I have one?"

I said to my son, "Gordon you're not allowed to use that word until you are 13."

"Mommy uses that word every time she cooks."

I looked at Jennifer and said, "Really?"

"That will be $10 delicious. You cannot have one, until a young man gets down on his knee and asks for your hand in marriage."

"You are no fun at all Uncle Even. However, I am fun."

She tapped on the metal doors three times, and the doors swung open. A crowd of about 170 people yelled, "SURPRISE!"

Jennifer thought it was a surprise for me, until her grandparents, aunts and cousins surrounded her. They congratulated her on her pending nuptials and were asking her how she snared such a famous scientist.

I on the other hand thought it was a surprise for Jennifer, so I stayed behind her. Delicious pulled me forward, I began to recognize faces. My entire graduating class from MIT was there. I recognized faces from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech, NASA, Scripps, the Center for Disease Controls, the Presidents Scientific Advisor and members of every other top scientific lab from around the country. They were here waiting to greet Me.

Holy shit, there were more Doctors, PhD's, and heavyweight scientists in this group of people than anywhere else on the planet. If the Chinese or Russians knew about this meeting they would have been here in force. They would want to kidnap this entire group. The advancement in their scientific programs would have been multiplied by a factor of 1000. Friends and colleagues I have not seen since our last symposium were here. I was shocked to my very core.

"How did you do this Delicious?"

"It was easy."

"Easy, most of these people don't talk to anyone but God, and he has to wait online to speak to them."

"Uncle, the media did most of the work for me. When the news that you had been in an aircraft accident and presumed dead, they called and gave me their private numbers if I received any further news. When I told them you had survived, and were getting married; they all wanted to be here to celebrate both events. I guess you have more friends then you think you have."

I kissed my (daughter), thanked her and went to greet the most prestigious group of scientist ever assembled in one place for nonscientific reasons.

Rod took care of all their expenses while they were in town. Car rentals, hotel rooms, meals, the works. My niece, and my friend made me very proud. It was then I realized our little church in Idaho Springs might be too small for our wedding.

I saw Father McAuley standing around the periphery of this auspicious group and waved for him to come over to me. I didn't have to ask him my question because he answered it for me.

"Yes, they will all fit in our church. We will put some extra chairs at the end of each aisle and the back of the church to make sure, but we will have your wedding at our facility. However, you and I have to talk."

"Yes, I realized that while I was walking out of the forest. I kept talking to him and asking for him to help my friend. I didn't ask anything for myself. I didn't want Michael to die, not after what he did for me. He answered more than one of my prayers. I owe him big-time. We will talk. I will go to confession, and I will get married in our church, in front of God. I will thank him for my life, and for meeting my wonderful bride."

"I'm not sure going to confession will be necessary Even. I think your faith was tested by the aircraft accident. By expressing your feelings about your friend to him, and asking nothing for yourself, I believe he absolved you of your sins. He tests people's faith in him in different ways, he tested yours during your exodus from the forest."

"I committed a murder while I was in the forest. I killed a baby deer so we could survive. I have never killed anything in my life. That tiny animal suffered terribly before she died. I have never felt so bad about anything in my entire life."

"Even, the Bible tells us that God gave us dominion over the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and the animals on the land. You did not murder that animal, because it does not have a soul. God in his own wisdom takes care of them, because they become part of us, and the cycle of life continues. Without them there would be no us. In the beginning, man did not know how to farm. He gathered the fruits and grains that were available around him. His main source of sustenance was the animals he killed. If he did not he would never have survived the first winter, and man would not exist today. God wanted man to survive. He said, 'Go forth and multiply,' and early man did that by killing animals."

I laughed, and Father McAuley asked me why?

"Go forth and multiply. I believe our last discussion was about multiplying. You and I did not totally disagree on that point, and you blamed the Vatican for giving directions that were totally out of step with the needs of indigent people."

"I didn't put it in those words exactly, Even."

"I know, Father, but inside that very intelligent brain of yours that is exactly what you meant."

"Don't you ever repeat those words to anyone; I will deny it."

"I would never do anything to get you in trouble. You should know that about me by now."

"I am very happy for you Even. I will see you Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Wear a tuxedo please. I'm tired of looking at you in stripes and plaids at the same time."

"You must admit, from a distance you always know it's me coming towards you."

"I'd rather be surprised. Your bride is very beautiful, did you drug her before you asked her to marry you?"