Chapter 34: Ruthie and Sean

It was late on a Wednesday afternoon in mid June when Mom and I pulled into Felicity, Texas. We had ample parking place at the seaside resort and I easily found a slot for Mom's SUV and the attached trailer. Our room had with two queen beds, a recliner and a sofa in the room. Our window overlooked the sea and had a table and two chairs by it. It was a nice place.

We took showers, dressed and were sitting on the terrace with drinks as we enjoyed the sea when a very fine looking older redhead kissed Mom on the lips.

The woman had magnificent tits that nearly spilled out as she leaned over.

Their very personal kiss ended eventually and Mom introduced me to the woman called Wendy.

Our waitress came over and kissed Wendy on the cheek and after she was introduced to Mom she kissed Mom on the cheek. I got a smile.

Wendy ordered wine for herself, crown and coke for Mom, and a Dos Equis for me, then appetizers for three.

As they held hands Mom told her about her adventures on the way here but I noticed that she had not mentioned any of her episodes with others. Apparently Wendy was important to Mom.

I learned they had met on a web site for widows. As usual with any groups the numbers of the ones keeping regular contact with each other got smaller and smaller over time.

Mom, Wendy and a woman in Las Vegas called Elma were the last three regulars in their group. They still contacted each other everyday.

Mom was the youngest, Wendy the oldest but she was also the most recent widow.

Mom would be seeing Elma when we got to Vegas. Elma had been widowed the longest, three and a half years.

All three were redheads.

I was scarfing up the appetizers when I noticed I had not left any for the ladies. I was going to order more when Mom said; "I am going to her house for a while. I will call you if I need a ride back."

Wendy said to me, "She will not need a ride back. If you get bored there is a good club just into downtown called Manlee you would like and if you like a mostly lesbian crowd there is a lesbian biker bar called Glenda's two blocks to the right of the resort. Most of the women there are bi, not gay. Most of the guys there are gay. Everyone is good people".

Both kissed me on the lips and left hand in hand.

I was alone. I ordered a hamburger and another Dos Equis and enjoyed the sea breeze and the sea.

Mom had been living in central Florida but had finally decided to live with me in Los Angeles. My persistent requests had eventually worked.

Mom was just past fifty and had just won a battle with pneumonia that she almost lost because she waited too long to see a doctor.

My sister and I suspected she did not care whether she lived or died. Dad had been killed in a traffic accident by a drunk driver almost two years before and Mom was still in deep mourning. Her sudden resolve to fight her disease came as a surprise to all of us.

In three days she was out of the respirator and hungry as a horse. She recovered so fast my sister and I ganged up on her and made her promise to come to LA and live near us.

She said she would think about it and two months later she said yes but I had to go back for her and rent a trailer then drive her to LA. I did not put up an argument and took a two-week vacation from work and flew to her the following weekend.

On our drive to Texas Mom confided to me that Dad came to see her at her hospital room and cussed her out, calling her a coward.

He told her that the best part of her life would begin on July fourth.

He made her promise to fight her way out of her funk and kissed her saying, "Time means nothing to me. I will be right here waiting for you whenever your time comes."

For Mom it was a vivid memory. I accepted her story.

We had a good time in the five days of our trip and some of her vivaciousness had returned. She loved New Orleans. She had shown her tits for beads.

She had eaten pussy.

I did not mind that at all and apparently Wendy and Elma did too.

My server came by and I asked for our check. She told me that, "Wendy always pays her friend's checks. In fact she is paying for every expense for anyone in your room including the room."

"Tell me a little about Wendy. She is Mom's friend but I know nothing about her."

"Well, she is the most loved and respected woman in town. She owns and runs the jewelry shop just across the street from the resort and owns the pet shop downtown. She and friends support the women's shelter that saved my life. Since her husband died she has become a lesbian but only with a few friends.

Her husband was the most important person to the town; he was the city manager and was a retired Air Force General. He died of a stroke less than a year ago just weeks after Wendy's oldest sister and town icon Martha died.

We worry about her but she tells us she is fine. I hope your Mom can lift her spirits."

I thought about that for a second then said, "I guess that's why we are here."

I thanked the girl and and left her a tip then went to my room and took a nap. It was after eight when I woke up. Mom had not called so I called her.

She answered and I heard loud laughter and some lewd comments before she said, "I am fine."

"Yes, I can hear that. Ask Wendy if you can spend the night at her house. Enjoy yourself."

"Thank you son. Wendy has already told me I will be with her until we leave the day after tomorrow. I am now in her hot tub with her sister and her partner. I have discovered some sipping bourbon we need to pick up when we get to Vegas. I love you. Have fun. Bye."

She hung up before I had a chance to say good-bye.

I got up, took a shower and dressed. I decided to walk to downtown and look around. I did not feel like unhitching the trailer from the car and Felicity struck me as town I could walk to anywhere.

I went by Wendy's Jewelry and noticed there was a workshop right by the display window. There was also a monitor facing the sidewalk displaying an engagement ring and a name under it. It was as impressive as a single diamond solitaire ever gets.

As I was about to continue the picture of the ring changed, as did the name. Twenty seconds later it changed again.

Each ring was gorgeous. Each ring was unique.

Wendy was an artist.

I got to a shop that bragged about gourmet junk food but it was closed so I made a mental note to stop there the next day.

When I got to downtown I saw a Puerto Rican restaurant that featured empanadillas but it was also closed. I love empanadillas.

The ladies gym had three blonde ladies racing each other on stationary bikes and a Hispanic and a black woman doing martial arts behind them. Another tall blonde and a short redhead were doing floor exercises.

None looked like they needed a gym.

The seafood restaurant across the street from them had no place to sit so I went on.

At the end of the block I saw an Italian restaurant that was still open. As I walked past I saw a seat at a table for two that had just one chair, the only empty chair in the place. I hurried in and signaled one and was led to the chair.

I ordered linguini with garlic olive oil and shrimp.

I noticed that everyone that came in and everyone that left got kisses from several others. I was beginning to feel awkward being alone in the place but dinner arrived and I was soon distracted. It was the best thing I had eaten in years. As soon as I finished I wanted another.

The manager came over to be friendly and asked if I was a tourist. I said, "Sort of, I drove my Mom to town to visit with a friend."

She asked me who and I answered Wendy.

Her face went blank and then asked, "Are you Sean? Is your Mother Marti?"

I nodded yes, and she immediately screamed, grabbed my hand and pulled me into the kitchen and told the chef, "Marti is with Wendy now, this is her son!"

He came to me and hugged me and said, "We are so happy you didn't disappoint her."

Then to the manager he said, "Call your Mom."

His name was Julian and I got confirmation from him that Wendy had sunk into a foul mood recently.

He said, "She did not want anyone to fall in with her so she tried to keep her grief to herself. The anniversary weekend of when she and her husband became a couple is this weekend. We have become very worried.

Marissa's mother is one of Wendy's closest friends and knew Wendy had a special web friend.

She contacted your mother and tried to get her to come over.

When she agreed to move to California Marti said she would try to convince you to drive and to make the detour. Wendy was very excited when your Mom called her to tell her she was on the way.

I think she expected you tomorrow."

"Mom decided to skip our day in Houston and come straight here. We are a day early. Mom is in Wendy's hot tub right now."

"Marissa, tell her they are in the tub." The guy hollered.

I heard Marissa tell her mother that.

"Now for the important part, how did you like your meal?"

I laughed and said, "Most delectable, whatever else you put in the garlic olive oil was inspired. The shrimp was excellent. The pasta was definitely freshly made. I will be having the same thing again."

He laughed then the manager assaulted him with a happy kiss. After seeing their rings I concluded they were husband and wife

I was somewhat worried when I got a nearly identical kiss from her but he just rushed back to the stove and began filling orders.

Marissa took me back to my table only to see it already had a new diner in it. I was fine with that and went to the register to pay.

Marissa said, "You have already paid your bill here tonight. Go to the club across the street, my sisters are there. Make friends then follow them to the biker bar and make more friends. You are unlikely to see your Mom for nearly two days."

I returned her goodbye kiss and followed her suggestions.

The club was pretty much equally divided between straight, gay, and lesbian. I did not bring up Wendy's name but by the end of my stay many seemed to know who I was. I did not see anyone that looked like Marissa but I did make friends.

I was tall and decent looking with dark red hair and a nice smile. I was a good dancer. Everyone that asked me to dance with them I did, even with a gay guy.

A lesbian couple that I had sought me out and danced with asked me if I needed a ride to the biker bar and I decided to go with them. On the way over I asked who made their rings.

"Wendy," was their reply.

"Do you know who made Julian's and Marissa's?"

"Wendy,"

They told me they were Petra and Sally and were very happy to hear my Mom was with Wendy.

"Mom is likely in the tub with them by now," the little blonde said.

"Are you and Marissa sisters?"

"Yes," was the surprising reply from both.

Marissa was a green eyed Latina woman although likely not Mexican. Sally was a blue-eyed blonde. Petra had jet-black hair and black eyes with pale white skin and looked European.

Petra further confused the issue when she mentioned that Marissa's Mom's husband was their Dad.

"He walked us down the aisle."

I wondered if I would be in town long enough to figure all that out.

We pulled into a very crowded place and handed the keys to a valet. There was a cover charge but we were never asked to pay. Two uniformed policewomen took turns standing by the door and wandering around the place. Many women kissed them including Petra and Sally.

I knew I was in a different place when an altercation between two girls grew violent. One of the cops slapped both and ordered them to kiss or be arrested.

Cops slapping citizens was a no-no everywhere but apparently not here. Neither was ordering them to kiss, which was also likely a no-no.

One of the girls was hesitant but they kissed.

The cop was not satisfied and ordered them to give each other a real kiss. Both hesitated so the cop reached behind her to her handcuffs pouch.

Their next kiss quickly became passionate and the cop walked away as the surrounding ladies applauded and yelled at them, "It's about time you morons."

The combatants were giggling with tears in their eyes when they ran after the cop and gave her voracious kisses then ran out the door hand in hand.

Everyone was smiling.

Petra went to the bar and ordered for us as Sally pulled me to the dance floor. We danced through two songs then found Petra standing by a tall table. I managed to take two sips before Petra pulled me back to the dance floor. We stayed there for two songs then I went to the table as one of those line dance songs began to play.

I did notice I was the only guy dancing with girls; all the other guys were dancing alone except for two who danced with each other.

As I drank my beer two maturer women, a blonde and a redhead, came to me and asked if my name was Sean.

I nodded yes and without another word each gave me fabulous kisses and walked away.

As the line dance ended Sally and Petra came towards me accompanied by a tall, stunning blonde wearing glasses and a ponytail. She was already kissing me before she was introduced as Ruthie.

Ruthie ended the kiss, said "Hi," and then resumed kissing me. It was the best kiss I had ever gotten from anyone I had known for under fifteen seconds.

It was also the best body I had ever had pressed to me. I soon had an erection which Ruthie pointed out to the other two then kissed me again.

Petra and Sally wanted to feel my erection and pushed Ruthie away.

Ruthie was as big as both of them put together but allowed herself to be moved to the side. Petra enjoyed our kiss but Sally became voracious and as she backed away from the kiss her hand was gripping my cock.

"Conference," Petra said to Sally and pulled her to a corner. Ruthie resumed kissing me as she pressed her pussy to my cock. She did not stop when Petra and Sally came back.

Petra said to Ruthie, "Listen you freak of nature, we get him tonight. You don't work tomorrow so you can have him all day. Guard him for us until we get back with work clothes."

Ruthie nodded and intensified the kiss. I caressed her ass and she moaned into the kiss.

"Are you staying at the resort?" she asked.

"Yes," I said and she was soon pulling me out the door.

Sooner than my brain could absorb what was happening a naked Ruthie was over my naked body and fucking me hard. Her orgasm was epic and she collapsed on me panting for air.

She reached for her phone, pressed two buttons and said, "We are in his room, number...."

"Four forty three," I said.

She repeated the number then said, "Yes, we have fucked. No, he is still full of ammunition. He has great control so he will probably will still be able function when you get here, if you hurry."

I turned her to her back and draped her thighs over mine and resumed our fuck slowly. I rubbed my face on her tits, which she loved then I caressed her clit with my thumb, which she really loved. I combined those two with the fuck and she had another big cum.

I kissed her for a while then resumed fucking her but just as I started there was a knock at the door. Ruthie would not release me so I carried her to the door with my cock still in her pussy.

Sally and Petra came in wearing only t-shirts and those were coming off as soon as they threw their bags on the couch.

As Ruthie and I got back in bed Sally pushed Ruthie off me and slammed her pussy over my cock then began a torrid fuck.

Sally had three large orgasms while Petra made love to Ruthie's pussy alongside us.

Ruthie was holding my hand. I was surprised by how right that felt. Our hands just fit perfect with each other.

After her third orgasm Sally paused and said, "I have been hungry for cock for a long time but we did not want complications. You are leaving town the day after tomorrow so no complications. Petra, your turn."

Petra was not sure she wanted a turn but covered my body with hers anyway.

Ruthie said, "Slow and easy, let your pussy lubricate his cock as you slide down, ignore the pressure and enjoy the slide.

OK, he is in. Now set your pace as slowly as you need, he will wait for you."

Ruthie looked at me for confirmation and I nodded then pulled Petra to me for a deep loving kiss. Long before the kiss ended Petra was fucking me gently.

She sat up and Sally and Ruthie kissed her.

Petra moaned and intensified the fuck. Ruthie and Sally inhaled her tits and Petra had an orgasm but kept fucking me.

I urged the others away and flipped Petra and me over. I began long, hard, but somewhat slow strokes. Her orgasms began to flow from one to another. Her arms and legs surrounded me. I increased the speed and she fell into the abyss, not breathing.

I fucked harder and faster as she rose from the pit and screamed her way to a giant orgasm then panted to a sob.

I slowed as I kissed her. As soon as I rolled off her body Ruthie picked her up and carried her to the other bed.

Petra was soon moaning and Sally was already fucking me again but she was a lot less frantic for her second fuck.

She kissed me and whispered, "I am on the pill, cum in me. I turned us over after her fourth orgasm and fucked her exactly like I had fucked her partner except her cum was silent although her body wasn't.

"Oh," she said as she felt my cum shoot into her.

I rolled off her and cuddled her to me.

"What time do you need to get up?" I asked her.

"Five AM. My cell phone will ring. Petra can wait until six-thirty. Ruthie does not work tomorrow. You will have time to fuck each of us in the morning."

We noted the other two were sleep. I kissed Sally and we spooned. We were asleep in seconds.

When I awoke I found Sally was already in mid fuck and had her orgasm just as I became fully awake and enjoyed it with her, although I did not cum.

She kissed me hard then went to the shower.

I was mostly back to asleep when she kissed me bye.

Apparently Petra had been in the bathroom because I saw her zombie her way to my bed and join me as Sally walked out the door.

We slept for about an hour and I awoke just before six thirty.

I did not wait for her to wake up and slowly slid my cock into her pussy. She was wide-awake as I reached bottom and began to kiss her. She turned off her phone alarm and wrapped her arms and legs around me.

I fucked her softly until she had a nice cum. I rolled us over putting her on top and she began a more vigorous fuck with an intense ending cum.

She went to the shower then kissed me before she left.

I moved to the other bed and curled up with Ruthie. She was a lot bigger than the other two and seemed to fit my body perfectly as we spooned. I was still kissing her shoulder when I went back to sleep.

It was after eight when I woke up but Ruthie was still asleep. I went to pee and got back in bed at its foot. I kissed and licked the soles of her feet and her toes then began my trip up her body licking and kissing every inch of the way.

She had returned from slumber while I sucked her toes and was wide-awake well before I was at her thighs.

She moaned as I kissed my way up her thighs on my way to her pussy.

She groaned when I got to her pussy.

I stayed there until her orgasm had passed then resumed my trip. I stayed at her tits with a finger on her clit until she had another cum.

My cock slid into her pussy as I kissed her lips. She groaned as she wrapped her arms and legs around me as Sally and Petra had done but Ruthie was the biggest and most physically powerful woman I had ever fucked. Her long legs pulled my cock into her deeply. I loved that.

I began an ever-intensifying fuck that had both of us filling the room with sound. Our orgasms were so intense it was necessary for us to hold on to each other for a long time afterwards.
Finally I slid off her body and we fell asleep in a tangle of arms and legs.

I heard the cleaning lady knock and open the door then immediately close it. I went back to sleep. I woke up again about twenty minutes later and heard the shower running.

I got up and staggered to the shower expecting Ruthie. Only it wasn't Ruthie, it was....

"Mom?"

"Hi sweetheart. Who is that in bed with you?"

"A friend, Ruthie. I did not expect to see you at all today. What happened?"

"Wendy's clerk is stuck on the highway behind a wreck and couldn't open for her so Wendy came down and I took advantage to come over and pick-up some clothes. I will be gone soon."

Apparently it had not been the cleaning lady. I had not looked.

"Sean?"

"Come on in Ruthie, meet my Mom."

"Hi Marti, glad you made it. How is Wendy?"

"Well, as soon as her clerk makes it in we are going shopping to the Galleria in the city so I think she's fine. I am meeting her at her shop as soon as I dress," Mom said as she stepped out to dry.

Ruthie did not seem to be concerned by the nudity between mother and son and helped Mom dry herself as they chatted.

Twice on the way over the motel we chose had only one vacant room. Mom decided from the start that being modest with each other was a waste of time and we had seen each other nude. However that morning was the first time we were both nude. So was Ruthie.

When Mom left the bathroom Ruthie and I went into the shower and I began to soap her down. Her tits needed a lot of attention and so did her pussy.

"Do you have a razor? My pussy needs shaving."

I stepped out and got my razor and the foam and got back into the shower. I got on my knees, kissed her pussy then spread foam over her pubic mound.

She giggled and said, "Hey, I was going to do that."

"I want to," I said.

I had never shaved a pussy before.

I had never wanted to before.

I had finished her pubic mound and was working on the sides when Mom stuck her head behind the shower curtain and asked for goodbye kisses.

We both kissed her and Mom said, "I am so glad to see you can do that," then turned and left.

Ruthie was giggling and I tried to get her to stop.

"Hey, I am in the middle of delicate work here, stand still!"

I swatted her butt for emphasis and she managed to control her giggles, sort of.

We heard Mom giggling as she closed the door and Ruthie sank back into a giggling spell. I swatted her butt again.

I checked for missed spots with my tongue then ate her pussy. She was ready for an orgasm and it came quickly.

I stood behind her as she bent at the waist and I washed her hair as I slowly fucked her. One orgasm and clean hair later we got out of the shower.

"You haven't cum," she said.

"I will soon," I said.

"I am starving," she said.

"I will cum shortly after brunch," I said.

"Deal," she said.

We dressed then went to the small buffet cafe in the hotel.

"This buffet is the place for a real breakfast, Canadian bacon, sausage gravy over fried potato wedges, blueberry pancakes, and amazing omelets."

"You had me at the Canadian bacon."

We both ate as if we had spent the night and the morning fucking.

I made it to the pancakes but Ruthie made it to the omelets, not far into them but she got to them.

I learned she was Canadian and worked at Felicity Music. We were both twenty-seven but she was six months younger than me. We shared the same slightly bent sense of humor.

She learned I worked for Sony studios as a sound-man and that I was three and a half inches taller than her at six-three.

We went back to my room and talked, played, then made love. I had no intention of making love to her. I expected it to be another fuck, but apparently that was what we both wanted so we made love.

We dressed and walked holding hands to her car at the biker club then she drove me around and gave me a tour of the town.

"That is Wendy's shop to the other side of the boulevard as you probably know.

The building to our right has the Tiki Bar on the first floor to the right and Matt's Playground to the left. That has video games and an Internet cafe. Are you a gamer?"

"No, but I do spend time on the computer. I'm glad to know it is next door."

"Oh good. The second story has two restaurants that have dancing after nine until eleven. The ones that want to continue dancing go to the top floor, Jana's Place. Often there are acts on Wednesdays. There was a Rap concert last night by a kid from the small town just north of us. He is Vietnamese. He is good."

She made a right turn and stopped at the second building.

"That is Felicity Records, I work there. Best people in the world."

"What do you do there?"

"I am the personal assistant to one of our stars."

"Melody?"

She seemed surprised by my guess but just said, "Yes. That is our locally owned Bank, and the Insurance Company. The downtown area you already know. Sally owns the pastry shop right there. Let's go kiss her."

Ruthie stopped her SUV in mid lane, turned on her hazard lights and we ran in and kissed Sally and ran out.

"Do you do that often?" I asked.

'Yes," she said. "I do that several other places but not when they are busy. Sally's rush hour is over."

"Isn't there a Coast Guard Station in the town?"

"Yes, I'll drive us past it when I show you the bed and breakfast squares."

As we drove we came to a four lane stop sign by the entrance to the base. Ruthie stopped, jumped out of the car as a woman in uniform jumped out of hers, they kissed in the middle of the street between them then both ran back to their cars. The car behind us honked its horn and I assumed Ruthie had just irritated someone but she ran back and kissed the driver who had stuck her head out the window for a kiss.

Once back in the car she said,"That first one is Naomi. Don't get her pissed at you, she is a martial arts expert. The one behind me was Bunny, my insurance agent."

I remembered that Naomi was one of the ladies practicing at the ladies gym last night and mentioned that.

Ruthie said Naomi and their police chief Shawna are there every Wednesday night. They teach a class and stay to try to outdo each other. They are each other's only real competition.

Apparently the black woman was the police chief.

We ended up back downtown at Pedro's and she stopped and ran in for another drive-by kiss to the owner's wife before departing. We got coffee at the Gourmet Junk Food place and after kissing everyone there we drank our coffee at a beach park next to the resort.

We talked and kissed as the gulls expressed their disappointment that we had not brought them food.

We walked down the beach hand in hand. Somehow I ended up carrying her sandals. We went back to my room and again made love.

We were caressing and kissing when she asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No, not really. I have a friend that at times calls herself that but we are barely fuck buddies. She is a buyer for a department store so she travels a lot.

I think she has a real boyfriend where she lives which is New York City."

"Do you fuck her the way you fuck me?"

"No, she is an 'I want my orgasm now' type of person. She loses interest in fucking after her cum so I have learned to cum when she does."

"I love how you make love to me, soft, hard, fast, slow. You make sure I have multiple orgasms and you kiss a lot. You totally conquered three lesbians last night. Well two, Sally isn't a lesbian so I understood her hunger for cock. You can kiss me some more."

I kissed her and said, "This has likely been the most memorable day and a half in my life. I have a feeling Mom can say the same thing, I hope she can anyway. It may be difficult for us to leave town."

"Oh, I hope so."

She kissed my nipples and slid down my body and kissed my cock.

"This cock is just the fifth or sixth I had ever had in my hands. It is the first I have ever put in my mouth."

She slid my cock between her lips and made love to it, she began to lick, masturbate, and suck it.

"You know, that is a strange thing for a lesbian to be doing."

"Actually no it isn't. Most of the lesbians in town fuck men on occasion and if they want a round two they know this is the way to a fast recovery. I hope they are right."

"You have never wanted a round two?"

"No, and this is for round umpteenth."

"I'm flattered."

"You should be."

"Bring your pussy to me."

"No thanks, I don't like sixty-nines. I want to be able to concentrate on what I am doing and to concentrate on what it's being done to me. By the way, I like doing this."

"And I love what you are doing but I apologize that it's taking so long."

"Not a problem, I am nicely entertained."

It took almost ten minutes for my cock to regain useful hardness but she continued to suck and masturbate me.

"It's ready," I said.

"I can see that. It is a beautiful cock, I'll let you know."

A few minutes later she slid up my body and slid my cock into her pussy, put a pillow on my shoulder then covered my body with hers. She put her head on the pillow and we kissed, we caressed, and eventually we fell asleep.

An hour or so later she was again sucking my cock but as soon as she saw I was awake she said, "Get your swim suit on, we are going to the beach."

She already had a bikini on.

We had a blast at the beach. I even coaxed her into diving from my shoulders. There was a lot of groping in our play and my cock was in her pussy for a short time but nothing overt. My cock had mostly subsided when we left the water.

Our play continued in the shower and the bed but we never did fuck, we were hungry.

"Let's go to one of the places that overlooks the bay," I suggested.

"Deal," she said.

She surprised me when she opened the closet; she had clothes in there. She put on a white sundress with nothing underneath.

"I dare you," she said.

I reached into the closet and put on a blue sundress. "I don't have shoes to wear with it," I said.

She was pummeling me in mid laughter by then. I dressed in a polo shirt and gray slacks, no underwear.

We sat at a corner of the deck and shared a fisherman's fried seafood platter as we watched the sunset. She suggested a coconut shake that was delicious.

As it got dark her hand went in search for my cock.

I told her that the next time I accept a dare I would wear black slacks, some of my pre-cum was showing through. My cock was exceptionally hard.

She giggled but left my cock alone after that. I already had a finger in her pussy. I began to caress her clit and heard her swallow a moan as she quickly pulled my hand away.

As we kissed I got a text message from Mom and I showed it to Ruthie. It read, "We are not leaving until Monday."

She had a big smile after she read it but I was surprised and confused by the misty eyes.

Then I remembered that this would be Wendy's toughest time and apparently Mom did not want to abandon her. I was not surprised Ruthie cared for Wendy that much.

We went to the hotel and made love, then fucked. She sucked my cock back to alertness then mounted me and again went to sleep with my cock in her pussy.

Friday was a lot like Thursday except that Petra and Sally demanded turns again. I did fuck Sally but Petra and Ruthie were going hard at each other so I never fucked Petra that night.

After I filled Sally's pussy she went to the other bed and ganged up on Ruthie with Petra.

I dressed and went to get sandwiches and drinks.

They were cuddling when I got back and thanked me by getting me nude and briefly slurping my cock in their mouths.

Sally and Petra dressed and went to the biker bar but Ruthie decided she really needed my cock and used it until we fell asleep.

We spent half of Saturday on a boat tour of the bay and around a small barrier island full of seabirds.

Ruthie appeared to love all wildlife. She introduced me to all the birds as if she was a personal friend.

On Saturday night Ruthie allowed Petra and Sally to again barge into my room and fuck me. Once again we held hands as Sally fucked me while Petra ate her. That night my longest fuck was with Petra. I fucked her twice then the three of us made love to her.

Well she was my longest fuck before midnight. Ruthie woke me up at about four AM and fucked me pretty much into dawn. Petra and Sally were in the other bed but never woke up.

In the morning I fucked all three before Petra and Sally left. Ruthie and I went back to bed and slept the rest of the morning. We went back to the beach that afternoon and to Pedro's for dinner. I loved all their food and apparently so did Ruthie.

She intended to take me to the dance club on the third floor of Felicity Center but we ended up going back to my room and making love.

Petra and Sally returned to my room late in the evening and both fucked me hard before ganging up on Ruthie again. When they went to sleep Ruthie moved to bed with me. We slept well.

Mom called me Sunday morning and said our departure may be delayed. She hinted Wendy was having a difficult day and four of them were going to keep Wendy company at the gravesite.

I wished her well.

I spent Sunday fucking three women although we did take time to go out to eat. Sally and Petra did go home that evening. Funny thing, Sally was apparently fucked out. Petra was not.

On Monday Ruthie and I again went to the beach and enjoyed it pretty much to ourselves.

She had an orgasm while we were in chest deep water. It was a good thing the water was that deep since her tits were out. My cock spent a long time in her pussy and we allowed the waves to dictate our pace.

Right after that fuck she nailed her dive off my shoulders. A couple that had been watching us applauded as we walked out. We soon saw them trying it, with disastrous results.

"They need to fuck first," I said to Ruthie.

She giggled, punched my arm, then kissed me.

We ate at the resorts large restaurant.

We fucked once and made love four times before we went to sleep that night.

Ruthie and I had spent every minute together for a week except for the twenty she used when she went to get her clothes. I was not awake then so I was not counting that.

I was unaware that Ruthie and I were the subject of most conversations in the town. Ruthie was somewhat aware of it but managed to ignore it.

Late Tuesday morning Ruthie just sat at our brunch table at the resort in deep thought.

We had made love for a long time that morning and she had been in a good mood when we sat to eat but something in her mind had distracted her.

I did my best not to worry since I had never seen her like that but eventually she kissed me and said, "Let's pack up. You are checking out."

I was very surprised when we drove to millionaire's world and to the most opulent mansion there.

She made no explanation but led me to a very large bed in a very large bedroom.

"We can fuck here," she said as she got us both nude.

I dove for her pussy and gave her a nice orgasm and I was immediately kissing my way up her body then fucking her, then eating her again, and then fucking her again until I filled her pussy with cum.

We cuddled.

"Do you like me?"

"I adore you, you are the best, I will treasure you always."

"Do you like me?"

I looked at her and saw she wanted the truth.

"Yes, very much so."

"Can you keep a secret?"

"Yes, I never remember them anyway."

"Try not to remember this one." She said as she pulled me out of bed and took me down a long hallway.

She opened double doors and we were suddenly in a sound studio. There was a grand piano in the middle and many prints of a singer in concert. There were three Grammies on a shelf. They were Melody's.

She was watching me with intensity when it all sank in. Ruthie was Melody, a singing star.

She looked worried so I said, "This is the house of a great music star. We shouldn't be here."

She could tell I knew the truth and smiled.

"She knows I am ditzy and fuck on her bed. We are OK in here."

She gave me a furious hug and many kisses. She seemed to have been very pleased by my reaction.

I was in fact disturbed that Ruthie had a secret life. Melody did not have a good reputation at her concert venues.

She walked to the piano and began to play. I went to the sound equipment and turned it on then adjusted input for her, the piano and the room.

I joined her at the piano bench and noticed she had written words for a song. The lyrics were marked "He" and "Me", a duet.

After she played the intro I sang the first "He" lyrics then she sang the "She" lyrics and we ended up singing the entire song.

She said, "I am impressed that you read music."

"I am a failed musician among many other things."

"Well?"

"It's a good if somewhat sappy song. Who is going to sing it with you?"

She told me and my face must have told her how I felt about it.

"What?"

I got up and turned the mixer off while thinking of a way to answer her question, (never noticing it had been on record). I did not know how close a friend he was to her

"He is a very popular star and all that but his voice and yours will clash. Except when you do Janis you have a pure voice. He would have to force his voice to keep up with you and he can't."

"That is what Edie said."

"Who is Edie?"

"My sister. She coaxed me and loved me into being successful. You were at the Vancouver show?"

"Yes, I was in town working a club concert."

"Edie was the violin player and occasional pianist. Did you like the Joplin song?"

"I loved it."

"The crowd didn't."

"They were too young, they have no idea who she was or how she sounded."

"Yeah, but she is my idol. Grandmom introduced me to her music. That was how I sang until the choir teacher asked me to use my own voice."

I said, "Granddad was a big fan of hers. He was pissed at her for years when she died. I inherited his music collection and the only artist with more LP's, Tapes and CD's in his collection was the Rolling Stones, but that makes sense since they are zombies. Apparently no one has told them they are dead."

She giggled and slapped my arm, kissed me, then said, "He and grandma would have been a perfect pair."

"Maybe the next time you channel Janis you should do Hold On instead of Ball and Chain unless I am there then it should be Ball and Chain, or Cry Baby."

She smiled and kissed me and played a short Chopin then led us to the kitchen.

We made coffee and talked but it was mostly kissing. My coffee got cool so I inserted a nipple into it then slurped the nipple into my mouth. She swatted my naked butt, which reminded her we were both naked and hurried us back to bed. We made love until she had a soft orgasm.

"That was nice."

"Yes it was."

"Now, if you don't mind, I want you to fuck me through the mattress.

"Yes dear."

I did not actually fuck her through the mattress but I came close. We also got one of our lengthier orgasms ever.

We dressed and went to lunch at a small out of the way restaurant that was in the mostly black section of town. Ruthie gave the large Black lady cook a big kiss and the ladies daughter, our server, a deep kiss. Apparently Mother and daughter were the entire staff, the place only had six tables and a counter.

Most the clientele was black but there was a Vietnamese lady and a Latin couple there as well as a white guy with a possibly European lady. Everyone kissed the cook coming in and going out.

Ruthie kissed everyone including the cook. She introduced me as Marti's son Sean. Everyone seemed to be happy I was there.

We both got the chicken drumstick and thigh special platters and we pigged out. Like everything else I had eaten in the town it was exceptional, including Ruthie's pussy.

On the way out the cook leaned her face to me so I kissed the cook.
We went to the grocery store and as she kissed nearly everyone we got Dr. Peppers, cokes, and cookies.

I ate her pussy after we got back to the house then we took a nap.

We went to the biker bar that night and ran into Mom and Wendy, I was introduced to a large pack of women of which Wendy's sister Mo and her partner Marie and Martina and Paloma seemed to be special. All knew Ruthie very well.

Mom told me she knew we needed to go soon but it would not be tomorrow. She did say that Wendy was past the crisis.

I danced with Wendy and after we paused for a drink she asked me if Mom had put me up to it. I told her no and that in fact Mom frowned when I dragged her to the dance floor.

"I love your Mom," she said and dragged me back out to the dance floor.

I remembered she was over sixty and took her to the table after two songs. A waltz began to play and Paloma took me to the dance floor. She was an excellent dancer and as I led her back to the table she kissed my cheek.

Ruthie was on Wendy's lap talking to Mom when we got back so Martina grabbed me and we danced to a salsa. Before I could leave the floor Mom grabbed me and we danced a slow song.

"How are you getting along with Ruthie?"

"Great, she had me check out and took me home with her."

"Yes, we heard. She has spent nearly an hour grilling me about you. She may like you more than you like her."

"I sincerely doubt that."

Before we left I became somewhat aware of the gossip around us.

Ruthie made a new friend/old friend. She had tried to seduce her before but did not have the opportunity. She was with a guy that night so I figured she had no chance, but did. I made friends with her boyfriend who understood.

Ruthie and I made love that night and fell asleep in mid-kiss.

The next morning Ruthie and I again made love.

We cuddled.

We talked about the difficulties of hiding a secret identity.

She said she was now Melody only when in costume and that was seldom. She no longer worried that there were about thirty people in town that knew her double life. None talked about it. The fans that searched for Melody went to Canada.

She said she was hungry.

I said, "We must share the same metabolism."

We got dressed and she drove us to Janie's and after a long hug and kiss between them I was introduced to Janie in sign language. Janie kissed my cheek, kissed Ruthie again, then ran to the open kitchen.

Ruthie looked like she had forgotten something.

"Get me one of each," she said to me and went back outside.

I went to the counter confused but the girl said, "We got her order, what would you like?"

"I want a sausage taco, two breakfast burritos, no eggs please, and a hotdog. What is so special about the hot dog?" I asked in reference to the signs posted about it.

"Well it's new to our menu. People love the sauce and the relish, both house made. The dog is pure beef and the bun is made from potato flour. I am forcing myself to keep them to less than three a day."

"Has the ditzy blonde tried one?"

She giggled and said. "No."

"Prepare one for her too please," I said.

As our food was being prepared Ruthie came back in and announced, "I can't find my purse."

"Where were you the last time you remembered you had it for sure?"

"Well for sure at the biker bar last night."

"You did not have a purse when we went back to the house."

I immediately regretted saying that in front of a witness. Her eyes went wide. I had just confirmed a rumor for her.

"Get our food to go and we will go over there."

Ruthie kissed the girl as I paid the bill and carried the bag of food as we drove to Glenda's.

I waited for her in the car as she went in and she soon came out with her purse.

"Did you check to see if anything was missing?"

"Yes although I knew it would be fine. They put purses in wells under the countertop behind the bottles."

"Smart but you have to trust the people who work there."

"True but everyone in this town knows that the economy has tanked everywhere except here.

In fact sales of my CD's have gone down. We have been waiting for a spark of some kind before releasing the new one. Hopefully that will happen next week.

Anyway everyone that has a job wants to keep it and knows there are literally a thousand people waiting for them to get fired."

She may have been ditzy but she was smart. She was also the best looking girl I had ever held hands with much less fucked.

My brain knew it was not true but I felt like we were a couple.

Others treated us as a couple but with curiosity, they seemed to be pleased to see us together.

They also knew as we did that whatever our relationship was it had an expiration date.

We were walking in her house towards a different area and ended up in a covered back porch. She took her clothes off so I did too.

I ate my hot dog first and was very impressed.

She loved the hotdog too but mostly she loved the potato flour bun.

She gave me one of her chicken soft tacos and I really loved that. It had rice and beans and avocado with the chicken.

We had finished the food and we were sipping our coffee when Ruthie sat on the table directly in front of me and displayed her pussy. I licked it between sips as she fought the urge to groan. I lifted its hood and gave her clit a long slow lick. She allowed her deep groan to escape and was in orgasm immediately.

I stood and slid my cock into her. She wanted a hard fuck so I gave her a hard fuck. Her second orgasm was monumental enough for me to release my cum into her.

I sat and kissed her cum filled pussy where there was less cum then she slid down to my lap and gave me a long kiss.

"Your kiss tastes funny," she said and giggled then kissed me some more.

She sat back and said, "As you know I am a lesbian. You also know we both really enjoy fucking each other. I want us to continue doing that in the future. My west coast concert tour begins in eight weeks. I will be in L.A. for three nights. I would love to spend those nights with you."

I kissed her and said, "My girlfriend is going to love eating my cum out of your pussy."

She gave me a grin that seemed to have a tinge of sadness in it.

My line had not been well received.

"OK, sorry. There is no girlfriend."

She gave me a big grin and a voracious kiss.

"Where are you going after you leave here?" she asked.

"Mom and I are going to meet another friend of hers in Las Vegas then going home to L.A."

"Will you be in Vegas, July the third and fourth? That is a week from today, Wednesday and Thursday."

"I don't know but it is likely."

"Hang on," she said and left me and went into the house.

She came back with an envelope in which were four tickets to a Melody concert at Caesar's Palace, two had back stage passes.

I embraced her and kissed her long and softly. She reached down and felt for my cock but it needed its rest so she wrapped her arms around me and intensified the kiss a little.

As we walked back inside she told me at least forty people from town were going over including Petra and Sally.

"Your Mom probably does not realize it but my accompanying singers are Alice and Marie. I am sure she has already eaten both pussies and Marie's partner Mo's pussy. They are my neighbor's, one house over. Wendy lives on the other side of the willows from us. Martina will also be there with Paloma and their husbands and so will almost all of her street.

I am giving two shows but all of you have the Thursday show. The Wednesday show sold out as soon as it was announced, thank Dieu."

"Is the concert what you are hoping will allow you to release the new CD?"

"Yes, we are taking a thousand with us for sale in the lobby and I will be doing five songs from the CD in the concert. We are also going to film the second concert and Matt will have that on DVD before the summer ends."

"Where are you staying, Caesars?"

"I will be at an undisclosed location."

Then in a whisper said, "The Bellagio."

In a whisper I said, "So are we."

I got another kiss.

"Several of the venues are connected to each other by tunnels. I can get from my room at the Bellagio to the stage at Caesar's without going into a public area."

"That's convenient."

Ruthie and I did not decide anything but we ended up going back to bed and taking a nap.

When we awoke she discovered that my cock was serviceable but decided to allow it more time and she took us into the shower.

Ruthie said, "You will need slacks and shoes tonight, we are going to a concert. Alice and Marie are doing a podcast from Jana's club and we are part of the audience. Then I'm going to allow Petra and Sally to have you until midnight and then you will be mine until you leave tomorrow.

I know no one has said you leave tomorrow but I have decided to think of it that way."

"You and Petra seem to have a special relationship."

"We do. We love each other and love making love to each other. Sally is straight and seldom eats a pussy other than Petra's and at times Naomi's and mine.

Naomi is in the Coast Guard and lives with Paloma. She was the one I kissed at the entrance to the base.

When Naomi decided Paloma was her Mom there was no more sex between them so Petra and Sally became her emergency help. They meet at somebody's yard between them, usually Magda and Rita's. Sally and Petra have a rule of no sex with others in their home."

"Just how many non-standard relationships are there in this town?"

"Dozens."

I shook my head and asked, "Where are we going for supper?"

"Bolero which is across the street from the resort and it's just an escalator ride to Jana's. The food is from everywhere in the Latin world including Spain and Italy."

"Hmmm, I did promise Julian I would be at his place for more linguini with garlic olive oil and shrimp."

"Ooh, ooh. Let's do that. I could park at the studio and we can walk to both places from there."

"Sounds like a good plan to me."

We kissed as we let the three shower heads bury us under the cascade.

"I can easily recover after four hours," I said,

My cock was already halfway into Ruthie's pussy.

She draped a long leg over my hip and we began a fuck that started in her shower and ended on her bed many minutes later.

All our fucks had been fabulous but that one was my favorite so far, we played and I had the teeth marks on my ass to prove it.

We had become buddies who fuck.

Maybe more. Maybe much more. She was already my best friend ever.

That afternoon Marissa was happy to see us walk in and after kisses put us at a table on a back corner.

We ordered the linguini dish and she ordered a Dr. Pepper and I ordered a coke.

I had noticed that apparently Ruthie did not drink alcohol. Somehow I decided not to do so while I was with her.

I had not had a drink in over a week.

We both really enjoyed dinner and each other. On our way out Ruthie was kissed by several ladies and I was kissed by Marissa.

We walked to Felicity Place and went up on a service elevator from the Tiki Bar. We went through a side entrance of Jana's that took us directly to the offices.

A tall gorgeous blonde greeted us with kisses; she was the second tall blonde to kiss me before being introduced. Ruthie was the first. The second blonde to kiss me never introduced herself so she did not count, sort of.

This ones name was Inga. Soon a third blonde kissed me, that one was Jana, the owner and Inga's life partner. They had identical rings obviously from Wendy's.

They were two of the three women racing the stationary bikes at the gym I saw on my first night. After mentioning that I learned that the third was Jana's big sister Lucy.

She had moved to DC the previous weekend, the World Wildlife Fund had hired her husband.

That bit of news would become very important soon.

We went into the club and listened as Alice and Marie did their sound check. It was awful. I went to the guy on the soundboard and asked him if his equipment was giving him trouble.

'Yes, I have never worked with this system and I am going to wreck a concert of my Mom's favorite singers. I am a dead duck."

"I have worked with these, let me help you with it."

He gave me a thankful look and I asked Ruthie to tell the musicians to take five minutes.

I showed him, which slides corresponded to the ones on the board he normally used, and what all the others did.

There were too many slides, toggles and switches for him so I asked the musicians to go again and I set up the board.

He loved it and so did the musicians. Ruthie was amazed and asked me to do the one in her house.

"You mean that reel to reel monstrosity you have?"

I asked with a glance at the sound tech guy.

She got my drift and said, "Hey that was a gift."

"For your fifth birthday?"

"No, my sixth."

"No matter, I already set it up."

She kissed me and said thanks.

The musicians came over and thanked me for setting up the board.

"Ruthie threatened me if I didn't," I said and was immediately swatted on my butt.

"Oh, see you know each other well." the woman named Edie said.

I knew she was the most important person in Ruthie's life so I thanked her for keeping Ruthie out of jail.

My butt was swatted again and Ruthie said, "Now would be a good time for you to apologize for hurting my hand."

I stuck my chin out and said, "Make me."

A tall redheaded guy said, "Children please behave. Ruthie you may need to sit at the piano. Maggie and Jason are stuck at the airport in Little Rock and her backup Rob is in conference with someone in Las Vegas."

Ruthie looked at me and said, "You will have to re-do the sound mix, there was no piano when you did it."

The guy at the mixer got up and went home.

"It is not his fault," Allen said. "The guy the salesman trained left after he was trained. This poor guy had assumed it was a regular soundboard and not a spaceship command center. We would appreciate it if you gave us a hand. I am sure Ruthie will be most grateful too."

"Will not."

"Well one of us will," Marie said.

I stuck my tongue out at Ruthie and sat at the soundboard. As soon as I had the headphones on she slammed the keyboard. She had made it obvious to me she was going to do that so I had the headphone in front of my ears.

Still, I wrapped my arms around my head, crossed my eyes and slid to the floor. That brought applause and bravos for me as Ruthie pretended to stew but could not repress the smile on her lips.

We were good together.

They did three songs and I marveled at their talent. Each was at least as good as any musician I ever heard. The ladies had a surreal harmony they could weave in and out off.

"Does the piano player sing on any song? She has a mike on the piano," I asked.

"Yes, but leave her mike off, she never remembers the words."

Melody was famous for knowing the words of every song she ever sang since she was four. Apparently all knew that I was aware of Ruthie's secret identity.

It then occurred to me the whole town knew I was staying with her.

"Got it," I said.

Ruthie stood and gave all of us the finger and as she did the VIP's were allowed in and that was the first thing they saw. Mom and Wendy were among them.

Everyone laughed as Ruthie blushed and followed the artists backstage.

Mom, Wendy, Martina and Paloma walked over to were I was and kissed me.

"You got suckered into helping I see. Ruthie's idea?"

"Actually no. She got suckered in too."

"We are staying another night by the way. Some of my new friends say Las Vegas is a three to four day drive even with stops in San Antonio for an afternoon and at Carlsbad for the evening. And guess what? The ladies here will be in Vegas when we are."

"Oh, good," I said although I already knew. I did not know if Mom knew Ruthie's secret identity.

Petra, Sally and Naomi came over and kissed me then went to a booth with three other young ladies.

Naomi's kiss was the kiss of an occasional lover but we had not been introduced.

"Will you'all be standing or do you have a booth?" I asked Mom.

"We have a booth."

"Good, they are about to open the doors."

"We better get our drinks," Wendy, said and led them to the bar.

That was when I noticed Paloma holding Martina's elbow leading me to think she may be blind. That had never crossed my mind at the biker bar, and we had danced.

There were no introductions to the concert; when the outside doors were closed the artists just came out to a roaring reception and began to play.

There were no outliers, just beautiful music. Alice and Marie were awesome, Edie was awesome, and Allen was a bit more than awesome at the guitar and nearly as awesome on the cello, or vice versa. I had not met the drummer but the girl looked familiar. She was very good.

Ruthie was perfectly awesome.

The audience of mostly older ladies was simply in love with the artists. It was a great show and I was glad to be there.

After the performance the band came out to visit with the crowd. Ruthie came to me and announced that she was feeling selfish and would not share me with Petra and Sally and had already told them.

"Did Petra and Sally get mad?"

"I don't know, they would not speak to me."

"Oh. Did you hear we are spending another night?"

"You are? A-fucking great. How about one more night after that?"

"Not my decision. What would be so special one more night?"

"You would bring me here to dance."

"Why not tomorrow night?"

"There are ladies dancing for ladies on Thursday nights. Let me think about your schedule a little."

She then went to the ladies booth and visited with them for a while but mostly with Wendy and Mom. I busied myself with locking into memory the settings for Alice and Marie concerts then put the system back to sleep.

I joined Sally, Naomi, and Petra and Sally confessed to being a bit angry at being cut off but mostly they were all curious about how Ruthie and me would turn out.

I had apparently already fucked her many more times than all other men combined had in all her life and she wanted more.

I claimed we were just fuck buddies.

They giggled at that.

Petra mentioned that I had fucked her more times than all other men combined had too.

I had fucked her six times.

I gave her a long loving kiss that was interrupted by Sally's demand for a kiss.

Ruthie joined us and gave the girls deep kisses then took my hand and led us out. I got grins from the girls when we left.

As we sat naked on her back porch I saw a doe and her fawn come to her yard and grazed as if they lived there. Ruthie went to the kitchen and returned with two carrots.

"Hi Bobbi, Hi Magee," she said as she walked out to the deer. The doe and the fawn hurried to her and after insisting on being petted first took the carrots and followed her to the porch.

Ruthie sat on the steps and said, "You can come and sit with me. You will be the first guy they will meet but they go by how I feel about my company so they will love you."

That statement did not reach my brain for two days.

I went and sat on the step with her and said hello then listened to Melody sing to them. The deer got closer and listened intently forgetting to chew on the carrots.

Melody had a mesmerizing voice.

The song was soon over and Ruthie giggled. The fawn leaped and presented himself for petting while Bobbi ate her carrot.

Five more moms and their fawns began to cross the yard from right to left and Bobbi led Magee to them.

It was a unique experience for me and told Ruthie so.

She said, "Not so much for me and in fact Alice and Marie and Wendy can get them to do that too. One early evening the four of us sang and the entire flock came up to hear us.

They are music lovers the dears."
I groaned which is the proper response to a bad pun.

"Merci," she said and kissed me.

We went back inside and went to her studio. I detoured for a leak and when I joined her she asked, "What did you do to my settings?"

She was playing back what we had done that afternoon.

"I adjusted it to the piano, your voice and the room."

"Ahh, the room. You are the first to account for the room and that is why it sounds so perfect."

Matt called Ruthie as I fine tuned the sound in the room. After she hung up she told me he had asked her who did the sound on tonight's concert. The sound on the video was awesome, best ever, he had said.

"I gave him your name and you will be getting a check in the morning and royalties thereafter. The concert is going on a DVD."

I was standing behind her massaging her shoulders and said, "Paychecks are nice" and kissed her neck.

She pulled me down and sat me next to her on the bench and said, "OK, listen. Neither Wendy nor I are ready to see you and your Mom leave so we called a friend and he found someone to drive your trailer home. He will start on the way Tuesday and have it at your house on Saturday then fly back.

Your Mom will be with Wendy and fly to Vegas on Thursday. We need to be there Tuesday.

I will be introducing you as our sound-man but Caesar's has one of the best so you do not need to do anything except love me for a week. Any objections?"

"Is there anything to eat in your kitchen?"

I was as happy as could be but decided not to show it. Ruthie saw it anyway.

After a wild kiss she answered, "Yes, anything I like from any restaurant I always get a second meal to go and freeze it. I must have thirty in the freezer?"

"Lets get some parkas on and search."

We went to the kitchen and I settled on some swordfish with sauce and she decided on shrimp pasta like we just had that evening.

I asked if there was another one and she pointed at a shelf that had three more. I put the swordfish back and got the linguini.

We kissed as we waited.

While we ate she told me what she had to do when she got to Vegas. I asked her if she would have time to look around the town and she said no.

"You have Friday and Saturday," I said.

"Yes, I would," she said and put her dish in the sink.

She seemed to be down more than a bit. The leaving the next day now had a concrete date.

"Hey, don't punt before it's fourth down."

I wondered why I said that but her small smile made whatever I meant worthwhile.

I put my dish in the sink and got a Dr. Pepper for her and a coke for me and walked us out to her back porch. We got on her swing and sat silently for a while.

"Is it because of Melody?"

Somehow she thought I was rejecting her.

"Melody is your job. You are Ruthie and I really like Ruthie. I like Melody in concert but I'm not sure we are compatible."

"You are right, Melody is just my job. I am happy to hear you like Ruthie better."

I kissed her. I meant it to be a sweet short kiss but as the kiss progressed neither of us felt like ending it so we continued the kiss. My hand ended up on a breast, her hand ended up on my cock. A few moments later she straddled me and sank her pussy over my very alert cock.

Our kiss continued but we did not fuck, we loved as I gently propelled the swing for us.

I kissed her breasts as I caressed her ass. She wound her arms around my shoulders and pulled me harder to her body.

I put both hands under her butt and stood with us still coupled. She wound her longlegs around me and I walked us to the bed and lay on my back. The kiss intensified.

I put my legs outside hers and squeezed them together effectively trapping my cock in her pussy. I began pressing her ass down in a slow rhythm. Our kiss ended when she groaned in orgasm.

I did not pause or stop until I filled her with my semen, which came after her fifth cum. It had been a nearly hour long fuck.

We resumed our kiss until we fell asleep.

She was staring at me when I awoke the next morning.

"What?"

"You made real love to me last night, I felt it. It was real so don't try to deny it. Careful, I might get used to that.

But we do not have time this morning, I have to go to work and you do too. We are rehearsing the Vegas show and we do not have a sound-man. Allen told me to do whatever it took to get you there.

I told him that Canadian bacon, sausage gravy over potatoes and blueberry pancakes would do it."

"You had me at the Canadian bacon."

"We need to dress and go," she said as she got off my body. It was then that I realized my cock had been in her pussy.

We had to hurry to the studio so neither of us got to the pancakes but that was overkill anyway, we were not too disappointed.

I met several people including the head and owner of the studio, the first such person I had ever met.

The working atmosphere could only be described as casual. Everybody kissed everybody including me and everyone knew what they needed to do except me.

Rob, the studio head, apologized for forgetting I had not been there before and led me to the sound booth and introduced me to the love of my life. The beautiful monster had more channels, buses, sliders and power than anything I had ever worked with.

Sony had purchased three and I had trained on the one that had been set up but I had never worked using it.

I told Rob that and he laughed and said, "Don't worry, no one has worked on this thing since we had it installed. It is the mother ship of the one you worked on last night so Allen thought you could handle it. Have fun."

I had a blast with it and by the time we needed a sound check I was ready. I got useful stuff from everyone but Ruthie, she gave me a raspberry and an Oww.

I looked up and saw Edie had slapped her butt.

I turned on my mike and said, "Perfect."

Ruthie said, "Thank you."

"I was talking to Edie."

As Ruthie was giving me the finger a smiling Edie started a violin intro and everyone else jumped in at precisely the right time and Ruthie began to sing a happy up-tempo song.

I had everyone and every instrument perfectly pegged before the first chorus and kept them there for two hours. As they finished the set I turned on my mike and said, "Uhm, Janis, are you doing Cry Baby?"

Ruthie jumped up and down as the others immediately got ready and Allen began to wail on his Fender as Edie rushed to the piano. It was an even longer hair-raising version of the one Janis did on the Canadian train tour.

They had done this before.

Everyone was laughing and jumping and clapping when finished and Ruthie ran to me and gave me a ferocious kiss then began to lobby to include it in the program. She did not need to; Rob and Allen had already decided it had to go in.

For lunch I told Ruthie I wanted to try the fish place downtown that was too crowded to get into on my first night in town, Ruthie agreed and so did everyone else so ten of us walked there.

As it turned out it was as crowded as it had been before, but they had a covered patio that could hold all of us at one table.

Ruthie ordered the swordfish and I ordered the grilled grouper which came head and all. Ruthie called me a barbarian and said "Yeww" when I ate the eye.

I gave her the other eye to eat and after a great debate with herself she ate it.

Everyone else said "Yeww."

Ruthie kissed me then announced, "It was good."

Ruthie and I spent the lunch feeding each other as we talked with the others about everything except the concert session.

I learned more about the people and relationships in town. I was introduced to Doris, the co-owner and chef of the place, and learned that Martina's husband had financed the restaurant. Doris and her husband Larry already paid him back but he owned ten percent.

Ruthie told me he had done the same for Sally, and Julian and Marissa, and he owned ten percent of those. She also said that for all practical purposes all were brothers and sisters. The relationships in town began to make some sense.

Also eating with us were Ruthie's agents Edna and the elder Petra, our Petra's mom. They had business to discus with Rob.

Allen did tell me that after lunch we would go back and listen and take notes then argue for a couple of hours and do it again tomorrow until we had it perfect, then do a dress rehearsal. We would do another run-through at Caesars Tuesday afternoon and if needed Wednesday morning.

Once as Ruthie was giving me a forkful of sauce-covered swordfish we noticed that everyone was looking at us.

"What?" Ruthie asked.

Eight people smiled and said, "Nothing."

I though I saw a tear fall off Edie's eye.

"Allergies," I thought until Ruthie ran to her and gave her a ferocious kiss then ran back to me.

Ruthie was borderline overflowing with happiness when she kissed me, took a deep breath and asked if anyone was not going to finish their fries.

Everybody threw them at her, which started a food fight.

The guys got up and went to the register and left the fight to the ladies. I followed the guys after I caught a fry and ate it.

Apparently a tradition of some kind had been honored.

As we walked back everyone had somebody's hand in theirs. Rob had Marie's hand in his, as it turned out she was his mother.

Alice was walking hand in hand with the drummer, which turned out to have been Nikki, the drummer for a popular all girl group at the turn of the century and also her daughter.

Allen and Edie had been married for a long while.

Petra the mom and Edna were doing a lot of giggling behind us. I had the feeling it was about me, or about Ruthie and me.

"Ignore them," Ruthie said which sent them to a full laughter. It was then that I noted they had identical rings by Wendy.

As we got to the boulevard they said bye and headed to an office building to our right.

Back at the studio we all got comfortable and listened to the playback. Everyone had a pad and a pencil and all of us wrote something down. I was sitting on a cushion on the thickly carpeted floor against a wall and Ruthie was on the floor with her head on my lap as Allen and Edie did the same.

Rob had his mother in his arms as he sat against the wall and Alice had her daughter in her arms as they did the same. There was guy I had not met but knew it was Matt at the playback booth and a woman was sitting on the piano stool.

The playback stopped at the fifty minute mark and everybody got up and went to the restroom then returned with a coke or Dr. Pepper except Allen who came back with coffee. I decided that was a good idea and asked him where the coffee was.

I met Matt there; he was doing the playback and did the filming for every concert. He appeared to be a good guy and very good at his job.

Ten minutes later we talked about the first fifty minutes.

Who wants to start? Rob asked.

"I do. I want to apologize for the first five seconds or so. It will be better next time." I said.

"Not to worry, we all know it was Ruthie's fart the led you astray," Edie said.

Ruthie held her hand up then slowly curled all her fingers except one. I slurped the finger into my mouth and that made Ruthie go, "Yeww," which got laughter from everyone else.

I noticed Ruthie had musical notes and numbers on her pad.

Another bathroom/drink session later Rob again asked, "Who wants to go first?

Alice said to her daughter, "Baby, before the last stanza of Roses I think we need something a bit more boisterous; that is when the listener realizes the song is not about the flower but about sisters."

All nodded in agreement and I said, "Bass drum and cymbals leading to the normal beat should be enough," I said.

Everyone looked at me, and I realized that type of comment was not part of the job.

I was about to apologize when Nikki, asked, "One or three?"

"Three and one."

"I got it. Thanks."

From that point I gave my input was only when requested. It was requested often.

The lady sitting on the piano stool never said anything but wrote copious notes. I learned she was a representative of Caesar's and would be the stage manager at the venue. I did not know if everyone did that or if it was just Caesar's, I had never sat at any of the meetings.

As the meeting ended I asked, "When should Janis show up? I will need ten seconds to adjust the board for her so it can't be in the middle during the long medley. And is there going to be an introduction of Janis, maybe something on the screen. Just something to consider but not a question for now, Ruthie's tummy is growling at me."

I was looking at Caesar's rep when I said the part on archival video.

She nodded at me.

"Think about what Sean said but let's go home. See you tomorrow at nine," Rob said.

We all groaned our way off the floor and began to walk out.

"Where to?" I asked.

"Home, we have two more containers of garlic oil linguini."

Ruthie was skipping and humming as we walked out to her car.

"Why are you so happy?"

"It's more than that. It was the first time I had anyone with me for playback. It felt good. Thanks," she said and kissed me. She waved at the others when they said bye but never stopped the kiss.

Ruthie and I shared one bad habit, we would eat the same meal over and over until we were done then never again for a year or so. We were not near that point with the linguini.

She said "I had promised Janie I would watch her dance tonight but I am too tired. I just want to sit on the swing with you and watch the creatures walk by."

"I thought Janie was deaf."

"She is and yet she is the best dancer of us all. Matt puts the bass speaker face down on the floor and she is barefoot as she dances. She is my best friend even though we have never had sex. We became best friends during the year I tried to seduce her. She is married with two kids now. I am on her baby sitters list and on Vicky's list too."

"Vicky?"

"Rob's wife.

"Funny, I can easily see you babysitting but I would never be able to see Melody babysitting."

"You are weird."

We were now at her house and got naked.

We talked, we cuddled, and we kissed until our quiet evening ended when Allen and Edie arrived. They did bring a box of empanadillas so I was happy to see them even though I had to put gym shorts on. Edie wore just a t-shirt of the opera Carmen. Ruthie put on a t-shirt of Alice and Marie.

As they came in I saw that they had come over in bicycles.

They wanted to know if Ruthie had finished the duet. She said yes but was having second thoughts about her partner on the song. Ruthie took them to her studio and before I had a chance to decide to follow them or not Mom and Wendy walked in, they were wearing just t-shirts. Mom was wearing the New Orleans one I had bought her. Wendy's was an old Air Force Academy shirt. I later learned it was the first time Wendy had worn the shirt since her husband died.

Both gave me long kisses and Wendy added a dick grope then asked where Ruthie was. I told them, "In the studio with Edie and Allen, they just went there."

Wendy headed that way as Mom hugged me.

She said, "I am going home the Saturday morning after the concert. You do not need to come with me, Wendy is. We hired the driver to stay and unpack for me. Wendy will stay until Tuesday.

I am not telling you can't come with me, I am telling you that if you want to stay with Ruthie you can."

Wendy came back and told Mom, "Marti, you have to come and listen to this."

Mom followed her and before my head could absorb what she had just said more people came in, Mo, Marie, Alice, and Nikki came in, all of them in ill-fitting t-shirts. I could see Nikki's tits under the sleeves. All came to me and gave me big kisses and dick gropes then went directly to the studio.

Rob walked in as Allen walked back out, apparently Allen had called him. Rob waved at me as he went to the studio and I just gave up.

I went to the kitchen, put some empanadillas in a bowl, got a coke, and then started out towards the patio but I noticed a kitchen cabinet in a corner.

"If I was hiding booze anywhere in the kitchen it would be there," I said to myself.

I found what I was hoping for in that cabinet, an already open bottle of crown. I filled a tall glass with ice, filled a third of it with crown then filled the rest of it with coke.

I was at the patio table and had eaten all my empanadillas and drank half my drink when Allen and Rob joined me. They had crown and cokes and empanadillas.

Rob said, "We would like for you to consider being our audio supervisor. We are ready to pay you twice what Sony is paying.

"Wow, I didn't see that coming. Did Mom just tell you we are no longer in a hurry to get to L.A.?"

"Actually she told Ruthie and her reaction immediately brought verbal abuse from the other women.

Anyway talk it over with Ruthie tonight and give us a hint before we return from Vegas," Allen said.

"And no, she does not know we are making this offer and will not tell her we did if you decide against it." Rob added.

"Any empanadillas left." I asked trying to get it all in my head.

"Yeah, a bunch. The ladies are otherwise occupied. Bring the box with you," Allen said.

For the rest of their stay we talked about song order and the Janis intro.

I told them that, "I was sure it was not well received in Vancouver because that audience did not know Janis.

Ninety percent of Melody's fans were not born before Janis died. Ruthie has a memory of discovery that she should share with her audience."

"Write it down for her," Rob said.

I asked them when they were returning from Vegas and they said, "Sunday night. Vicky and I want to revisit some places and all the ladies want time to play. You have a seat on that plane."

"Man, I suddenly have a lot to consider and I am living with a woman that doesn't drink."

Both laughed and Allen added, "And she doesn't buy either. Whatever booze you find in this house someone else bought it and brought it here. Your turn to buy the crown."

"Got it."

About thirty minutes later the ladies came out and kissed all of us, grabbed an empanadilla, and left taking Allen and Rob with them.

Every kiss smelled like pussy.

A few moments later Ruthie came out and sat with me at the table. She had a Dr. Pepper and I slid a paper plate with four empanadillas I had hidden for her.

She kissed me and wolfed them down quickly.

When she finished the last I asked, "What was all the commotion about in the studio? I asked.

"You."

"I wasn't in there."

"Yes you were, in the song we sang together. Funny thing, when I played it back yesterday I was listening to me and marveling at how good you made me sound,

Tonight I listened to you. You have a romantic baritone voice everyone liked. All said we sounded really good together, even Edie."

'That's nice. Do you drink anything except Dr. Pepper?"

"Root Beer, orange juice, Tea, nothing with alcohol. Why do you ask?"

"The guys discovered me drinking their crown. I have to replace it."

"Serves you right. I am still hungry. Do you still want the pasta?"

"Yes please."

"I will be right back."

As she left I asked myself. "Lets see, what do I know?

I know that if Mom is fine with it I would love to take the job here. Felicity is a much more pleasant place to live in than Los Angeles, and Los Angeles doesn't have Ruthie.

I would be making enough money to buy a house if I needed to. This is her house, not mine or ours. Her house.

Hmm, this is Melody's house, not Ruthie's.

I wondered if she has thought of it that way. Maybe we could....

OK, lets get back to basics. Do I love her? Does she love me?"

Ruthie put my bowl in front of me and we inhaled the food. Ruthie kept interrupting my eating with wild kisses so I interrupted her with wild kisses.
We were down to just a couple of bites when Ruthie and I re-enacted the scene from Lady and the Tramp with a noodle and she gave me a sweet kiss that neither of us wanted to end until we sensed someone was watching us, or rather watching her.

"That is Celia the third. She is fat because all the women feed her. She wants linguini."

I left a last bite with a shrimp for the bear size raccoon and sat on the steps.

She came to the bowl before I had the chance to put it down so I just held it for her.

Ruthie sat next to me and held the bowl for her after Celia finished with mine. Ruthie rubbed behind her ear for a few moments and after both bowls were shiny Celia chirped and went to someone else's yard to beg for food.

"Helen and James would pitch a fit when we fed her, and when we fed the deer. We claimed that we were not feeding them but they caught us more than once."

"Helen and James?"

"Brother and sister, biology people. You will love Helen."

We helped each other up and after taking care of the bowls we went to the shower. We soaped each other then embraced under the shower heads. She got up onto her toes and slid my cock into her. She growled.

"You just growled at me."

"Did not."

"Did too. You are an animal."

I gave her a long kiss that had more than a bit of love in it.

I didn't know why I pulled back but Ruthie pulled me back into the kiss. I took two strokes into her pussy and she growled again.

"OK, maybe that time, but not the first."

"That was the second time," I said as I backed her up to the wall and her lifted a knee as I began to pound into her. That time it was more of a groan rather than a growl.

After her orgasm I slowed and asked, "Have you always been this vocal?"

"No, I had never had orgasms like these."

I kissed her like I was madly in love with her but again cut it short when I realized what I was doing. She was into another orgasm so she did not notice.

I separated from her and got us out of the shower. We dried and went to bed. I lay on my back and let her decide what she wanted to do.

She cuddled up to my side and grabbed my still very erect cock.

"This thing is magical, it takes me places I have never been. So are your kisses. That one during my last orgasm went to my heart. Tell me what you want from me."

I wanted to say I wanted a blowjob but I understood what she meant. I remained silent hoping she would say something else. She waited for me.

"OK, the thing is I could not live in this house, this is Melody's house. Ruthie and I are neighborhood people and we would be happy in a normal neighborhood."

"Agreed."

"I mean you have a complete studio and lord knows how many bedrooms, and..."

"I already agreed. A four bedroom has just become available in Cloverleaf One. We could buy it as a couple."

"What? We just met. I mean we like to fuck and hang around but living together is just........"

I knew it was just panic stammering and that both of us knew better.

She kissed me and said, "No, not living together, married, having kids, going to parent teacher conferences, being called grandma and grandpa."

Panic said, "Now you have lost it. How long have you had this delusion?"

"Since our first kiss at the biker bar probably. It became crystal clear yesterday."

I was fighting my emotions. My brain told me it was a really bad idea but my heart knew it belonged to her and just waited.

"Let me ask you a question your Mom asked me. Look as far into the future as you can."

"OK, now what?"

"Do you see me there?"

I did not answer; I could not for the life of me answer that. The only thing I saw was her.

She slid over my body and slid my cock into her then placed her hands under my head and gave me the most amazing kiss anyone had ever given anyone.

I ejaculated into her.

"You just growled at me."

"No I didn't," I said but I suspected I had.

Then she launched her last assault.

"I love you," she said.

I capitulated.

"I love you," I said.

"I know," she said and fell asleep right where she was.

The next morning felt normal but wasn't. To start with we did not fuck, we were a bit late getting up.

Oh, sure her nipples were in my mouth briefly, (I love her tits and she loves that I love her tits), and her hand was on my cock often all day but that morning we did not fuck.

We were a normal couple going to work.

Well except maybe for the five kisses before we made it from the door of the house to the car. And another three kisses before she got the car moving, and another kiss at each stop sign.

As we drove to Felicity Music Ruthie called Wendy and asked her to meet her at her shop at noon. Ruthie looked at me and I understood and nodded.

I ran into Sally's and got twenty kolaches and ran out.

I did not see Sally and asked Ruthie who the very effeminate guy that served me was.

"That is Wedermeyer. We love him but don't go near him, he is very bold. Oh, wait, now that I think about it you have a woman so he will ignore you.

He used to be a lawyer but after he joined the playhouse group he decided not to go back to the city. He stayed in Felicity and just let his freak flag fly, so to speak."

"What playhouse group?"

"Fridays and Saturdays a group of guys put on outrageous plays at the opposite corner of Sally's. Wedermeyer bought the building and lives there; it used to be a hardware store. We will go to one of the plays after we get back from Vegas if you want."

I nodded thinking back to the time I was a part of such a group.

After she got her car parked at Felicity Music I got a long kiss.

We became very popular when we went in with kolaches and Ruthie and I had breakfast with ten or twelve people. I had gotten two pineapple pastries just for us and I ate mine a few minutes later.

Ruthie and I did not tell anyone anything about the change in our relationship yet somehow everyone knew.

Or maybe everyone already knew except me.

Edie took me aside and told me that it had been the first time they had changed anything just before a concert, (the songs and the song order), and there had not been any tantrums, complaints, whines, anything. Ruthie just said OK.

If they hadn't known that it was me that caused it they would have sent her to the hospital for tests.

"Don't get me wrong, Ruthie is always fine, Melody however is sometimes a handful.

We have not seen Melody. We expected her yesterday as we did the concert, but it was still Ruthie. I don't know if you are magic or if she found someone more important to her than Melody."

I nodded to her and told her I hoped it was the latter.

"We have talked about Melody often and very seriously the last two nights. I told her I would not be able to live in Melody's house, that we are neighborhood people.

She agreed immediately. I think she is ready to move out of the mansion."

"Really?"

"Really."

Edie shook her head and began to play the prelude but Ruthie was not there. As she came running in she was taking a bite out of her pineapple pastry and apologizing for being late.

I turned on my mike and said, "You ate mine didn't you."

"I apologize for that too."

Edie began her prelude and Ruthie said, "Wait my hands are sticky. I apologize for that too."

"And your face is gooey," I said.

"I apologize for that too."

I threw her a towel and she said, "Thank you. But now the towel is icky, I apologize for that too."

By then everyone was laughing their heads off.

Not bad for a very quickly improvised skit.

When we did go through the concert it was flawless.

We went to Wendy's shop for rings during lunch and I went to Janie's and brought back enough food for all of us including Marie and Mo.

Ruthie had already picked out a ring before I got back. I suspected she had it picked out long before we met.

Mom was there and just hugged me and just hugged Ruthie. We took it as her approval so we hugged and kissed her back.

Ruthie asked Wendy to call her little sister the realtor. Ruthie took the phone and walked to the side as the ladies and I talked and ate. It felt like I was with my extended family.

Ruthie came back to us and asked Wendy not to put her ring on the display screen until she had it on.

"Not a problem," she said

After we kissed Mom, Wendy, and Mo the three of us, Marie, Ruthie and me returned to the studio holding hands.

Later during the first break Ruthie told me we bought the house in the Cloverleaf subdivision even though I had not seen it.

Ruthie said she had been in it several times and told me it would be perfect for us, with just a few minor adjustments here and there.

Wendy had told Ruthie her ring would be ready when we got back from Vegas but had secretly told me they would be ready in an hour, even our wedding bands. During the second pee break that afternoon I snuck out to get them.

As we listened to that morning's playback we decided we liked the feel of it much better. Nikki's drumming made a big difference in that one song and we all praised her for it. I got a nod.

No one had anything to say during our breaks, everyone was satisfied with the concert as it was.

Apparently that was a first. Edie and Marie both kissed Ruthie. Edie gave me a big smile and a nod. We got off work early.

After work Ruthie and I went to our new house. I was surprised by how large it was and how much yard it had. It was twice as big as my house in L.A., three times bigger if you included the land, and cost less than half the price of mine.

Our realtor Amanda met us there and had Ruthie and me sign a bunch of papers. One of them was a lease for the house; we paid a dollar for it. The lease allowed us to start work on the house and move in before closing.

One paper was an agreement to sell the mansion. Ruthie did not hesitate to sign it.

We soon met the contractors Amanda had hired for us. Ruthie told hers everything she wanted for her new music room including taking down the wall between the two smallest rooms and raising the ceiling to make it happen.

Those were the minor changes she had in mind. Plus repainting the whole house, inside and outside. And adding a big sliding glass door to the yard side of the new studio,

"Other than that I am fine with the house," she said.

"Right." I said.

I wanted to have all the exterior doors open out instead of in but noted they already did. It made it more difficult for hurricanes and bad people to bust them in.

My landscaper was there too and I drew a detailed map of how I wanted the backyard.

Our yard ended where the wildlife refuge began so I was having a section of the fence removed, I wanted as much of the wild kingdom to visit as often as possible.

I had a plan to train Bobbi and Celia on how to find us.

Both contractors promised they would have everything finished in a week.

We managed not to laugh.

We went to the mansion and sat on the swing with Ruthie on my lap. We spent perhaps fifteen minutes on our first kiss then she slid to my side and we talked about our new house.

She wanted to pay cash for it herself but I told her I had the money to pay cash for half of the house and closing costs.

"You do?"

"Yes, I am not as destitute as I dress. You pay the inside contractor and I will pay the painter and landscaper."

"Deal. Prenuptial agreement?"

"If you need it."

"I don't but Carly suggested it. That was years ago after my bank balance got up to incredible. It was part of her lecture on how millionaires are supposed to behave. I told her lesbians do not need them.

Carly told me she was exhibit one on not to being so damn cocky. She had been a lesbian when she met Jimmy; in fact she had represented his ex wife.

Connie had been a lesbian and in a relationship when she chose Joe. Helen had been a lesbian all her adult life until Roger and Leigh was with a partner for most of hers before Corey. All are now wives and Moms."

"You are no longer a lesbian and are going to be married soon, you may want to revisit with her."

"Maybe. But when I asked Carly if she or any of those people had prenups she blushed and said No.

Carly told me you were not after my money and you didn't know I had any until I brought you here. I am fine without one"

I smiled and kissed her then said, "Edie thinks I may have inadvertently kissed off Melody."

"Nah, she will show up at eight next Wednesday. We don't need her until then. She might still be there after the show when you come for me but I doubt it."

Our next fifteen-minute kiss relocated to the bed.

"I wonder how things would have turned out had you left that first Monday?"

"I would have come back to Felicity."

"You would have?"

"Yes, if only to prove to myself I was not in love with you."

"Fat chance of that," she said as we began our last fifteen-minute kiss of the afternoon.

We began our fuck, or rather our loving, two minutes into it. After our orgasms we kissed and cuddled for another fifteen minutes before we got up showered and dressed.

That night we did make it to Bolero and had a fabulous Paella Valenciana.

While we waited on dessert I slid her ring on her finger as I said, "I love you. Marry me please."

I didn't know what to expect but bursting into tears was not on the list. Neither were all the people that suddenly appeared and rushed to us for hugs and kisses, which included Mom, Petra and Sally, Marissa and Janie. All of her friends at the studio were there. Edie prolonged Ruthie's tears as she joined her in them.

I had told my plan to give Ruthie the ring before dessert to only one person, Mom. But Wendy heard it too. Many people later told me that Wendy was the second worst person to tell a secret to after Karen. I later learned Karen was going to be a neighbor.

The mob disappeared as soon as our dessert was served.

Ruthie thanked and kissed me for making the event so wonderful.

I kept my mouth shut.

We had been at Jana's dancing for about twenty minutes when the spotlight set on us and everyone applauded and chanted, "Ring, ring."

Ruthie raised her hand and showed her ring.

When the spotlight hit it we heard many "Oohs".

The four small blue diamonds reflected their color onto the bigger diamond and produced an aura of blue through and above it.

It occurred to me the ring cost more than one month of my salary. I was trying to decide whether to confront her over it when she wrapped her arms around me and gave me a "forever" kiss.

The crowd roared and she began to sob again. Many kisses later she was at a booth with Petra, Sally, Holly, Inga, Jana, Edie and Vicky. A girl I had not met that looked like Jana was introduced as Jana's sister and Matt's wife.

Their husbands and I were standing in front of them.

Matt, Allen and Rob patted me on the back. I was introduced to Marshall, Holly's husband.

Marshall said, "She will remember this night as the best of her life and you were the reason for it. Milk that for all it's worth."

The guys all nodded to me and laughed.

They headed to the bar and I was about to follow but all of them subtly shook their head no so I stayed in the vicinity of Ruthie.

She noticed and gave me a brilliant smile.

Thankfully the guys came back with a waitress carrying a bunch of drinks and Allen handed me a crown and coke. Ruthie got a coke with a slice of lemon and a cherry on top.

I have always been good at remembering names and faces but I was challenged that night, I had at least fifteen names and faces to add to my mental files.

Before it reached overload Ruthie stood and announced, "If you will excuse me I need to take him home and fuck him to Moose Jaw."

All the ladies giggled and applauded. I gave them my best "in fear for my life" look and walked out with her hand in hand.

We saw her ring and her name on Wendy's display screen. The name under it simply said, "Ruthie."

The display became the talk of the town and the center of gossip the next day. Fortunately Ruthie and I remained clueless about that.

That night I was pleased to learn the way to Moose Jaw was peppered with several orgasms for her and a gigantic one for both of us. We were both asleep within seconds after our arrival.

Saturday morning we met at Jana's Place and had a dress rehearsal. Matt was filming it and I was doing the sound.

It was my first time to see Ruthie in costume and to me she was just Ruthie in costume. We baited each other as usual as we got ready.

Edie had this otherworldly smile on her face.

I asked Ruthie if her digestive system was OK and she said, "No," and farted.

Everyone moved away as they vociferously complained until Ruthie calmly said, "I'm better now," then gave me a middle C.

I thanked her for her professionalism and she replied, "You are most welcome."

Everyone was smiling and Edie had a big grin on her face as she began her prelude.

I had to adjust to compensate for the sound of the footsteps backstage and the rustle and bustle of the three costume changes but it was easier than a rock concert where sounds appeared out of nowhere.

The third costume change took a bit longer than expected but Allen covered it with a guitar riff that sounded late sixties.

We later decided to move that costume change to after the Janis song when Alice and Marie did their second number.

I did write an intro to the Janis song. Ruthie came out and spoke as Allen continued playing softly in the background.

She said, "Many people are responsible for my career the principal of which is my Grammy winning sister Edie."

I signaled for her to pause, I was sure that Edie was likely to get applause in Vegas.

Ruthie had insisted on that line and I was happy to add it.

Ruthie nodded and continued, "But my love of music came from my Grandmom Ruth, the wild woman in the family tree. She had been to Woodstock and had managed to follow the Rock train as it sped through Canada.

She had seen The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Grateful Dead,and the Jefferson Airplane when they were at their peak.

But most of all she loved Janis. I asked her why and she said, "Because she can raise the hair off the back of my neck."

They had decided to forget what the Holding Company the Kozmic Blues and Full Tilt Boogie did and Allen began with a somewhat David Gilmore riff and Ruthie just blasted away.

As Ruthie went backstage after the song Edie began the piano intro to Alice and Marie's biggest hit. Melody returned and finished the concert in style.

I was making notes and noted that the two party songs at the beginning needed to be moved to the back end of the concert and that they needed to add at least two Janis encore songs.

I also wrote that a song of lost love that had enjoyed some popularity be sung as Janis would have. Not in her voice, but as a song full of raw emotions instead of a song of regret.

I wondered how many other songs she had that could be done over that way.

After the concert the band and I waited for Melody to revert to Ruthie.

Edie came to me and said, "She's still Ruthie."

"Will that cause trouble?"

"We will know on Wednesday but I doubt it. Melody has deep self-doubts but you may have noticed Ruthie does not.

Ruthie created Melody because Melody would stand up for herself but that backfired from the start. Melody threw tantrums so I decided I would always call her Ruthie and promised to have her best interest at heart.

Still Melody would be a nervous and demanding wreck for as long as six weeks before a concert. Except this one."

"So it's a good thing I am around?"

"Absolutely but I must confess we expected major problems had you left after the first weekend, everyone told us she was already in love with you even then."

"So I was hired to keep her sane?"

"No, you were hired because two sound men walked out on us. Had you and Ruthie not gotten along we would have still hired you. The guys think you are the best we have ever used and are happy they had Ruthie to keep you here."

Ruthie came out then and most of us, (Alice and Marie had gone to Marie's house); walked to the Tiki Bar patio and we had fabulous hamburgers for lunch.

Ruthie and I sat at a large table with Edie and Allen and Nikki, and Matt. Holly joined us; she was a friend of Nikki.

Holly did not know Ruthie's secret identity. She would figure it out the following Thursday.

After a long conversation on the merits of fish tacos Holly sent the conversation in a different direction when she asked Ruthie, "Well, how was Moose Jaw?"

"A very bumpy and pleasurable trip. We may be going to Belize tonight."

"That is a longer trip isn't it?"

"Oh, I hope so," I said.

Ruthie slapped my shoulder then kissed me.

"Are you two going to the concert in Vegas?" Holly asked Ruthie.

"Yes. Isn't that your home town?"

"Yes, in fact Marshall and I met there when he went to install smart spotlights for Roger. We wanted to go too but the concerts are sold out. We even have plane seats the boss got for the whole company but Las Vegas is not that big an attraction for us except to see Mom."

"Hmm, I can understand that. Give Sean a chance to talk to Melody. She loves him and she may have a few tickets left. It won't hurt to ask."

"Ooh, thanks. But don't push her too much. Her reputation as a diva is likely true."

"Her reputation as a diva is definitely true," I said.

Edie gave me a quick look of panic when I said that.

Ruthie slapped my shoulder again saying, "Don't be mean to her. She loves you."

"OK, true. In fact that may have been the case once but I have not seen any display of that all week. She came to work on time, took suggestions well, and sang her heart out. I'll take divas like that to Moose Jaw any day. Ouch."

I got slapped in the arm again.

Edie gave me one of those smiles a person gets when they get away with something they should not have tried in the first place but they might kill you anyway.

Allen said to her, "Baby, that's your smile for me," and kissed her. She kissed him back and giggled.

We talked for at least thirty minutes before we noticed our food and drink were gone so Ruthie and I kissed our way out and went home, our real home.

As promised the contractors were there. The wall between the two small bedrooms was gone and they had no ceiling.

We realized the rooms were not that small at all; Ruthie's new studio was going to be as big as her old one.

"What are they doing in the yard," Ruthie asked me.

They are pulling up the lawn. It is going to be an all flower and wildlife garden soon with natural stone walkways."

"What are those pipes for?"

"Oh, those are the cattle guard. We want the creatures in our yard but not among the flowers. It will be in the ground about twenty feet back from the fence. We will have a covered swing on the fence side of it."

"What are your favorite flowers?"

"Hibiscus."

"Let me take you to Martina's yard, Adrian has a maze made up of plants. He has begun to change it every once in a while so we have to learn it over and over.

All of us hate it that the first to learn the new maze is always Paloma."

"Somehow I am not surprised to hear that."

"There used to be lesbian orgies there on Sundays but not anymore. Now they are in my yard, or Marie and Mo's yard, or Jana and Inga's pool."

As we began to walk up our sidewalk Ruthie began to give me a tour of our loop.

"Our neighbor to our right is Carly. She is the head of my agency.

That is Edie and Allen's house on the far side of the circle next to Carly. They moved there a year ago.

This one next to us is Maggie and Jason's. He is a photographer and they were in Hot Springs for a photo shoot and vacation but when the storms hit last Wednesday they couldn't get back. They decided to stay and look for temporary waterfalls. They will be at the concert.

Maggie plays the piano for Alice and Marie's sessions here during the summer. She is a teacher full time. When you feel comfortable with her ask to see the picture of her sitting at the edge of a small waterfall."

"What is so special about it?"

"Well, she is nude and is reaching for a mug of beer next to her. It is gorgeous.

This house next to hers is Karen's. Both she and Carly are on an European vacation with their husbands and will be back Tuesday. They will be at the concert on Thursday.

Maggie and Karen are sisters and Carly is a cousin. They all look alike at first and in fact look just like Connie and Helen but just pay attention to the number of freckles and the size of tits.

Jana and Inga live next to Edie. Edie and Allen have become at ease with the many people trooping through their yard naked. Edie joins us at the pool often, she was a lesbian when she met Allen and participates in the sex often. Maggie never does and Karen rarely does but, Carly, Leigh, and Helen always do.

Petra and Sally live here. Expect them at our house often and expect them nude. Karen has a son so they will keep their shirts on until they get to Maggie's yard. They used to need to keep them on through our yard too; James and Lucy had kids.

I will give Petra and Sally the rules about you when I come up with them.

The print in the den of a whale surfacing between three kayaks, have you noticed it?"

"Yes, I wondered if it was real."

"Very real, Paul and Pula are two of the three people in the kayaks. The video is on You Tube. I would have freaked."

"No you wouldn't, you would have offered it linguini."

She giggled and kissed me then said, "They live at that corner and their yard opens to Jana's yard. They get a lot of the lesbian overflow. Paula does participate often. Jana and Inga host the lesbian party this Sunday."

"Are you going?"

"Undecided.

This house on the corner is Charles and Shirley. Charles may be the only person on Earth that knows how much money I have. He is the agency vice president and CPA. His wife Shirley is delicious.

That over there across the street is Martina's house."

I was somewhat surprised that we had just walked to the end of our block then turned left and crossed the street. We went in by the yard gate and found a children's wonderland of sorts in Martina's yard. There were kids everywhere with parents and a few grandparents chasing them down. The adjacent yard had a world-class playground in it.

I heard someone shout, "Ruthie and Sean are here,"

People came out of the bushes, literally, to hug and kiss us. Mom was one of them as was Wendy. Each had a kid in their arms.

Wendy had a five-year-old boy named Jim who shook my hand then got down and ran to the swings. A redheaded girl around ten went chasing after him. "My grandson," Wendy said with pride.

I met Roger and Corey, two guys I had heard about and Randy, a guy I had not heard about. It was his wife that was blind although it would take anyone a while of watching Paloma to figure that out. He was the commander of the Coast Guard Station.

A bunch of little girls came to Ruthie and asked her if I was the guy she was going to marry.

"Yes, I found him and caught him and you can't have him."

"The girls giggled so I said, "Help me."

Ruthie swatted my butt and the girls went into uncontrollable giggles.

They seemed to be between eight and twelve and except for two blondes and a somewhat black girl all were redhead. The oldest two seemed to know Ruthie's secret identity and whined about not being taken to Vegas the next week.

Mom put the twin on the ground and almost as soon as she did a red headed boy growled at her and the girl squealed and ran.

As we laughed Mom took Ruthie's hand and asked, "Baby planned?"

"One, a future musical star," Ruthie said.

"He will be spoiled if you only have one."

"We only have two bedrooms and one will be too noisy for him," I said.

"That huge house has only two bedrooms?"

"Oh no, we bought another one, It's at the end of the next street," Ruthie said.

"So you did buy James and Lucy's house," Wendy said to us.

"Yes we did."

"Why?"

Ruthie said, "It was a negotiated condition. Actually living alone in the huge house made me feel lonely so I was seldom in it. Sean told me it was Melody's house, not mine. He was right."

"There are going to be a lot of naked people walking through your yard every day going to and from Jana and Inga's pool," Martina said.

"We don't mind naked people. Both gates will be green."

I had been advised that a green gate meant welcome and clothing optional. Both gates for us to our neighbors were green. They would soon be green on the other side.

I met and talked to Martina's husband Adrian for a while, I was very comfortable talking with him and learned some of the nuances of the neighborhood.

He told me everyone knew and liked everyone on all three loops of the neighborhood.

He also told me they had the same security system as The Willows so Ruthie would be just as safe down the next street as she was before.

He was happy to learn I was going to keep a space open to the wild kingdom but warned me about alligators and snakes and suggested I put a large doggy door or a gate there that could be closed and locked when we were not home.

I tried the maze but the only way I solved it was by following two of the kids.

The Chief of Police lived next door to Martina and it was her yard that had a large kid's playground in it. Wendy told us that Lucy had given them their playground equipment to join the stuff that was already there and that today was the first Saturday for the kids to enjoy all of it.

Shawna was on duty so I did not meet her but did meet her husband Sammy. Like Janie he was deaf. There were over twenty people there between the ages of three to don't ask, but I was the only one that did not know sign language.

Ruthie told me classes would resume the second week in August.

I had my first extended conversation with Helen and Leigh, I really liked them. Helen's non-sequiturs were hilarious. Leigh's sense of humor was as dry as the Gobi and also hilarious. Their relationship was more like sisters instead of just neighbors.

Helen had a son everyone called AR; he was the one that scattered the girls. She was taking care of her nephew Jim along with her sister Charley; she lived on the third loop and was there with her two girls. It was her oldest that chased after Jim. Karen was Jim's Mom.

Leigh had twin girls, which I met and briefly carried one until Ruthie stole her from me.

Ruthie had a throng of women around her all afternoon

And when it was time to go we followed everyone home around the middle loop. Ruthie still carried one of Leigh's twins for her.

She told me she babysat for Leigh too but seldom for Helen, AR had a grandma on the third loop, Amanda, our realtor.

I learned that Paloma and Randy lived on Martina's street on the other side of Shawna. The house next to them was empty and I was told it was a government safe house. I wondered how safe it was since everyone knew it was.

I figured Helen or Leigh's back yards abutted mine to the back. Their loop had fewer houses but was deeper back because of the entry circle.

I learned that the women that had kissed me at the biker bar my first night, Magda and Rita, lived across the street from Martina. They had kissed my cheek when they saw me and gave Ruthie a soft kiss on the lips.

They wore rings by Wendy.

As we returned to our house Ruthie said, "Yes, we are neighborhood people and we love our neighborhood people. Thanks for making me see that."

She gave me a long kiss in the middle of the sidewalk.

"Hey, take that home," we heard Allen yell.

"We can't, there are people tearing out house apart," Ruthie answered.

Edie looked stunned then ran to us squealing and just devoured us in kisses.

Allen hugged us and said, "We were worried about who our new neighbors were going to be and I see we were justified to do so."

I was the only one not to slap his arm. It was a good line.

They led us to their home and we visited for a while then Ruthie and I went to Melody's. We showered and dressed then met Allen and Edie at the String of Pearls.

They told me about the other performers in the Felicity Music stable and the only one I had ever heard off was Erato.

Allen and I listened to the ladies gossip for a while then we talked baseball and praised the shape of our respective team's ownership as we watched a Rangers vs. Angels game on the bar's TV. We had a fine visit with each other and I felt like I had become a part of their close friendship.

Before we separated Edie gave me a long sweet kiss and said, "You two bring out the best of each other. You belong together. She gave Ruthie a longer kiss and told her the same thing she said to me.

Allen shook my hand and simply said, "Welcome to Felicity."

Later that night Ruthie asked me if I liked Allen and Edie.

"Yes, very much. They may be among my top five or six favorite people. Allen is already likely my best male friend."

"Who is your favorite female best friend?" Ruthie asked.

"You but that is temporary, you are going to be promoted I'll have to think about that."

Twenty minutes later after I had cum in her Ruthie said, "Welcome to Felicity."

I felt myself blush but had no idea why I did.

We began Sunday with a long leisurely fuck. We had fruit loops for breakfast then fucked again, that time in the patio.

We watched a possum leisurely walk across her yard.

"James told me they have more teeth than any other mammal but even though they show them when challenged they seldom bite. He also said they are very mentally challenged. Well, he said they might be the second most stupid creatures behind porcupines. We have those too. Karen has a possum that sometimes lives in her yard."

We talked for a long time about creatures and our new yard and the furniture she would be taking to our house. I told her all I had that I wanted to bring to Felicity would fit in her SUV.

Ruthie had pretty much decided to give the bulk of her stuff to the women's shelter. Five of the ladies had a second house built behind the first with a plaza between them. It was almost done and would need furnishings.

I later learned that Ruthie, Martina, Helen, Marie and Wendy were the principal supporters of the shelters along with someone called Janice that now lived in Italy. Most women in the town also supported the shelter. Sally, Doris and Martina had been residents.

Around noon we took a shower, dressed comfortably, then walked to Wendy's house for lunch with Mom and the other ladies. Allen and Edie joined us as did Rob and Vicky and their kids. Their daughter Fay Marie was six and their son Robby four. Helen, Roger, and AR joined us and so did Leigh and Corey and their girls Sandra and Valerie.They were almost four they insisted.

I was impressed that although the women had the option to attend the orgy at Jana and Inga's they chose to attend a family get together at Wendy's instead. It occurred to me all wanted to see by themselves that Wendy was OK.

All the kids immediately ran to a pond at the back of the yard and sat on three benches.

"There are several stingrays in there and the kids love to feed them. There was a shark but he left during the last high tide," Wendy said.

Mom said, "There is a small barracuda in there. He jumps out of the water for the food."

I excused myself and began to walk towards the kids and Allen and Roger joined me. Rob and Corey came down a few minutes later and brought us adult drinks.

There was a large triggerfish in there that Roger said had been in Jim's tank in the house but had become too big and too much of a bully so he got dumped out here.

"That was over a year ago and he has adapted well. He is still a bully but here there is enough room for everyone to get away. Jim did confess to me that what he really hated about the trigger was that he kept moving the coral rock around and redecorating the tank."

We laughed and opened the fish food bins to feed the fish and got the barracuda to jump.

The guys and I had a good time with the kids and the fish and stayed there until we heard lunch was ready.

My steak was exceptional and I thanked Mom for it.

She said, "You are welcome but it was your fiancee who cooked it."

I was more than a bit surprised; I didn't think she could cook. I gave her a long kiss until Edie told us we were ruining everyone's appetite.

"Surprised?" Ruthie asked me.

"Everything else about you is so delicious it never occurred to me you could cook too. We need to go to the grocery store."

"Don't get carried away. You already know many people that are much better cooks than me."

I began to tell her about nude cooking being a turn on but I reminded myself there were children present. But then reconsidered and told her anyway. She smiled.

After lunch Mom took me aside and told me about their trip to visit Wendy's husbands grave.

"Paloma told Wendy to talk to him, to tell him how pissed she was he had left her. Wendy had difficulty at first but eventually all her anger came out in torrents until she was sobbing.

Paloma then said to tell him how much she still loves him. All her love for him spilled out including some racy incidents that we will tease her about before long.

Paloma told her tell him how much she missed him.

Before Wendy began she was suddenly listening.

Paloma whispered, "He is talking to her, he is here."

Wendy fainted and the five of us just managed to keep her from hurting herself. We got her home and she has been nearly her happy go lucky former self since then. Mo thinks her sister is back.

We have managed not to ask what happened so we do not know if Paloma was right and he had talked to her. All we know is that Wendy is OK now. I am assuming she got the same lecture I got from your father."

"Paloma is kind of spooky," I said when she was close enough to hear.

She gave us a witch's cackle and Mom kissed her hard on the lips. I hugged her with love.

During the afternoon I could easily see the close bond Allen and Helen had with Wendy. Allen called her Mom at times and Wendy seemed to love it.

Several had intimated that Allen and Helen were the new improved versions of Wendy but I did not see that for a couple of months. As it turned I had severely underestimated the intelligence and talents of all three.

Ruthie and I stayed at Wendy's until we were the last two with Mom and Wendy. I gave Mom the two tickets to Melody's concert with the back stage passes and said, "The other one is for Sis. Tell her she will meet my fiancee when she joins us. She can have the room I had reserved for us at the Bellagio."

Mom confessed that Wendy had told her Ruthie's secret when I moved across the willows. Wendy though it was OK since she was going to be Ruthie's mother-in-law.

Ruthie and I gave them loving kisses and walked home.

Neither of us felt like fucking that night but we held each other tightly as we kissed our way to sleep.

Monday morning we made love and dressed then we stopped at Sally's bakery and got kolaches and kiss assaults for breakfast. We went to the city to get me two suits, a sports coat and some dress shirts.

Ruthie bought new shoes. She said she did not need them but they were cute.

We got back in the early afternoon and went to an office on the boulevard and I gave Holly two tickets to the Melody concert. Holly kissed me right on the lips and told me to thank Melody for them.

Petra and Paloma demanded homage so it took us a while before we could leave. Adrian did a very fine, "What's all this then," British bob impression and Ruthie and I were released. He then kissed Ruthie on the cheek and shook my hand.
"See what I have to put up with?" he said, with a big grin.

At home that evening Ruthie, Nikki, Edie and Allen tried the new approach to the song of regret I had mentioned to Ruthie.

Before they left Edie told me that just last spring, "Melody had refused to arrange a song before a concert nearly a month away. Now she called us in to do that for a concert two days away."

"That's not Melody," I said.

"OK, what did you do with her?" Allen asked.

"I am innocent, I have never met Melody."

Both laughed and praised my luck.

Ruthie walked back into the room and asked, "What luck?"

"The luck of the two of you meeting at a biker lesbian bar his first night here," Edie said.

"That was not luck, it was karma," Ruthie said.

"Or the goddesses have decided they like you," Allen said.

"That would be nice,"

I felt someone was behind us smiling but there was no one there. I told Allen and he said, "Yes there was."

I decided to ask about the goddesses later as Allen and I helped carry Nikki's kit back to Marie and Mo's house. Edie and Ruthie walked the bikes. We visited with Marie, Mo and Alice for a while until Edie and Allen rode their bikes home and Ruthie and I walked back to the mansion.

The next Tuesday morning the performers and the support group boarded a charter jet plane to Vegas from Felicity Field.

There were several people I had not met on board and Allen introduced me to them on the plane. All seemed a bit stunned to learn that Ruthie and I were really going to get married.

One lady, I think she handled wardrobe, asked me if I had met Melody. I said no.

She wished me well.

Allen laughed and told her, "We think he killed Melody. We have not seen her in weeks."

"We will learn if that is true Wednesday night," I said. "But don't be surprised if the only one you see is Ruthie."

Allen added, "At the three full rehearsals last week Melody never showed up, even during the dress rehearsal. I think she is gone."

"You know, even though we had a problem getting her into the last dress she never complained and just waited until we got her ready. A month ago she would have fired me. Again."

Allen and I laughed and kissed her cheek then returned to our women. They were sound asleep holding hands so he and I sat together across the aisle.

"So, when is the wedding?"

"We have not talked about that yet. Can you keep a secret from Edie?"

"Yes, but not for long."

"You will not have to keep this one long. I have our wedding rings in my pocket."

Immediately after arriving in Vegas we checked into the resort, got our credentials and were shown to our rooms. I had a room to myself and so did Ruthie. We did not say anything but as soon as the bellhops left I put my stuff in Ruthie's room.

We then went to Caesar's showroom for a hopefully last rehearsal; it was just noon Pacific time.

Caesar's had an old pro at the soundboard that was very good but the soundboard itself was nearly obsolete.

I asked him why they had not given him a new model and he said, "I told them no thanks. This board and I will retire together this fall. The new one is in the building somewhere and when this one and I retire the new one will be installed with the new guy."

"Sounds like a perfect exit to me."

He smiled at me and asked, "You the acts sound-man?"

"Yes, but I know that I am completely unneeded with you at the mixer. But if you don't mind I will watch the show from here."

"No, don't mind at all. Glad to have company."

"Thanks. My mike goes to their ears so you may hear me give instructions every once in a while."

"So you are more than a sound-man."

"Yes but not much more. I see and hear things others don't and I am allowed to give my two cents worth.

It is a small family owned company and our two biggest acts will be on this stage this week.

They are ready."

The opening up-tempo song had stayed at the top of the set through the changes. There no longer was an intro for the second song a mostly piano and Violin number that was Melody's first big hit. It had been placed there to allow the audience to sit. The other party song had been moved to the last third of the show. I was batting .500 on song order suggestions. It was .750 counting the Janis song.

Ruthie was not in costume but was wearing a hat with all of her blonde hair underneath and no glasses. If anyone was expecting Melody on stage they saw Melody on stage.

There was some patter before the next song that included something about the town they were in.

At a bit past half way through the performance Melody introduced the next number as something old and something new.

She played and sang her old regret song passionately.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Very nice," I whispered to her earpiece.

She smiled.

I mentally upped my average.

That number was the transition to the Janis song. As she gave her intro the short video of Janis never came on the screen.

"Problem?"

"Yes there is supposed to be a video now."

"The video booth is right over our heads. See if there is anyone there."

I looked and muttered, "Dark, there is no one there."

"Not a problem, that is Joplin on stage."

"She will love it when I tell her you said that."

The rehearsal went well and the old guy, his name was Holt, said "See you tomorrow night," and left.

I walked to the stage as I wondered if Holt was his first name or last.

The lady that was the liaison was frantically apologizing and said she did not know we were rehearsing. I saw that Allen really didn't want to deal with her so I intervened.

"Who was supposed to tell you?" I asked in my barely controlled anger voice.

"The stage manager."

"I thought you were the stage manager."

"No, I am his assistant."

"Is he here?"

"I, um, have not seen him."

"So the person that should be here isn't and did not tell you or the video people that we were here. What is the stage managers name?"

"Anderson."

"The next time you see this Anderson tell him for me we are astonished that a person working such a prestigious venue did not feel like doing their job today. And then tell his boss that we want an explanation.

How did the sound-man know?"

"I told him you would be in town today but I did not tell him you would rehearse. He came in on his own."

"Please make sure the boss knows that Holt saved the rehearsal."

I then turned to Allen and winked.

The lady rushed into the hotel and we took the long walk to our rooms.

Allen said, "Thanks for dealing with her. I am not very good at that. It took me a while to realize what she was apologizing for, we can't see the screen from the stage.

Just before we got to our rooms I heard, "Sir, sir. Please accept our apologies. I can assure you that Anderson will not be working the venue for your show," a well-dressed smallish gentleman said.

"Thank you. Apology accepted. However I wonder why he would do that. He does not know us, he would not want to jeopardize his position, so I wonder whom Anderson was trying to discredit.

Now on the surface it would seem the one that erred was the lady with you. But I have seen her work for a week and she is as conscientious as human beings get so I have no problem absolving her from blame.

You have to decide if you can do the same for Anderson. Again, thank you for your prompt attention on this matter."

I shook his hand and continued to my room.

As we walked away Allen said, "You are now the band manager."

'Who is the band manager now."

"Me and I never would have been able to do what you just did."

"I grew up in the midst of a big corporation, I had been working for Sony since I was eighteen. People try to hide incompetence by blaming others but in this case it's just hardball politics, I would not be surprised if the woman had engineered this little episode."

"Really?"

I nodded and finally went into my room then the connecting door to Ruthie's.

"What was that all about?"

"Office politics. They will keep that stuff away from us from now on.

What do you want to do with the rest of the day?"

She smiled and said, "Get married."

I nonchalantly said, "OK."

"What?"

"I said, OK."

"We can't get married. I haven't even told Mom I'm engaged."

"I suggest to you call her when we go down to eat. Bring your drivers license."

"Why do I need the drivers license?"

"So we can get a wedding license after we eat."

"Oh, you are testing me huh. OK I'll call your bluff."

"We shall see if it is a bluff."

We kissed all the way down the elevator and often as we walked to the buffet.

"Bellagio's buffet has been rated the best for years and they may have enough food to satisfy both of us."

"Crowded."

"It smells great in here."

"How many please."

"Four?"

"Edie and Allen may join us."

"Coke and Dr. Pepper please."

"Oh wow,"

We headed for the meat first and both of us got prime rib. Then she got lobster and I got grilled fish. Then the pulled pork. Then prime rib again. Then a rest. I got us two small salads and Ruthie called Edie and told her where we were, then I stared at her phone until she said, "OK, fine," and called her mother.

Allen and Edie were already coming in when Ruthie called them. They joined us each with a plate of prime rib. After they sat I said, "She is just now telling her mother she is engaged which is good since we are getting married Friday."

Both stopped in mid bite and stared at us. Allen knew I had a plan but even he was surprised by the suddenness.

"Here, talk to Mom," Ruthie said as she handed me her phone.

"Hi, my name is Sean and your daughter and I are getting married this Friday in Vegas. We can have you here on Thursday afternoon.

Tell me how many are coming with you.

Five? Total of six?

Tell me the names, I will write them down.

The tickets will be at the Air Canada counter in Toronto. I will call you back and give you the flight number.

Oh, and you are going to Felicity from here before going back home. Think about how many days you can stay away.

I look forward to meeting you and so is my Mom.

Bye.

Well, I'm ready for more fish, are you ready?" I asked Ruthie.

All three were just staring at me, mouth agape. I lifted Ruthie's chin and kissed her then took her hand and led her to the seafood. She got king crab and I got fried fish.

We passed Edie and Allen as we got back to our table.

"Mom agreed to everything you said?"

"Yes, I think she likes me and I like her. I will stay in my room and she can stay with you. It will be the last night we will spend apart I would expect. Oh, by the way, I love you."

She put her plate down on our table then wrapped her arms around me tightly and gave me another "forever" kiss.

"OK, I'll let you," she said and sat down to eat.

After we stuffed ourselves past full the four of us walked to get the license and got a brochure of chapels. Our choices were limited because we expected at least forty people.

I called one and was told there were slots open at two and five.

"Take the two o'clock and lets get it over with," Ruthie said.

Edie slapped her butt saying, "Hey, attitude!"

She then noticed that Ruthie was trembling and quickly said, "I'm sorry," and gave her a long embrace.

Ruthie had just realized I had called her bluff. We were getting married on Friday.

I said two o'clock and ordered the photo package.

"Well my part is done even if it was really your Mom's but she will be in shock for a while so I did not mind. What do you have to do?"

Edie said, "You have to call your bridesmaids, talk about gowns, hair, make up..."

"Sean and I are going to find a titti show, you two go on and have fun," Allen said.

They ignored him, they were still in an embrace.

"Of course I will be our maid of honor. I would have beaten you to a pulp if you had asked anyone else," we heard Edie say.

Both were crying by then.

We kissed them and reminded them we were going to the Emeril's at Wynn's at eight then left them. We saw them walk towards the fashion mall.

"You just spent a lot of money. Do you need help with it?"

"No, but thank you. You are my best man by the way.

Please keep it to yourself but I have almost as much money as Ruthie has. She had to work for hers but I inherited mine. Don't tell Rob that. He is lucky I am not demanding a raise."

"Humm, too late. I called him and resigned as band manager and told him I appointed you. He is adding my salary as band manager to yours.

I inherited a lot of money from my granddad too," Allen said.

I called Mom and told her the news; she seemed to be very happy to hear it.

Allen called Rob and told him the news. I understood the need for that call; Ruthie was his most valuable asset.

As we walked around my phone began to ring, everyone wanted confirmation of the wedding. All the women asked when Ruthie was going to choose her bridesmaids.

I answered yes we are, Friday, and that she is calling the bridesmaids now.

That last line cut my calls by nearly a hundred percent.

Allen's phone calls lasted longer but slowed as he repeated my line on choosing bridesmaids.

I called my sister and told her to leave for work as usual on Thursday but to go to the airport and catch a plane for Vegas. She was going to a concert with Mom that night and see me get married on Friday.

"Mom is going to be at a concert?"

"Yes, and she is in a whole lot better mental stage so you can unload on her when you meet."

"No, not yet and certainly not during your wedding.

Will I like your wife?"

"You will adore your sister in law, she already loves you. I will call you and give you flight numbers. Love you, bye."

"Ruthie knows about her?"

"Yes, I adore my sister. Ruthie may have picked that up when I talked about her so she adores her too. They have spoken on the phone a few times."

"We need to rent tux's," Allen said.

"Oh, right. Should we rent or buy?"

"I am renting one, I own a tux but I need to let it out a bit at the waist. Funny, the only part that shrunk was the waist.

Anyway I use mine several times a year for fine arts galas in the city. Edie and I used too work for the opera and ballet and we still moonlight for them and Edie also moonlights with the symphony. We now mostly coerce the donors into giving more. Edie has five gowns that she rotates for that."

"Hmm, I think I'll buy. Something with an elastic waistband."

We laughed and walked into the lobby of the nearest hotel and asked the concierge where to rent tuxedos and she gave us a brochure covering that. It must be a popular request.

We found a place that rented and sold them so we got a cab and headed there. I bought one and Allen rented one and they would be ready Friday morning.

We were at the counter paying for them when Edie called Allen and told him to cancel the reservations to Emeril's, we were going someplace else. They will be back there in about twenty minutes.

She then hung up.

He had no chance to tell her we were not at the hotel but we did not hurry, we assumed she meant twenty-ish.

Both were waiting for us when we got back thirty-five minutes later.

"We were..."

"We don't want to hear about it. Take a shower and get dressed. We are going to rent a car," Edie said.

They began to walk past us but we stopped and kissed them. They tried to make it a short kiss but we held it and they were soon intensifying the kiss.

Edie groaned, pushed herself away from Allen and pulled Ruthie away from me so we went to our respective showers, got dressed and got a text message on where they were.

Allen and I sat in the back seat, she had rented a big three-seat Toyota Sequoia. I guess they expected to be driving a lot of people around.

Edie drove us north to a restaurant named Aunty El's. It was the same Elma that Mom was coming to visit. Alice, Marie, and Nikki were waiting for us there.

Marie said, "The Aunt El on the restaurant's name is Alice's Aunt Elma. This is where Alice and I first sang together when Rob and Vicky married. The food is terrific and so is the slim redhead coming over.

The lady kissed each of the ladies at the table as Allen and I stood. Ruthie and Edie were introduced then Allen and me were.

"Sean?"

"Yes, Marti's son."

She gave me a long hug that she broke suddenly and walked towards the office. She was trying hard not to cry.

"Your Mom and Wendy will be staying at her house until they leave. Hopefully it will be long enough to get all three out of the tunnel they are in although your Mom and Wendy look and sound OK already," Alice said.

Our server came to us and handed us menus. Alice said, "We are ready to order and the three did.

We were ready when they finished ordering so we ordered too. I also ordered appetizers.

Alice continued, "Anyway, Marshall brought Holly here for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Aunt Elma is friends with Holly's mother Liz and Elaine, the mother of Holly's best friend Rhonda." Alice said. "Sometimes it is a small world."

"Speaking of small worlds," I said as I watched Mom and Wendy barge into the office.

Ruthie said, "They are already here. Marti and Wendy just walked in. They went to the office."

It was just over five hours after I had called her. I wondered if they had time to pack. It was just eight in Vegas and with bright sunlight but it was late night in Felicity.

"Lets allow them the time they need before we consume them," Alice said.

Allen and I stood and got another table and three chairs. Ruthie got our servers attention and had her bring menus and appetizers to the places we had set up.

We were being served when the three redheaded ladies, a short, a medium and a tall, came to us. All wore big grins, all had moist eyes. Elma was holding hands with each.

Dinner was delayed by long hugs and long kisses. Mom's kiss to Ruthie seemed to have made both very happy.

Aunt El sat with Wendy and Mom and let go of their hands only when appetizers were placed in front of them.

"So why are you here two days earlier than planned?" Marie asked.

Mom said, "There was a call about a wedding we decided to investigate. We will be part of the wedding party and need to see what everyone is wearing and Wendy needs to organize it."

Ruthie jumped up and covered Wendy with kisses.

While that was transpiring Elma said, "Tell them," to Mom.

"Oh, Elma has volunteered her place for the reception. We will have it to ourselves until six."

Ruthie transferred her kiss assault to Elma. My mouth was full of sirloin so I just happily nodded.

Everyone was enjoying their food and each other.

Mom, Wendy, and Elma loved the cacophony and the laughter. There was a lot of love at that table.

Ruthie and I ate and listened as best we could.

Aunt El stayed at the table until one of the servers whispered something in her ear.

She smiled and got up then came back with Petra, Jana and Inga. Everyone hugged and kissed them and we made room for them to sit.

We already occupied ninety percent of the small patio when Rob and Vicky came to us.

Vicky shared a long hug and kiss with Aunt Elma and Rob kissed her then they gave his Mom Marie a long hug and a kiss. Vicky sat on Ruthie's lap and gave her a long kiss. Vicky then sat on my lap and kissed me.

Rob patted my shoulder.

Ruthie and I had finished eating so we got up and allowed them to sit on our chairs. I got two chairs and I sat between Rob and Allen then Ruthie sat between Vicky and Edie.

Rob said, "The ladies insisted they had to be here tonight. The plane we used to get you here is still here so I asked Roger if his plane was available and he said yes."

I thought, "It is good to have friends that own jets."

I heard Ruthie say, "All my bridesmaids are here."
"Janie and Marissa are not here," Edie corrected.

"Neither of them can make it, all of their usual relief chefs will be here so are not available."

"We will get them here," Vicky said.

"Good. We can go shopping tomorrow morning," Ruthie said brightly.

"At what time will you need to go to work?" Vicky asked.

"At six. The show is eight to ten then I have to visit with the VIP's. I will not be available before or after the shows and the maid of honor has to work the show too so Wendy will be in charge.

The three of you try to keep Inga and Jana contained. You know how blondes are."

"Brunettes Edie, Petra and Vicky smiled and nodded then kissed the blonde Ruthie.

I was sitting back enjoying myself when Mom came over and sat on my lap. I hugged her to me and she kissed my cheek.

"You already knew I love Ruthie but I wanted you to know that I think you two are perfect for each other, I promise not to seduce her."

She whispered the last few words in my ear.

"Do you promise to resist if she tries to seduce you?"

"No."

She kissed me, got off my lap and onto Ruthie's and kissed her lips softly.

"I love you," Mom told her.

"I love you too," Ruthie said.

Thirty minutes or so later Wendy announced, "Everyone, the place is closed. Everyone kiss everyone before you go, me first."

Wendy, Mom, and Aunt El got the first three kisses from everyone but not necessarily in that order.

Wendy did not complain.

The two were obviously staying. We gave Jana, Inga, and Petra rides to their hotel, all were staying at the Mirage.

Ruthie was exhausted that night and fell asleep in seconds. It took maybe ten more seconds for me to fall asleep too.

I know Ruthie kissed me before she left but I did not get up until around nine. I showered, dressed, and then rushed to the buffet hoping it was still breakfast.

On my way down I got a text message from Allen telling me he was on the way to the buffet.

Tall redheaded guys are easy to spot and I saw him in line about ten people in front of me. He saw me and stepped out and walked back to join me.

I became a bigger fan of his, most people would have asked me to move up with them thereby pissing off everyone behind us. I was glad to see I was not the only one that walked back.

We went to the buffet and got everything with sausage or bacon on it and followed him to the table.

"Ruthie gone when you woke up?"

"Yeah. Edie?"

"Yeah. We need to text them and remind them they need to be in bed by four."

We took big bites then texted them.

"Save the message, we need to send it every two hours."

We resumed eating and ate until the buffet was converted to lunch. We worked our way to the theater and just wandered around backstage until we noticed the lights. We went out and saw the video screen was lit so we went to the control room and introduced ourselves to the operator.

"Show us what you have," I said.

What he had ready to play was the intro that Matt had recorded. I told him that was fine but asked if the graphics guy could add a line under the names, two of them are from Las Vegas and the locals in the audience would love it.

"I do the graphics, tell me what you want."

He added what we wanted and ran it.

"Go up two clicks on the size of each."He did and ran it again. It was perfect.

"Where are the live cameras going to be?"

"Two on each side of the stage left and right and one right over our heads. Tomorrow night there will be five cameras, one on stage. We will record all five cameras and allow your editor to choose the shots."

The guy was my age and at home with his equipment.

I asked him, "Why are you here so early?"

"Oh, the boss told us about the problem yesterday and asked everyone to come in early. I am here at about this time anyway to make sure everything works. All of this freaks out sometimes. Do you know the guy on stage?"

"Yes, our boss. Do you have a mike?"

"No but Holt does."

I ran down the stairs and asked Holt to say, "Rob they are back here."

He did, I waved and he joined us.

I introduced Holt to Rob who thanked him for making the rehearsal possible.

"Just doing my job," he said as I had expected.

I patted his shoulder and we went up to the video room.

The guy and Allen were going over stills of Janis.

"He has photos from Woodstock, from Monterey, from the rock train. He has publicity photos and every album cover.

He has over a thousand stills and clips. He has three pictures of a guy that people claim did not exist, her lover on the train. He looks like Jerry Garcia without the beard," Allen said with a grin.

"I need a copy, I will tell Melody you made it for her."

We decided to use all the album covers and some from each filmed performance a total of twenty four for the eight-minute intro and song.

"Mark that one," I said. It was a still of Janis with her body contorted as she reached for a key. Ruthie did that too.

I said, "Two thirds into the song Melody reaches for a key like that, put it on when she does, but don't hurry, she does that twice. End the clip on the Pearl album cover. How did you end up with such a collection?"

"I made it for my Grandma's birthday, She adores Janis."

"Do you have the stills for The Fronds?" Rob asked.

"No, only the album cover. If there were ever any photos they have vanished. I did zoom in on the girl.

Rob reached into his pocket and handed him four publicity photos. He said, "That is all that exist. Copy them then give them back to me."

"Thanks. I do have the covers to the Alice and Marie's CD's and stills of them in concert and as they received their Grammy's."

"They do six songs. Start with the Fronds cover and the pictures and end with them at the Grammy's, maybe it will give them luck for another one."

A soft ding had signaled the photo CD was ready and the guy put it in a jewel case.

I asked him to write to Melody from him and the date.

We learned his name was Mark.

He handed it to me, I shook his hand as I said thanks and we left.

Allen reminded me we needed to remind the girls again so we did. It was after twelve.

"The VP for entertainment wants to talk to me. I thinks she wants Erato for the Hardrock," Rob said.

"Good luck in talking them into it, in their world playing Vegas is selling out," Allen said.

"She has talked to Petra and Edna and they told her that. It depends on the money."

Allen's and my phones went Bing.

We each had a photo of our women giving us the finger. Vicky was in the background of Ruthie's picture; she was laughing her head off. I showed Rob.

He chuckled.

I texted, "Maybe later" in reply and Allen said, "Good thinking," and wrote it on his phone too. We sent it simultaneously.

"Where were they?' I asked.

"At a store here in Caesars. This is going to be a very expensive day," Rob said.

He went to his meeting while Allen and I went back to our hotel and to a balcony that had a view of the fountains and drank a beer. The next fountain show coincided with the last of our beers so after it was over we went shopping for souvenir t-shirts for our women then to our respective rooms and went to bed.

Ruthie woke me up briefly with her kiss as she cuddled to me. It was four PM.

We woke up at five thirty and staggered to the shower.

By the time we were back in the room we were rejuvenated so we fucked. It was a medium fuck, we were not in the mood for a jungle fuck but we were somewhat in a hurry so it was more intense than lovemaking. We liked it.

"That was nice, different but nice," Ruthie said.

She put on flesh colored biking shorts and a flesh colored sports bra then put on a hotel robe. I put on a suit.

We put our passes on and we walked to the service elevator holding hands as I carried her large bag. We had a golf cart ride under the street and ended up behind the stage at Caesars.

Her make up artist started working on Ruthie and I saw her wardrobe lady approaching. I could hear Allen tuning up his guitar as Edie joined Melody. Alice and Marie had their own make-up artists but Nikki never wore make up.

Melody's auburn wig transformed her from Ruthie to Melody. Her contacts completed the new image; they changed her eyes from blue to green.

I now understood why people that had contact with both could not tell they were the same person.

To me she was Ruthie in costume. I saw no signs of Melody. Edie grinned at me. Apparently she didn't either.

I did not want to interfere with their pre-concert routine so I kissed both and went to the control booths.

Holt was not there yet although his board was on so I went upstairs but Mark was not there either. There was a cold coke on a table so I knew he was around.

A few moments later he walked in and said Hi and told me he had just brought his grandma over for the show.

"She needs a wheel chair but has to walk up five steps then wait for the pain to subside before she walks down a narrow passageway. We wait by a steel door and Holt lets us in.

Holt will take care of her during the concert. He is in love with her anyway."

I chuckled and asked, "Is she a fan of Melody?"

"Not until she does Janis."

He showed me the print of a photo.

I said, "End the song with that one. Who is the girl?"

"Grandma."

I smiled and copied the photo then thanked Mark and went down to visit with Holt.

"Holt, your brought a date to the show I see."

"Yeah, she is a cheap date."

"You are a cheap man."

"Hi, I'm Sean. I'm with the band."

"Right. I'm Alma and I am with a cheap old man."

"Alma, he really is the band manager."

"He is just a kid."

"Only compared to us."

"Speak for yourself."

Holt was going to shoot a come backer but the intro video started. The band came out for the final soundcheck/warmup on time and I noted that the graphics were perfect.

They jumped into the first song and Holt was busy for a few seconds as he adjusted the volume of the piano. The cameramen hustled for good shots and got them but the director held on to a shot too long and we got a good image of a piano leg.

I walked out and looked up and saw Mark barking at someone I could not see.

By the second stanza everything was smoother.

The next song was about a third of the way in the show and had a long violin intro from Edie and the cameras focused on her nicely then on Nikki as she joined in, then on Allen, then Alice and Marie when they began their whoop-whoop background then to Melody as they began the Grammy winning song. Edie and Ruthie had written it and Allen had arranged it.

I heard Holt's lady Alma whisper, "That was great."

They jumped forward to the fourth Alice and Marie song. The director stayed on Edie too long; all she was doing was playing the piano. I looked up and saw Mark telling the director something. There was no shot of Edie after that for that song.

The last song of the show was next and then their bows. They left the stage in reverse order they came in.

As soon as they left the stage the doors opened and the crowd began to file in. Holt helped Alma into the restroom under the stairs and I went up to meet the director.

It was a girl, perhaps eighteen and she was in fact the brand new assistant director. She was there to observe. The director was on a plane from Vancouver and would not be in until half way through the show. The girl was near tears.

Mark had toned down his criticisms and we praised her for doing so well considering the circumstances.

We both assured her that her second time through would be better.

The next time I looked into the theater it was almost full. That must have been a long line to get in. My phone rang, it was Ruthie.

"Hi, any problems?"

"No, just called to say I love you."

"Thank you, yes. Same here.

The crew back here is excellent and is going to make sure you look good and sound good. The place is full and you are going to knock them dead. You are down to under five minutes."

Then in a whisper I added, "I love you."

I heard a happy giggle before I hung up.

On the phone it was Ruthie, I did not think I was talking to Melody at all. Yet I knew that to all around her it was Melody on the phone.

Secret identities were tough to deal with.

Two minutes later I heard Allen say, "We are ready." The lights were lowered and the introductory clip began, it was exactly eight o'clock.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the formed drummer of Dolls Nikki Shaw, Grammy winner, Allen MacDuff, Grammy winners Alice Shaw and Marie Chapman, two-time Grammy winner and six time nominee Edie MacDuff and three time Grammy winner and six time nominee Melody."

They jumped into the first song as the crowd was still screaming and continued to stand and dance until the second song began.

The mostly young girls and their moms' crowd sang the chorus to every song until Ruthie did the revised version of her old song. Allen had switched from guitar to cello giving the song a darker tone.

It was deathly quiet during that performance and I was about to worry until at the last note all stood and gave her a loud standing ovation. Ruthie looked my way with a smile. Edie said something to her and Ruthie giggled. The revised song eventually shot up the charts and eclipsed the original.

The next song was the Janis song and I hustled downstairs to watch Alma.

Melody stood and Edie sat at the piano.

Alma's eyes widened when Melody said the name Janis and her image filled the screen. When Allen wailed into Cry Baby her face froze in a stunned expression. When the screen showed the shot of Janis reaching for the key as Melody did tears appeared in her eyes and Alma just cried when the photo of Janis winking at her appeared.

I looked away from her when the roar behind me shook the building.

Melody seemed to be stunned by the reaction but managed to wait out most of the ovation until Edie began a piano riff as she left the stage.

Alice and Marie began the do-wop intro to their own biggest hit and all the Mom's screamed and everyone remained standing for the last thirty minutes of the concert.

It was without a doubt the best show I had ever seen.

And my fiancee had been the star.

The ending ovation lasted ten minutes until Nikki and Melody walked back on stage and began singing Bobby McGee.

The adoration did not end until Melody asked the girls to take their mother's home because they could not handle all of this.

We could feel the bonds of mother and daughters strengthen.

As the crowd laughed and sung their way out I talked Holt into taking Alma to the VIP area.

It took Alma a while to make it to the stage but she said she was fine all the way there. She really wanted to meet Melody.

The steps up stopped her cold so Holt picked her up and carried her up the stairs.

I worried about that a bit, Holt was a big bear of a man but he was likely near seventy years old.

I led them to the side where Melody could see me. She was mostly done with her duties and as soon as she finished she walked over to us.

I said, "Holt is the sound guy and the only one that was here yesterday. Holt got a kiss on the cheek and a thank you. I took the picture.

"And this is Alma. The CD of Janis you got was a copy of her grandson's Mark's birthday present to her."

I then showed her a picture and pointed at the girl Janis was winking to. "And this is Alma."

Ruthie suddenly appeared and squealed then hugged and kissed Alma and led her to a table and chair and asked her to tell her all about it.

Holt said, "You see the woman talking to Rob? She is the head of entertainment. I think your girlfriend has won herself a return engagement."

I looked and sure enough they seemed to be saying, "Have your people contact my people."

A bell rang in my head and I asked Holt, "What made you think she was my girlfriend?'

"Only people that are in love look at each other like you two do. Neither of you is ever going to get over it so you may as well marry her."

I smiled and said, "I'll take that under advisement."

"Her ring tells me you already asked."

Sure enough Ruthie had not taken her ring off.

I took a few of pictures of Alma and Melody in animated conversation then Holt suggested to her it was time to go home and have fun and picked her up in his arms.

"Put me down you brute or I'll pummel you to pieces."

He gave her a soft kiss and she melted in his arms.

When the kiss ended Ruthie gave her a soft kiss and I gave her a soft cheek kiss.

As they walked away we heard her say, "Get your hand off my pussy you masher, you're not getting any tonight."

Ruthie and I laughed and held hands all the way to our room. I soaped and rinsed her in the shower. I gave her a massage when we got in bed.

"What did you think of the show?"

"It was OK."

She giggled and said, "Yeah, it was my best ever. I had never been as relaxed before starting a show."

"You were not so relaxed after the Janis song."

"That was surreal. I have never gotten a louder roar as I did then. The emotion behind it went right through me. It was my most powerful experience on stage ever.

Ooh. Do that some more."

She was now on her back and her foot was on my chest, I was massaging her feet at the time. I did that for a while then massaged her calves; I put her feet on my shoulders and began to massage her thighs.

I could see her pussy get moist. I scooted closer and allowed my cock to slide over her pussy lips as I continued the massage. She was suddenly trying to stuff my cock into her.

I finished the massage of her thighs and began the massage of her pussy. She groaned into orgasm and grabbed my cock and pulled it into her.

I was rubbing my face on her tits when she lost her patience and rolled me under her and began her assault.

She may have had orgasms but she did not slow at all.

I began to worry if I was going to last long enough for her when her pussy suddenly gripped my cock hard forcing it to explode. She was in mid silent scream that became very vocal half way through her very long orgasm.

She was gasping for air when she collapsed on me, which reminded me I needed to resume breathing.

Neither of us were close to recovering when she suffered another trembling orgasm and her pussy squeezed all the cum I had left in me.

We fell asleep immediately.

I woke up at about four AM and she was still over me and my cock was still in her pussy and rapidly growing into its depths.

I had no intention of fucking her; she had an even bigger day coming. But her pussy welcomed the intrusion and must have told Ruthie to take advantage.

I will always believe she was still asleep when she began the fuck. She was less than half awake when she had an orgasm and was completely asleep within seconds after it.

Fortunately she slid to my side before she did which allowed me to go pee, which was why I had awakened in the first place. The next day she did not remember that fuck at all.

It was just eight the next morning when I felt a third person was in bed with us kissing Ruthie. I lifted my head and saw a smaller, older version of Ruthie covering her face with kisses.

As soon as she saw me awake she covered my face with kisses.

"Hi mom," I said then staggered to my room.

Both Ruthie and I were nude and the room smelled of sex but her mother took all of that in stride.

I decided I liked her.

It was Thursday, the day of the concert for our friends, the day before our wedding.

I left Ruthie and her Mom in bed and got dressed then went to the buffet for breakfast.

As soon as I had coffee I called Allen and asked him to call his Aunt Wendy and tell her Ruthie's Mom was here.

"I thought she would be in the afternoon?"

"So did I," I said.

"Where are you?"

"Same booth we were in yesterday."
"I will be there in five."

I got a text message from Ruthie saying they were picking up Mom and going shopping, the sport of women everywhere.

I texted the four o'clock alert.

I had just finished my sausage gravy covered sausage biscuit when Allen and Rob joined me.

We ate in silence for a while and were just drinking coffee for a while.

I suddenly remembered and told Rob, "I got call from Caesar's merchandizing this morning, all of the CD's we brought sold out last night and so did the size small ladies t-shirts."

Rob said, "Thanks," and called the warehouse in Amarillo. He asked for two thousand CD's and a five hundred small and two hundred medium and large T-shirts each, all of them red.

Then he added forty small, twenty mediums, ten large, and five extra large t-shirts and one extra, extra large, all black. He then asked for those to be sent directly to him separately.

Rob said, "They will be here by two.

Four artists share the Theater we are in. One of them has her contract expiring soon and she does not want to work steadily anymore. She is sixty-six.

Melody has just been offered those six weeks, five shows a week. I knew she would not accept four straight days so after telling her so I semi-declined the offer. Did not officially decline it because I have not seen Melody lately. That happened last night.

She called me this morning and asked me to meet her in her office at eleven thirty. I want you guys with me. Whatever we decide we will not tell Ruthie until next Monday. Edna and Petra are in meetings in Los Angeles and can't make it. We will need to bring them up to speed."

Allen and I nodded in understanding and finished our coffee.

We got up and Allen and I went to our rooms and got dressed for a business meeting. It was already after eleven when we went in search of Rob.

He met us at the east entrance and we walked to the offices.

They showed us right in and she got to the point.

"She was a smash hit last night. We believe she will fill the room every night she performs for years and will bring in the young and older demographics. We are willing to accept nearly anything you can come up with."

I said, "Before we go any further you would need to assure us that the screw-ups of Tuesday and last night will no happen again."

"What screw-ups?"

I told her and she seemed to be angry and embarrassed at the same time.

"There will be no more incidents and I can assure you I will get to the bottom of this."

Rob said, "Thank you and we agree with your assessment of the show. We think we can come up with something but we do not know what Melody will accept. We have kept knowledge of the screw-ups away from her just in case to keep her from placing tonights show in jeopardy. We can no longer read her that well."

"Has she become that much more difficult?"

"No, just the opposite. I would not have bothered asking the old Melody.

The tightest schedule she does now is seven concerts in twelve days in Canada then she takes a few weeks off.

We will not bring her into the process until Monday at home."

"Others will ask before then. Will you keep us abreast of all other offers?"

"Yes, we have no problems with that."

"Good, thanks. Now lets talk four days of Thanksgiving week."

"Sorry. She will not work that week, but she is free from December twenty seventh to the thirtieth."

She looked in her computer and said, "We want them all."

"The six weeks show, when is the time slot and how long can you wait for a decision?"

"The time slot is mid-February to the end of March. We would need a decision by October second, we will be setting our final schedule and advertising for the year then."

"I will let you know as soon as we know which will likely be Monday. Petra and Edna will be here next week so you can hammer out the December concert with them."

She said, "It has been very nice meeting you. I was one of those betting you would accept the offers of the big recording outfits and sell your company but you have stayed with it and none of your acts have deserted you."

"Thanks. You would need to come to Felicity for a week to understand. It's a great vacation spot and an even greater place to live. Come visit sometime."

"Or better yet, come to my wedding this Friday afternoon. Half the town is here for the concert tonight and more are coming for my wedding. You will love all of them."

"Are you marrying someone in the band?"

"Sort of, I am marrying Melody's personal assistant at two in the afternoon tomorrow."

"Or you may come by the reception at Aunty El's afterward," Rob added.

"Oh, I love Aunty El's. What are we having?"

"That is being decided right now. All the ladies went there for lunch and planning."

"Tomorrow from after two until....?"

"Six but I doubt any one will be leaving then. That is when they open the door to everyone else."

"This may be the most relaxed business meeting I have ever had."

"This may be the most formal meeting we have ever had," Rob said with a laugh.

We stood and each of us kissed the lady on the cheek and left. She had a pleasantly stunned expression on her face as we walked out.

"Lets see if the rest of the guys are in yet. We will still be outnumbered but not as badly as we are now," Allen said.

At exactly that time the three of us got pictures from our ladies of Roger and Helen, Adrian and Martina, Randy and Paloma, Corey and Leigh, Marshall and Holly, and Janie and Marissa. I got a picture of my sister sticking her tongue out at me. They were at Aunty El's.

We were hungry enough so we got in a cab and went there.

It did seem that half the town was present, in fact Allen and I tried to figure out who did we expect that wasn't there and every time we came up with a name we found them plus some we did not expect.

We assumed the band had exhausted their ticket allotment of one hundred. I had given my four tickets away and that left Ruthie with six. I saw her giving one to a small cute black girl sitting on her lap. There was a black woman and an Asian woman hugging Holly and Marshall we did not know but they also had tickets in their hands. Ruthie had given Aunt El a ticket yesterday so I assumed she had two left.

I kissed Ruthie then was kissed by Rhonda before we were introduced. That started a sequence in which Allen, Rob and I were kissed by twenty women, minimum which included the wardrobe and make-up ladies.

The last with kisses for me were Mom and Sis. I gave them a long hug and told Sis that she was in the midst of the best people she had ever been with.

"Mom told me that just now," she said and kissed me on the lips for the first time ever then giggled.

I hugged her and kissed her lips and introduced her to Allen and Rob just before she and Mom were taken away by Ruthie and her Mom.

"Ms. Sanders is coming over. I called and told her that her partner was already here," Rob said. He had taken a ticket from Ruthie, she was down to one.

"Which one is her partner?"

"The black woman talking to Wendy. Ms. Sanders had a picture on her desk of the two holding hands."

"I think she's the Mom of Rhonda, the girl that was on Ruthie's lap."

The newly arrived guys came to us for handshakes and after giving me dire warnings on my upcoming nuptials all congratulated me.

Food began to appear here and there and we all got a plate of fried catfish and fries except about eight women that got a small chicken salad.

All the women got a bowl full of fries. The guys looked at me in warning.

Ms. Saunders, Josie, came in and was immediately kissed by her lover Elaine right on the lips in front of everyone and before she could react to that seven other women kissed her on the lips including Wendy, Mom, and Aunt El.

The short black girl ran to her and gave her a big kiss. Rob walked over to her and kissed her cheek then after introducing himself to her lover gave the concert ticket to Ms. Saunders.

She could always watch the show from several places in the theater of course but not with Elaine in the front row with the Felicity women.

As Rob turned to leave that thought had apparently come to her mind and she gave Rob a big kiss on his lips.

Five minutes later Josie was one of the girls and fifteen minutes after that she was taking part in another war with fries as they filled the air.

Some ladies were taking fries off their body, saving half a dozen or so then firing a barrage back. Many people there had obviously done that before.

The guys and I retreated out of the line of fire and thanked the goddess of mischief that we were not the targets anyway.

A few minutes later the ladies were exhausted from their laughter and the war ended. It took Elma's crew just a few minutes to clean the place up. They were ready; apparently they knew it was coming.

When Josie and Elaine left ten minutes later they were still giggling as they kissed Rob, Allen and me right on the lips.

"I think she likes our townsfolk," Rob said.

It was already after three in the afternoon so Allen and I walked around and gave our four o'clock warnings and our ladies took our hands and came back with us. Apparently each wanted a fuck before the nap.

The show that night was even more exciting, more raucous than the night before. I was glad it was the one with five cameras. The real director was there and the camera work was flawless.

Ruthie carried on a mini feud with Wendy, my Mom, and her Mom. Everyone knew it was for fun so it got big laughs. It was not until then that I saw Mo. Actually it was Marie's smile for her that made me look that way. Mo had stayed to work at the gallery until that day and had just gotten in.

Before she did the Janis intro Melody told the audience that a major part of her adopted home town of Felicity was sitting in the first two rows.

"I love everyone of them." Then after a pause she looked at Wendy and with a straight face said, "Some more than others."

There was great laughter led by Wendy and Melody waited for it to die down. "Maybe the next number will win her over," she said and began the Janis intro.

All through that bit it was obvious to me it was Ruthie on stage, not Melody.

As the night before there was a deafening roar when she finished the Janis song.

Melody accepted the applause and as it died down she looked to the back of the auditorium and yelled, "Hey, Alma," and winked.

Alma's grin was as big as her face could hold.

I handed Alma a copy of her picture with Janis and asked her to sign it for Melody. She was stumped for a minute then simply wrote, "Melody, I Love You. Alma."

"Oh, that's no good, don't give it to her."

"That is perfect. She will cry."

I then gave Holt a signed picture by Melody as she kissed his cheek and to Alma a framed picture of her and Melody talking that previous night. It had an inscription from Melody telling her it was a privilege to meet her then signed it, "With Love, Your Friend Melody."

Alma had a difficult time holding back the tears and hugged the picture to her. I kissed her cheek and left her in Holt's care.

Alice and Marie got a large response from the audience as they began their biggest hit led by Wendy, Mo, and of all people Josie. I assumed two of the short redheads in the front were Mom and Sis. There were a lot of short redheads in the first two rows.

Again the concert was a party to the end.

That night her encore was Ball and Chain.

She killed.

After the concert there was a mob of people backstage, most of the people from Felicity were back there and so were our new friends from Vegas, Mark, Alma and Holt, came up and Ruthie introduced them to everybody. Rob and I passed out the black t-shirts and most people put them right on.

Holly confronted Melody claiming that it had hurt her feelings that no one had told her the secret then lifted Ruthie's left hand showing her ring.

I said, "Hush, most of the people here don't know any better. Her ring has already been shown on one of those entertainment shows."

Holly understood that she was not supposed to know who that was and asked Melody whom she was marrying.

Ruthie hugged her and said, "Thanks, I owe you one."

There was an impromptu meeting with the wedding planners backstage that included Mom, my sister, Ruthie and her Mom Madeline, Wendy, and the bridesmaids. It was midnight before we got to our rooms.

Ruthie's Mom slept in my room instead of her daughters as I had offered. She said she would not break our consecutive nights together record just as it got started. She wanted us to break Paul and Linda McCartney's mark.

I had no idea what she was talking about but was happy to sleep with my fiancé for the last time. She would be my wife the next night.

Ruthie was asleep before I got in bed. She was gone when I woke up.

All the ladies were gone before any of the guy's woke up even though it was before eight the next day.

Allen and I met for breakfast at the buffet and were soon joined by all the other guys.

They decided to come along with us when we went to get our tuxes and we all returned and showered then dressed.

Rob had hired a limo for us and we all piled in and went to the chapel.

Except for Edie the wives did not know where the husbands were and all breathed a sigh of relief when we walked in then formed a frown on their faces.

Allen and I were escorted to the front and after a quick run through over the proceedings we waited. And waited. And waited.

Bach's song began and Adrian and Roger led our Mom's to the front together.

My Mom was wearing a mint green short gown and Ruthie's Mom had an almost identical light blue gown. They looked fantastic.

Apparently there was no grooms side or brides side, our Mom's were led to seats together and held hands as soon as they sat next to each other. I was happy to see that so I stepped to them and kissed both.

We saw Wendy at the back directing traffic as the bridesmaids paraded to the front. A guy with a video camera walked backwards in front of them.

The ladies looked gorgeous in what appeared to be dark green formal gowns. Edie's dress had a thin darker green trim around the collar. Her dress was identical to the others so I figured it had been added on to designate that she was the maid of honor. We later learned it was at the insistence of the others.

I did not recognize Edie's escort; he had not been with us that morning.

Edie stepped up to Allen and kissed him before assuming her place. She had tears in her eyes.

"Edie has another gown to wear for the fundraisers," Allen whispered to me.

As the rest of the girls came up I noticed all of them had tears in their eyes and Petra, Janie, and Marissa were just barely keeping it together. Corey, Matt, Roger and Adrian took turns escorting them down.

There was one unexpected bridesmaid, my sister. I had seen her before the concert and briefly after the concert. I knew she spent the previous day with Mom and Ruthie and had been a part of the meeting the night before but did not know she had become part of the wedding. The guy I did not know escorted her.

Sis and I gave each other big smiles as she walked up. She was blushing.

There was a small pause then Mendelssohn's began to play and Ruthie began walking down the aisle. She looked so fabulous that it was a while before I noticed the man walking her down to the altar. I looked at her mother and she was stunned. The man was apparently Ruthie's father.

I shook his hand when he presented her to the minister then I took Ruthie's hand in mine.

Suddenly we were a married couple. I do not remember if anyone said anything until the minister said, "You may kiss your bride."

I did.

There was no stately procession out, before we took the first step people were kissing us, hugging us and saying, "We love you." Our Mom's were the worst, neither let go of us for a while.

We somehow made it to the lobby and were presented with papers to sign.

"Jana, Jana. What was Lucy's address?" Ruthie asked.

Jana told the lady and repeated it to the video and photo guys.

We piled everyone into five limousines six cabs and seven rental cars and headed to Aunty El's.

We forgot to pick up our marriage certificate.

Elma's electronic sign said "Congratulations Ruthie and Sean."

It took about an hour for Ruthie and I to learn who had been at the wedding. I did not remember seeing Sally until she and Petra brought out the wedding cakes.

I went to Ruthie's Dad and made friends with him. He also became friends with the ladies apparently to the chagrin of his ex.

She had left him because he was not the man she had married anymore. He had become a lazy drunk.

During the reception all I saw him drink was Dr. Pepper.

My sister and Ruthie were in a long conversation with our Mom's that included many kisses all around. I was very happy to see that.

We sat to eat and had our choice of four courses. Aunty El brought me an appetizer tray of a dozen raw oysters. Everyone laughed then was amazed by how quickly I consumed them.

Ruthie raised her hand and said, "Check please." Several napkins were thrown at her.

After dinner we cut the cakes and fed each other. Neither of us considered making a mess of the other for which some booed. The cakes were amazing.

We sought out Sally and gave her big kisses as we praised her talents.

Sally allowed a tear to fall that Ruthie kissed away.

Ruthie threw the bouquet behind her and it was headed right at Sis but she stepped out of the way and it hit Elaine, Rhonda's Mom, right on her boobs.

A few minutes later Sis came to us and kissed us bye and promised to help the next morning and headed for the airport.

Rob saw Josie come in and led her to our group and left her to their tender mercies. She kissed the ladies on the lips and gave her partner a hug and deep kiss.

I saw her looking at Petra and Sally's rings. Petra pulled Mo and Marie over to show their rings. They brought Wendy over. Several others suddenly surrounded them. For some reason Rhonda could hardly contain herself. She may have known what was coming.

Josie got on one knee and Elaine burst into tears.

As soon as she nodded, "Yes" pandemonium engulfed them.

"What is going on over there?" Rob asked me.

"I think Josie just proposed to Elaine and she said yes."

"Hmm, I think I know who is going to make their rings."

Janie, Marissa, Sally and Petra and some others kissed us and were soon on the way to the airport.

Ruthie and I danced to the duet we had sung in her studio. Neither of us expected that. Matt had recorded it for us and had brought it with him. We agreed it was a perfect wedding dance song.

Apparently many agreed as it became the most popular bride and groom dance song before a year passed.

The next song was an Alice and Marie song about friends. I danced with Ruthie's Mom as her father danced with my Mom. Allen danced with Ruthie and Rob danced with Edie.

The wedding party joined us in the dance

Mo was dancing with Marie and Josie was dancing with Elaine before the song had finished.

The next song was a Melody ballad about the sweetness of love. I danced with Mom and Ruthie danced with her Mom until her father cut in. Her Mom seemed to be conflicted but danced with him.

Ruthie then danced with my sister.

The next song was by Little Richard and it became a loud rocking party from then on. Everybody danced even some of Elma's help.

When Aunty El opened the doors at six Ruthie encouraged the diners to eat some cake. Several did.

About two hours later Ruthie came up behind me, embraced me and said, "We need to consummate the marriage. Now!"

I asked the DJ to pause and tapped a glass then said, "My wife has made a request I feel I must fulfill. We will be unavailable this evening.
Tomorrow morning Mom and I will take a flight to LA and I will be back tomorrow afternoon."

"Correction," Mom said. "He and his wife will be back tomorrow afternoon. They are loading his stuff and sending the trailer back to Felicity."

Everyone clapped and cheered, I nodded with a grin. Mom was moving to Felicity.

I continued, "We will join many of you on the plane Sunday."

Wendy said, "Correction, Marti and Me are staying in town a few more days. We will be at Elma's house."

Everyone looked at Aunt Elma and saw her beaming.

"Anyone else have news?"

Edie said, "We will not be available tonight."

"We wont either," Vicky said.

Everyone with a husband or partner said the same including Elaine.

After laughter and a few risqué comments were exchanged Ruthie and I were on our way back to the hotel.

Ruthie plopped on our bed and raised her wedding dress and displayed a naked pussy.

"Where you....?"

"Yes, naked under the dress. I expected my husband to be fucking me by now."

I leaned over and tried to fit her entire pussy in my mouth as I took my pants off. They were still dangling by my legs when I stabbed her with my cock and led us to a voracious fuck. We had simultaneous orgasms and kissed until our bodies calmed.

We got up and undressed and she commented that I looked really good in a tux.

I told her I was happy she thought so since I had bought it.

"Funny, you bought your tux and I rented the wedding dress."

We got back in bed and cuddled for a while then she slid down and began to suck my cock as she talked about my sister.

She asked me if Sis ate pussy.

I slapped her ass and she pretended she was going to bite my cock off but slurped it into her mouth and waited me out.

I answered, "Yes. Her problems at home are with a very possessive woman."

I was soon very erect and Ruthie straddled me and we began a more loving fuck.

She had her second orgasm and paused.

"I am Mrs. Coleman. I never expected to be Mrs. anybody."

"I never expected to have a Mrs. How did we end up this way?"

"Just lucky I guess," she said as she began the quest for her third orgasm.

I caressed her body, looked at her and marveled,

"This gorgeous, talented, intelligent, funny woman wanted me. Lucky I guess didn't cover it. It is miraculous."

Early that Saturday Ruthie came with me to Los Angeles. My sister picked us up and drove us to my house.

She, Ruthie and the driver helped me stuff the few things I wanted into the trailer. Sis had packed all them for me so it took us less than thirty minutes.

Ruthie inspected my viola before she covered it in bubble wrap and put it in a box and did the same with my guitar.

The trailer still had lots of room in it when we were done.

I had noticed that a lot of Sis' stuff was in my house.

After the trailer was on its way back Ruthie took my sister aside and gave her a very fine kiss. Sis looked at her then gave her a long kiss.

They had achieved an understanding.

"Did you spend last night here?" I asked.

"Yes, she had the nerve to tell me I had to have her permission to go to my brothers wedding."

"What did you say? Ruthie asked.

"Nothing, I slapped her face as hard as I could, packed and left. I am not going back."

Ruthie and I hugged and kissed her.

"It is good you knew you had a place to go," I said.

She cried as she kissed me. "I love you," she said.

Ruthie hugged her and said, "Don't forget you also have a place a thousand miles away."

We got back to Vegas early in the afternoon and we had lunch at a seafood buffet then she talked me into riding the roller coaster in New York, New York.

I did just fine, closed my eyes just once...in a while, for a while.

We went to the Eiffel Tower then walked back towards our hotel holding hands and at times sharing wild kisses.

She caught me looking at her in wonderment as we waited for the fountain show and she said, "Yeah, me too," and gave me a forever kiss in the middle of the sidewalk by the Bellagio.

Our kiss after the fountains show defied time and space.

Twenty minutes later our fuck did too.

That evening we went to the Cirque "O" show then joined the gang at the dance club in the pyramid.

We had another best fuck of our married life that night.

We made it to the airport along with around twenty others the next morning, all were wearing the Melody concert t-shirt except Ruthie and me. We were wearing our Cirque t-shirts.

Most slept all the way back to Texas. Ruthie and I acted like newlyweds.

We went to Melody's house Sunday night but we both felt strange there so we checked in at the resort, room four forty three.

Early Monday morning we went to our house and it was not finished as we expected but believed the contractors when they said it would be ready Wednesday. It was ready Friday, of the following week.

That morning we drove downtown and parked at the recording studio then we walked all the way up one side of the boulevard then down the other and thanked everyone we saw for coming to our wedding.

At Pedro's I suddenly remembered his wife Pepita had been there. She had come for the concert and to our wedding and left with Janie and Marissa and Sally and Petra.

Roger had hired a plane for Sally and the cakes. Janie, Pepita and Marissa were convinced that their people could handle just one day of work and they hopped on the plane with Sally coming in and going back.

Pedro told me she had not stopped talking about the concert or the wedding. The ticket stub was in a frame on a wall.

Marissa's place was the next long hug and hung ticket stub. Julian had not made it and wanted a copy of the wedding video. I told him there was nothing of interest to see and

Marissa said, "Yeah, right."

I was getting comfortable with married women kissing me in front of their husbands. Ruthie was kissing Julian so I enjoyed Marissa's long deep kiss.

They were not open yet and were just doing the prep so we visited for a while.

Jana and Inga were in the gym and those were long hugs and kisses. Both kissed Ruthie and me with full tongues, usual for Ruthie, new to me.

Ticket stub framed on the wall.

We crossed the street to Sally's bakery and endured her enthusiastic kisses.

"Hey, that's my husband you are assaulting,"Ruthie said and swatted her butt.

That had no effect so Ruthie began to pull her off but not at full strength, which allowed Sally to stretch out the kiss. An active tongue full bore kiss. She got applause from her customers.

Ticket stub framed on the wall.

We walked to Felicity Business Building and went up to her agency on the third floor first. Long hugs, long kisses and a ticket stub on the wall.

I had seen the big guy at the concert and he and his wife at the wedding but we never met until then. Charles was the vice president of her agency. The impression I got of him was friendly giant.

Still his wife's kiss to me made me nervous.

I then remembered he and his wife lived at the corner of our street, we were neighbors.

Carly was still in Ruthie's arms in mid kiss. She was our next-door neighbor. Carly was President and lawyer for Felicity Arts Agency. She jumped into my arms for a full bore kiss too.

Edna and Petra the mom kissed us as they rushed out on the way to the airport. They had been at our wedding but then rushed back to L.A. They had not made it to the reception.

On the second floor Ruthie kissed two young girls then Jimmy, Carly's husband and President of an advertising firm. He had a ticket stub on the wall. I remembered he was the guy that escorted Edie and Sis. He seemed like a good guy so I relaxed about those neighbors. I did notice the second floor had empty offices.

Half of the first floor had the offices of three lawyers. None had been to our wedding but each wanted to congratulate us.

One tall redhead shook our hand. One tall blonde did the same.

A short redhead hugged Ruthie and showed her the ticket stub on the wall.

"Fiona and I went. You were magnificent and you should have just strangled Aunt Wendy."

"Where were you?"

"On the back left in front of the one called Alma."

"Oh man, we did not know you were there. Sean and I got married that next day and we would have insisted you come."

"You two are married? Congratulations. Oh, rings by Aunt Wendy. Gorgeous."

She was one of the women doing floor exercises in the gym that first night. I assumed the other was Fiona.

Ruthie kissed her softly and for a long time. I kissed Clara softly on the cheek. Ruthie told her we were going to be living in James and Lucy's house between her sister and cousin and to come over with Fiona anytime.

Ruthie then led us to the accounting firm at the other side of the floor. A lot of people were waiting for us there including Roger, Cory, Martina, Helen, and Leigh. Paloma was working as a receptionist and said, "Sean and Ruthie are here."

Petra the younger ran out and jumped into Ruthie's arms and devoured her in a kiss, then did the same to me before running back to her office. As soon as that was over Holly ran out and did the same thing.

Three other women came out to shake our hand then Adrian came out and kissed Ruthie on her cheek and shook my hand.

Helen and Leigh followed but did not have to go anywhere, it was summer vacation and they were teachers so their kisses were long. Helen's tongue entered my mouth. I had been warned about her exuberance before so I simply enjoyed it.

Her husband Roger was busy hugging Ruthie.

I did not expect Leigh to kiss me that way too but she boldly slid her tongue into me and I again enjoyed the kiss.

Adrian, Corey, and Roger thanked us for inviting them to the best weekend trip ever.

Martina gave us long hugs and kisses then Paloma did too. For some reason I did not understand Paloma's long soft kiss was the one that woke up my cock. As soon as she felt it she tightened her embrace and kissed me again. I decided that my first guess about her was correct, she was an enchantress.

There were several ticket stubs on the walls.

As we walked down the sidewalk Ruthie and I wondered how all those people knew we were coming. Then it came to both of us, "Sally," we said.

Janie flew into Ruthie's arms and kissed her then signed something to her and Ruthie kissed her back. "My best friend is married," a clerk translated for me.

Janie hugged me and signed something. The ladies laughed and all joined her in the last part of her sentence.

The clerk said, "You have been threatened. She said, "You hurt Ruthie and I will rip your balls right off."

I looked at Janie and said, "I will never give you reason to make me a soprano."

Janie smiled and kissed me. Her kiss was not the dramatic, exuberant kiss I had been getting all morning but more like my sister's best kiss. I liked it. I had reservations about befriending someone I could not communicate with but her kiss made her my friend.

Ruthie noticed and squeezed my hand.

We went to Wendy's shop but she was still in Vegas so we went next door and said hello to Marie and Mo. The gallery was not yet open and the two were drinking coffee when we walked in. We made ourselves cups and sat with them.

Both gave us long kisses and asked about our honeymoon plans.

Ruthie and I looked at each other realizing we had never thought about one.

They both laughed when they realized we had not planned one and Mo told us, "You have homework."

After coffee Ruthie and I continued on to the resort.

We had breakfast at the buffet and Ruthie reminded me that the hotel was where we were when we realized we might be in trouble.

"Canadian bacon and sausage gravy covered potatoes had mesmerized us," she said as she ate a forkful of the potatoes.

"I think the night before had something to do with it too," I added.

She gave me an impulsive kiss then said; "I knew I was in trouble when I showed you who I was, the one and only person to whom I have ever revealed myself.

When I saw you obviously much preferred Ruthie to Melody I decided you were not going to California."

"So I fell into a trap?"

"Oh no, not at all," she said as she flashed her rings.

We went to the Felicity Place but there was no one there, the restaurants and the clubs would not be open for hours so we went on to Felicity music.

One of the secretaries grabbed me and took me away as she commented, "You got a promotion and a raise and we don't even have you in our system.

By the way everyone in the building saw your wedding. Rob had their feed sent to us. Everyone liked the civilized part but loved the mob part."

"So did we. Did anyone record it?" I asked.

"Yes, Matt is working on it now."

It was not until then that I remembered that Matt and his wife Ali had been to our wedding. In fact he was filming us as the guys and I exited the limo at the chapel.

As I got upstairs one of Rob's assistants said "Conference room" and pointed the way. The chair next to Ruthie was vacant so I sat there. Ruthie immediately took my hand.

"OK, Ruthie, everyone, Caesars wants you to take Bette's place in the rotation at the same theater. Five shows a week for six weeks. Comments."

Ruthie said, "No. Too long, too far. Mo would strangle Marie anyway and we would have a scandal on our hands."

Everyone laughed and Marie said, "A very likely scenario."

Everyone was saying "murmur, murmur, murmur" so I joined in.

"Guys, there is practically no truth to those rumors," Marie said.

That brought the laughter back.

After order was restored Rob said to Ruthie, "We are negotiating four shows after Christmas, twenty seventh to the thirtieth. Are you OK with that?"

"That will work," Ruthie said.

"OK everyone, Josie said she would likely accept anything we can come up with. Any ideas?"

"Rob," I asked, "who does those two weeks between star sets at Caesar's?"

"Good question. Everyone take a break and we will find out."

"I will be at my day job, It's time to open." Marie said.

"Ruthie and I will be in the studio, Edie said."

It was well before eight AM in Vegas so I spent my time visiting with the people in the offices I did not know.

Eventually Rob called Josie and asked her to turn on her video-conferring mode.

"Oh, hi guys. What's the verdict?"

"It is no thanks as expected for the six week gig but Sean has an interesting question. Who does the time between the permanent acts?"

"Oh, I love your thinking. No one in particular and there is only one week to fill; the other week is spent getting the stage ready for the next star. Could you do one week every three months?"

"Six shows?"

"Five. Tuesday to Saturday."

I was already on my way to the studio before Rob asked. Allen had already speed dialed Marie.

I asked, "One week four times a year, five shows?"

I got two yes and hurried back.

I got back as Rob was getting two easy yes' from Alice and Nikki on the computer screen.

Rob clicked back to Josie and said, "That is a yes all around."

"The after Christmas slot you already have is part of the deal. When Petra and Edna get here we will start over. The beauty of this deal is that the times are far enough apart to always be a special event."

"That of course means they are expensive," Rob said.

She laughed and appeared to have a sudden thought. "Oh wait. We are going to be in Felicity next week. Are the ladies on their way over?"

"Not yet. They are waiting on the air taxi."

"Call them back. This can wait until we get there."

"You and Elaine?"

"Yes, we have rings to buy."

"You better bring Wendy with you. I got the impression they were in no hurry to get back. Talk to Aunt Elma."

"Thanks for the heads up. Bye."

Rob tapped something into his computer and got a split screen of Alice in Vegas and Marie across the street then said, "Alice and Marie, you have been offered a contract for all of September at The Flamingo.

"

Marie frowned and said, "Umm, probably not. Mo would be in school and would not be able to join me. Remember I am an amateur here. Alice will need to find a new partner."

"Alice will not have a new partner," Alice said on the video screen. "Five nights a week every week for a month I could do because I could go home every night. Marie would go crazy. Mo would kill both of us."

Rob said, "Right. I will call The Flamingo and see if I can negotiate for summer. Nikki will you be available?"

"Yes, I only work with Mom and Dad now. Would we have Allen and Edie?"

"No, Allen said. "Your father can do guitar, I will contact Sonya, she has summers off."

"Ooh, Sonya."

"Nikki!" everyone said and laughed.

Rob called the agent, an assistant to Josie, at The Flamingo and told her Alice and Marie would be available from the third week in June to the third week in July but not the week of the Fourth of July. They would be performing with Melody that week.

She asked, how many shows a week and we saw Alice hold up five fingers.

"Five shows a week."

"Deal, the woman said. We will take all of them."

Rob called Edna and said, "Same destination but go to the Flamingo, it is an Alice and Marie gig. Call Carly.

Go by the Hardrock and make sure you pick up a copy of the contract for us.

Visit with Josie if both of you have the time. Have her take you to dinner at Aunty El's. Show her your rings."

Rob said bye to them then told me, "Our three biggest acts are now booked into the next year. Erato has agreed to play recurring dates at the Hardrock starting Tuesday of next week.

"

I asked him, "Who would have everyone's schedule for the next year or so?"

"It is on a large board in the studio and on the employee website. Did you bring your computer?"

"Yes but I have been so distracted I have yet to take it out of my bags."

"Gee I wonder what could have done that?" Allen asked as he rubbed his chin.

Rob said, "Murmur, murmur."

Later Ruthie and I went to see Matt and I asked him how many copies of the wedding he was going to make.

"A hundred," he said.

"

A hundred? That many?" Ruthie asked.

"Yeah, the chapel had forty two seats, all were full. There were twelve of you standing in front and at least ten people standing in the back plus at least that many on the side of the aisle. There were possibly twenty or thirty people more at the reception. The safe number is one hundred.

I will give you the first two copies now so you can see in the video who else you need to thank."

Ruthie and I thanked him profusely.

By late afternoon I had my laptop out and had input everything they had on the acts.

Matt handed us a rough copy of the wedding video, he had added the video he had taken but had not edited that part. I loaded the video to my lap top.

The reception was even wilder than I remembered, Matt had captured our wedding dance and Josie's proposal to Elaine.

We were back at our hotel room when I logged onto my bank accounts and transferred half my money to the local bank. I logged on to my investment firm and changed my address and my beneficiaries.

I added Ruthie and the women's shelter to Mom and Sis. The shelter would get ten percent a year at the suggestion of my new CPA Adrian.

Ruthie, Mom, and Sis twenty percent. I would get thirty percent that I always immediately re-invested.

I then signed in to the employee portal and put myself on direct deposit. My salary was more than enough for Ruthie and me. Ruthie's salary was more than enough for her and me.

We only feared the IRS.

Later Adrian told me Texas has no state income tax. California does. I transferred the rest of my money. He also suggested I take my portfolio to the ladies in the bank to look at. They have beaten all estimated returns every year for him.

I looked up Melody's public bio and was reading it when Ruthie came over and asked, "Are you going to pay attention to that hussy or pay attention to your wife?"
I closed the laptop, pulled her to me, lowered her shorts and sunk my face on her pussy. She squealed and made a vague attempt to get away. I put her on the sofa on her back and ate her pussy until she had an orgasm.

I had taken our shorts off by then and slid up and into her pussy. I gave her a hard fuck until she had another orgasm then picked her up and carried her to the bed with my cock in her.

I got in on my back and she fucked me hard until we had simultaneous cums.

As she kissed my neck she said, "Good answer."

Four days after we returned to Felicity from Vegas our Mom's had gotten on the contractors nerves enough to make them cringe when they showed up at our house. They constantly reminded them that they had promised to already be done.

Ruthie and I were fine staying at the resort and were not in a hurry but our Moms felt we would not feel married until we were in our own house.

That Friday Ruthie and I gave the contractors a break by getting our Mom's to help us deliver copies of our wedding DVD. We had them going to their age group friends knowing every delivery would include a viewing and at least a gossip session.

As it turned out their third stop was at Wendy's. Elma had come back with her.

Wendy called the other ladies including Josie and Elaine who were staying at a bed and breakfast and all ended up watching the entire video twice, and some portions, like Josie's proposal, several times. We learned that they did not catch Josie's hand on Elaine's tit until the third showing. Wendy saw it first. Apparently there had been had also been 'distractions' during the showings.

Ruthie and I went to Julian's for lunch and Marissa kissed us each time she came near our table. On our way out Ruthie walked into the kitchen to kiss Julian and give him a copy of the DVD. Marissa took it and played it for her customers.

Sally, and Pepita were next and they began to play it on their TV's for their customers too. Sally was very busy with wedding cake orders and barely attacked me. Ruthie and I became TV stars before we delivered the rest.

We gave Clara one even though she had not been there but she knew almost everyone in the video and loved the gift.

Ruthie seemed to admire Clara and kissed her twice but they were not the 'I hope we fuck' kisses I had seen from her before. They were 'I really like you' kisses. I needed to learn more about Clara.

Carly and Charles got one at their office and Holly, Adrian, and Paloma got copies at their office. Petra was going to jump down our throats but Ruthie cut her off by quickly saying, "Sally has it!"

Holly had already started it on their break room TV. Paloma and Petra joined her and Holly was doing a fine job of narrating for Paloma as she held her on her lap. It helped that Paloma had been there.

Paloma's hug and kiss had again stirred my cock. Apparently she had also stirred Ruthie's pussy.

"That woman is a witch," Ruthie said as we walked out.

"Enchantress. She does not need potions," I said.

We began to walk to Roger's office but Helen and Leigh intercepted us and after wild kisses got into Helens SUV and drove off. All their kids were in the car.

Next door Janie put the DVD on her TV for her customers then gave Ruthie a long, deep, lovers kiss. Janie then hurried away as she blushed a deep red.

All Ruthie could say was "Wow."

We both wondered if the kiss meant something besides "I love you."

It was then that I learned Ruthie had been Janie's Maid of Honor.

Mo intercepted us before we left Janie's and took two DVD's. By the time we got to Wendy's the wedding was playing on the street monitor and was gathering a crowd.

We snuck quietly behind them and headed back to the studio.

All in all we recognized eighty-five people from the videos. There were about ten that others knew but we didn't, they were sitting with Alice, Nikki or Holly. Rachel, Ruthie's costume lady, was there with a daughter. Ruthie's make-up artist was there with a daughter. It never crossed my mind Ruthie had invited the crew but each had been with her and Melody for years. I decided I needed to be briefed on them too.

By the next day many asked us who the two older people at the back were. Alma and Holt had been to our wedding standing in the back. We could read Alma's lips when she said, "Yeah, that's her."

They apparently left right after the ceremony since we never saw them.

We sent a copy of the DVD to Holt in care of Caesars. We got a thank you note and they announced they got married the following Sunday.

We went to Matt and asked him to make us a DVD of all Ruthie's Janis performances; we needed a wedding present for friends. I asked him to end it with the "Hey Alma" wink.

The Alma Wink revealed another treasure, Clara and Fiona. The stage camera had zoomed in on Alma and showed them clapping for her. They had apparently correlated the picture on the screen to Alma before the camera moved away.

Two weeks later everyone had their copy of the complete concert and all got mad at Clara for being so damned reserved they had not said hello to anyone. They were told they missed a damn good party too.

All knew it was Fiona that was the reserved one but harped at Clara.

Fiona had been with Clara at most functions but had always stayed in the background. Her sister Maggie told us the plan to blame Clara was working, Fiona stayed in the room chatting with them now when they visited.

Lunch on Mondays at Adrian's office was apparently the only time anyone saw her relaxed in a group. We joined them the following Monday. Ruthie's kiss to Fiona was personal and was received well. Clara was very happy to see it. Fiona was a fan of Melody/Ruthie.

I heard Fiona speak with a British accent, no one had told me she was from England.

Ruthie and I decided to spend our honeymoon in the resort town of Felicity. No one cared when we stopped to kiss for no reason at all. Everyone else in town stopped to kiss for no reason at all.

We moved into our house the following weekend. She brought amazingly little from her house, the piano, the soundboard, and the freezer being the most important. Melody's costumes were kept in storage so Ruthie's closet was sufficient, barely.

Ruthie and I bought new furniture for the house. Most of her furniture was impressive but too big and too uncomfortable. Her bed would not fit in our bedroom.

I had noticed she did not own a TV so I bought a nice one but only got to watch parts of the games. Ruthie got in the habit of slowly walking past the television naked to distract me. It worked.

Actually I was impressed by her knowledge of baseball and she had a Toronto Blue Jay cap. She would often sit with me for a game. Of course we seldom saw the middle innings, we were usually very much distracted at that time.

Her studio looked like her old studio except I had arranged it so the sound system would provide true sound. I also bought a new, fancier shelf for her Grammies. It had room for ten.

We added four comfy armless chairs to replace the two she already had. I figured that with Edie and Allen one house over there would be a lot of work and play in our house. That and the chairs were fun to fuck on too.

Two weeks later I realized that Ruthie would often get in the studio and stay there working all day. Some days I was at the studio running the soundboard for other artists but a lot of the time I was home with her. I took food and drink to her and rubbed her shoulders but she was usually in bad physical shape when she emerged.

One afternoon I took a towel to our studio with me, moved a chair into her line of sight, covered the chair with the towel and sat. I was naked. I had an erection.

She giggled then tried to ignore me. Two minutes later she was sliding my cock into her pussy.

This became routine.

The moving trailer from California had arrived and there was very little I had loaded into it to unload.

Mom was happy to get her SUV back then immediately traded it in for a green Solara convertible. She loved Petras yellow Solara convertible.

I bought a Highlander and Ruthie traded her Lincoln for an Avalon. Mine was white and hers was blue.

Wendy's sister Allison owned the dealership but I doubted she made much money from us.

Two weeks later Mom moved into a new and very nice two-bedroom patio home just north of The Willows and Cloverleaf One. It was a short bike ride away. Ruthie's Mom Maddy was still in town and was now Mom's guest. Mom had only bought one bed.

I had met Allison and her daughter Connie when we lived in the mansion. Allison was walking her partner down the circle one morning and Connie and her four girls were walking with them. Ruthie and I walked over to join them in their stroll.

Her oldest girl eyed me with suspicion, the twins loved me. The baby was eleven months old then and looked at me as if I was a tourist attraction.

I noticed Connie had asked Ruthie something and she had agreed but I had no idea what that was because I was disturbed to note that Allison's partner Sophie was suffering from a bit more than mild dementia.

Ruthie had agreed to baby sit for her three days the following month.

It was Saturday August the fifth; our one-month anniversary was the next day. Ruthie and I were wondering if we would be alive for it.

Connie's girls were spending their third night at our house. We had spent the first day visiting with their grandma and Sophie, then with Wendy, then with Mo and Marie.

Our Mom's had volunteered to take care of the baby so we spent time with them before going home. It was an exhausting day but fun.

The next day we went to the beach. All, Ruthie included, used me as a diving platform. I had bruises from my waist up to the back of my head. We spent a lot of time applying sunscreen since we were four redheads and a blonde but Ruthie and I had to curtail our usual applications because we always had several eyes on us. It was a frustrating and very exhausting day.

That Saturday we took them to the Museum of Natural Science in The City and even though the girls behaved well there was a small problem because of the separations in ages between the oldest and the twins. Their interests were vastly different so Ruthie ended up with the oldest and I ended up with the twins.

Their energy level was well past mine and I will forever be grateful for the Kid Zone area, I got to sit. Two hours later I needed another rest so I took them to the planetarium. They were asleep within five minutes and when the show was over I had to carry both out.

They fell asleep again on the way back home so we had a couple of energizer bunnies well into the night.

We finally got all three asleep, the twins in our spare bedroom bed, the oldest in our den sleeper sofa,

I had taken a shower and had two cups of sleepy time tea with coconut rum on our night tables.

As I expected when Ruthie got out of the shower she hurried to me and climbed onto my cock. She fucked me hard until she had an intense cum. After she caught her breath she checked and was happy to see I was still hard.

She dismounted and sat up with me, took a big gulp of her tea and said, "All I have wanted all day was for you to make love to me. It has been at least three years since we last made love. Those alleged young ladies ruined my mood tonight and I had to have that fuck but I am glad to see I am going to get my lovemaking anyway. Thanks. This tea is yummy. Did you put coconut in it?"

"Yes, glad you like it. And I understand perfectly. Those two got me exhausted today. Thanks for putting them in bed for me I owe you one."

"You owe me two. I will admit they are adorable but having them with us for three days is exhausting. On the bright side, none of them is in any shape to interrupt us tonight."

"True," I said as I slipped down to her pussy.

I went slowly doing more kissing than licking. When I felt her relax I began more licking than kissing until she had a sweet orgasm. I kissed my way up and slid my cock in her and fucked her softly, gently. Her orgasm was loud and intense, way out of proportion to the fuck. She was as surprised as I was.

I kissed my way back down spending a few moments at her tits before I ate her pussy to a quick orgasm then gently loved it to another. I loved her tits before again sinking my cock in her.

That fuck made her nervous, she loved it but felt I was taking her to an orgasm that frightened her. I had slowed each time she began her run to orgasms, I was delaying it as I prolonged the lovemaking. I kissed her with all my love and slowed down for a while then suddenly gave her very hard, very long strokes and Ruthie exploded on her big one.

She had no control of her arms and legs and her whole body trembled. Before the orgasm was through with her she passed out. I kissed her softly then allowed my cum to fill her pussy.

I hugged her to me and rolled us over, she was again on top. I placed her pillow on my shoulder and made her comfortable. I turned off the lamp and went to sleep.

I had decided that I went to sleep best when her body covered mine. Fortunately she slept best when her body was draped over mine.

Two little girls were standing by the side of the bed that next morning. I had already been up twice and was wearing gym shorts and a t-shirt when they came in. We had already eaten breakfast.

"Mom is here, we are going home," they said.

Both girls kissed me and ran out.

I followed them and was not surprised it was after ten AM. Ruthie was still zonked out.

I helped Connie and Joe gather their stuff and the twins hugged me before going out. The oldest thanked me and followed. I could see that the baby was in the car already. I wondered how our Moms had coped.

We later learned that Connie had a hard time getting our Mom's to hand her over.

After the car was loaded with kids and stuff Connie went to the bedroom and woke Ruthie by kissing her pussy then her tits then kissed her lips with a grateful thanks.

After they left I took my clothes off and got back in bed and cuddled to Ruthie as I kissed her shoulder. Ruthie looked like she was again asleep but said, "That was the first time Connie has made any sexual moves on me. I though she no longer ate pussy. I am happy to see I was wrong."

"Maniac," I said.

"I am still shaking from the fuck you gave me last night. That was the scariest, most intense, most awesome orgasm I have ever had. Thank you for waiting before you took me there. Last night was the right time.

You know I love you with passion. I don't mind that you don't tell me you love me with words, I can tell when you touch me, when you kiss me, when you make the world disappear for me.

I would do anything for you, all you have to do is give me a hint and it's done."

"Hmm, sausage gravy over sausage?"

She bit my arm and slapped my ass. In the ensuing wrestling match, squeals, giggles and laughs were plentiful. Somehow as usual she ended up triumphant over me with my cock in her pussy. I wrapped my arms around her and said, "I love you," then kissed her.

"Thank you," she said and allowed her heart to kiss me.

"OK, one artery clogging breakfast coming up," she said as she tried to get off me.

She groaned as my cock moved in her. She tried again and was pulled back down by her pussy.

"Help me here," she said.

"OK," I said and rolled us over and began long strokes into her that coaxed Ruthie to a quick orgasm. I rolled us over again and she again tried to remove my cock from her pussy. She would get as far as the flair of my cock then her pussy would clamp on it and pull her back down.

"I am trying to remember how I got out of this mess before," she said.

I sat up then picked her up with her pussy still filled with my cock. I carried her into the kitchen and helped her prepare breakfast.

I told her I needed to pee. Ruthie said she needed to pee too so I carried her to the shower, turned the water on and we both peed. She had an orgasm.

We dried the best we could and brushed our teeth. Her butt was on the vanity so I fucked her for a few moments. I stopped when I noticed she had ceased brushing her teeth.

Breakfast was ready and we served it on one plate. I turned the chair sideways to the table and sat. She fed me between bites and kisses. I augmented my meal by sucking her tits between bites. Once I reversed the process and she moaned dropping the fork.

We put the plate up and got coffee but our kisses interfered and the coffee got cold. We put our cups in the sink and I put her ass on the table. She wrapped her arms and legs around me and gave me an amazing kiss. The fuck began during the second kiss and lasted many minutes until both of us roared in orgasm.

I picked her up again and sat us on the recliner in the den. She lay on my body and relaxed and I picked up the TV remote but never turned it on.

We wished each other a happy anniversary then napped for about thirty minutes. When we awoke my cock was out of her pussy.

She said she remembered that was how she got the damn thing out of her pussy before.

She stuffed it back in her and went back to sleep.

Petra and Sally awakened us. "Is it our turn yet? Sally asked.

"No and why are you here?"

They were as naked as Ruthie and I were.

"We are on our way to Jana's. Come with us," Petra said.

I knew she was talking to Ruthie.

"What time is it?" Ruthie asked somewhat confused.

"

A bit after one in the afternoon. What did you do last night that has you so groggy?"

"We had three little girls here last night," I said covering for Ruthie.

"Ouch. Take your time then. See you later."

Both gave us long passionate kisses and went out towards the back yard.

"Your cock is getting hard for them," Ruthie said menacingly.

"No, it has just noticed where it is,"

She began to fuck me but said, "Ouch. Baby, my pussy is tender for some reason."

"Oh, Ok, call Sally back."

She bit my shoulder and as she began to pummel me my rejuvenated cock moved inside of her. She groaned.

"OK, let me do this," she said and began a slow delicate fuck but she had to stop before she got anywhere near an orgasm.

"I will have lubricants for us this evening," I promised.

I got a long soft kiss then she stood and walked to our bathroom.

I noticed my cock had a drop of blood on it. Her period had just started.

She was wearing panties when she returned to the den and said, "Forget the lubricant, get tampons. Now!"

I hurriedly dressed then went to the store. I bought every kind of tampon and some Midol then returned as fast as I could. Ruthie gave me a 'how could you' look when I handed her the full bag then went back to the bathroom.

I was hungry and figured Ruthie would be too so I warmed up linguini dinners for us. She wasn't hungry so I ate hers. I had made fresh coffee and she fixed herself a cup, mostly of half and half and sugar.

"Tell me about it please," I asked.

"I am on a birth control pill that gives me months without periods, sometimes two sometimes six. This is my first in three months. I loose my appetite and I feel cold most of the time. There is pain and discomfort for two or three days and I just took some Midol. Thanks for getting that for me.

I do suffer from mood swings at times but that is not usual. You will not have a demented woman on your hands.

My period can last eight days so you may fuck Sally and Petra for the next week or so although they may be unavailable too, we use the same contraceptive."

"Lets go outside," I said.

"

I was thinking I would put on my bikini bottoms and walk to Jana's. She has beach loungers and I would love to lie in the sun. Come with me."

"I will walk you over but will not stay. I am sure a guy's presence throws off the vibes among them. Get your bikini on, I will set-up a small ice chest for you."
"What are you going to do?"

"Work on the garden and watch a ball game that starts at three thirty."

She smiled and kissed me then went to change. I fixed her an ice chest of Dr. Peppers, bottled water, and Mounds Candy bars, our favorite. I also put her Midol in the plastic zip bag with the candy.

I knew what to expect in Jana's yard but was still stunned by the number and quality of the naked women there. Edie was there and I told her that Allen did not deserve a woman like her.

"He knows that," she giggled and kissed me.

Jana and Inga were spectacular and so was Shirley. They kissed me. Petra and Sally devoured me.

I began to get an erection so I handed Ruthie's sunscreen to Petra, kissed both and walked home.

Carly was naked in her back porch putting on sunscreen as I walked through her yard.

"Is Ruthie in her period?" she asked.

"Yes she is, started this morning. She needs sun she said."

"Yeah, that's true for most of us. I just got through mine last week and my pussy is now edible. Go ahead, taste it."

I felt it would be impolite not to do so.

I kissed her pussy long enough for her to have a small orgasm. She jumped into my arms and gave me a long deep kiss. As she slid down my body she pressed her pussy to my erection and said, "I will ask Ruthie if we can," kissed me again and walked towards Jana's.

I went home and enjoyed the sight of all the naked women going by. All kissed me and all squeezed my cock. Some slid my cock into them. Some took a couple of strokes. Helen took more than a couple and had an orgasm

"Did you cum?" she asked.

"No."

"Good, its not a fuck unless you do," she said.

"I will ask Ruthie for permission to fuck when I see her," she kissed me again and got up. Leigh was with us and she said the same as she slid my cock in and out of her.

I loved my neighbors.

Ruthie gave permission to fuck me to Petra, Sally, Carly, Edie, Helen and Leigh but only for the duration of her period. I was very grateful when her period ended, the others were killing me.

Over the six weeks after Vegas we had many visitors to our home but people knew we were now back at work readying for the west coast tour so only our Moms would visit unannounced. We did not mind since they usually cooked for us.

Our rehearsals went well but we noticed Ruthie would sing some songs differently at times, evidence that Melody was gone for good. Two of those songs were much better the new way and we arranged them as new versions for the show. The audiences would have several new songs to hear.

Our fucks became morning and evening affairs, with the occasional sound booth escapade. Ruthie had quarantined me from others so all of my fucks were with my wife.

Petra needed us one Saturday morning but mostly she needed Ruthie not me, Sally was at her shop. Apparently Petra had awakened late and they had not had their lovemaking before Sally had to go to work leaving Petra unfulfilled. Ruthie did a fine job of that as I prepared breakfast for us.

Both stayed nude until it was time for Sally to close up shop at eleven that morning and we drove Petra there. I got my usual wild kiss and dry hump and Sally got her usual butt slaps. All of us loved that.

Ruthie and I did some grocery shopping then walked over to Martina's that afternoon. As Ruthie caught up with gossip I had a heart to heart with AR.

He was beginning to suspect that he was not very good at baseball. I reminded him that his hands were going to get much bigger and his shoulders much wider and convinced him to wait until he was fourteen to decide. I told him I was eighteen before I decided I preferred the music world to baseball.

I did not confess I had also realized I was not good enough at it. I did suspect that AR was going to be a small guy; His father was tallish but slim. His mother was diminutive and slim. He looked like his mother.

During that afternoon Ruthie and I got a chance to flirt with Paloma. As usual my cock stirred when we kissed. As usual she pressed her body to it when it got hard.

I noticed Ruthie could not keep her hands off Paloma's ass. I also noted that apparently the only other person to feel her sexual presence was Martina. She kissed Paloma often.

At home that afternoon Ruthie and I wondered if Paloma could turn on her sexiness at will or simply reacted for people she sensed wanted her. I again had to correct Ruthie by stating Paloma was not a witch but an enchantress.

We had lived in our house six weeks and were both very happy with it. I had redesigned the back yard garden twice, which was fun for me. Ruthie was busy with Edie writing songs and Allen was busy completing paintings for Marie's gallery, he was very talented.

My yard kept me from being bored.

The garden and the occasional sudden appearances of a naked wife as I wrestled a shrub into the ground were entertaining enough.

Our wildlife friends, deer Bobbi and Magee, and raccoon Celia never learned the way to the new house; either that or they did not like us that well in the first place Ruthie had said.

I assured her that their routine was set in their brain and they were not equipped to learn the detour.

I had the cattle guard removed and re-installed the section of the fence but placed a doggy door on one corner, just in case.

Apparently a skunk and her two kits were either accidentally fenced in or got through the doggy door and joined us. Luckily they loved Ruthie and me from the beginning and we ended up hand feeding them too. Ruthie adored them.

Skunks apparently love grapes so we knocked them out with a little potion inside then took them to the vet and she gave them shots against rabies and feline distemper. She also removed their scent glands.

I bought a small doghouse and we put the very groggy family in it to recover. They decided they liked their house and the easy food so they stayed with us.

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James, the previous owner of our house had told Ruthie to feed wild animals only at random times, never two days in a row and to feed them at least once every ten days. That would keep them coming back but would not have them depend on us for food so that was what we decided to do.

Ruthie was sure the family stayed because they loved us and not because we fed them. I decided to agree with her but bought a case of cat food to be safe. Of course while we were home they never went more than two days in a row without being fed.

Ruthie loved the girls and I sort of did too but still Flower and her daughters Petunia and Daisy stunk a bit even without the scent gland. I ended up giving them baths every couple of weeks or as soon as we got back from trips. Flower tolerated it but her girls loved bubble baths.

All three also enjoyed the can of fine cat food Ruthie and I spoon fed them after their bath

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We had installed a gate between Helen's yard and ours that served as a short cut between our loops for the ladies heading towards Jana and Inga's pool.

Helen and AR visited with the skunks often. They checked up on the girls and fed them on those times we were away.

We suspected AR was feeding them a bit more often than usual and had accomplices. We have a photo of Leigh's twins each holding a baby as they fed them cat food. There was also a photo of AR putting peanut butter on a grape as Flower patiently watched.

We normally saw them only at dawn and dusk so friends trooping through our yard seldom saw them.

When we noticed that the girls were going out on their own we picked them up and took them to Wendy's pet shop, defenseless skunks don't survive long in the wild.

Helen and Leigh were there with their kids waiting for us and each grabbed one skunk and left without saying a word.

I looked at Ruthie who was wearing as fake a look of surprise as I had ever seen.

Neither of their husbands had been enthusiastic about a pet skunk when I brought it up to them. Apparently they had been overruled.

Daisy and Petunia became litter box trained 'house cats' and seldom left their homes.

Flower became a homebody often curling up with Ruthie on our lounger.

Josie and Elaine came to town for their ring ceremony and a two-week honeymoon. They had already married in New Mexico but the exchange of vows was in Felicity.

Rob walked Josie down the aisle and Marshall walked Elaine. Elaine's daughter Rhonda came with them and stayed at Holly's. Her mom Liz and Elma stayed at Wendy's.

Ruthie's Mom Maddy kept putting off her return to Toronto just as Mom had put off her trip to California. She answered each inquiry with, "Eventually, maybe next week."

Ruthie and I were sure there would be no returning home. Our Moms were obviously a couple and having our moms in town was a great gift for us; we had been without them for nearly ten years.

Rhonda never left either. Our bank needed her degree and experience; she became a vice-president in less than two years.

She and Ruthie became occasional lovers. I was in bed with them some of those times and Rhonda was sometimes allowed the use of my cock. Holly was with them on occasion but I never stayed in bed with the three of them.

Jana and Inga's pool party came around again and I had a lot of naked women in my yard. After she returned she draped herself over my body and slid my erection into her.

"And how was your day," I asked.

"Compared to the last party it was fabulous. You will need to fuck me softly tonight and for a long while. I am the mood for another scary orgasm. "Are the contractors coming tomorrow?"

"Yes, remind me to leave the gate open."

"Did you remember to tell them about Flower?"

"Yes, he did not seem too surprised, apparently many people know we have a resident skunk in our yards but he was pleased to hear she was de-skunked."

We kissed and just enjoyed our complete body contact. Once in a while she would do some light fucking but only for ten or fifteen seconds or so, just enough to maintain my erection.

Other women walked by and came over to kiss us. Several kissed and licked Ruthie's butt.

She said, "Lets close up the house and go to bed and fuck. Then lets eat the paella then make love until we have to go to work."

"Deal."

It was exactly what we did. Her otherworldly cum did not frighten her as much as before but I again released my cum into a mostly unconscious Ruthie.

She made up for that the next day.

The Saturday before we left for the west coast concert tour Petra returned to our bed. She made love to Ruthie as I prepared breakfast.

I fucked both after breakfast leaving my cum in Petra. The three of us cuddled until it was time to take Petra to Sally's.

Rob and Roger had purchased an Airbus jet that had luxury seats for forty. There were just two rows of side-by-side reclining leather seats with leg rests. There was a cargo hold towards the back that held our luggage, costumes, instruments and props. There was a full kitchen back there and we got freshly cooked food on longer flights.

Rogers's spotlights and Rob's artist merchandize were in the cargo hold.

Roger had come up with an ingenious sales plan. He had his sales people concentrate in the cities our tours would play and sent Marshal with us to install them when we got there. Holly would come with him at times.

Wendy, Mom, Maddy and Mo had purchased minority stakes in the plane too. They wanted to be sure they always had seats on the plane. It was the one and only plane of Felicity Air.

We could now fly directly from Felicity to all our concert venues except Canada. The paperwork for those permits was in the works and was expected before that tour began six weeks in the future.

The Spanish pilot Marisol and the Hungarian co-pilot Malena were women that had collided with the glass ceiling of their major airlines. They considered themselves as having landed in heaven; they loved the plane and really loved Felicity.

Both were lesbians. The pilot from Sevilla was fifty years old and was beautiful; The Hungarian was thirty and stunning. Their flight attendants were ladies that their previous airline had considered to be too old, they were in their mid forties. They were from Costa Rica and New Zealand. None of the four had met until the day they were hired.

All the members of the Melody tour loved the plane; it felt like riding in a car with friends. Friends with benefits. The Hungarian redhead had a lot of suitors.

The west coast concert trip went very well. We had three days to look around in Seattle and in fact Ruthie and I drove up Mt. Rainier, found a deserted spot and fucked there.

The Mariners ballpark was amazing even if their team was not. Edie and Allen joined us for a game. By the time the game ended we were no longer startled when trains blew their horn as they went past the park.

The concert was well received and the Janis bits went as well as they had in Vegas.

On our way to Oregon our pilot circled Mt. Rainier and Mt. Saint Helens for us. As we circled Mt. Rainier I whispered to Ruthie, "Look, you left your panties down there," and got pummeled in reward.

We flew around Mt. Hood on our landing approach. Portland was fine but we decided against going to Mt. Hood, too spooky Ruthie said. We were there just one night anyway.

San Francisco was a hoot and we ended up staying there five days. We loved Chinatown and loved the baseball park and the garlic fries. Ruthie informed me that I was taking a picture of her and her tits amid forty thousand fans in the ball park. I managed to find a place with no witnesses, probably.

Ruthie admitted that the stunt was inspired by Paula who had a whole album of such photos. I said, "I look forward to admiring them, hum, her."

My tongue slip got me pummeled.

I rented a car and drove us down Lombard Street and drove up the Napa valley and bought a gallon a very good local olive oil and a magnum of a very fine tasting Madeira. Ruthie and I fucked as we rode an aerial tram over a vineyard.

We walked around the Castro area and attended a symphony concert with Edie and Allen.

Hilary Chang was the soloist and a friend of Edie. Hilary was apparently an occasional visitor to Felicity. Ruthie gave her two passes to her second concert.

She apparently knew of the secret identity.

Ruthie's friend Paula had told us about a restaurant she and Paul had been to and suggested we stay until the upstairs opened but did not tell us why. All of us went after the Friday concert and the ladies went wild when they realized the upstairs was a party home for lesbians.

Allen and I had to insist on no company that night but both our wives managed several trysts in a corner behind our table.

Our co-pilot Malena seemed to disappear behind the throng of women surrounding her.

It was a weekend stay and Mo had joined Marie that Friday night and they did take the bartender to their room.

Our Moms took home a girl that may have been younger than Ruthie and me.

Nikki disappeared until the next morning. She was in a 'what the cat drug in' shape when she returned her mother said. Nikki claimed it had been the best night of her entire life.

We never saw Wendy or Marisol that evening. We had assumed, correctly, they were with each other.

Our Saturday concert seemed more like a college crowd. Ninety percent of Melody's concert crowds were female but this night there were a bunch of guys, maybe forty percent. Most of those guys were on dates and likely hoped the concert would be enough to get them laid that night.

Hilary came in after her appearance at that nights symphony venue. People had moved to her seats so I asked security to bring her backstage. She loved the new version of the old song and applauded with feeling.

It was time for the Janis number so Edie sat at the piano. Hilary asked me which song was she doing that night and I told her. She then stared at the lonely violin in Edie's chair and I nodded.

She was ready as Allen finished the intro and began to play the violin echoing Ruthie's singing.

She did not look back and neither did Allen or Edie. They knew who it was. Hilary stayed until Alice and Marie finished their number and left the stage as Ruthie returned. All saw the lip to lip kisses she shared with Edie and Ruthie before leaving, she had a plane to catch.

Melody did have a large gay audience but they were a separate group in the auditorium. They were the guys that sang along with the ladies.

That large gay following convinced Ruthie to suggest I see if the promoter could arrange a third concert and advertise it only on gay friendly outlets.

After he recovered his ability to speak, (he was still operating as if it was the old Melody), he had it all set up in less than an hour. The extra concert was the following Tuesday night and sold out in forty-five minutes.

We spent Sunday on a long drive that ended up at Pebble Beach for lunch then drove through the artichoke capital of the world.

We spent Monday with Edie and Allen on Fisherman's Wharf; we ate dinner at Houston's restaurant. We enjoyed the place more than we had enjoyed the Houston's in Houston, most likely because we were in San Francisco.

As expected the Tuesday concert crowd appeared to be a mostly lesbian and was a bit rowdy. Many kept shouting out "I love you, mostly to Melody. Nikki and Edie got a lot of those too. A group of older ladies shouted out their love for Alice and Marie. After a gorgeous redhead had shouted out her love to Melody she did the standard 'I love you too' line but after taking a good look at her she added, "Hopefully." The place got even wilder.

Allen was ignored.

Ruthie did four Janis encores.

We did not see the redhead on the way out. I would have allowed Ruthie to bring her with us.

We were exhausted before we boarded the plane for L.A. and even more so after our rehearsal that Wednesday. My day became even less pleasant when several agents accosted me about giving their artists a song with Melody at our concert. I told all them the show was too tight to allow anything to interfere.

All got mad and accused me of not knowing proper protocol. Word of my somewhat extreme displeasure in response to their accusation got around quickly and there were no such incidents the next three nights. I did not hit any of them. I wanted to though.

Amazingly it was a trip to Disneyland that brought my mood back to normal. I had lived in L.A. for years and had never been, none of the others had either, not even Sis who came along with us. The place was very clean.

On the last concert that Saturday night I noticed a former very popular female star at the far end of the stage sitting in a wheelchair. She had her eyes closed as she quietly sang along with Melody to herself. She knew everyone of Melody's songs.

I walked up to her and she looked like she expected to be run off. I calmed her when I asked if she was a fan of Melody.

"Yes, she is the best of us, especially since she married and got a new band manager. She has been on fire since Vegas."

"I will tell her you said that. She is a fan of yours. How do you feel?"

"Tonight I feel tremendous. Often not so tremendous. But I have not had any drugs or booze for six months. My legs are suffering from a side effect to something and I have days I need the wheelchair."

I wheeled her over where Ruthie could see us. She gave us a big smile then began her favorite song of the star. I gave the star a live mike and wheeled her on stage and they sang her song together. The ovation they received brought tears to both of their eyes and I delayed wheeling her off for a few moments.

It had been her first public appearance in over two years.

Melody never mentioned her name, only that her fondest stage wish had been just been fulfilled. Ruthie had resumed the show by the time I had the star back to her original spot.
She said, "Oh I'm going to get it now. I am not supposed to be out of rehab."

"Why are you there?"

"My condition and history embarrasses people. I am not supposed to be seen."

"Your agent?" Your label?"

"No, both dropped me over a year ago. Mostly my parents."

"We can hide you."

She giggled until she noticed I was serious.

"You are not serious, are you?"

The stage manager came by and told me I was going to catch grief from the agents I had scared away three days before.

I said, "Yeah, but I will just tell them that when their clients get to forty million records sold to come back and talk to me."

The stage manager laughed and said, "All of those kids together wont come close to matching that. The little redhead with the big voice is the best of them but has the worst agent; he was the one you unfortunately did not punch. The kid is from Texas you know."

I nodded and made a mental note to tell Carly, Edna and Petra the elder about her. Six weeks later she worked for Felicity Music and was on extended tour.

The star asked me, "Excuse me, are you the band manager?"

"Yes, and the husband. Thanks for giving me credit but I think it was the skunks that gave Melody the idea she had another gear."

"Skunks? Your are not serious are you?"

As the show ended I waited for the VIP's to say hello to her then rolled our guest artist in her chair to our limo and helped her to the back seat. Our chauffeur put her wheelchair in the trunk then just smiled at my guest.

"There are drinks there if you wish," she said as she opened the little fridge. It had cokes, Dr. Peppers, water, and root beer. Our guest giggled and got a Dr. Pepper.

Alice and Nikki were on the way to the airport and their Vegas home accompanied by our Mom's and Wendy. They were on the way to spend the night at Elma's.

Our road crew had to oversee the packing before they could come to the hotel so were still at the concert venue. The remaining performers got into our limo. I sat in front with the chauffeur.

All were kissing and hugging the star until our driver announced, "Seat belts please."

My guest was flabbergasted when every one put on their seatbelt. Ruthie fastened hers for her then kissed her. Both enjoyed that kiss a lot so they kissed again.

Then our guest star was stunned when Ruthie took her wig and contact lenses off and put on her glasses.

"That's why nobody can find you," she exclaimed.

Everyone laughed then the loud conversation and kissing resumed as we drove to our hotel.

After we arrived the chauffeur got the wheelchair out and I helped our guest into it then rolled her to the elevator with us. We held the elevator until our chauffeur, Carmen, ran in after parking the limo.

We had found out as soon as she picked us up at the airport four days earlier that Carmen was Pepita's sister. We immediately commandeered her for the duration and got her a room at the hotel. We ordered her to ditch her uniform and she went in with us to Dodger stadium and Disneyworld. She was family.

On the elevator on the way up I stage whispered to her, "I will give you money to take her to your room.

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She whispered loudly, "I was going to give you money to let her stay with me."

"How much?"

"A dollar."

"Deal."

"I only have a five, you have change?'

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No," I said and took her five without bothering to look for change.

Everyone began to laugh and we were soon on our floor.

Carmen, wheeled our guest to her room as the rest of us went to our rooms.

Ten minutes later all came to our suite and we broke out the care package from home Mo had brought for us. We put Pepita's empanadillas in a convection oven and Julian's shrimp linguini in the microwave.

Carmen wheeled our guest in and put the relleno things in the microwave when the linguini was ready.

All the ladies were wearing only t-shirts including our guest star that was now on our bed with all the ladies. Hers was a Melody t-shirt. Allen and I were still dressed.

After the food was gone he and I kissed the women and left. We sensed that a lesbian orgy was about to begin; Edie had a hand under our guest's shirt at about tit level.

We went to the bar at the hotel and ordered Crown and cokes. Some professional ladies came by but we ignored them, the Astros were playing the Angels on TV. The game ended about an hour later after three very tense extra innings so we got drinks to go and went back upstairs.

I opened my door and saw Ruthie eating our guest's pussy. I closed the door and went to Allen's room and found Allen was by his open door watching Edie and Carmen feasting on each other. We walked past the next room because we knew Mo was in Marie's room. Our aircrew's rooms had loud giggles emanating from them.

Carmen's room had an open door and no lesbian lovers so we went in and saw the TV was on, there was a lesbian movie playing. Allen and I watched it until our drinks were gone then we fell asleep.

Sometime later Ruthie wheeled our still nude guest to the bed and took me to ours. Carmen was going in as we left, she was also nude. As we closed the door we saw our guest cover Carmen's body with hers.

Ruthie was very hungry for me that night, I was glad for my nap.

I checked us out at ten the next morning then Carmen drove us to my house and we picked up Sis.

The kiss she shared with Carmen told us that their night together two days before had been successful. Carmen had taken Sis home Thursday night after the concert and did not return to the hotel until ten AM Friday morning.

Sis had stayed home packing since that night, she was moving to Felicity. The moving van was leaving as we drove up.

She was very surprised to find our guest sitting between Ruthie and Edie.

We buckled up and went to the airport. Carmen drove us to the plane then went to park the limo. She was coming with us too.

Allen and I helped our guest up the steps and after Carmen rejoined us we headed home. Our road crew was already in the plane and sound asleep.

As soon as we were headed east Ruthie was asleep and so was everyone else except Sis and our guest, they were the only two operating on a west coast time zone, they had a normal nights sleep. They were sitting together. I had my eyes closed expecting to sleep soon.

Sis asked our guest what she was doing among such shady characters and she answered, "I am being kidnapped."

"Ooh, for how much?"

"I don't know, hopefully a lot."

"Have any of them sexually attacked you?"

"Yes, all of them. Not the men, all the women. Ruthie, Carmen and the Hungarian were amazing. I was my best night of sex ever because I was sober for this one."

"Can you handle one more?"

All I heard until I fell asleep was slurping and moans.

Apparently Malena had been in the middle of the lesbian orgy, she was now family. Ruthie promised me that I would get to fuck the Hungarian right after she did. It turned out she did not fuck men. Yet.

When we landed in Felicity we took Sis to our Moms then Ruthie and I took our guest home with us and installed her in our spare bedroom. We needed to provide her with toiletries and some clothes so they went shopping first.

I went to see if Sis needed anything and found out our Mom had taken her out to eat. I found them at Julian's and joined them remembering to take two shrimp linguini home.

I found Ruthie and our guest in bed devouring each other. I called Petra and asked if she was busy.

The next morning the two singing stars went straight to our home studio and began putting songs together. Soon Edie was there with them and I brought them lunch from Janie's. All three were nude when I returned.

Carly came over and signed our guest to her agency and to Felicity music, then devoured her.

They stayed in the studio nude even when Helen, Leigh, and Sis came over. After a short lesbian orgy that early evening the others left me with two naked singing stars.

Ruthie and our guest stayed in the studio until midnight then both crawled into bed with me. Our guest kissed me as Ruthie fucked me. Then our guest fucked me as Ruthie kissed me. After getting a nice orgasm she slid off me and was almost immediately asleep. I had not cum so I looked at Ruthie. She was sound asleep.

After convincing myself it was too late to call Petra I walked to my back porch and masturbated.

Six weeks later our guest joined Melody for a podcast of their old and new songs. Two pianos, two violins, a cello or electric guitar and Sis at clarinet and Leigh on French horn with Marie and Mo doing backing vocals. Carmen did percussion.

It made their sound ominously cool, not at all what you would expect from either.

Mo had a deep resonant voice in contrast with Marie's soprano. Their voice play was way cool flitting around the two stars voices.

Edie, Helen and their violins and Leigh and her French horn had come by each day to help put the music together. Sis and her clarinet assisted on four songs. The dark dangerous sound was Helen's doing, she was musically gifted so the others accepted every suggestion she made.

Several songs had some palpable anger in them. I wondered how Helen's marriage was going then decided the anger was more likely the stars.

Matt recorded the podcast and soon had the concert on CD and DVD. It was a big hit.

Carly got most of the woman's money released by just a hint of a lawsuit and legal charges.

The star immediately invited Ruthie, Carmen, Sis, Edie, Carly, Helen, and Leigh to go on a shopping spree into the big city. The total tab for that trip was twenty-four thousand dollars, average, for each.

Carmen could not afford that of course so her tab was just under one hundred dollars. Her stash did cost twenty-four thousand dollars; the others shared the cost among themselves.

Roger, Corey, Allen and I were informed we were taking our wives to dinner at the String of Pearls; they had nice dresses to show off. Sis came along and so did Carmen and the star. I will admit they looked fabulous.

The former star stayed in Felicity permanently. She was at first a bit disappointed when everyone treated her like the friend of a friend instead of the star she was but then realized the town already had stars in their midst and were used to that so she was soon enjoying her relative anonymity.

She had told our agents not to consider any individual concert tours for her. We gave her a duet with Melody and a solo during the next Vegas show. That was all she wanted. Melody kept her on stage longer by coercing her to do one song from her new album. Once just for fun they shared a duet to a Janis song.

She bought a new luxury townhouse where Mom and Sis lived and became a songwriter and choreographer for Felicity Music. She was no longer a platinum blonde; she no longer dyed her hair.

With Inga as her trainer, massage therapist and occasional lover she regained her health and vitality. She drank Dr. Pepper and sometimes wine during her periods. She became bubbly and fun to be around. We never saw the difficult and demanding superstar everyone cringed to be around. Probably that one was somewhere with the old Melody, I never met either.

Reporters begged for interviews and were allowed access on the subsequent trip to Vegas. She confessed that the lesbian rumors were true, she was now healthy, and she did not want stardom any more.

"I lived that life and yet was always alone. I have true friends now and I will never disappoint them."

She became a boring personality and eventually the press left her mostly alone. The world famous singer and train-wreck had become Nancy, one of the girls everyone loved.

Carmen stayed in town and Ruthie and I set up a limo company and bought her a limo. We figured that she would not get much work but after a couple of months she was very busy. Our little company never lost money but became a valuable tax deduction.

Sis and Carmen were with Nancy often, they shared one bed often. Eventually Sis told Ruthie that she was backing off the threesomes. Carmen and Nancy had become a couple although neither of them knew that yet.

Three months later Nancy asked Carmen to move in with her. Sis's suspicions were confirmed. Our little limo business had to hire a new chauffeur. Fortunately Pepita had another sister.

Nancy and I seldom fucked but she and Ruthie made love often. She and Carmen attended the monthly orgies at Jana's and parked their bicycles at our house and walked naked with Ruthie to the pool.

Malena became a regular member of the crowd. She and Ruthie fucked often. Malena was considering fucking me.

The pilot Marisol was in our Mom's age group and was a regular at Wendy's hot tub. The two air-hostesses were very busy with each other but did at times join the others at Wendy's.

Our Canadian tour began just three weeks after the west coast tour and started in Quebec City. Our party traveled there in our plane but it left the next day with a charter group to Cancun. We would not see them again until Vancouver.

Malena was very disappointed she would not get to see French Canada and even more disappointed that they would have just one night in Cancun; they had a different charter group to ferry to Atlanta the next day.

Carly had to hire a controller and booking agent for the plane, its luxury configuration made it a popular for charter flights.

The aircrew did get more than the required rest periods in between their gigs but they were very busy.

I was fascinated by the French-speaking city, I was the only one that had not been there before and I often felt I was in France.

Ruthie and I did a lot of sightseeing before the concert. Ruthie had been in the city before but had never gone out sightseeing,

Melody always hid in her hotel.

In Vegas and on the west coast tour Ruthie and I had roamed far from the hotel every day. She enjoyed doing that and gave me credit for it; she apparently had needed the company before.

Edie and Allen still stayed mostly around the hotel.

In Quebec City she decided that the park at Montmorency Falls was the best bet to find a seclude area, we did and fucked.

Ruthie did the entire Quebec show in French, which she had apparently always done; I did not see any surprise from the crowd. I do not think anyone recognized Nancy until after she sang one of her new songs with Ruthie halfway through the show. She got an ovation when she came out to do her own number as Ruthie did her first costume change. As per her request she had not been introduced.

Our second stop was Montreal and again the show was in French. As she had done in Quebec City she sang three songs in French the surprise here was that Nancy accompanied Ruthie on one of them.

One of the songs Ruthie sang in each city was an Edith Piaf scorcher that she treated like Janis would have. She got a standing ovation.

After that show Edie told me Ruthie had grown as an artist, taking chances and getting away with them. "I no longer try to keep her on the straight and narrow, whatever she wants to try we will back her up. We know Ruthie can accept a negative response, Melody could not."

She then gave me a long and loving kiss and a thank you.

Wendy and our Moms were fluent in French and we seldom saw them except during the concerts. There were dozens of chic shopping areas in a small section of Montreal that all the ladies wanted to see; even Ruthie and her dresser Bonnie went on a shopping spree.

Allen and I went to a seedier part of town to do some sightseeing.

Sis and Carmen joined us for our first two stops and during that time we only saw Nancy when she joined us on stage. Apparently Carmen also spoke French.

Sis and Carmen went home before we moved on to Toronto, our last rail destination.

Ruthie's first three Canadian tours were completely by rail; she wanted to experience Janis' rock train days. Janis had not included the French cities on the rock train tour but Melody had from the start. She had spent time growing up in Montreal and still had friends there but I only met them backstage after the concert.

Our stay in Toronto included two concerts and five days. Ruthie had a lot of family there and her mother wanted Mom to meet everyone she knew and Ruthie wanted me to meet everyone she knew.

She urged me to fuck two of her closest friends and former lovers. That was nice.

She also allowed her big breasted, older, twice-married, twice-divorced sister to fuck me. That was very much a surprise since she and her sister did not seem to get along that well. During our wedding I never saw them speak to each other.

Her Mom told me it was likely Ruthie wanted her sister to know she had me and her sister didn't.

That may have been true since she was not allowed near me on any subsequent trip.

Ruthie knew Toronto of course and knew the best places for an outdoor fuck, one of which began with a tour boat ride to a lake island for a picnic. There was just one other couple in the picnic area but they were fucking so Ruthie and walked a few feet past them and fucked.

We ended up going back on the same boat with them and we visited a bit. We liked each other.

Later Ruthie and I ate at the tower and went to a baseball game.

That next evening she took me to a bar in the gay area of the city where a transvestite was filming a pod show. One of her guests was apparently a blustery city commissioner.

While there another couple kept looking at us with interest.

Ruthie said, "Calm down, it's the guy that wants you."

"Oh," I said.

We went to a small club which Ruthie told me had been her first paid gig. The couple we had shared the picnic grounds for fucks were the act that night. Their instruments were a classic guitar and an old Fender, both played well. We enjoyed their show.

They had a different sound, sort of folk rock with a harder yet nebulous edge. Ruthie and I liked it and I ended up recording some of the show on my cell.

We asked about their agent and the girl introduced us to her Mom. We visited for a while before Ruthie and I left.

The next morning I sent Rob the video and the Mom's number. He invited them down and signed them after he heard the two sing.

Both were very much stunned and clueless as to how that happened for them until they saw a photo of us as we listened to play back in the studio. Ruthie was on the floor with her head on my lap and they recognized us.

"We know those two. Who are they?"

"He is Melody's band manager and she is his wife," Matt told them. "They are why you are here."

That Wednesday night they did a pod show from Jana's place that went very well.

Our next stop, Winnipeg, was an interesting town and the home of one of Ruthie's childhood friends. We both fucked her. Ruthie and I fucked in the Assiniboine Park too.

Our stop in Regina was short and we did not have time to sightsee so we fucked in her dressing room

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Calgary looked and felt like a northwest Texas oil town with hockey rinks. Ruthie and I fucked behind a western dance hall.

We both loved Vancouver from previous trips and we spent three days there. Two of those days were spent in the northern woods. We traveled by zip line during one of those. We fucked on the other.

Wendy and our Moms did a lot of shopping there.

Nancy got a tremendous reception during the concert so Ruthie ended up encouraging her to sing five songs. Those five songs became a permanent part of the concerts, which allowed Ruthie and her dresser to become extravagant during costume changes.

Reminding her audience how poorly they had received the Janis song on her previous trip Ruthie pretended to be reluctant to do one until the crowd began the chant "Janis."

She did three.

Ruthie's video of the second Vegas concert had become the best selling DVD in the city. They now knew who Janis was.
On our way home we stopped in Vegas to drop off Alice and Nikki, see Erato perform, and allow the ladies to visit Elma.

Ruthie, Edie, Allen and I stayed three nights at the Bellagio and rarely left their buffet. We did see another Cirque show and a titti show.

One day we did leave town. Ruthie and I went on a picnic and fucked along the banks of Lake Meade. Edie and Allen where fucking next to us. They claimed they had intended to just watch but they in fact started to fuck first.

They later claimed we were a bad influence on them.

"You're welcome," we said.

Our Felicity Air plane came to get us on the Wednesday and we were exhausted when we got home but had only ten days before having to return to Vegas. Ruthie and I spent the first seven days eating, fucking and sleeping. Carly, Petra, Sally, Helen, and Leigh each had a turn five of those days. We had them one at a time for an entire day. It was two on one.

I had been leery of having married women as fuck buddies but their husbands worked long and hard hours and knew they were not sexually satisfying their wives. The guys had decided that since they would not have to fear losing their wives to a guy married to Ruthie they were OK with our trysts. "It takes pressure off us," Roger had said to me.

Roger was seven years older than Helen. Corey was younger than Leigh but he at times worked past midnight. Jimmy worked long hours which often included trips into the city. He was six years older than Carly.

We were soon on our way back to Vegas with a full plane that had to return to Felicity for a second load of passengers, we again had many friends attending the shows. Rob and Vicky, Roger and Helen, Corey and Leigh, Adrian and Martina, and Petra and Sally each attended the Saturday night performance on dates.

Ruthie again had a running dialogue with an audience member but it was someone different each night. All the exchanges were hilarious.

Nancy did six songs, one of her hits and five from her CD with the ladies. Helen, Leigh, and Sis joined her on stage for that segment on Friday and Saturday nights but like Nancy were never introduced.

The entire audience sang the defiant chorus of two of the songs; Nancy was again a big star.

Carmen worried about that but she did not need to, Nancy credited her and Ruthie for her resurgence to the press after the show.

Her act was very much a highlight of the show but Nancy never toured on her own.

After the last show Ruthie and I allowed others to take our seats on the plane home and we drove to Yosemite National Park to sightsee and fuck. We got back on Southwest a week later from Oakland after another night at the club in San Francisco. Ruthie and I shared a waitress.

One of the few things I brought from my house in Los Angeles was a viola. I used it mostly as a stress reliever and would go to my back patio and play at times.

Violas are background noise for violins and cellos but I would try to play the more complicated melodies of each.

I had played the thing in studios for bands and singers and was considered a good session musician but there was simply not much calling for violas.

Allen would often come over with his cello and we would just jam for a while on some summer afternoons.

Ruthie and Edie would join us often and we played everything from Bach to Pink Floyd.

Leigh and her French horn and Paloma and her classic guitar joined us at times.

One afternoon a violin began to play with me and I followed its lead.

Ruthie came out and gasped, "That's Helen" and immediately sent a text message.

Helen and Leigh walked into our yard and sat on a bench.

Each wore only an ill-fitting t-shirt and neither was careful to make sure they were decently covered which allowed their bright red pubic hair to shine in the sunlight.

Ruthie and I loved red pubic hair.

Edie and Allen came in right after Helen did and sat on the patio with me.

Paloma joined us and sat on another garden bench and was soon joined by Wendy and her oboe. Mom and her flute, Sis and her clarinet, joined us on the patio. Maddy came over with her violin, she had been first chair of the second violins in Montreal.

Naomi joined us with her trumpet and sat on the bench with Paloma and Wendy.

We played some Schubert. We played some Debussy. We each had a star turn and all where impressed with Paloma's guitar play on Asturias.

Jana and Inga joined us wearing ill fitting t-shirts and were no more concerned about their decency than Helen and Leigh were, their blonde pubic hair was glistening in the sun as they shared one of our double loungers.

Ruthie and I loved blonde pubic hair.

Carly, Maggie, and Shirley added more red pubic hair to our view.

Carmen and Nancy showed their clean shaven pussies, we loved naked pussies.

We were having fun and our audience was enthusiastic in its applause but I sensed that everyone was waiting for something.

Then Helen began some Vivaldi and all of us had to pick it up.

I was impressed by the talent and ability of everyone there but was floored by Helens. She produced the most assured sound I had ever heard.

We heard the rumble of thunder in the distance and knew we had to quit soon.

Helen looked at Allen and me then began Bach Prelude number 3. Allen and I echoed her playing, that was all we could do. She was a hell of a lot faster than we were and a hell of a lot more gifted than we were.

Everyone shouted and clapped when she was done.

Helen thanked everyone for a fine jam session and we gave her kisses. I was not the only one to say, "I love you," when I kissed her. Wendy just held her as tears fell from her eyes.

The morning after our orchestral jam session I said to Allen, "We need to practice more if we are going to keep up with Helen."

He laughed and said, "That was not constant practice, that is innate genius. She practices madly for three or four days then not at all for three or four months.

She took a job as a contract player with the symphony one summer and by mid summer she was playing all the solos.

The featured player for a Beethoven violin concerto was delayed in New York for the last summer concert so Helen played it. Everyone said she was a lot better than the star and the pressure on her to continue playing became intense but she returned to the classroom.

She played with the orchestra during spring break again doing the solos for four concerts but she refused to sign on with the symphony for the next summer. Her last appearance was before AR was born and that was at least six years ago.

All of my family has musical talent and all are above average in that talent but we all pale next to Aunt Wendy and Helen, they are the cream on top."

Ruthie had recorded our jam sessions and played it back for Rob. The Felicity Chamber Orchestra was born that day.

We only played as an orchestra during summers then again for the winter break. Half of the members were teachers so we had to accommodate their schedule and they had to accommodate ours.

We did have a Wednesday evening podcast at Jana's about once a month. We played in my yard semi-often.

Every one of us except Ruthie, Allen, and Edie thought they had already played their last with an orchestra. All were very happy to play for others again, particularly Wendy, Maddy and Mom. They had been semi-regular members of a symphony orchestra. They were excellent.

The others had been part of high school and college orchestras.

On one session Mo joined us with her bassoon. She had stayed away because she sensed she could not keep up with the rest of us. It turned out Wendy had been taking her to boot camp and had pronounced her ready three weeks before.

The two mesmerized us that morning to a very inventive and fun piece only the MacDuff's knew and played. As it turned out Wendy had composed it.

I was the only one that did not know Edie's Air.

The Felicity Chamber Orchestra survived as an organization in which my neighbors were members for almost four years.

We recorded nine CD's of mostly excerpted music. We arranged composer symphonies that added up to several hours long down to a bit more than thirty minutes of just the good stuff making sure we included one entire melody.

Felicity Chamber Orchestra won a Grammy and was nominated for two more. Our last CD sold more copies than any classical recording had in thirty years. Oddly that was the modern period one featuring Sibelius, Ravel, and MacDuff.

The sales in Europe put the count on three of our recordings to over one hundred thousand,

We had a gold record.

Many critics were scandalized with the liberties I had taken with some pieces but the fans loved our play.

I did most of the arranging and kept them one composer at a time.

We placed three suites on each CD except for Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky; they got an entire CD each. Schubert and Mozart shared one CD and got us the grammy.

We decided we needed to keep them in general time periods, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern.

Oddly I was selected as the orchestra's artistic director for those years.

Ruthie loved Chopin's Piano Concerto number one and began to riff on it during her Melody concerts.

Her Chopin Suite won her a Grammy nomination, as Ruth Coleman.

Our last gig involved just three of us, Helen played for the Big City Orchestra. After the maestro had concluded the program's first half instead of leaving the stage he sat at a chair to the side.

Everyone in the audience looked at their program but saw nothing, we were not listed.

Two guys placed chairs on either side of the podium. Allen and I walked on to small and confused applause and sat. Then Helen came out and stood on the podium.

Some in the audience gasped and stood to clap and some loudly cheered, as did the entire orchestra. She began to play the Bach.

It is supposed to be a solo piece but Helen would not do it alone so we were tasked with keeping up with her.

The symphonies maestro had been threatening Helen that if she did not play for him on his last contract year he would disown her. Allen and I had two weeks notice. It was the orchestra's season's premiere, its first Saturday evening performance. The place was packed.

Allen and I talked Helen into extending the under four minute piece into nearly six minutes and had added echoes and support for her play. It allowed her to show off a bit longer.

We figured if Leopold could do that we could too. Allen and I were better arrangers; we knew Bach would love it.

Somehow the three of us made it a much more complicated work weaving in and out but staying within the music. Helen was brilliant.

When we were done there was a second of stunned silence then Helen got as big a roar as Melody did during her second concert in Vegas.

She waited out the ovation for a few seconds then the maestro took her hand and led her offstage as Allen and I followed them then the ladies of the orchestra quickly followed us.

The maestro and his wife hugged Helen and the symphony's ladies devoured her. When the VIP's began to walk in the three of us walked out and were at the parking garage before our families could get to us there. Helen was trembling in tears so I hugged and held her to me.

Roger and AR soon found us and took her home.

We had never been introduced and the VIP room was flooded with people asking who she was. The maestro only said, "My prodigal daughter."

Mom, Sis, Maddy, Wendy, Mo, and Helen's Mom Amanda and her sister Charley stayed through intermission and later described the frantic scene in the VIP room and the sales counter.

We had three boxes of CD's for sale as fund raising donations to the Symphony. The picture in the front of the jewel case had Helen playing with the Felicity Chamber Orchestra behind her. All fifteen hundred sold that night at twenty dollars each.

Two thousand sold that weekend on the Felicity music web site. Some were ordering eight CD's, the maximum allowed.

Mom told me it took the crowd a while to settle down and enjoy the second half of the concert.

After Helen left with her husband and son that night Allen and I waited for our wives to pick us up. Ruthie and Edie gave us amazing hugs and kisses when they found us then drove us to the big deli.

For over an hour we talked about everything but the concert.

Our Moms and my sister joined us before we were done and ate with us. All three kissed me often. Allen had to complain before he got kisses from them. None brought up the concert.

Ruthie and I each took two sandwiches to go.

When we got home Ruthie clung to me and with tears in her eyes she said, "That was the best you have ever played and the best Allen has ever played. As soon as people get to the forty seventh time they play that thing they are going to notice how good you are."

Helen won an individual Grammy for her solo Bach Prelude on the Bach CD. They gave Allen and me Grammy's too for our performance as a trio with the City Orchestras CD that was recorded that night, it was the symphony orchestras highest selling CD ever. Of course Beethoven and Schubert had some say in that.

After we ceased to exist as an orchestra about once a month we would meet in my yard and jam but if you wanted to hear us you needed to be on the sidewalk.

Matt recorded those sessions but none of the CD's was ever on sale. Friends could pick up one of the hundred copies for free at the studio.

The maestro was always the first one and took Helen and her family, Edie and Allen, and Ruthie and me to dinner on each of his trips down. He talked us into forming a quintet.

We won another Grammy.

Rob and Carly began to get offers for concerts worldwide. Ruthie and Edie talked Helen into a short tour during summer vacation, Madrid, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Two concerts in Madrid and three each in Vienna and St. Petersburg.

Our trip lasted just three weeks.

Our Moms, Helen's Mom Amanda, and Wendy came with us for the duration. Roger and AR joined us for Vienna. Sis and Helen's sister Charlie joined us in St. Petersburg. Carmen, Nancy, Martina and Paloma joined us in Madrid.

The concerts were well received, the money was good, and the cities were fascinating.

Summer concerts are fillers for the fine arts off-season. Our venues were small; our audiences were hardliner aficionados and loved us.

Helen agreed she would do it again.

We took a summer trip in June each year for five years and saw Japan and Hong Kong on a three-week tour. We saw London, Amsterdam, and Milan. We saw Prague, Budapest and Oslo. We saw Sydney, Auckland and Lima.

Our Moms and Wendy and Amanda came with us each time. Leigh, Mo, Carly, Petra, Paloma, Carmen, Charlie, Nancy and Martina would join us in select cities.

I would at times just sit and look at the stamps on my passport.

Our quintet had four rooms in our hotels but most of the time Helen slept with Ruthie and me. She and I did make love at times, she and Ruthie did often, but mostly we cuddled.

Wendy and Mom became our defacto agents.

Wendy knew people in the arts on nearly every stop in Europe, so we ate many meals at the homes of her friends. Our Moms and Wendy spent some nights at the homes of her friends.

Wendy was a good friend of a redheaded operatic soprano that was a major star and she was coerced to join her in a recital of arias in Vienna. They were amazing.

The soprano already made regular trips to Felicity but several of those new friends visited our town too. Some of those friends were also opera stars and symphony soloists. Most of those added Felicity to the cities they could come to and hide in plain sight.

We stopped touring after a month of visiting our favorite cities for a second time.

It was years later that we noticed we had never played Paris.

Flower the skunk stayed with us eight years and seldom left our yard. Regardless of the time of day she joined Ruthie whenever she was in the yard. She helped me in my yard work by eating any insects I uncovered. Unfortunately she also ate the earthworms.

She died while we were working at Caesar's and she was buried with a great ceremony performed by Helen and AR. There were more than twenty people there. Leigh's twins were crying.

Ruthie cried while we watched the video.

A year later a young raccoon moved into the doghouse. She was apparently hiding from something. It took us nearly a week to keep her from cowering from us. Ruthie sang to her and that did the trick.

Her name became Grace; she was clumsy. The vet told us she had apparently gotten into a fight with a bobcat, a muscle on her back leg was torn which explained her clumsiness, and her initial fear of us.

We had her tubes tied, gave her shots and locked the dog door down.

She became addicted to marshmallows but insisted on dunking them in water first.

She then spent the next hour trying to get the goopy stuff off her hands. Ruthie would wait as long as she could then helped her clean up.

Then I gave Grace another marshmallow and ran.

Ruthie loved her as much as she had loved Flower. Grace adored Ruthie and followed her around. It took a while but Grace, Daisy, and Petunia became friends and were often checking out the three yards together. The gate between Helen and Leigh's yard was always open.

All three became normal pets and learned to stay awake during the day. Everyone trooping through our yards always stopped to say hello to them and they seemed to adore Paloma. They became fixtures in Martina's yard on Saturdays.

After our tenth Vegas tour Wendy and our Mom's hitched a ride on the airplane as it returned to Europe for maintenance and changes in seating. Another ten rows of seats were being added but although the instruments and personal luggage bins were being moved towards the rear they were still in the cabin.

The charter companies had been pleading for more seats. It also allowed everyone that wanted to go to a concert to go without the plane having to make two trips.

We loved being home. We decided it was a good time to work on our marriage but every time we made time to talk we ended up fucking.

Ruthie's biggest worry was putting Grace on a diet, mine was wondering if our gazebo/hot tub would ever be finished.

Time passed.

It was the twentieth Vegas concert tour. The shows had sold out two months before and we were received with enthusiasm.

The performers however were a bit bored. We had added more new songs, we had changed the order, we had arranged songs differently but we needed something else.

I decided they needed more comedy.

I wrote a silly song and gave Ruthie and Edie some lines making fun of their respective husbands. The idea was for Ruthie to speak with amusement about my musical talents and make fun of my classical music tendencies.

The initial problem with the idea was that they did not want to do the song, too silly they said. I gave an impassioned speech about finally having a monster hit that would keep their name alive for decades.

"We all already have monster hits," Nancy said.

That was of course true. Melody, Nancy, Edie, Alice and Marie, and Nikki each had songs that sold millions. Nancy and Melody each had over ten of those.

I said, "Yes but this song will top them all. People will not be able to keep from singing the chorus, they will jump up and down when they hear the first chord.

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Nikki said, "I like it. It rocks."

"We could at least give it a try," Allen said.

They did and reluctantly agreed to add it to the next Vegas tour line-up.

For the Tuesday concert they simply forgot it. There were problems with some speakers and I almost got myself electrocuted. I was saved by our roady Meat who figured out the problem and stopped me before I took the back of the speaker off. He had suspected a short and that the screws where electrified and they were.
Meters are wonderful but guys that know when to use them are indispensable.

The band did try the new bits the second night but the banter between Ruthie and Edie sounded under-rehearsed, which it was. Allen and Nancy chipped in on the banter during the third concert and the audience laughed hard and sang along with the chorus. It was very well received.

Friday night the whole thing clicked. The band bickered over my talents, then the talents of any man, then some personal preferences for such talent.

There were a lot of young girls in our audiences so we had to keep it mostly clean but the women picked up most euphemisms and they laughed loudly.

Ruthie wondered what kind of man played a viola, a violin on HGH.

Edie asked Allen if his violin had overdosed on steroids.

Alice and Marie interrupted the argument by softly singing, "Chirp-chirp."

Ruthie began the way too exaggerated lines of complaint and sorrow that were then followed by another "Chirp-chirp."

Ruthie briefly paused and looked up as if searching for the bird. She resumed with another six lines of woe accompanied by a sorrowful cello from Allen. It was followed by a "Chirp-chirp," from Nancy and the ladies.

The next two lines of woe were accompanied by a somewhat sad piano bit by Nancy that nevertheless picked up the tempo,

After another "Chirp-chirp," the lyrics became hopeful and everyone in the audience sang the chorus as the tempo increased again.

By the end of the next lyrics the band was rocking and was obviously having a great time and the audience picked up on that and was having a fabulous time itself and happily chirped-chirped along with the band.

They got a big ovation for that song.

As the crowd exited an hour later I heard several people go chirp-chirp.

Then I got an idea.

They loved the idea but had made an impossible demand, they wanted me to go onstage and begin the song on my viola.

I was eventually brow beaten into it but I hoped the audience would be gone by then.

No such luck.

Ruthie had finished her Janis encore but somehow the audience expected something, mainly because the band was still on stage.

I got on and began playing the first sorrowful stanza of the song followed immediately by Ruthie's chirp-chirp. Allen accompanied me with his cello on the second stanza followed by another chirp-chirp by Alice and Marie.

Nancy played the third stanza with us and Edie the fourth.

We were rocking hard by then and got harder when Carmen joined Nikki on drums, and Allen switched to electric guitar.

Everyone then got a feature instrumental stanza, (except me), until we abruptly ended the song after a soaring turn by Allen and his guitar.

I was stunned by the loudness and enthusiasm of the final chirp-chirp from the audience.

Ruthie, Nancy, and Edie had been on the receiving side of such an enthusiastic response but I had not so I sort of froze.

Ruthie thanked the audience for a great time then came over to get me. They were all smiling and waving so I did too.

Ruthie had taken my hand thereby making sure everyone knew who her husband was. Edie took Allen's hand as usual as we left the stage.

Nancy took Carmen's hand in hers thereby making sure everyone knew who her partner was.

Back stage our VIP's were as excited as we were. My plan had worked, the band was re-energized.

Ruthie devoured me that night and the next morning before we got on the plane home and again as soon as we got home.

On Monday Rob called and told us he wanted a CD called Chirp-Chirp and wanted it now. He had gotten an enormous amount of e-mail ordering it since Friday and did not know what anyone was talking about.

Ruthie kissed me hard before promising Rob we would have one before we returned to Vegas.

Everyone was still stoked over the last concert so everyone except Alice and Nikki was in the studio Tuesday morning.

Everyone had a silly song they had kept secret; I had three more, one about a lonely banana, one about a rock and roll hummingbird, and one about a horny Frankenstein monster with an extreme endowment, all somewhat risqué songs.

Alice and Nikki joined us the following Monday and they had a silly song for us about a Vegas showgirl.

Helen, Leigh, and Mom had such songs and we soon had almost enough for a CD.

I suggested we add the hard rocking instrumental version that we did as the last encore on the last show. Carmen joined Nikki on percussion again and we just rocked.

I switched my viola for my guitar after Allen switched to his. Violas have no business playing hard rock. All agreed with me on that.

Many in the studio heard that version for the first time when we played around with it and were floored. "We didn't know you guys could rock like that," was the comment we heard most.

Ruthie asked Helen to join us and she came up with a bit that sounded like an extended electric guitar solo, for her violin. Paloma, Naomi, and Carmen came up with a fiery Latin bit for the song. Sis did a high flying clarinet bit. It eventually became a nine-minute jam session that we recorded at Jana's place with twelve people in the band and forty-seven of our friend's chanting Chirp-chirp.

We did have the CD ready before the following Vegas gig at the beginning of October but we were all hesitant about releasing it. We had ended up making the whole thing into a hard rock album, something neither Melody, Nancy, nor Alice and Marie were known for.

I thought Ruthie's Janis numbers had primed her fans for the new sound and Nancy was enthusiastic about the CD. Her enthusiasm infected Ruthie and the CD was ordered but only for sale at Caesars and on our own website until Thanksgiving weekend.

We did five songs from the CD in the show and the jam session as the encore. The women in the audience loved my risqué songs and sang the choruses with enthusiasm. They loved Alice and Nikki's song about the naïve Vegas showgirl.

All CD's were sold that first night. Not just the thousand we had put out for that show but all five thousand copies we had brought for the week. Rob sent another fifteen thousand copies and all of them were sold before the Saturday concert.

Rob decided he needed to come to Vegas and see the show; he could not comprehend the reason for the phenomenon.

He said when the audience began to chant chirp chirp it sent goose bumps up his back. It was electrifying.

After the show he came to us and said, "You guys are now the best rock band around. On the next shows do the whole album."

He ordered one million CD's then changed his mind and ordered three million. Eventually ten million were sold worldwide that year.

It was the single most popular Christmas present that season, the monster hit I had facetiously predicted.

The CD stayed on the charts for eight years then returned to the charts, but in another world, twelve years later.

The money I made as composer of four of the songs was embarrassing.

The new CD fueled Melody's first world tour the following summer, twenty concerts in four continents over six weeks.

The band now included performances from Carmen, Helen, Leigh, and Sis. Our Moms and Wendy, Mo and their younger sister Amanda, Helens mother, were with us throughout.

Paloma, and Martina came along on the Europe and South America segments. Marshall, Holly and her Mom came to our Asian segments.

Our plane already had the expanded seat arrangement but many of our friends could not get a seat and had to fly on their own.

Every remaining seat not occupied by the artists and stage crew had been raffled off.

Neither Petra, Rhonda, Jana, Inga, Clara, nor Fiona had won a seat so Ruthie and I volunteered to pay their way only to learn our friends were rich themselves.

All came for every weekend show.

We had all our audiences chirping and shouting, "Frankenstein is coming" then yelling 'Yeah' in seven languages.

We had ladies sexily singing "bananas" then as the song slowed suddenly shouting "plantains" five times.

We had people humming like demented hummingbirds.

We had ladies wondering, "What now" to the showgirl song.

We really had become a rock band.

A hard rock band.

The audiences received the old songs well especially the angry ones from the first CD with Nancy and the one I had at first suggested Ruthie sing as Janis would.

The first of each lady's big hits were well received too but we could see that most of the audiences were just waiting for the hard rock show. Melody had retired the Janis songs and only did one when the audience asked. They only asked in Tokyo and Berlin.

We added lines for some of the old songs in the language of the country we were in. The second time they were repeated everyone sang along with us. We were a phenomenon.

However in many venues people were shouting chirp-chirp almost from the start.

In Tokyo Helen had an amazing solo turn at the encore that brought an immediate ovation from the fans so we gave her another turn at the end before Allen joined her on the electric guitar. That nine-minute jam session lasted over twelve minutes.

Carmen and Nikki turned our segues into an amazing percussion section that lengthened the jam session a bit more. Sis picked up the challenge and just killed on her clarinet.

Helen and Allen were amazing together. I could now see the awe all held for their talents.

By our last concerts our nine-minute jam was lasting over fifteen minutes.

By the end of each show the band and the audiences were all wrung out.

We were exhausted by the time we got back home. Rob told us that our tour had made more money than any other twenty date concert tour ever had. He got only a smile from us, we were spent.

Ruthie would usually take a few days to shake off her fatigue after a tour but her fatigue persisted for a couple of weeks after we got back.

Our Mom's and I dragged her to the doctor's office and we learned she was pregnant.

We had been so busy for so long she just forgot to take her pills.

The elation in that office soon spread to the town and we had waves of visitors to our house.

Our Mom's did not like that much and put Ruthie on a "better have a good reason to see" basis.

Of course kissing her and telling her they loved her was considered a good enough reason but those visitors were held to two or five at a time.

Petra, Helen, Leigh, Edie and Vicky were in our house everyday. One or two were there at breakfast, one or two at lunch, all of them were there in the evening. Our Moms were there everyday too and Martina joined them in the kitchen as they cooked.

Ruthie told everyone she was fine and not to fuss over her but the others told her they loved fussing over her.

Ruthie did attend the next three parties at Jana's pool and we continued to have friends in our hot tub but it was basically a tame time for us.

All tours were cancelled except Vegas.

Business wise it was bad timing for us, the band was the most popular act in the world and we could command whatever we wanted for our shows.

Caesar's Vice-President for entertainment, Josie, learned of the pregnancy and reacted as if she as afraid her shows would be cancelled too.

She offered us more money for fewer dates and she rearranged our schedule so that we would play no concerts from after Ruthie was seven months pregnant until the baby was three months old.

She did confess that we were her biggest investment and guests from foreign markets had increased to over five hundred percent on our performance dates.

We did work in the studio and came up with a symphonic rock album but it did not generate the buzz that the chirp chirp album had. We were not surprised.

When our baby Janis was six months old we went on a summer European concert tour between Vegas gigs. We were very satisfied to see we had lost very little of our expanded fan base. Our Moms babysat at home for that tour but decided the baby was sturdy enough for the rest of them and joined us on the subsequent tours starting with the next Caesar's gig.

The following summer we went on an Asian tour and we had an even bigger response than we had on our first trip.

Helen had become a major star there.

We did Australia and South America the next year then Canada, Mexico, and the States the year after. Our baby was a toddler before those.

Vicky had warned us about how quickly it went from disappearing from where we put her when she learned to crawl to running through the house naked while laughing her head off.

Ruthie and I were still stunned.

Janis could carry on conversations well before the age of two and had the best sounding giggles I had ever heard.

Janis was also an inquisitive child; we had to provide her with her own piano, guitar and violin to keep her away from ours. She stole her parents shrimp linguini often enough we just started ordering three to go each time.

She loved everyone but like her mother she had a special place in her heart for Petra.

Janis had auburn hair and big green eyes and looked like Melody's daughter even though her hair and eyes came from her father. Twice she managed to walk on stage before anyone could catch her. Everyone in the audience could tell whose daughter she was.

When she was five we allowed her to join her Mom on stage at the piano. She was flawless as she backed up Ruthie and Nancy when they stood to sing a duet.

The ovation for her made Janis cry, and made her mother cry, and made her father cry. Her grandmas and her aunts Edie and Nancy had to wipe tears away.

Janis would not perform in public again for three years. Each time we asked she would say, "I'll think about it."

Her next public appearance was with the resurrected Felicity Quintet, she and Ruthie played Chopin on a podcast one evening.

She also played the Bach prelude with Helen never missing a note.

Her parents did not know she could do that. But Helen did.

Janis was eight years old.

We were as famous as anyone ever gets worldwide but somewhat anonymous at home. We were most often referred to as Janis' parents.

Ruthie and I loved to hear that.

We retired after our contract with Caesars expired and became studio people and parents.

Over time Petra and Sally drifted apart although they remained friends. Eventually Sally left Felicity. She opened an amazingly successful pastry shop at Caesars in Vegas.

Sis and Petra moved in together but as housemates not lovers.

My sister's main lover became a married woman named Audrey. Petra's main lover remained a married woman called Ruthie.

By then we had become sedentary. Carmen, Nancy, Edie and Ruthie had gained weight.

All of us were restless.

We had become a studio and podcast band that now included Sis, Helen, Leigh, Carmen, Edie, Allen, Nancy, Ruthie and me.

We should have been satisfied.

But we were restless.

Out of the blue Caesars offered us another ten-year contract, five shows a week, four weeks each year.

We asked if the dates could be two weeks in June and two in July to accommodate the band members that would not leave the classroom.

Josie said anything we wanted.

We were restless.

So we took the offer.

We sold out every show.