Day Twenty-eight - Sunday
Lips were touching mine. Not kissing, just touching. I opened my eyes to see Sues beautiful face framed by her thick auburn hair. Her eyes were closed as she slept peacefully.
I lay there thinking about how I came to be lying in this big bed with the wonderful woman. Counting back, I realized I had been on vacation for four weeks. Wow! A lot has happened in four weeks. So far almost all of it was good. There had been a couple of bad situations but they were resolved with no harm done, to my new friends and me anyway. I kept thinking about the global picture knowing that at first I had been reluctant but now I was thinking of staying away from the oil company platforms and the isolation that was there.
I had many new friends, a new business or should I think of it as an entity with several business opportunities that had been instantly successful. I had equipment to last me in my line of work for years to come. And I had met a couple of choice girls. One almost two old for me with a bunch of kids. Another who became a quick friend and fuck buddy only to find her true love in a strange manner. And now Sue.
Wow! Sue! Some kind of woman! Before I met her, she had gone through some personnel hell. She had been very overweight throughout most of her youth. She had been in a terrible disfiguring accident. She had just overcome her fears of men and chose me to welcome her back into normal hereto relationships. Sue had been successful in overcoming all of these tragedies and personal challenges.
Thinking over the past couple of days, I marveled at her adaptive nature. She had jumped right in and worked with me then wanting to learn even more and had even started to become proficient at welding. Then last night, she had followed me, backed me up when I took on someone who probably wasn't among the living today. The thought of what may have happened to the guy made me shiver.
I snuggled into Sue more, enjoying the feel of her large breasts pressing into my chest while continuing my introspection.
This girl is special.
Let's see I'm twenty-nine. Damn, that's getting old. If I want to have a family, I should do something about it soon. Find that special someone you're supposed to find in order to live happily ever after. That's a tall order. Finding someone that fits your life in all the different ways that people are different is going to be difficult. I briefly thought that I would never have a family.
Then it hit me.
That illusive person was probably right here with me right not. Sue was probably the best person I could find for the job of being my wife. She was perfect for me, or at least she seems to be. So far we had been one hundred percent compatible. So far everything we did together has been fun, has been successful and has pointed to the future.
Am I nuts or what, thinking about settling down with a woman, a possible wife, mother of my kids, grandmother to my grandkids? A real babe, but I had only known her what, almost two weeks. Whoa, scary stuff.
Just as fast as I felt apprehension, I gazed at Sue and fell back into a loving thought process.
I think she's the one. How do you know for sure? How did my mom and dad know for sure? How did my grandma and grandpa know for sure? How does anyone know for sure?
Tiny and Ruth were such opposites. Tiny the accountant, Ruth a wanton stay at home housewife. Who would put those two together? Glenda and Martin, Abe and Alice, Jim and Hanna and of course Charlie and crazy Shawna. How did they all know?
I closed my eyes, thinking of how much I enjoyed being around Sue, how much I wanted to be around her and how much I wanted to keep being around her. I felt like I could just let things remain as they were and she would be fine with it for right now and probably for a long while but somehow I wanted more.
Was the "more" a commitment from both of us? If we committed would that mean we wouldn't continue to sex play with our friends? Would that really bother me? Probably not, as Sue has already proven she can handle every thing I can give her and want more. Would she want kids? I think she said something about wanting kids. Where would we live, her place? What would happen to the patio?
Dumb. I was worrying about the stupid patio when I was thinking about making this girl lying next to me a part of the rest of my life.
Okay, it was out. I was thinking of asking her to marry me. Should I? Could I is what I should be asking, do I have the guts? Yeah, I do. I want it; I want her to be my wife. I want us have kids. I want us to live happily ever after. I was going to do it.
When? When should I ask her? Should I wait? Wait for what? Wait till I question myself? Nope I was going to do it right away.
I made up my mind to ask her today when I found the right moment.
Damn, I need to give her a ring. She won't need one but I need to give her one. I could sneak off to the mall.
I lay there thinking about it, then it came to me, I already have a ring.
I had to get up to go get it right now, I couldn't wait. I kissed Sue gently on the forehead then unraveled myself from her, scooting backward out of bed.
A soft, "where're you goin'" came from Sue.
"Go back to sleep, I have to get something, I'll be right back."
I slipped on my shorts, skipping the T-shirt and went to my trailer. I dug out my duffel bag to get my small little box of trinkets. All people have a little box full of miscellaneous stuff that has some kind of value to them. In my box was an old watch, my high school class ring, a pair of gold cuff links, a fancy gold tie tack, a single diamond earring that I had bought when I wore an earring for a year. Ah, there it is the wedding set from my Mom.
I looked at the size. It looked about right. I left the wedding ring in the little box then brushed my teeth in anticipation of kissing my beauty in a few minutes.
Back in Sue's trailer, I glanced at the clock. It was only five-thirty.
That's okay, I was going to wake her up and surprise her or at least get an answer, find out how she feels about it. I stripped out of my shorts then snuggled into her. She sighed, kissed me and relaxed again asking, "Where did you go."
"I had to get something, something important."
"Hmmm," she sighed contented with her eyes closed, "What did you get?"
I gave her a long soft kiss but didn't answer.
"Honey? What did you go get?"
I gave her another long kiss, this time her nipples popped upright sticking straight into my chest and my dick pumped up pressing against her belly.
Sue's eyes opened. Her dark brown orbs looking back at me questioning.
I sat up then straddled her on my knees looking down at her, "Sue will you marry me, will you be the mother of my children, will you grow old with me sharing our life forever?"
The questioning look vanished, replaced by shock, then panic, then softening as a smile crept onto her face, "Do you really mean it? Do you really want to get married? We don't have to get married."
"I really mean it and yes we do have to get married," I said a little frustrated she didn't just say yes.
Sue was still staring at me but now with the softest, most loving look, "Yes, I want to marry you, I want you too."
With that I pulled the ring off my left little finger and placed it on her left ring finger. It fit very nicely.
"Where, when, what, when did you get this," she stuttered as looked at the ring.
"It was my mom's. My sister has always said I should give it to you. The person I wanted to marry."
"It's so special Steve, I'm honored," she said as she pulled me down to kiss her. I was kissing her feeling tears rolling down her cheeks into our kiss. I was choked up too.
"Before I met you I didn't want any man. I played with Ruth but didn't want Tiny; I didn't want any man. Then you came. You fascinated me so I had to find out more about you. Ruth picked up on it and we planned your seduction. Not marriage, not even a long term relationship, just someone to find out some things about myself."
"From our first meeting, in my obnoxiously tiny swimsuit, I wanted you, I wanted to know you better."
Sue pushed me off her onto my back then straddled me holding her hand out looking at the ring.
"The more we were together, the more I wanted to be with you. You taught me that I really enjoyed men. I really enjoyed you. When you let me come with you all the time, I felt great. You even acted like you depended on me. God, I loved that. You made me feel wanted."
She looked at her ring again, scooted forward and reached around behind her so she could fondle me.
"And then the sex. It was and is so good. You make me come so much. I can make myself come really good but you do it even better. You make me nuts coming so much."
I was getting firm so she leaned up and rubbed me around her oily pussy.
"The way you make love to me is wonderful. Just thinking about it makes me wet and want you, like right now."
With that she positioned my now firm erection into her channel pressing downward, consuming me.
"Your not jealous. You take me to the hot tub with your friends and have them screw me. Do you remember? The first time I said, "I love you." Was while Charlie was pushing his short tree trunk into me. Is that kinky or what."
Sue gave a few up and downs, sliding freely up six inches then back down hitting the end of her tunnel.
"The funny thing is that I'm not jealous either. Some how some way I know you love me. The sex is good but you loving me is so much more. So far it's all good."
Now she was pumping up and down on me faster.
"The way we worked together fixing supper that first time made me feel closer to someone that I ever had. Then you taught me how to help you while we were working at the NASCAR place. I felt so important, so much a part of what we were doing, so much a part of you."
Her insides were quaking, my balls were signaling burst pretty soon.
"It seems everything we do together has been so smooth. We work together like flowing water. We make love to each other like we work together, perfectly."
We were getting close.
"I thought about asking you to marry me but thought I would be happy just to be your special friend from now on. I didn't want to scare you away. I was going to go off the pill to see if I could have your baby. I thought if my proposal drove you off, so be it, I would still have a part of you."
Sue closed her eyes, feeling her orgasm approaching.
"But you asked me, you asked me to be your wife, the mother of your kids and to grow old with you. Oh Steve, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm going to be your wife, yes, yes, yes, I'll marry you."
My juices jetted up into her at that same moment. All question of whether I had done the right thing was gone. It was the right thing and it was done.
Sue collapsed on me with our fluids leaking out at our connection. She kissed me long and slow, very lovingly. Then energized by the loving, she pulled off me and headed to the bathroom, "Come on let's get up and make coffee and wake everyone up to tell them the news."
She stopped for a second and turned to me smiling. My juice was running down her leg. She reached down wiped it up with a finger then sucked it into her mouth, "You're going to meet my Mom today. I can't wait to tell my Mom about us, she'll be so surprised. She will really be happy for me."
We showered, making a connection one more time, drawing out even more fluid from my body. I slipped on my shorts and T-shirt while she put her sexy see through robe on. It didn't take us long to make coffee. I said I would run down to the Seven-Eleven and get a bunch of donuts and left. I was there and back in less than five minutes but amazingly, the entire crew was there.
"Wow, you guys surprised me. It's still really early for a Sunday morning and we were out late last night," I said as I put out the donuts.
"I think we're all hungry and I didn't want cold pizza this morning," Ruth said.
Sue came out of the trailer with a bunch of napkins and flashed her left hand in front of all the women. Shawna was the most observant. She gasped, "You have a ring. Does that mean what I think it does?"
"Steve asked me to marry him and I said yes," Sue said proudly holding her hand up displaying the ring.
All four women got up and crowded around Sue to look at the ring, giving her hugs and telling her how happy they were for us.
"So you're gonna join us in servitude, huh?" Charlie asked. "It's been the best slavery a man could ever ask for. Shawna makes me king, every day. Well at least most every day, there are times you know," he added with a smile.
Tiny added to that, "I've always felt privileged that my gorgeous Ruth picked me. I'll never understand it but have enjoyed twelve years of it so far. Every day is heaven for me."
"My crazy Hanna is a handful just like Shawna and I think Ruth and you're Sue, but it has been worth it. She is really great, very loving, very special."
Martin laughed, "Glenda and I have been together now more that fifty years. There have been mostly good times and some rough times but we are a part of each other. It's nice to be around all you guys that are happily married. I think Steve is going to be too."
The girls had all sat back down with Shawna curling up into Charlie's lap, Hanna in Jim's and Sue into mine. Ruth looked around then crawled into Tiny's lap kissing him on the cheek, making him smile.
"So when are you going two get married?" Glenda asked.
Sue looked at me, I shrugged so she said, "Don't know yet but it will be soon."
"Are you going to do the big church thing. If you do, can I be a bridesmaid?" asked Shawna.
Hanna raised her hand while curled up on Jim's lap, "Me too, me too, I want to be a bridesmaid."
"We did the big church thing and it darn near killed us," Ruth said kissing Tiny's cheek. "Actually it almost made us want to not get married."
"Martin and I ran off to get married. We ended up in Fort Myers at the courthouse. A nice judge married us. He said we looked awfully young and we said we were both eighteen and we had our birth certificates to prove it. Our parents were mad at us in the beginning but then as we started making a home, having some kids, they never stopped apologizing for making us run off."
Ruth asked, "What does your mom think?"
"I don't know, I haven't asked her yet. I'm going to wait till we go to see her for dinner to tell her."
Martin asked, "What do you want Steve? A big wedding or maybe a judge like we had?"
"I don't know Martin," I said thinking about the mind battle I had earlier. "I made up my mind to ask her this morning and did it right then. I woke her up from a sound sleep. I had made up my mind and wanted to get the job done. I think I like the small wedding best. Then after the wedding if we need to go visit relatives to show each other off, we can do it as partners not as potential maybes."
Sue looked at me and kissed my cheek. "Most of my relatives are jerks. They made fun of me my whole life because I was overweight. I do have an Uncle who is a widower that always treated me nice. I like him and do things for him too. He lives down on Bayshore in a big old house. Mom and I will take you to see him. He's a little strange from living alone for so long. But you'll like him anyway, he's a good man. Mom and him are really close."
"If you like him, I'll like him. You'll have to meet my brother and sister as they will want to meet you, then we'll go our separate ways as usual. I have an ancient crazy aunt that I need to see. She lives out in Lakeland with my cousin. Is Lakeland very far?" I said looking around at everyone.
Charlie offered, "Lakeland is only about thirty minutes from here, maybe forty but really close. You should go."
We drank three sets of coffee. A set is both pots. We also ate up two dozen donuts. I said that Sue and I may not be back for supper tonight but if they needed to use the kitchen, Glenda and Charlie had a key. They all seemed to think Sunday would be a good day to just handle supper on their own. I would bet they all gathered on the patio to have a beer later though.
Sue went to work on her clothes sales for an hour while I put together a bunch of information that I would need for sales tax. Wow, I was going to have to start charging the tax. It was seven percent of the first five thousand and five percent for everything over that. I needed to get sales tax numbers from as many people as I could so they would be wholesale accounts so I wouldn't need to pay sales tax on the receipts. I'd do that Monday as I had to file by the 20th of the month for the previous month. I needed a bookkeeper.
Not knowing what to wear for Sue's mom, I went over to her place to ask her. She was busily getting dressed while constantly running to her computer to enter something.
"Wear your new Dockers with one of your dress shirts and your new shoes. You'll be perfect. With mom though, jeans would be fine too."
I dressed as suggested thinking I wanted to get rid of my beard but keep the mustache. I went to Sue and asked her. At first she was shocked that I would shave, then she looked at me a long time, "Do you have any pictures of yourself without a beard?"
"Yeah, let me go get a couple." I went to the trailer and for the second time in a few hours I rummaged in my duffel bag. I had a brown envelope full of pictures that were important to me. I just took the whole envelope to Sue's.
She looked at the ones I showed her then said she would be right back. She went next door to Ruth's then I saw her walk over to Shawna and Charlie's. A minute later she was headed toward Glenda and Martin's. It took her five minutes to come back toward her place so I assumed she had gone to Jim and Hanna's as well.
"I like the idea of keeping the moustache. Everyone else thinks so too. They all think the beard makes you look too intense. When do you want to shave it off?"
As I was unbuttoning my shirt, I said, "how about right now. Let's do it."
I used Sue's scissors to cut the beard close then soaked it with hot water. I used some of Sue's soft soap to lather up real good then used her razor with a new blade to finish the job. A different me. I liked it. This was the first time I had ever been with just a mustache. Funny though, my face was cold.
"You're not going to cut your hair too are you? I like your long hair it looks good. It makes you just a little bit of a rebel."
"I'm not much of a rebel but I am planning on keeping the hair. I'll probably be bald like most old guys but I'm going to enjoy having it while I can."
We finished getting ready and took off with Sue driving her car. We drove to an area called Carolwood Village. The area seemed to have some nice size homes with a golf course in the middle of the area. We entered a small walled area that backed up to a pond or small lake. The two buildings looked like about eight two-story town houses built together. The two buildings were facing each other. Each unit had an entrance area and a two-car garage door.
Sue parked in one of the driveways. Before I could come around and open the door for her, the front door of the unit we were at opened and an older version of Sue came running out followed by a little yippy dog. The lady and Sue hugged then pulled apart looking at me.
"Mom, meet Steve Sharp."
"Steve, this is my mom, Beth Morgan."
Beth Morgan was probably five-three, five-four, an inch or two taller than Sue was. She wasn't slim, but she wasn't fat either. She looked comfortable. Nice soft curves everywhere, or at least what I could see with her in a skirt and loose blouse. She looked like she might be nearly as large as Sue. Her chest didn't have quite the bulk that Sue had and was not as bulgy on the sides as Sue. Perhaps age made her less puffed up like the round balloon with a big nipple look that Sue had.
Beth Morgan had dark brown hair with tinges of gray, with very few wrinkle lines on her face, just some nice smile lines at eyes and the corners of her mouth. She wore some make up but didn't over do it. All in all, Sue's mom was nice looking, well built, and appeared to be in shape.
We went in and sat in the living room. Sue asked her mom if she could get me a beer then left the room bringing back two bottles of beer and a can of diet coke. When she handed her mom a beer she darn near stuck the ring in her mom's eye.
"Sue, are you engaged? When? To Steve? Why didn't you call me?" Beth said.
"It just happened this morning mom," Sue said "I waited to tell you so we could do it in person."
Beth looked at the ring, at Sue then at me, "You only started to talk about Steve the last couple of weeks. Just how long have you known him?"
"Almost two weeks, but in reality all my life. Remember I told you I watched him fight off some people who were attacking our park twice. I was with him when he saved a policeman from being shot. I watched him again when he saved some friends of his from a crazed attacker. What I've watched him do and having been with him while stuff has happened makes us long time friends."
Beth looked at me closer, "What do you do for a living Steve."
"I'm a welder. I have been working with oil companies but now I'm doing what would be considered specialty welding."
"Who do you work for?"
"Right now, myself."
"Is that why you live in a trailer park?"
"Beth, about a month ago, I decided to take a long vacation. Get away from the platforms for a bit. Get back with regular people. I stumbled into a couple of small jobs then got lucky and made a deal for some equipment. From there I was referred to several good paying specialty jobs. I also have a guy rebuilding some heavy commercial generators and compressors. The market for them seems to be good."
"Mom," Sue interrupted "I've helped him on a couple of jobs and he's paid me sixty-five hundred dollars already. I saw him sell one of his big generators for fifteen thousand dollars. He said that was probably going to net about ten. He's magic mom, he makes money without making it look hard."
"You paid her sixty-five hundred dollars? For what?" Beth asked.
"Let's see. That's her part of three NASCAR frames and two motorcycle frames. These were all specialty custom-made items. Sue helped with the measuring, cutting and bending of the steel tubing. She was responsible for most of the weld cleans up on a couple of the frames and I'm teaching her to weld. She has done some very nice welding so far. I'm really proud of her. With her working with me, we have put out far more work than I could have done in twice the time it took us. We work very well together."
Beth Morgan was nodding, listening, evaluating. "What does that have to do with living in a trailer park."
"When I arrived in Tampa, I wanted a cheap place to stay for a couple of months. The trailer has been nice. It has a giant patio that has attracted several neighbors to join me for coffee in the morning and a beer in the afternoon. Now we eat supper together almost every night. The trailer park is inexpensive and I've met some great new friends. I've also met your daughter there and that is the best thing that has ever happened to me."
Sue jumped in, "don't be afraid I'm going to fast mom. Steve and I have become extremely close, very fast."
"You mean you're having sex, right?" Beth asked.
"Yes mother, it means we are having frequent very good, very enjoyable, very satisfying sex," Sue said with a wistful smile.
"And to think you swore off men for years, even after you lost all your weight," Beth was saying. "It's just hard to believe you changed your mind about men and wanting men intimately so fast. You were so determined to never have anything to do with men again."
"A girl can change her mind, Mom. I changed mine," Sue said looking at me.
"Can I come out to see your place Steve, to see this magic patio?" Beth asked.
"Sure, you would be a nice addition to our group. If you stay late, we'll take you to enjoy our evening hot tub jaunt. You would love it."
Sue smacked me on the shoulder and loudly whispered, "Watch it, don't tell her all our secrets."
"Sounds interesting, perhaps I will bring my swimsuit."
Sue giggled but left it at that. Her mom was suspicious but didn't pursue the giggle.
"The roast is done, come sit at the table and we will have dinner," Beth said getting up, heading toward a dinning area next to the kitchen.
Sue helped her mom put the food on the table. Beth brought in a large bottle of wine. She poured each of us a glass then sat to eat. We all had a salad bowl on our plates so we started there. All of the food was delicious. The standing rib roast was on the rare side with juices bubbling out with every bite that you cut. All the vegetables were good as well. While we were eating, Sue and her mom talked about all the other things in their lives.
"Mom, I want to take Steve to see Uncle Ben. I haven't seen him in a couple of weeks so it's way past time to visit him but I want him to meet Steve."
"That's a great idea. Would you mind if I went with you? I haven't talked to him much this past week. He's been busy at his office. Since he's taken on that racecar group, he has been very busy. You will hardly recognize him though as his association with that crazy bunch has made him happier than I've seen him in years."
We finished with dinner then we got in Sue's car with her mother riding in the front seat with Sue and me in the back. Sue drove us down Dale Mabry then across Swan Avenue then down to Bay Shore. We drove along a drive with huge homes on one side and the bay on the other. There was a concrete fence separating the bay from a wide sidewalk that accommodated roller skaters, bicyclist, joggers and walkers.
Pulling into what could only be called a mansion, I wondered if this was the result of old money or what Uncle Ben did.
Beth just walked in a side door without knocking or hollering out. We entered into a kitchen that had an older lady making up something. She nodded and smiled at us pointing toward a door. We walked through the large kitchen then into a parlor. A nice looking man about Beth's age got up with a smile, hugged and kissed Beth (a not very brotherly kiss either) then said how happy he was to see Sue giving her a hug and a kiss on the forehead.
"Uncle Ben, this is Steve Sharp, my fiancée."
"Fiancée? Sue, that's wonderful, when did this happen and why haven't I heard more about your Steve Sharp," Uncle Ben said acting surprised.
"Oh," Sue sounded as if she didn't believe him, "you know everything I do and everyone I ever do anything with. You've always watched me like a hawk, protecting. You know who he is I'll bet. You probably even know that I looked him up to find out more about him."
"I'm not that bad Sue," Ben said. "I have heard quite a bit about him though. He has a reputation with the Sheriff's department I know that." He turned to me and offered his hand, "Welcome to the family Steve. You've made your way into my Sue's heart very fast. From Belize to Tampa to Sue in under thirty days."
"See, you have been snooping on me," Sue said.
Ben and Beth were sitting on a couch close together holding hands. There was some dynamics going on with them. Steve just waved at Sue, "When the Sheriff told me about all the ruckus out at the park where your place is, I naturally investigated. Your welfare is very important to me and your mom."
Beth told Ben, "Steve has been teaching Sue how to weld. Can you imagine? I picture her like that old World War II photograph of the lady welder."
Ben surprised Sue and I with, "Gene told me you two had turned out some very nice work, very fast."
When I looked surprised and puzzled he continued, "I am the local attorney for several entities of the NASCAR crowd. Gene's group is the most prominent. I hear about almost everything that's going on out there. I was very surprised to find my niece, my Beth's daughter, with an unknown craftsman at a client of mine. I was even more surprised to hear she was working as hard as he was."
What was that? My Beth? My Beth's daughter? More than meets the eye here.
"Nothing gets by you does it," Sue almost sounded dejected.
"With you my sweet Sue, a lot gets by me. You can be really busy sometimes. Are you still working out everyday, your tan seems to have faded a little," Ben asked.
"I haven't been to the gym much, I'm going to have to figure out how to work it into our schedule," Sue said rubbing her arm. "I have been swimming hard almost every day. The work we're doing hasn't been that hard physically but it is tiring. You really have to concentrate to do a perfect job."
Beth entered the conversation, "Sue doesn't have a date set for her wedding. Do you think we should talk her into a big fancy wedding? I don't know whether she would want one but we need to assure her that she can have the biggest wedding ever held in Tampa or the smallest, whatever makes her feel good."
"Sue, it would give me great pleasure to help your mother give you the wedding little girls dream of. I get to give you away whenever it is, remember that, I have to be there." Ben was being very boisterous, excited over the prospect of Sue and my marriage.
"What are you looking for in the marriage Steve?" asked Ben.
I smiled, "A lifetime with Sue, making a happy home with her, raising our children to be good citizens and good parents so I can be a happy grandparent."
Beth gushed, "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Make that man my son-in-law."
"Where do you plan to live?" Ben continued.
"I don't know yet. I have a couple of ideas but right now we're going to stay at the park. We don't need more than we have there. We have some friends there too that we would hate to leave."
Ben offered, "If you decide to look for another place, let me know. I have clients in the real estate business that are very knowledgeable."
We chatted for another half hour then Sue asked her uncle if he would mind taking her Mom home as she had some things she needed to do yet today. Ben happily and very eagerly agreed to take Beth home patting Beth on the hand. Beth was smiling and nodding her head in agreement.
Sue hugged and kissed her mom and uncle and I shook hands with Ben but given a genuine hug from Beth. As we got in the car and left, Ben and Beth were standing in the door with their arms around each other.
There was definitely a little more closeness between that brother and sister than most.
Sue drove us home happily talking about how well she thought our visit had been. She said her mom and uncle were very well off as her grandparents had been extremely wealthy. She said she had to fight them off, as she wanted to be self-supporting, not take anything from them.
When I asked her about what she had said how lonely his uncle was, she said she just thought of him as lonely as he was alone. He had lost a very his wife to cancer when they had only been married less than a year. She said her mother was there often visiting him, making him happy several times a week.
Was I the only person that noticed something odd?
Back at the park my prophecy was correct. Most of our buddies were on the patio drinking beer and snacking on chips. Sue said she was going to change clothes and told me to go get comfortable as well. She said she had about fifteen minutes worth of stuff to do and would be over when she finished.
Charlie, Jim and Tiny were huddled around a very small TV watching a Winston Cup race. They were all routing for different drivers and different teams. I asked about Gene's team and they said so far that it had been a bad day for them. Two, bad wrecks, one where the car was totally trashed and the other a lot of sheet metal damage. So much damage it was slowing the car down.
I commented that was too bad about the total but it meant more business for me. They asked me about the comment and I explained Sue and I had been building frames for them. They thought that was really neat as they continued to quaff the beer and stuff the chips.
The three girls were lying out in the sun on a blanket wearing some skimpy swimwear. A few minutes later, Sue came out in the bikini I had first met her in and laid down with the other girls. When I told Sue about one of Gene's cars being totaled she said, that was too bad but she guessed he would call in the morning for another frame.
I thought a little barbecue would be good so I drove down to the Sonny's and picked up a pile of ribs and a bunch of hot chicken wings along with corn or the cob and a bunch of their Texas toast.
When I got back and opened it up, there was a mad scramble to get at the food. I had asked for "killer" hot wings, and they were. You couldn't calm the heat down with the cheese dip you could only help your mouth with another sip of beer.
I had bought just enough. When the last rib and wing were gone, the race was over and the sun was going down on the sunbathers. I told the girls to go shower off the oil and dress to ride as I had an itch that needed the wind to cure.
Charlie and Jim brought their bikes to my place and were ready to roll as soon as the girls came. Before the girls came though, a large, very large group of Harleys could be heard at the entrance to the park. We followed the noise as it came closer heading toward us. We looked at each other and shrugged. To be on the safe side, I went inside put on a vest and stuck my 9-mil in my back waistband of my jeans.
Who should ride up than Hap with a bunch of his guys and Bear with a bunch of his folks, mostly riding tandem with girls on the back. They shut down and came over to me giving me hugs. They were smiling and jubilant. I offered all of them beer and went inside for the sleeve of cups the driver had left with me.
Hap said, "Nice set up. You guys know how to live."
Bear was looking around and asked, so where did this big gun fight take place. I pointed at the road and where my truck was and said that was for the two of them. Then back at the trailer saying the another one was inside but that was only one shot, not even a killing shot.
"And the deputy shooting was right out there on the highway?" Bear asked.
"Yep."
"And you just rode right into him?"
I nodded.
"You been a busy boy since you left the sand. Hap spent half the night bragging about all the shit you've been doing."
Hap said why they were there, "Bear and his brothers wanted to come by to say thanks for yesterday. I wanted to come over here with him alone, but my guys wouldn't have it so that's why you have about forty guys and their women here."
When my cups ran out, a couple of the women produced identical sleeves of cups to continue getting everyone a beer.
"You boys getting ready to ride out?" Hap asked.
"Soon. I needed a ride to blow the dust out of my head." I said smiling.
"Want us to ride with you?" Hap asked.
"Not necessary, you guys probably should be back in your barn before it gets too dark. I would think that with all the folks watching' you-all that you wouldn't want to be cop-bait after dark."
Hap hugged me saying, "You know the score don't you. Listen, just so you know, I'm sayin' it again. When you and your buddies here want to be a part of us, see me, it will be done. No prospect, no walk the line, no nothin' just pure respect. You've earned our colors. We want you."
"Mine too," added Bear.
Hap called out to the large group, "finish up and clean up, its time to ride."
A few of the women gathered up all the empty cups and stacked them at the end of the patio. Everyone mounted up and with Hap and Bear leading, the group roared through the park and out the entrance.
As soon as they left, the three women appeared wanting to know what that was all about. We filled them in then fired up our bikes and left, a little quieter than the forty bikes that left before us.
We rode to Jim's, had a beer then rode to the Crab Shack and had another. We took off up U.S. 19 and went to New Port Richey to a biker bar up there. Jim and Charlie knew several of the guys there and Shawna and Hanna knew several of the women. We were welcomed and introduced to far more folks than I would ever remember.
After a beer there we went up to Highway 52 and cut across to 41 then south back to the park. Everyone thought we had enough play time and wanted to just go to bed.
Sue and I took a shower in her large shower then relaxed in front of her TV in her bedroom drinking rum and diet coke.
We celebrated our first night of our engagement by pleasuring each other to almost midnight. Sleep found us as we snuggled after mutual explosive orgasms.