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chili con carne met Grace during his last semester of college at a university in Maryland, a partner off month before he would graduate in the natural spring of 1978. He met her at his dorm, or ‘ mod'as it was called, which was pretty very much known as political party cardinal around the complex. It was a very forward-looking dormitory for its time : it was college girl and consisted of apartment lodging four or six students in each. Chili's housed six, with two duplicate rooms, two singles, two bathtub and a kitchen and living area.

chili's five roommate that year consisted of Yakov, a Russian student who was seldom seen ; Kenny, a pot head trombonist in the marching dance band ; Mitch, a nail arse no one could remain firm, but who fortunately spent most of his prison term at a Judaic fraternity sign ; Frank, a fruity bass histrion in a disco group ; and Benny.

Benny was going to college on the five-and-a-half-year plan. Although he entered college a class ahead of Chili, he wouldn't graduate until the travel along school class. Chili and benni had roomed together for two years and had gotten along well. They both were sports fans and athlete and played on the dorm intramural football, basketball and softball teams together. They especially clicked in basketball game because Benny was a gun and liked to fritter away, and chili con carne was a good genus Passer who would look for the open man.

Their mod was a democratic topographic point for various cause. The music was always playing, the bar was always open, there was a bong on the table and usually mortal was quick to party. But the main reason was Benny : He was the local source of pot and drugs for many undergraduates.

The roommates would always hump when a shipment of something was due because the wall phone would ring off the hook and the callers would be asking for Benny. Then before recollective Benny would come dwelling house at Night from his part-time job at Safeway carrying a large John Brown paper dismissal with grocery particular sticking out of the top. But beneath the food market was the package everyone had been calling about.

Chili wasn't really into drugs but did smoke a short locoweed now and then. As a graduating senior he was in party way a lot of the time and it was liberal, there was always a shoebox lid of reefer on the tabular array. benni, on the other paw, would partake of his assorted mathematical product on a regular basis and although he usually had a buzz on, he managed to control his custom fairly well.

That terminal semester the dorm softball game team made it to the playoffs and had a semi-final game scheduled for a Th afternoon after class—prime ‘ Let's get our read/write head up for the weekend'time—and chilli, as team headwaiter and short, had practically begged Benny to delight abstain and show up to the secret plan straight. But Benjamin Kubelsky showed up to the game at the very finally arcminute and took his side at tierce base with a joint in his sassing. chilly was pissed off initially but didn't have to concern. In the top of the outset inning an opposing batter lifted a pop fly deep behind third al-Qaeda in foul ground. Benny sprinted after the fly, barely reached it in sentence, and with his backbone to the field dove for the ball, caught it, rolled over and sprung up with the testis safely in his mitt and the juncture still safely clutched between his lips.

One day during Chili's final semester he met Grace for the beginning time at his student residence. There was a belittled group hanging around, casually listening to music, talking and drinking beer. Since the complex was coed, there were always new lady friend around, Quaker of protagonist, guests, whatever, but goodwill was a new cheek, and Chili was attracted to her immediately. She was slim and athletic-looking. She had tenacious legs, medium-sized perky tits and shoulder-length auburn hair. Her jeans were tight on her fag and chili con carne wanted to peel them right off. He got himself a beer and introduced himself and started chatting her up. He could tell within minutes that this was a woman he wanted to get to make love. But soon he was let down and backed off. seemliness was with Benny.

‘ tinker's damn !'chilly thought. He'd had relationships with girls throughout college, of trend, but most occurred out of horniness and toilet facility and none had turned into anything even remotely life-threatening. And here he meets this girl to whom he is immediately and intensely attracted—her feel, her organic structure, her smiling, her conversation, not to refer the prickling between his legs—and she's off-limits.

chili pepper couldn't remember seeing Benny with a real girlfriend, just a few sleep-overs here and there. And he didn't know how he'd met Grace…was she one of his customer ? ... but he had to admit, at to the lowest degree he had effective taste.

So he backed off, and admired her from afar as she came and went with benni during the oddment of the semester, and pondered what might possess been. And then he graduated and moved on and forgot about her. Or at to the lowest degree he tried to.

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After he graduated, chili con carne travelled the U.S. government in his atomic number 80 Comet for a few month, finally settling in a moderate-size city on the southwest glide of Florida. He liked the laid-back modus vivendi of keep on the disconnection. He took a sales job for a send merchandising caller selling direct post advertising at the time when the medium was relatively new and growing by leaps and saltation. Within a year he was able to purchase the territory and had exclusive right field to sell the company's products. Over the succeeding respective twelvemonth he grew his sole proprietorship into a thriving small-scale business and was earning over six figure of speech for himself. He bought a waterfront bungalow on a tributary that flowed into the Intracoastal waterway. Life was good.

Chili had had a few relationships, and one even lasted a class, but nothing perm. His business kept him very occupy. He'd lost trace with Benny—as he had with many of his college buddies—but he thought about him once in a while. And he thought about Grace of course of action. He wondered if they were still together.

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Benny had graduated a semester after Chili, and moved in with Grace. He started a landscape gardening business with a puerility friend : Ready Teddy, a druggie. Ted's father owned a declamatory nursery in the town where they'd grown up, which was only about twenty nautical mile from the campus, and he helped them get started and gain provision and equipment. At number 1 they'd rented a theater in a subsection and they gradually acquired more and more equipment—trucks, trailers, tools, tractors—and the neighbors started complaining about it. So he and Ted went out looking to buy a piece of property where they could park and store everything. They found a 1.5 Acre parcel that was partially wooded and had a long grease driveway leading to an old, tatterdemalion, abandoned planetary house. They paid $ 57,000 for it, parked everything there and got the neighbour of their backs.

In a once-in-a-lifetime slash of hazard, and unbeknownst to Benny and Ted, the whole surrounding sphere was soon being rezoned industrial and laboured commercial message due to the expansion of the outside airport a few miles away. Out of nowhere, in less than two years they were presented with an offer of $ 1.1 million for the property.

Benny and Ted took their cash and purchased home plate on large prop in the semi-rural fringe of townsfolk. There they had their secrecy and plenty of outer space to park all of their equipment.

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Chili's parents were getting elder and had decided to downsize, so he scheduled a trip back home to go through and strip out the house to help them prepare to sell. While he was there he bought a couple tickets for a football game at his alma mater and took his Dad to the game.

Chili was waiting in the beer line at the concession stand when he heard a familiar voice calling his name.

"CHILI…."boomed the voice from a few human foot away. He recognized benne's voice immediately.

"Hey, Sesamum indicum, how the nether region are you, man ?"Chili asked, and they hugged. Benny looked like he'd put on a few pounds.

The biz was still in the outset twenty-five percent but Chili could tell apart that benne was already pretty toasted. He remembered going to the biz when they were in college, the tailgating, sneaking in booze, and they were usually so drunk by halftime that they couldn't even tell which squad had the ball.

They chatted for a few minutes in line and they exchanged business concern circuit card. Chili mentioned his parents and that he might be coming north again in a couple months. Benny said to let him get it on when and he could bide with him and state of grace at their new home. Be Nice to have you stay with us for a few days, he said.

"Did you and good will get married ?"Chili asked.

"Nah,"benni said."We've talked about it but that's about it. Permanently engaged I guess you could say."

They got their beers and went their separate agency back to their respective seats.

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The next time chili pepper came north he never even called Benny. It was getting close to the holiday and he thought it would be too awkward, plus he had his own family debt instrument. But a few month later, after his parents had sold their firm and moved south, he took Benny up on the offer.

That leaping chilli planned a road trip North. He would visit his parents at their new abode in North Carolina, his sister in Old Dominion State, and Benny in Maryland. He would stay with his parents one night—that's about all he could stand—and with his baby and brother-in-law for a couplet Day, and then on to Benny's. At Benny's he would flirt it by ear : it could be a lot of fun or, after so much sentence, it could be like a weird scene from the movie ‘ Pacific Heights ’.

What attracted Chili almost of all to the visit was his curiosity. How was Benny living these solar day after his windfall ? He knew he had a successful business organisation, but what was his biography like ? Was he still a psyche ? Still dealing ? Was he felicitous ? And what about good will ? Was she ?

It was late Friday afternoon and chilly had been in the car over five hours when he arrived at Benny's theatre. It was a minuscule concentrated to come up. It was out in the countryside and he missed a turn and had to backtrack before finding it. He drove down a driveway through a tunnel of trees and then curved to the left field. The house was bigger than he expected, a brick two-story with a gabled roof, dormer upstairs and a three-car garage. There was a silver medal Toyota in the private road. chili heard a big dog barking nearby. He parked but didn't get out of the car right away. He thought immediately that a expectant, ferocious dog would probably have in mind only one affair to Benny : protection.

"hold a minute, Chili !"he heard a female person representative outcry. He looked over to the slope porch and spotted goodwill behind the screenland holding the apprehension of a white German Shepherd."Let me shoot tutelage of the dog !"Then she disappeared for a moment until the front door opened and grace emerged without the canine.

"It's okay now,"she said, walking toward the car, and chilly opened his door and got out. goodwill gave him a hug, which surprised him. It was the world-class time they'd really bear on and he felt the soft pressure of one of her white meat against his sternum."Nice to see you, Chili. How was your trip-up ?"

He ran down the boring details of his five-hour drive on rural two-lanes and the interstate and the scurvy mix roll around the Virginia/D.C. line. He got his bag off the backseat and they walked inside.

"Benny's not house yet, but he should be soon,"Grace said."We've looking forward to your visit. Would you like something to imbibe ?"They sat at the kitchen tabular array and sipped cold deglutition and made small talk.

goodwill's auburn hair was longer, falling down the top of her back with a hint of scroll. Her body was still lop, tight denims snug against her long legs and cute butt and a diffused red shirt. Somehow though, her expression looked dissimilar than he remembered : still attractive, but in an senior and more serious way. She wore an date ring with a large, oval diamond on her left hand hand.

"You look great, seemliness,"Chili said. He gently squeezed her bicep and added,"Good anatomy, too. Have you been working out ?"

"Thanks, chili pepper, yeah, I work out some. Plus I get mickle of exercise trying to keep up with Benny, that keeps me running."

"Really, how so ?"

"You know benny as well as I do, Chili."

They heard the diesel motortruck when it pulled into the drive. Then the cab door slammed and the front door of the household opened with a bang.

"In the kitchen, Sesamum indicum !"Grace called out.

"chili con carne ! …."came Benny's booming voice from the anteroom and they heard him bounding down the mansion house. He walked into the kitchen, plopped a tray of steaks on the counter and gave chili a conduct hug.

"We need beer !"Benny yelled, and walked to the electric refrigerator and pulled out three nursing bottle of Molson.

Benny looked like a landscaper. He had on foul jean, a yellow jersey with his company's putting surface logo on it, play bang and a Baltimore New World oriole cap with his blond fuzz splayed out on the sides. They sat at the table and talked as they drank their beers.

"fountainhead, I'm dirty and I smell, so I'm going to get a shower and then send away up the grill. I got us some big, fat juicy steaks,"benne said."You up to pace, Grace ?"

"Yes, Dear. Baked Solanum tuberosum and a giant salad."

"All right !"Benjamin Kubelsky barked, and left the room.

Chili and state of grace gathered the intellectual nourishment and the tools and the condiments for the cookout.

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They had more beers on the terrace while the meat cooked, then ate at the picnic table under an oak tree. The food was delicious and the beers kept going down leisurely. chilly thought he now knew where Sesamum indicum's excess exercising weight had come from. Grace's consistency was o.k. and she was putting away the beers pretty well herself. The sun was going down and there was a quiet in the conversation.

"Wan na get buzzed ?"Benny asked. He looked at Chili and then at Grace.

"I don't know,"Chili said."I haven't done that shit since college."

"Ah, amount on, for old times'interest. seemliness, should we prove chili con carne the vaporisation way ?"

"Uh, I don't know Benny. Don't you have to go to work early in the morning at that acres chronicle you guys just picked up ?"

"I just have to go out and get the bunch started. Got ta make sure the hammerhead know what to do and don't screw anything up. And Teddy will be there."

"Lotta aid he'll be,"Grace said sarcastically."Maybe till the bars open."

"Come on blessing, let's show chili con carne a full time."

chili pepper thought the tone on Grace's grimace was one of dubitable expectation. She looked at him and surrendered a resigned smile.

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They went into a way behind the garage. It was a waiting room with a with child leather sofa and professorship and a wet bar. It had a tile trading floor and all the window were closed and it smelled like skunk. Benny took beers out of the mini-fridge and handed one to state of grace and Chili, who were seated on the sofa. He placed a brick pad on the floor in the center of the room and then we walked out the side door.

"What's he doing ?"chili asked.

"You'll see,"grace said."Get ready to take a ride."

Sesamum indicum returned a minute later with a shallow metal bucket and a three-foot dried-out plant with thin inflexible branches. He placed the bucket on the brick pad and then took out a pair of hand limiter and started cutting stems and stalks and twig off of the plant and tossing them in the pail.

"My own harvest !"Benjamin Kubelsky said, as he clipped away.

grace of God rose from the sofa and walked over to a small bookcase and turned on the stereo system. This was back in the days when FM radio rock stations would play total record album start-to-finish one after the early without pause for hours on end. thanksgiving adjusted the tuner and the intensity and ‘ Nature's Way'from ‘ The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus'poured out of the speakers.

When the pail was about half-full Benny struck a wooden lucifer and tossed it onto the arid kindling. It caught fire in a fanfare, flaming up at low gear, but then it lowered to a slow up, ascertain burn as Benny stoked it and continued feeding more patch onto it. The room quickly filled with a dim fog of smoke.

blessing noticed Chili's bottle was empty so she took it out of his manus and retrieved him another from the fridge. She handed him the beer and sat back down beside him, a little tight than before.

"Let me get a picture,"Sesamum indicum said."Move a little closer."

Grace scooted close-fitting to chilly, her body now touching flush against his, and making his body inadvertently tense up.

"Don't concern,"seemliness said to him."He always does this."

Benny moved in finisher with a Polaroid television camera, focusing, framing a stab through the daze. Chili was already getting light-headed and he felt a dry burn in his eye. But good will's body felt salutary side by side to his.

They kept drinking beers and absorbing gage in their lungs and their clothes and their hair. chili thought the stereo sounded like a philharmonic, even though it all was coming out of two gimcrack loudspeaker system. The radio kicked into another album, ‘ Straight Up'by Badfinger ; Chili had heard the LP many times—it was one of his old favorites—but this time he swore he heard matter in the music that he'd never ever heard before.

vision was getting fuzzy. Between the smoke inhaled and the green goddess in the air, focusing was like trying to land a small plane in a blizzardy windstorm. Chili wasn't used to this, he hadn't smoked pot in years. Benny was getting heights, chili remembered the signal, but was cruising along, okay so far. Grace seemed to be just going along for the ride.

"detention hands !"Sesamum indicum barked, photographic camera back in hand.

Grace smiled and took chili pepper's hired hand in hers. She leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Nice !"benne said, and snapped the photo.

The mellowed tune ‘ flying'came out of the speakers and Chili thought to himself : I sure am !

benny opened three more beers and cut up some more kindling for the fire and fed it all into the bucket and the flame kicked up and crackled.

"I better let Jojo out. I'll be right back,"free grace said, and left to tend to their dog.

"How do you palpate, chili con carne ?"Benny asked.

"You mean when the room's not spinning ?"

"Ah, just like the good old day !"Benny laughed.

Chili could barely see the far wall of the room through the swarm. The beer was going down easy, tasting expert and soothing his toasty throat. They had opened two More by the time grace of God returned.

"Let's take off our shirts,"sesame said, his voice loud and aggressive.

chile looked at him."Take off our shirts ?"

"Benny, are you sure about this ?"Grace said.

"Sure I'm sure !"he said, ripping off his shirt and exposing his gut."thanksgiving, unbutton Chili."

She glanced at chili pepper's eyes and started unbuttoning his shirt from the top down.

"What's going on ?"chilly asked.

"We're gon na have some fun,"Benny said, and he plopped down on the sofa on the early English of Grace. She was now between them and Benny started pulling her shirt off as soon as she'd undone the lowest button of Chili's shirt.

"What kind of fun ?"

"We're all gon na let laid !"Benny shouted, and gulped his beer. Grace's top was off now, her flimsy, creamy bra barely surrounding her firm breasts.

"Unhook her bra, chili !"

good will turned so her cover was to chili con carne. He did as he was told and handed the bra to Benny, who tossed it on the level and picked up the camera. Grace took chilly's beer out of his hand, took a big swig and handed it back.

"Grab her titties !"

"What ?"

"Do it, chile. You know you've always wanted to."

free grace grabbed his handwriting and brought it to her breast."It's okay, don't fight it,"she said."Let's go along with it."

chilli thought to himself, ‘ Grace seems resigned to the musical theme, so what the Inferno ’. He gently squeezed and thumbed her mamilla and felt it stiffen. Jack Benny snapped another picture and the print slid out the front of the camera.

"Grace…"

Chili felt her hands unbuckling his belt, then unsnapping his jean and unzipping him. She slid onto the base on her knee joint between his ramification in front of him.

"Lift up,"she said softly, so he lifted his behind and she pulled his pants and boxers down to the floor.

His cock was already half-mast. state of grace stroked him with one hand and kneaded his nuts with the other and chile sighed in hazy pleasure. Within thirty irregular he was hard and long.

"Suck it !"Benny ordered, and when state of grace took Chili's dick into her mouthpiece the flash went off and another photo slid out of the camera.

chilli put his hands on her shoulders and massaged them as she sucked him. He liked the spirit of her tegument in his hands and was soon rubbing the tendons in her neck and running his fingers through her hair.

She was full. He cherished the cushiony grip of her lip around his cock and gently swing his inguen into her dock head. He didn't know if he should come in her sassing, this was all new to him : having sex with another man's woman while the other man directed. He tried to draw a safe proportion between holding back his ejaculation and gently fucking her beautiful mouth—but before long he knew that fucking her beautiful mouthpiece was taking precession. He grabbed the rear of her headway and started swinging his missile into her sassing with greater force. state of grace slurped as he fucked her font and Chili grunted with each of his thrusts. He let out a foresightful, low groan when he came and his body shook as he released his semen, scene after shot, and he held her heading in his hand as he unloaded. She kept his peter in her mouth and continued sucking until he was vacate. When she removed her sass from his shaft the only trace of cum was a droplet at the corner of her mouth.

"Damn, that was hot !"benny said, and snapped another smoky photo of Chili's worthless turncock inch from Grace's silhouetted head.

grace of God slowly rose from her knees and was standing in front end of Chili.

"Chili, take off her pants !"

blessing moved closer, her crotch now a groundwork in front end of his face. chili pepper looked up at her eyes through the pennon of smaze. She nodded and ran her fingers through her tomentum. He reached for her. He unbuttoned and unzipped and pushed down her blue jean. She wore Stanford White panty which she herself removed, revealing a dead, neatly-trimmed mahogany-red growth.

"Eat it, chili pepper !"Benny said.

free grace inched closer and Chili slid his naked fag to the edge of the sofa. On the stereo Badfinger was singing about how there is no real perfection, but staring at the grand scissure before him, Chili begged to differ. He sunk his tongue into her and another flash incandescent lamp went off.

chili con carne felt thanksgiving's script on his shoulders and her breakwater gently swaying toward him, aiding his access code and helping his tongue reach maximum depth. He licked her inner salts and smelled her pungent tang and she sighed when he nibbled on her swelling clitoris. He clutched his fingers and the palms of his hands around her naked ass.

For the next few minutes…time seemed to barely travel even as the music played on…Grace fucked chili's face and he sucked on her rigid meat with a vengeance.

"Oh, God…"she groaned. Her body pulsate and she dug her fingerbreadth tips into Chili's shoulder and placed her infantry on his thigh for financial support. Her cunt opened and let go and out flowed her cum, a drip at starting time, but then two, three, four, five dearest bursts, until her consistence wilted onto his.

"Fuck her, Chili ! This is your hazard. Fuck him, goodwill. But no hugging,"Jack Benny said, and he started unzipping his pants.

Grace seized Chili's firm and set up cock and lowered her slithery cunt onto it. He felt her squeeze him with her educate vagina, and she pushed down hard, taking all of him in and grinding. Chili arched his back to help deepen his penetration. He swung his groin back and forth, moving his meat in and out of her turned on snatch.

benni's pants were now off and he was standing raw behind goodwill. Chili noticed he was fiddling with her rear end, but soon realized he must sustain been lubricating her asshole because he then mounted her from nates. Chili and grace of God slowed their humping momentarily and thanksgiving groaned when benne's dick entered her ass. He eased it in and out a few times and then he picked up his stride and was fucking her up the ass with a driven, drunken force. chili's hands gripped the ass of Grace as Benny's cock pounded it and his own hammer repeatedly stroked and reached for the depths of her cunt.

goodwill uttered unintelligible babble as her dead body was double-fucked and chile could verify he felt the head of his cock kissing the head of benny's through the sparse membrane inside her. Her forehead was brushing his cheek and he felt beads of her sweat wet against his skin. He licked her ear with his parched tongue as a new album began playing, something by Zappa, and the bucketful of pot kept burning, adding to the smog in the room and the fog in his head.

Benny soon groaned and bucked like a mule and it was obvious he had shot his wad.

"darn, that's a nice slice of ass !"he said loudly."You're play, Chili !"

chilli was so far out of it by this time he didn't care what happened adjacent. He felt kind of bad that sesame was subjecting saving grace to all of this, but she seemed used to the estimate and he sure couldn't pass up the chance to lie with her sexy ass.

Barry sat on the sofa and lay back, pulling Grace on top of him. Her pussy was flowing like a river so Benny was immediately balls-deep.

"C'mon, Chili. Fuck that ass."

Chili rose and turned, squatting behind Grace, and he saw her asshole wink at him and some of Sesamum indicum's cum oozed out. He briefly fingered her slippery one-armed bandit. His cock was hard and ripe and quick so he put its head against her exposit O-ring and pushed. He loved how it slid right in, he savored her walls of sugariness pressure sensation on the girth of his cock, and he loved the way she sighed when he shoved his distance into her.

Instantly they were three-party screwing and found a natural rhythm, a triad of peter and ass and bitch. chilly's dick was gliding on a tricky slope of KY and Benny's cum, and he pounded her with a renewed determination, dying to add his own cum to the mix.

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Chili looked at his scout when he awoke. It was almost five a.m. and he was disoriented. His head was still in a fog and his sass tasted like a tractor had plowed through it. He was naked in their bed. Grace was lying on her position to his leftfield, also naked, with her spinal column to him. benni was on the other slope of her.

He thought about the evaporation Room, the beer, the locoweed, the sex on the lounge. He vaguely remembered fucking Grace in the Jacuzzi while Benny snapped photos. And eating her pussy while Benny licked her ass, and vice versa. He didn't retrieve how they all ended up in bed together.

chili con carne got out of bed and walked across the elbow room and entered the victor bath and closed the door behind him. He stood in straw man of the toilet and took a mighty whiz and flushed the toilet, hoping it wouldn't wake the others. He splashed water on his expression and dried it with a towel, then he found a bottle of gargle under the sink. He took a sound swig and swished and gargled for thirty irregular before spitting it out. He returned to bed where Grace was in the Sami position. Benny was on his back, snoring.

eternal rest did not come back to him easily. His intellect was wandering as he walked it through all that had happened. The sex had been fabulous and he still found it hard to believe that Benjamin Kubelsky would share saving grace with him that way, and practically insist on it. They obviously had done it with others before. For chile, it had been more than just sex : he had been suggest with a woman he'd been immediately attracted to the second he'd put eyes on her several years before. What was she feeling ?

He had finally nodded back off when the warning signal clock sounded. The bed jolted and Benny reached over to his nightstand and exclude it off, and with a threadbare oink rose out of bed and went into the bathroom and shut the door. Soon the potty flushed and the cascade was turned on.

free grace was awake, still on her side facing away. chilli turned onto his side and spooned her from arse. He put his arm around her and cupped her defenseless breast. Her torso tensed briefly, and then relax. He put his cheek against the side of her drumhead and could smell the Cl from the Jacuzzi in her hair's-breadth. He nestled closer so their consistence were flush and his shaft, with its good-morning stiffness rested in the cranny of her ass.

She turned toward him onto her back, and before she could baulk or say a word chili con carne put his lip on hers and kissed her for the showtime time. Within seconds her lips were apart and his tongue was in her back talk, probing, tasting and sucking hers into him. He slipped his fingers between the sass of her pussy and gently prodded her, coaxing her cunt into a pleasant-tasting seventh heaven and thumbing her clit to a turgid toughness.

Chili rolled on top of her and while keeping his oral fissure tongue-locked to hers, he slid his manpower under her ass and entered her. And he fucked her for what was in his psyche the number 1 time, without Benny watching or abetting and without a tree of smoke and flashbulbs going off.

He lovingly fucked her, skillful and dull and easy. free grace got perfectly into the groove, pumping in sync with him and murmuring quiet groan from within their kisses. He squeezed the cheeks of her butt and pushed his ruggedness deep into her and they gradually picked up their tread, harder, faster, abstruse, with their lips never far apart.

He soon felt Grace's torso muscle spasm, coming in a hushed rush, so chilly screwed her harder still, hoping to match her with his own payload. Then with a tremendous groan his cum rose up through him and he came in a surge of spurts, and no Sooner were his balls sucked dry and he collapsed upon her that they heard the exhibitor turn off.

"You amend go to the other bathroom, get in the shower,"Grace said.

She kissed his mouth and he did as suggested.

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After showering and dressing, chili pepper smelled coffee tree brewing and headed to the kitchen. Grace was standing at the buffet pouring Orange juice into glasses.

"Good forenoon !"Chili said enthusiastically as he entered the room.

"goodness morning,"Grace said as she handed him a glass. He couldn't helper glancing at the coruscation emanating from the diamond on her go forth band finger.

chile took a sip of his OJ, which tasted medicative after just brushing his teeth. He leaned against the counter facing Grace.

"Would you like chocolate ?"

"I'd sexual love some."

"Have a seat,"she said and poured two cup and sat across from him."benny said he'd be back in a couple hours and he'd direct you to the track."

"Oh. Okay."

"Is that all right ?"

"Sure I have no plans. So Benny's still going to the track, huh ? Will you be coming along ?"

"Oh, no, I don't think so. Sounds like guy clock time to me."

"Oh, please come. Give me somebody to talk to while Benny is running around screaming at horses."

"You don't bet on the sawbuck ?"

"Oh, no, I don't bet full point,"chilli said."I was cured at a very young age."

"Really ? How so ?"

"I saw firsthand how it can bankrupt lives."

"What happened ?"

"When I was a piffling boy my Dad had a supporter named Joe. ‘ Mister Joe'we small fry called him. And Mister Joe would do over to our house for Christmas Day and Thanksgiving, always by himself. He was nice but always seemed lonely. Never knew often about him. Then one Saturday when I was eight or nine years old, this was in the mid-1960s, my Fatherhood took me to Mister Joe's flat. I think my father had loaned him money or something because Mister Joe handed him an envelope when we got there.

"Anyway, Mister Joe lived on the thirdly floor of an old red brick row house, an end building block, and we had to climb a rickety, outside stairwell on the position of the construction, almost like a fire escape. Even as a little boy I could tell his domicile was barren, with no sign of kin or warmness or dearest. He had a identity card table by the window. And that table was literally covered with rows and run-in of ticket vouchers of all the winning he had had that calendar month at the running. There were over $ 50,000 of winnings on that table…remember this was 1965 or 1966…and you know what ? Mister Joe had lost money that month."

chilli blew on his coffee and took a sip. He noticed that Grace's eyes were watered and were staring into his.

"Anyway, I learned later on that Mr Joe had lost everything he had because of gambling : his planetary house, his car, his married woman, his phratry. And my Dad was one of the finale supporter he still had who hadn't turned his book binding on him."

There was a long silence as they gazed into each former's eyes.

"God, that's sad level,"gracility said, her voice cracking.

"I've only gone to the track once in my life story,"Chili continued."I guess today will be the second base, but I won't place any stakes. It was when I was in college. I went with Sesamum indicum and a couple other guy. I didn't know the first gear thing about it, but I got a racing phase and sat back and observed and studied it a bit for the number 1 three races. Then I laid two dollars down on a horse cavalry and as soon as the Bell rang and they were off I was up on the railing screaming my top dog off like a fool, yelling at a damn horse ! I couldn't believe the adrenaline boot and how quickly it took over. I think that's when I started to understand the sickness. And that's why I'd like for you to get along along today."

"Is that what Benjamin Kubelsky has ? A sickness ?"

"Oh no, Grace, I'm not saying that, it's been years. I have no idea…"

"I think you may be right."

"You do ? What do you mean ?"

"benni. I think you're right. He gambles way too lots and loses way too much."

There was an uneasy quiet. Chili broke the clumsiness by trying to move off the subject.

"wellspring, thing seem to be going well. He seems to be doing well in business and your home is beautiful."

"Thank you. Benny came into a one-half million dollars when he and Fred sold that property near the airport. Then he paid cash for this sign of the zodiac and a new truck and a boat. It's gone now."

"Gone ? Oh my God, really ?"

"Yep, gone. Whatever was left he lost at the track and betting on football game and basketball."

"Jeez, gracility, I'm sorry…"

She shrugged and said,"I shouldn't have told you, so please don't tell Jack Benny. I guess after what you told me it seemed okay…"

"Grace."

"What ?"

"Grace. I love your epithet. I like to say it : Grace. You're the only seemliness I've ever known."

"My parents had four daughter. state of grace, Hope, Faith and Joy. I'm oldest."

"Religious kinsfolk, huh ?"

"Mom was."She sipped her umber."Do you think we should talk about this first light ?"

"This morning ?"

"Yes, this morning. When Benjamin Kubelsky was in the shower."

"It was beautiful and natural. It seemed like the flop affair to do. And after last Nox I didn't think you or Benny would beware. You seemed to be into it."

"I was, but I can't believe we did that. I've never done that before."

"Done what ?"

"Fucked a guy behind Benny's back."

chili pepper was confused."I don't understand. After all we did together last night, as confidant as we were, how could what we did this sunup, as beautiful as it was, be wrong ?"

"I don't know, but it's unlike than when Jack Benny's watching and participating and taking pictures."

chili shook his headspring."How often do you two do what we all did last night ?"

"Every now and then. Not as often as we used to. Sesamum indicum gets turned on watching me with another guy."

"Do you like it ?"

"No, not usually. At first it was okay because it was kinky and charge up and we both got off on it. But then for me it got old and I would dread it, especially with some of the hombre Benny brought in. But it turned him on and it was easier just to go along with it. But you know what ? finish night was near ; it was the first time in a long prison term that I wanted to."

"Damn, Grace, this sounds so foreign to me. If you were my cleaning woman I wouldn't ploughshare you with anybody !"He reached for her bridge player but she clutched her coffee berry cup and raised it to her lips.

-- --

benny was surprised when Grace said she wanted to go along with them to the track, but he was fine with it.

"I'm no gambler Benny, you know that,"chilly said."I'm going to loosen and enjoy myself and watch…the horses and the beast who bet on them. Grace will afford me person to talk to while you are collecting all your winnings !"

Grace wore a floral print backless sundress, hemmed several in above her knees, which showed off her shapely rump and toned body and perky, braless tits. And aphrodisiac sandals with thin leather strap that wound upward above the ankles. Her finger- and toenails were polished the color of her fuzz and she wore slim Au chains around her cervix and wrist. And of course of instruction that damn ring.

The track was minor league all the way. They found a table by the large window of the clubhouse and regularize drunkenness. They had a practiced thought of the caterpillar track and it was a short walk for Benny to place his stake. By the bit wash Benny had run into a few cronies and was spending virtually of his time at the bar.

"You look mythological,"chile said when Benjamin Kubelsky was off somewhere.

"Thank you,"grace said. She shifted in her buttocks and Chili saw her breast heave slightly with her breath.

"Are you wearing anything at all under that dress ?"

Grace smiled slyly and said,"Maybe, maybe not. What do you mean ?"

"It doesn't aspect like it."

"wellspring, I plead the one-fifth. Maybe later on I'll answer that question."

"If later on you need any help taking it off just let me know."

"Now, I don't think that would go over too well with benny, do you ?"

"He didn't seem to mind concluding night."

"acquiring gamey in his vapour elbow room is one thing, but I don't…"

"Here he comes,"chile hissed, and sipped his drink.

Benny rejoined them for a few instant and dominated the conversation with track talk. After three slipstream he was down eighty Pearl Buck. blessing and Chili listened empathically, feigning interest while they occasionally played footsie under the table.

"Are we having an occasion ?"Grace asked, after Benny had left the table again.

"An affair ?"

"Yeah, after what happened this morning. You started it but I went right along."

"I was just doing what felt natural and right in my centre and judgment. I made love to a beautiful woman."

Grace stared at him and didn't say anything. Chili wedged off one of his sauceboat skid and traced his publicise hoof it upward on her shins and rested his toes on the death chair between her knees.

"Grace, you know I had a affair for you the very first mo I laid center on you in college. Did you know that ?"

"Yes, I could tell. I know something else too."

"What's that ?"He felt her knees clamp together on his foot.

"I think for both our sakes, right now this is as far as your foot should go."

-- --

Benny lost two hundred dollars over eight races. Chili took Benny and goodwill out to dinner where they spent a couple hours eating, crapulence and talking. It was mostly shop lecture : Benny had plenty of suspicious stories about his employees, many of whom were behind-the-scenes illegal immigrants, chili told a few good single about his clients and Grace held her own with what it's like to instruct third-graders.

When they got back to the household seemliness announced she was going up to bed. Jack Benny and Chili sat up for a while before Chili said goodnight and headed up to his chamber. He wanted to get a right nights'sleep because the plan was to get up early and take the sauceboat out on the bay for a day of fishing.

chile got to his elbow room and flipped on the twinkle. He started to disrobe and noticed a eminence on the pillow. It was short and sweet. Printed on an index card in all pileus it read : THE reply WAS NO ! followed by a smiley face.

‘ shucks ’, chilli thought. ‘ I knew she'd been naked under that dress ’.

-- --

Sunday was a hot, sunny day and fishing went well. Chili wasn't much of a fisherman, but the former guys—Benny, Fred and a big, fat dude named Roland—were. They brought in quite a collar. They reached the bound on bass and vapors and they put away a case of beer between them.

It was mid-afternoon with the sun heights and a assoil sky when Benny and Chili got back to the house. There was a table and chalk barrel set up by the garden hosiery behind the garage where Benny began cleaning the fish. Chili was heading to the house for a shower when he heard amobarbital sodium euphony performing. He walked around back where Grace was sunbathing face-down on a lounge chair. The bra of her bikini was unhooked so her rachis was bare. Her suit was black and engagingly complemented her bronzed skin. On the table next to her was a small roar box playing a wild blue yonder tape.

"You need any avail applying your sun tan lotion in any of those hard-to-reach places ?"chile called over the music.

free grace started, then scrambled and gathered the strap of her bikini top and expertly hooked them behind her back. She rolled onto her back. Her eyes were hidden behind dark glasses.

"You didn't have to do that,"chilly said."Benny's out cleaning the fish."

"So how did it go ?"

"Pretty well. Pisces the Fishes for dinner !"

"Good. Benny grills a mean fish."

"Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Collins, huh ?"chili con carne said, nodding toward the boom box.

"Yep. You know Albert ?"

"Yes. I've seen him live various times, he's one of my favourite. We have the same birthday as a subject of fact : October first. You're into the bluing ?"

"I love the blue devils. That's what we listen to if it's my choice."

"Me too !"

"Wow, dandy minds think alike."

"That's what I was thinking,"he said. Then :"You look ravishing in that swimming suit."

"Thank you."

"Are you wearing anything underneath it ?"

goodwill smiled coyly and said,"The response again would be no."

Chili sat on a lawn chairman to her left field."Are you sure enough you don't motivation my help applying more lotion ?"he asked.

"It's tempting but I think I in force pass."

"Why, don't you trust me ?"

"I don't trust either one of us."

They gazed at each former and Chili imagined her centre behind her shades. He shook his fountainhead slightly and reached over to the armrest of her chair and took her hand into his. He lifted her hand and kissed the top of it, twirling the ring on her fingerbreadth as he did so.

"I need a cold exhibitor,"he said, and went into the house.

-- --

Benny did a great job grilling up the fish. He also grilled mushroom cloud, peppers, onion and edible corn on the cob. It all was delicious. But after a day out on the body of water under the hot sun, numerous beers and a big meal, chilly was fading fast. He helped clean up and then said he was beat and was going to turn in. He said goodnight to benny and Grace and headed up to bed.

He was finding it harder to be around Grace knowing he couldn't have her. The original design was for him to persist a couple more Day but he'd had enough. He would leave in the morning. He washed and brushed his teeth and got into bed. Before falling asleep he masturbated, imagining grace was on top of him.

-- --

Chili woke very early on and waited until he heard benny get off in his hand truck at a little after six. A few minutes later he heard Grace in the kitchen and he went downstairs. She was wearing a robe standing at the counter.

"Good morning !"he said as he entered the kitchen.

"good morning,"Grace said perkily."How did you sleep ?"

"Like a careen. Fishing in the hot sun all day really took it out of me."

"Coffee ?"

"Sure,"he said, and Grace poured him a cup.

"Look, Grace, I want you to know I'll be leaving this sunup. I really want to give thanks you and Benjamin Kubelsky for having me and your hospitality but I have to be going."

"No ! We're going to the ballgame tonight."

"No, I can't, I have to go. Don't get me incorrect, you've been wondrous and I had a with child metre visiting but it was a mistake to fare here. I never should throw come. Every arcminute I stay here it gets harder."

Grace's center glassed over."What do you mean ? What's Benny going to say ?"

"Tell him my parents have an emergency or something. But I can't enjoin him because…because I'm falling in love with you, Grace…and he won't want to learn that. I can't supporter it, I'm sorry. The longer I stay the deep and severely it will get. Its torment being in love life with someone you can't have."

Grace started crying softly and dabbed her eyes with a napkin. She took a sip of coffee and poured the rest into the cesspit. Chili stepped closer and raised her chin so she was looking up at him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to upset you. But I have to be completely honest. I'm falling in love with you and that's not respectable when you're engaged to another man. The other night in the vapour elbow room might have been just another crazy, kinky sex gambol around here, but for me it was much Sir Thomas More than that. And the next morning—I don't know about you, but I was making love. And all the playful flirting : it's only made it worse."

goodwill resumed crying and Chili put his arms around her and put his boldness against the side of her head. He inhaled her soaker, lemony scent.

"Do you know what I did when I went to bed go night ?"he said softly into her ear."I thought about you and jerked off."He felt her squeeze him in her arms until her tears subsided."So if it's okay I'm going to get a shower and hit the road, okay ?"He felt her head nod up and down."May I kiss you goodbye ?"She nodded again.

thanksgiving raised her read/write head to his. With his arms still around her he put his oral fissure to hers and they softly mashed rim. He lingered for a few seconds, breathing in her citrusy zest.

"Goodbye, free grace,"he said, and backed away. He turned and left the kitchen and went back to his room.

-- --

Grace was confused. She felt bad that Chili had to leave but she understood. It was unexpected, but she'd liked having him around. She liked his expression, the way he talked, and then the way he kissed her. And the way he'd eaten her and fucked her. She'd liked the feel of his body and of line the feel of his cock ; in her hands, in her sass, in her kitty-cat. Even up her ass. But ‘ I'm engaged for God's sake for what seems like forever'she thought. ‘ What the hell am I doing ? God, my liveliness is so fucked up ’.

She picked up the phone and made a quick outcry. Then she walked upstairs and down the residence. The shower was running in the bathroom adjacent to the bedroom chili con carne was using. She sat on the bed.

The shower stopped and a mo later the bathroom threshold opened and Chili walked into the sleeping room. He was naked and stopped in his course when he saw her.

thanksgiving took a here and now to get in the look of him : The broad shoulders, his slim waist, the brawny thighs. And the sinew between his legs wasn't bad either. She stood.

"I took a sick day. I figured if we're going to say auf wiedersehen we should do it right."She opened her gown and let it drop to the floor.

Chili came to her and swooped his arms around her and plastered his mouth onto hers. free grace's tongue instantly probed into his mouth and he sucked on it. With one arm around her spinal column and her ass in the medal of his handwriting he lifted her and they fell onto the bed in a undivided melded piece.

Their kiss was deep and lengthy and their hired man roamed their trunk, re-familiarizing their finger to their fiery bod. chilli kissed Grace's nose and eyes and hair's-breadth and neck and shoulders and sucked her taut teat into his mouth. Grace held his cock like a set line of life and dug her nails into his neck.

Not playing favorites Chili alternated titmouse, sucking her nipples hard until they felt like chunks of gravel in his backtalk. Grace moaned as Chili suckled her and she pulled on his stopcock like it was the arm of a time slot machine and she was hitting the kitty.

Chili tried to move his head further South to get to her salty huitre but Grace wouldn't let go of his cock. He got the idea quickly and pretzeled his body around quickly so his mouth was in her private parts and her backtalk was in his. He spread her peg and she sighed loudly when he tickled her asshole with his tongue. He licked her twat and sucked her clit and felt it spring up and harden in his mouth. Then he started fucking her pussy with his tongue.

goodwill had been kissing and licking his dick and balls but Chili hissed into her cunt when she took his stopcock into her mouthpiece. He thought back to the other stoned, smoky night—was that only two solar day ago ? —and how he'd watched his altogether appendage dissolve into her mouth and throat. He shoved his sum into her and as if she were reading his head he felt her back talk widen and withdraw it all in and just like that her lips were kissing his clod. Their dead body were grinding alternately like a elephantine measuring worm as they crawled toward orgasm. Pushing his cock into seemliness's head was knavish seventh heaven and the taste of her lusty snatch almost made him high. He knew he was going to waste a load soon and he wouldn't hold back. Then suddenly blessing's body shimmied and her water broke and with a loud groan and a mouthful of cock she came. chile felt the fond wash in his lip and on his font as he ate. Then she backed off slightly and sucked him even harder and milked his nuts at the same time.

He came like a hose that couldn't quite handle the pressure and might split. As his cum boiled upward it was the sort of interjection that felt like the warhead was just a tad too wide for the passageway and left an afterburner in its wake. free grace must own swallowed a serious amount of cum, but not all of it because he saw a good amount muck from her back talk and down her chin and some clung to the principal of his prick as she moved her forefront away.

chilli spun his body up beside her and they kissed, their tongues resuming their earlier saltation. Grace covered him with short osculation, all over his upper berth body, from caput to waist. Once she relaxed she rested her head teacher on his chest and gently held his scrotum in her hand.

After a instant of restrained serenity Chili said,"Man, I could get used to this. Too bad I won't be able to."

"You're going to make me cry again."

"Oh, no, no crying, not after something so wonderful…so Graceful."

"I'm so fucked up,"she said.

"What ? No you're not."

"Yes, I am. Look how fucked-up my life story is. I have a ring on my digit for what, going on two years now ? No plans to tie. My family wonders what the hell's going on and I don't even know what to tell them anymore when they ask. What the fuck am I doing ? Sure, I have a decorous job and we live in a decent business firm, but I have a fiancé, if you want to call him that, who gambles too much, drinks too much, gets high school too much and gets off watching other men fuck me. And expression at me now, lying in bed with his old roommate."

"Ouch."

Grace looked up at him."No ! Sorry, I don't mean it like that. I took a cast day so I could go to bed with you. Is that fucked-up or what ? So you could make get laid to me again. So I could feel you and hold you and you could hold me. I know you care. I can distinguish by the way to see at me and talk to me and toy with me and allude me and osculate me and respect me. And know me ; especially by the way you fuck me."

He pulled her up gently and put his lips to hers. Her backtalk opened instinctively and sucked him in. They kissed late and long and their fingers walked again all over their kindled skin. With his cock again board-certified Grace pulled Chili on top of her and wasted no time guiding it into her expectant twat.

"screwing me,"she rasped. He did.

They were immediately back in sync. chile threw his cock into her with inflexible vigor and grace of God swung her trunk in perfect time with his movements. His grunt accompanied every plunge and he aimed the head of his tool at the rich part of her.

"I love fucking you,"he said sharply, and meaning it, although saddened by the fact that he could not let her."I wish you were mine."

Chili dug two finger's breadth into her asshole for a best grip and picked up the tread even more. He banged her with fervent force and the bed springs kept time like a tambourine. On and on they fucked, a chorus line of sighs and groan and groans with each sweaty push button, her pussy squeezing his pounding pecker, his finger's breadth butt-fucking her and their spit numb from doing their own sexy samba.

"Jesus, I'm gon na do again,"seemliness shouted.

Chili slowed to long, irksome separatrix to give her body elbow room to extravasate. Her head darted from slope to side and her consistency bucked beneath him. With a shriek blessing expelled her cum and Chili could finger the wet warmth below him as he could feel the heat of her cheek against his own.

-- --

They were in bed for nearly four hours. They did a lot of kissing and holding and talking. And fucking ; a solid lot of fucking. chilly's head spent another gallop menses between Grace's pegleg. In his exuberance he left her breakwater and thighs with several empurple bruises he hoped sesame wouldn't notice. Last but not to the lowest degree Grace wanted it up the ass and Chili happily obliged, first with his glossa and then with his cock. She asked him to clear it hurt because she wanted to feel him for a while. He could feel her sphincter loosening and tightening around his shaft as he drilled her and he yowled like a wolf when he came and dumped his final shot of semen into her.

-- --

It was belated good morning and they were still in bed.

"I have to get going,"chili finally said."But I need another shower."

Grace rose and said,"I'll make you some sandwiches for the road"She picked her robe up off the floor and put it on as she walked out the door.

When chili pepper got down to the kitchen Grace was dressed in blue denim cut-offs and a futile top. She looked respectable enough to eat but he knew he was way overdue to leave already plus his hawkshaw was sore and felt like it was going to accrue off. She had packed a small Styrofoam cooler with two sandwiches, a banana tree, an apple and a span cans of El Salvadoran colon. He put his bag down on the floor and they stood there looking at each former in secretiveness for a minute or two.

"So this is it, I guess,"Grace said finally.

"Yeah, I guess it is."

"I know you have to go. I wish you could stay longer but I know why you have to lead. It's been nice having you."

chili pepper nodded."Thank you. I'm sorry if I've complicated your life."

"No. My life was already a pile. I think I'm just now beginning to see it."She stepped forward and put her hand against his boldness."I think I'm going to miss you."

"I miss you already,"he said. He put his handwriting over hers and kissed the palm of her hand.

"I wish I had a picture of you,"good will said with a thin cracking in her voice.

"Talk to Sesamum indicum. He took quite a few on Friday night."

"I mean a picture of you. Not a picture show of your heading in my crotch or your dick in my mouth."They both laughed, easing the angst.

"Do you have a pencil and report ?"chili asked.

goodwill nodded and pulled a piece of copy composition and a pencil out of a drawer and handed them to him. He drew a oil manful human face, much like his own, with tussle hair, pinna, eyes and nose. Then he drew the oral fissure : turned downward in an inverted U creating the biggest and saddest frown possible.

"There,"Chili said."A very accurate theatrical performance wouldn't you say ?"

Grace took a look and barked,"That's not funny !"

"I know. The truth hurts sometimes."

"I'm sorry, Chili."

"Don't be sorry."He could see her eyes begin to water."Do you have a calendar ?"

free grace nodded and pulled a calendar off of a magnetized clip on the side of the icebox. Chili took it and turned the page to respective months hence.

"We both love the blues, right ?"chile said. Grace nodded. He was looking at the calendar month of July. He figured it was a good clock time because he wouldn't be too in use with oeuvre and it would be summer vacation for a school teacher. He circled a Friday in the midriff of the month and handed the calendar to free grace.

"July fifteenth,"he said."A Friday. Memphis, Tennessee, blues capital of the south. On July 15, at the Peabody Hotel, in the primary lobby, a block from Beale Street. Say, two p.m., mid-way between the duck March. I'll be there."

"Duck Marches ?"

"Yeah. They have a bunch of duck that live up on the ceiling. They come down in the elevator at XI a.m. and Mar into the foyer and spend the day in this big fountain. Then they march back out at five."

"Really ?"

"Yeah. Anyway, Memphis is about the same distance from here as it is from where I live. And I'll be there on July fifteenth. At two o'clock, waiting in the lobby. That gives you three month to fancy affair out."

thanksgiving plopped down in a chairperson at the tabular array, taking it in.

"If you don't display up, it's okay, I'll understand. I know there is a lot you need to take. But if you do, you will be mine. And I will be yours."

Chili circled around behind where Grace was seated. He massaged her berm and then lowered his bridge player to her silky tit. He held them as he kissed her temple, then her impertinence, then the box of her mouth.

"cheerio, good will,"he said.

He walked back and picked up his bag and slung it over his shoulder. He picked up the cooler and raised it up.

"Thanks for this,"he said. Grace nodded.

He opened the door and turned to her and said,"I love you."Then he was out the door and gone.

She got up from the table and walked to the window. She watched him force away with tears trickling down her cheeks and dripping from her nose.

-- --

chili con carne drove for seven hours before stopping for the night. The whole drive was a blur, a dissociative haze, with prominent chunks of main road behind him and unremembered. It was a admiration he thought, that he hadn't driven off the road.

He had no idea how he had come up with the melodic theme of Memphis and the Peabody Hotel. It had just popped into his head. He knew it was only a last-second Hail Mary, with a slim down chance of success, but he knew he had to do something. He knew they couldn't be in any kind of contact, that would only muddy things up even more. But if he'd just flat walked out without that date on the calendar, then his slim prospects were lupus erythematosus than zero.

Over the stick with months chilly busied himself as much as potential. He worked long hours and filled his redundant time with numerous activity. He dated a couple times but both were disasters. He was stinky fellowship, and he couldn't help but compare them to good will, and unfairly to them, they could never measure up.

He had aspiration about her. In one he was standing in a farsighted business line on a wild leek boarding a cruise ship. goodwill was ten or twelve places ahead of him in pipeline. She had a leg in a shape and was on crutches. He asked her about sesame and she said he was lost at sea. They talked about how they missed each other and how nice it would be to be on the cruise together so they could trance up and be together again. She boarded the ship and stood by the railing waiting for him. But only three more than citizenry after her were allowed on the ship when they shut the gate to the ramp and said they were filled to capacitance, and started preparing to depart. He started screaming and tried to hale his way forward but was fought back by the masses in front man of him. blessing was yelling to be allowed to get off and come in back down the ramp but they wouldn't let her off. The dream ended with them both calling to each early as the ship sailed off.

In another dream chilly and blessing were passengers in a helicopter. They were holding hand and looking out the windowpane as they came in for a landing. They kissed and said sayonara. ‘ Don't worry,'he said, ‘ I'll see you in a yoke days ’, and jumped down onto the tarmac and the door slid shut behind him. He stood and watched as the craft rose up into the air and flew off. The copter passed over a wooded area in the distance and then descended and disappeared behind it. A bit later there was a vast blowup and a monumental, kaleidoscopical flack of smoke and flame flashed high into the air from behind the trees.

Grace daydream too. She was with chili in the vapor room and it was difficult to see him through the thick smoke. ostentation electric-light bulb were going off over and over, and every meter she reached for him he would vaporize or vanish into a plume of sens or slide just out of her scope and she was frustrated because she couldn't touch or withstand him. Benny was yelling, ‘ No caressing ! No kissing !'over and over and she awoke in sweaty defeat. Coincidentally, a few 24-hour interval after her dream Sesamum indicum tried to stage another sexy tierce in the Vapor Room, and as hard as he tried to convert her to do it, she flat-out refused. She expected a big fight from him later but it didn't happen.

In the days leading up to July 15th Chili would retain the calendar in his deal and stare at the date. He would kiss it. Three month with no contact. A lot can happen in three months. You know what they say, out of sight, out of thinker. He knew he was grasping at a dead straw.

But on July fifteenth, he was in Memphis. He walked around township that morning. It was hot and humid and he was sweating bullets in transactions. He got off the street and into a diner to cool off, but he wasn't hungry. He drank sweet-flavored tea and tried to translate the newspaper.

He was in the third house of the Peabody by one-thirty. He found a well-heeled leather chair on the north side of the third house with a serious opinion of the front line entrance.

The next one-half hr seemed like forever. He watched the man of affairs in their courtship and the tourists in their shorts and tropical shirts number and go. He looked at the huge granddaddy clock nearby about every 30 seconds as sentence inched along. The closer it got to the prison term, the tenser and queasier and more fearful he became. When the clock struck two he felt a chill and gooseflesh broke out on his arms.

Nothing happened. He scanned the room, his centre tracing back and Forth River again and again looking at every unknown face hoping to find the familiar one.

At five instant after he started to turn afraid, even though he knew all along this was probable to happen. By 2:10 he wanted to cry.

"Mr. chilly ?"

chile was suddenly in a trench oceanic abyss of intellection. At that moment something dawned on him. Memphis was in the exchange Time Zone. blessing lived in the eastern Time Zone. Memphis is an hr earlier. Maybe that's it. Maybe she's still on East Coast metre. He'd have to look another hour.

"Mister chile !"

The tacky vocalization broke his daydreaming. He looked up to see a enceinte black man in a bellman's uniform standing before him.

"Uh, yes, I'm chilli,"he mumbled.

"This is for you, Sir."He handed him a letter-sized envelope.

"Oh, uh, thank you,"he said. He took out his wallet.

"No need, Sir. It's taken care of,"the bellman said, and he walked away.

chili looked at the envelope. It was the official stationery of the Elizabeth Peabody Hotel.

His shoulders slumped. His optic glazed over. His sinuses clogged up. ‘ At least she had enough class to let me know ’, he thought. He didn't unfold it right away. He nervously twirled it in his hands for various apprehensive minutes, anxiously delaying what he now knew was inevitable.

He took a oceanic abyss breath and opened the envelope. There was a exclusive piece of paper inside. ‘ This is it ’, he thought, ‘ My dear Saint John the Apostle letter ’. He took the newspaper from the gasbag and unfolded it and was surprised to see it was not on the Peabody letterhead. It was not a letter at all ; in fact there was no authorship at all on the pageboy.

But what he saw was companion. It was the rudimentary pencil drawing of his aspect that he'd drawn in Grace's kitchen on the morning he'd left her. But the big downturned backtalk had been erased, and it had been replaced with the crowing ear-to-ear grin the drawing would allow. In bright low ink !

chilly felt paralyze. He raised the newspaper publisher to his nose. It was her all right, that unobjectionable, citrus fruit redolence. He looked up and his eyes panned the lobbyscape in front of him, once, twice : The check-in counter, the elevators, the concierge desk, the many faces. He stood up and took a duad steps forward for a dissimilar perspective and searched again.

He saw the wearing apparel before he saw her case. It was the same sexy flowered sundress she'd worn on the day they went to the track. Her tomentum was curt, but her deliciously tanned and toned body was the same, and a splendid sight for sensitive middle. And even from afar he could see she wore no ring on her finger. chile's legs started propelling him toward her in a wobbly top executive manner of walking as tears rolled down his boldness. good will moved toward him, more quickly with each step.

It is fortunate there were no severe hurt when they collided. They burst into each other's weapon system and locked themselves together. Their mouths meshed into one and they kissed and hugged and twirled like a top. With their bodies clutched in a vise they did a thirty-second dance in the midsection of the large antechamber and performed an unexpected, offhand floor appearance for the guests and the help and the duck's egg. A solid circle of hand clapping embarrassed them out of their trance.

They held one another close as they spoke their first words in three months.

"I love you,"he said.

"I love you,"she said.

"I was afraid you wouldn't come."

"I was afraid you wouldn't want me anymore."

"I've missed you so much it hurts."

"I know how it feels, too."

"Nice dress."

"The answer is still NO !"

Chili laughed."You cut your hair."

"Yes, I'm starting a new life. We are. It's a wavy bob. Do you like it ?"

"I love it. But it's not long enough to report all the hickies I'm going to give you."

"You'll have to put them on my thigh !"

"I reserved us a room upstairs."

"So did I."

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They had a knockout time keeping their helping hand off each other waiting for the elevator. When they reached the room they tore off their clothes and fell on the bed and instantly began catching up for lost time.

"I don't know what I would birth done if you hadn't been here. I've been going screwball thinking about making dearest and how good it is going to be,"blessing said.

"Get used to it,"Chili said, and he sucked her lingua into his mouth.

They made love for 60 minutes in all the ways they remembered and in some means that were new. But no part of their bodies, no inch of their flesh went unkissed, unsucked, unfucked or unloved.

During one blissful intermission Grace said,"I have three interviews lined up with three different schooltime systems near where you live."

"Where we live,"chilli corrected.

"right field, where we live,"she said."So, you're okeh with having me for your roomie ?"

"You damn sure adept be my roommate !"

"You don't mind if I stay a piece ?"

"How ‘ bout forever ?"

Grace smiled, cupped his orb and kissed him.

"I was hoping you'd say that."

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