Writers Note
This is the eleventh chapter of my story about Katie. There will be one more chapter after this one. This runs from August of 2008 until March of 2009 and is pretty much a story of one great night of fun. So sit back and enjoy!
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The Monday morning after that special night in August of 2008 when Karen got pregnant, I was back at the shop for 7:30 AM like I usually am and at 8:00 AM my cell phone rang.
I answered it and I heard Karen say, "Guess who?"
I answered, "Karen, this is a surprise."
She replied, "Jean gave me your phone number and email address but I'd rather call. Is this a bad time?"
"It's Monday morning and I am only halfway through my first IV bag of coffee, but no, this is fine," I answered.
Karen laughed and said, "You are as bad as Jean is on a Monday!"
That was the beginning of our weekly Monday morning phone chats and they were always fun. Karen is a very smart girl as well as being as full of the joy of life as one person could be, but despite coming from a very wealthy family, she is also very down to earth. She was of course excited about being pregnant but also knew well the responsibility that she was taking on as being a mother. This was something that she had thought about for a long time and it was all her idea, except for Jean volunteering me to be the father. Karen could be funny as all hell at times, like when she called me three weeks later to tell me that she was officially pregnant, not that there was any doubt in either of our minds.
She said, "Jean insisted that I do two of the pregnancy test sticks just to be sure. They both came out positive and I told her, "Look Jean, I am having twins!" She gave me this, "What in the name of hell are you talking about?" stare. I guess that she has never heard that blonde joke!"
Once in while I would say something that she didn't pick up on right way, then her end of the phone would be quiet for a little and I would hear her laugh and say, "Well folks, there just went another great moment in blonde history!"
A few weeks later they went up to Connecticut on Sunday to visit her parents. Karen told me the week before that Jean was a little nervous about it because of the way that her own family had treated her but Karen told her that she had nothing to worry about. I asked her when she called the following Monday how the visit went.
Karen replied, "We had a nice time Tony. At first all four of us were in the living room talking for a while and then my mother and I went into the kitchen to start getting supper ready. I went back out about twenty minutes later to see how things were out there and they were gone. I looked all over the house and found them in his pool room, drinking Scotch, smoking cigars, and having a great time."
I said, "Wait, Jean smokes cigars? I remember when she stopped smoking cigarettes five years after we started talking. They had two pools going in the office, the first was how long it would be before she started again and the second was who she was going to kill first and what day!"
She laughed and replied, "Jean might smoke one every couple of months, but it's not a habit by any stretch."
I asked, "So how much did she hustle your father for at the pool table?"
Karen laughed again and answered, "Four hundred dollars at fifty dollars a game! But Dad was a good sport about it. He said that he should have been suspicious when Jean used the old "I haven't played in while" line and he won the first game a little too easily. But then the next game she ran the table off the break and he knew that he was screwed!"
A couple of weeks later Karen said, "Dad came down on business last Monday. He and Jean went out for lunch, then she showed him around her office. She even let him sit in on a couple of videos that they were shooting."
I asked, "What did your mother think about all of this?"
She answered with a laugh, "Jean gave him a few bottles of the different lubes that she sells. He got home at 6:00 PM and just about dragged my mother to bed. Mom told me that they did it again after supper and one more time before falling asleep."
"Sounds like he takes those little pills." I replied.
"Yes he does," Karen said, "But Mom doesn't complain. She really likes the one lube and she said that as soon as they used up that bottle she was going to order some more. I told Jean and she sent her a case of the stuff and get this, a strap-on dildo and a pair of handcuffs!"
"Oh boy!" I said.
"Mom said that she didn't tell Dad about those," Karen replied with a giggle, "She said that she is saving them for a special occasion. I know their anniversary is coming up soon."
I laughed and said, "I am sure that will be one that he never forgets!"
Karen kept me informed about how she was doing with the pregnancy. She had a little bit of morning sickness but it wasn't too bad and it only lasted a few weeks. She told me about the doctor's visits and then as things progressed, going to childbirth classes. Jean always went with her to the doctor's and of course the classes, but she did a lot of reading and research on the subject as well.
One Monday after one of the doctor's visits, Karen said, "I thought the doctor was going to strangle Jean last week. She had all these questions and knew what she had read, but she was arguing with him half the time about what he was coming back with! He knows about our relationship and he tries to stay civil but you know how Jean can be at times."
"Oh yes," I replied.
The Tuesday afternoon video chats continued with Jean as well. Mostly they were our usual work and cutting up chats, nothing real heavy. I still wondered what was going on with her, seeing how she acted that night when Karen got pregnant, but the few times I asked about it, she just blew me off. I figured that whatever it was, that she would talk to me whenever she was ready and not before, so I stopped asking.
When I made the trip to the cemetery that year on November 3, 2008, I only had one pink rose with me, along with the white one for Elizabeth and Charlie's bottle of beer. A few days later I had some time to kill and I decided to go to Karen's website, but when I got there, the only video up there was Karen sitting there in her clothes. She said that she was getting out of the business for personal reasons, but that they were good reasons and she thanked all of her fans for their support over the years.
I asked Karen about it the next Monday and she said, "It was Jean's idea. I didn't really care one way or another but she asked if I minded if she took the website down and I told her that I at least wanted to say something to my fans before she did."
I replied, "Well you are going to be a mother soon."
Karen laughed and answered, "Yes, but I was also thinking about a doing a preggie porn video, but that is fine. I guess I will have to wait until we are back at the resort."
I smiled and said, "Yes, but with imaginary cameras!"
Karen laughed again and said, "I know, I'm just having some fun with you."
I asked, "By the way, did that girl from the resort ever call Jean?"
Karen answered, "Yes she did. Her name is Sue but everybody calls her Squeak. You will have to ask Jean about her," which I did the next day.
Jean said, "Squeak came in here thinking that I wanted her to do porn films, which she was kind of okay with but I looked at her resume. She has a degree in graphic arts and she also took a few filmmaking courses. Not that they teach them much but at least she knew a little bit about the equipment. But there is something about her that I really like so I hired her on the spot and she has been great. She is a wiz with computers, not so much with all the network stuff but she knows the hardware as good or better than my collection of computer idiots!" I laughed and Jean went on, "She starting taking all the production equipment manuals home with her to read at night and damn if she doesn't know that shit better than the guys back there. She reports directly to me and I let her have the run of the place."