This is a fun, light piece; it's pretty improbable, but it's the only thing I've written so far that is based, even a little bit, on reality.
Enjoy!
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She really shouldn't have been touching me there.
"Cool. So, like, that's your clan crest or symbol or something?" Her finger was poking at my belt buckle now, prodding it, but the problem was her other fingers: tracing lightly down the front of my kilt just below the belt buckle, they'd be resting right on top of my pubes. She was looking up at my eyes from where she sat, just drunk enough to be daring.
And my wife was standing right there, beaming at all the attention I was getting.
"Yeah," said my cousin Aimee, also drunk. Aimee was obsessed by our family's fairly negligible Scottish heritage, and on this occasion, a wake in Denver to commemorate my uncle's death, she'd insisted I wear my kilt. Of course I'd obliged, but I'd been getting attention all night because of it.
And now Aimee's old college friend Rachael was letting her fingers play over the front of my kilt, a devious expression on her face. I glanced sideways at my wife, but she didn't seem to notice; indeed, she was already talking to one of the other guests, and now Rachael saw where I was glancing. I saw her mouth take on a saucy little grin as her fingers pressed harder.
"He's my favorite cousin!" Aimee said, quite unnecessarily. I'd heard that a number of times already, and now I smiled back as I gave her another one-armed hug. Poor thing had just lost her father, after all.
Rachael now moved her hands downward, resting them on the top edge of the leather sporran where I kept my wallet and phone. The sporran hung just in front of my penis. "And a purse, too," she said quietly. "Awesome." She looked up at me craftily. "Do you wear it in the traditional way?"
"Well, a gentleman never tells!" It was my stock response whenever anyone asked me whether I wore anything under the kilt. Rachael just arched her eyebrow.
"I think you met Rachael before," Aimee yelled in my ear. The bar was loud. "Didn't you come down to our house for Easter, like, in college?"
And then, suddenly, I remembered where I'd seen that same devious grin. I'd gone to college a couple of towns away from where Aimee and Rachael had been sorority sisters. It had seemed natural to go to my aunt and uncle's house for Easter, and it had also been natural for Aimee to invite her friend Rachael. What hadn't been natural was the intense flirting I'd undergone from bold Rachael. I'd been aware she was hitting on me, but at the time I'd had a girlfriend back at school and I'd just tried to ignore her.
Not that Rachael was easy to ignore. At five feet nine or so, she was just a little shorter than I was, an Amazon with a fantastically proportioned body, blonde hair, and blue eyes. She looked like a Viking princess, and carried herself like one too: bold, daring, resolute, and willful. I'd seen all this just during the course of Easter dinner. And later, as I'd gone to sleep in my uncle's basement while Rachael joined Aimee upstairs for a slumber party, she'd looked frankly into my eyes, leaned in, and kissed me coolly on the lips. That wasn't the kind of thing that ever happened to me.
And now here she was, lightly grabbing onto a leather sack that, in turn, rested just on top of my junk. Her hand tightened on the sporran, pulling it slightly toward her with a crafty gleam in her eyes. "I think I remember you," she said calmly. "I remember all of Aimee's better-looking relatives." The fingers grasping the top of my sporran now flicked back toward the kilt, tickling my shaft, and I flinched away. My wife was standing two feet away!
With a dimpled grin, Rachael released me. She kept staring up at me from the barstool, though. "When are you guys flying out?" She addressed the question to my wife, still with that cool smile as Aimee leaned her head against me.
"Couple days," said my wife; we'd made a long weekend of it, without our kids, and despite the occasion it was actually a nice time to unwind. Until now. "Aimee, is Todd going to run the other kilt over tomorrow?" Aimee's husband was wearing my other kilt now.
"Oh, well, we'll get it over to your parents' house somehow," Aimee said, suddenly looking like she was about to cry; she was dealing with a high-strung mother, now a widow after thirty years of marriage, and it had been a tough week.
"Oh, Aimee," Rachael exclaimed. "Don't even think about running it over there yourself. I'll take care of it."
"Oh! Would you?" Aimee was visibly relieved.
"Of course," Rachael said, but her eyes were on me. "I'll put it right into Andy's own two hands." She winked at me now. "Just give me your phone and I'll put my contact info in. That way, you can let me know when it's a good time to come over." She held out her hand, and of course I couldn't say no. Her eyes flickered downward as my hand opened the sporran to pull my phone out. She smiled.
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I woke the next day to a shattering headache, my wife comatose next to me as my phone vibrated on the bedside table. I picked up the phone, saw that it was an ungodly 6:00 am, and was just about to roll over when I saw who was texting me: a new contact called EasterRach. Glancing over at my wife, I opened the text and took a look.
WHAT TIME DO YOU WANT ME TODAY?