What is it about a wedding?
It all went off without a hitch. I did the 10-hour straight-through drive, arrived in time for the rehearsal, and then ate surprisingly good stuff at the rehearsal dinner, showed up promptly for my son's wedding, walked down the aisle, second in line, behind the mother of the bride, escorted by my wildly overweight but still fucking beautiful niece, said my few words, stood when the bride walked in looking absolutely stunning, and then stood again as they finished and walked back down the aisle, now husband and wife.
A very nice wedding in a very nice venue. The view across the outdoor scene was spectacular. And it worked out well because I liked my new daughter-in-law.
I had even gotten along pretty well with my ex-wife although her family, with a couple of exceptions, remained stand-offish and, in a couple of cases actively hostile. I understood although, to be honest, there was plenty of blame to go around when that marriage broke up.
I enjoyed an hour with my daughter and her brood of feral kids, four at last count and I was happy to see her belly wasn't swelling again. Well, not yet anyway although her new boyfriend seemed nice and she is ridiculously fertile.
"So," the voice said. I liked the voice. I always had. Whiskey coarse but when she sang it was a clear soprano. I recognized it. My ex-wife's aunt and I had always got along but when we split up, suddenly she was downright hostile to me.
"Where's the redhead?" she asked.
I chuckled. Fiona is a tiny woman, not quite five feet tall and certainly no more than about 90 pounds, with hair the red that women strive for but rarely achieve. I knew it was natural from a wardrobe malfunction back when the ex and I were married and had been boating with the family. She was asking about my present wife, another redhead.
"She's home, nursing her arthritis," I said.
She looked up at me speculatively and then took my hand. "Come on, you look like you could use a friend."
Which was true. The wedding party, well, the after-wedding party, the reception I guess you call it, was mostly Stephen and Meg's families which meant, given that I had driven overnight to get here, mostly my ex's family, many of whom weren't happy with me, and other folks I didn't know. I had talked some to the members of the ex's family who didn't blame me for the breakup, flirted shamelessly with the niece who had been through two husbands and put on about a hundred pounds, and was now about at that point where you start looking for ways to get away without being too obvious or rude.
So I followed Fiona onto the small dance floor and we settled into a nice, classic slow dance as the DJ played another of his wedding collection, this time Julie London's
Cry Me A River
. We started in the classic slow dance position, my left arm crooked at the elbow, my palm up accepting her right hand, her left hand on my shoulder, forcing her to reach up quite a bit, and my right hand on her hip. It took us a few moments to pick up each other's moves, but pretty soon we were doing a passable dance, not yet a full-on waltz, but something beyond a basic box step.
She held my hand between songs and when Jerry Lee's
Great Balls of Fire
blasted out she let out a laugh, took my hand, spun away, and we did a not-too-bad jive. Slightly winded, I started off as Jerry Lee's final piano riff tailed off but she held my hand, and when Elvis Presley started crooning
The Hawaiin Wedding Song
she was back in my arms, this time both of her arms around my neck like we were teenagers at the prom. I had a moment of panic, imagining the hundred or so cellphone cameras that were in the room and how easy it would be for one of them to get back to my wife.
I was already thinking up excuses as I laid my hands on her hips. When she moaned softly, though, and closed the difference between us until we were touching, I quit worrying and started enjoying.
And I mean, touching a lot.
She's one of those women who understand just how to move, to arch her back, to make sure as much contact is made as possible.
Her effect on me was immediate and my sudden, and unexpected, erection pressed against her belly, the difference in our heights ensured that was where we would touch.
The smile as I looked down at her was a purely happy smile.
"Ever been fucked stupid by a redhead?" she asked and it was so conversational that I had to laugh.
"Umm, no," I managed after I had the laughter under control.
"Wanna?" she asked, doing that thing only a woman can pull off, her sinuous movement almost spineless as her body rippled and the touch moved from my groin to my chest where her cheek lay.
"Would that be wise?" I asked.
"Fuck no," she said and there was that smile again, peeling at least two decades off of her face, "So, wanna?"
Okay, there was alcohol involved. And it was a wedding. The air was thick with wedding pheromones. All of that is true.
But in the end, it was that smile and the way she said, "So, wanna?" that got to me.
I grinned. Hell, I couldn't have stopped that grin, and said, "Absolutely."
She giggled and said, "Okay, Lover, let's make our manners." Yes, she actually said, "Make our manners." She was, after all, a Southern girl, and no matter how long she had lived in Chicago that's something you never really lose.
We tracked down the bride and groom and waited patiently while they received another batch of congratulations.
Stephen saw us, grabbed Meg's hand, and came to us.
"Congratulations again, great-nephew-o-mine," Fiona said, "you be good to her now, understand? Don't make me come and teach you a lesson."
Stephen grinned and said, "No problem."
They embraced.
While Fiona was saying something girly to Meg, Stephen wrapped me in one of those bearhugs of his. "Thanks for coming, Dad," he said, "It wouldn't have been the same without you."
I grinned and said, "You done good, boy," and hugged him again.
"Now, Nephew and Nephew-bride," Fiona said, "Phillip has offered to drive me back to my room so we're going now. You youngsters have fun but don't drink too much. That can make the wedding night a disappointment." She grinned and patted Stephen on the cheek. "Trust me, I know," she added.
Manners made, we left.
"Your place or mine?" she asked as we started out of the parking lot.
"Well," I said, "I've got a whole house from the AirBnB people and that gives you more rooms to fuck me stupid in."
She laughed, patted my crotch, and said, "Done."
When we got to the little rental house she waited, primly, while I opened the door for her and then we walked, hand in hand, up to the front door. I entered the four-digit code and we walked in.
As soon as the door swung shut she turned and was in my arms. She was tiny and all hungry lips and oddly strong fingers as the fingers tangled in my hair and the lips found mine, pulling me down for the kiss.
My own hands, running up and down the back of her classic little black dress, quickly discovered that there was no bra or panties.
She broke the kiss as quickly as she had initiated it.