Author's Note:
Listen. I've been promising this story for a
long
time. There's a pretty good chance it won't satisfy the various teasers and mysteries that appeared in earlier stories, but I'm okay with that. There was once a story bumping around in my head called "Church Camp Orgy." I have started to write this story no fewer than seven times over the course of probably fifteen years. I still might write that story someday, but some of the basic ideas I decided a while back to just absorb into this one. The mysterious characters of Luke and Rebekah have a story, sure, but the one I constantly found myself caring about was Will's story. Eva, Becky, Jack, Sophie. Those guys kind of feel like friends of mine now.
I bring up Church Camp Orgy, because eventually there's going to be an orgy at a church camp, and it's going to happen in one of the future chapters of this story. Not this one, or any of the first few. I had a lot of big weird dumb ideas for that story, and started putting little pieces of it into A Week On the Lake and Lucky Cable Guy, thinking one day I might sort of tie all the weird sex magic shit together in one big spectacular group sex blow-out. I might do a Luke and Rebekah story someday, and I might do a simpler, less magical, Church Camp Orgy someday, but a lot of those big dumb ideas I had are going into A Wedding On the Lake.
We're not even going to make it to the Lake at all for a few chapters, so strap in. Will and his friends have a bachelor party weekend at the beach first.
Oh and for newcomers, this is a sequel to Another Week On the Lake, which was a sequel to A Week On the Lake. The story also features characters from Lucky Cable Guy, Connor's Senior Year, and even a couple ladies from Marie.
I hope you find this belated and oft-promised sequel entertaining. As always, my stories contain a lot of unrealistic sizes and abilities and that sort of thing and also a fair bit of dudes sucking cock in the group sex casserole, "so if that doesn't seem like your particular brand of vodka, help yourself to as much food as you like, and have a safe journey, no hard feelings. Otherwise, come with me."
Prologue
James
Years before I fell in love with Veronica, I fell in love with Jessica and married her, and it didn't work out. We'd been at school together, friendly but not friends. My years-on unrequited crush was for her best friend Monica in those years. On graduation night I made it my mission to track down Monica at whatever party she might be attending and see if I had a shot, but I'd never found her. I bounced around from one house party to another, passing on offered beers and shots and enjoying the summer evening drives with my windows down and listening to the radio. Joan Jett, John Cougar and J. Geils dominating the first summer of my independence.
"BIG JIM!" Mikey bellowed in his driveway as I pulled up in front of the house across the street at dusk. "Get over here, you son of a bitch and drink a beer with me!" A stop at Mikey's party was practically predestined, and this was the only house where I would accept a beer to be polite. It was hard not to enjoy Mikey's company, at least until he got to his eleventh or twelfth beer. I could tell by the ferocity of his bear hug that he was somewhere in the six or seven zone.
"Where the fuck have you been, man? You missed it!" He slapped me on the back and led me around to the back yard where a host of our classmates mingled and laughed and drank. I saw Jessica and my stomach twisted in anticipation of seeing Monica. I'm not sure if Jessica noticed me right away. When she would tell the story to our friends years later, I was already at Mikey's party when she arrived. Maybe she was right, but let's stick with this version.
"You should have seen it, Jimmy! Bill Castle blew chunks all over my mom's magnolias! She fucking wailed on him and chased him down the street! I couldn't stop fucking laughing!"
I chuckled and pulled the top on the can he handed me, catching Jessica's eye for the first time as I lifted the can to my lips and noticing her smile, one I'd seen hundreds of times in four years, but noticing it with surprise for the first time at the warm buzz it gave me. I turned back to Mikey after the first sip. "What a dickhead!" I laughed. "I'll steer clear of the garden."
"Drink up, Jimbo," Mikey said, crashing his beer can into mine. "You seem way too sober for graduation!"
He sauntered off into his party and I caught Jessica's eye again and she made her way over to me.
"Monica's not here," she said.
I felt my cheeks flush. She hadn't said it with cruelty, but warmth, and maybe some sympathy. Still, it was difficult to hide my disappointment. Jessica put a hand on my shoulder. "Yeah I get it," she said. "Monica breaks hearts like Mikey breaks rushing records. Wanna get out of here?"
I hadn't said anything to her yet and she already knew everything about my intentions and now, my mood.
With a look at Mikey regaling an audience with one of his many ridiculous but hysterical stories, I left my beer with just a sip missing on a folding table next to a plate of carrots and celery and some bizarre dip and led Jessica back to the street to my dad's old pickup truck and into a summer night that I would never forget, even if I wouldn't see her again for fifteen years.
There was another party at the beach where we said hello to reveling friends but refused drinks. We took off our shoes and walked along the beach and talked about the things we were going to miss, our summer jobs and college plans. The dusk faded and the moon rose, glowing bright behind a summer haze, and we kissed with the cold water swirling around our ankles. Jessica made the move, although she would deny it years later. In her version I was more charming than I'd ever been as an eighteen year old. I think when she told the story, once we were married, she liked to map my thirty-three year old self onto my awkward eighteen year old form.
I remember her as confident and wise and a little intimidating, but I have to admit that the memory is colored by our reunion and courtship and those first two happy years of our marriage.
But regardless of who leaned in first, kiss we did. Her tongue in my mouth was unlike anything I'd ever imagined, not for lack of trying. Her body pressed against mine, and her skin under my hands, the aroma of her shampoo and her body, it surpassed my fantasies of Monica so completely as to make them seem immediately like the idle daydreams of a boy.