Chapter Ten
I woke to the bed jouncing up and down and Greg's voice saying, "what the fuck, don't you know how to set the alarm clock?"
I opened my eyes and saw him there, leaning down to bounce the bed.
"Come on," he said, pulling the covers off of mom, "we have the Century Club for lunch, the Livestock Association at three, and the Teacher's union at six. Get moving."
Mom groaned and rolled onto her back and I saw Greg's eyes move down her belly.
"Oh," he said, chuckling, "that's new."
He bent and kissed her and said, "I'll make coffee, now get moving."
She stood and kissed him and, again, I was surprised that I didn't feel a rush of jealousy.
I rolled out of bed as he was leaving the room and followed her into the shower.
We showered, sensually as was becoming normal but not sexually and then she allowed me to do her makeup. I tried for a middle-class matron look and pulled it off, merely highlighting her assets.
She selected a brown suit, call it a business suit, with a white blouse, nylons, moderately high heels, her watch, and a simple strand of pearls. The skirt was calf length. She looked very professional. I threw on a T-shirt and jeans and walked her down to the kitchen. Greg was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee, and when we walked in he glanced conspicuously at his watch.
"We gotta run, toots," he said, kissing mom quickly, "but first."
He reached into his pocket and took out a ring. Then he took her left hand in his and put the ring on her finger.
"The ring my mother wore," he said with a smile and she turned and left the room, saying over her shoulder, a catch in her voice, "I'll be right back but I have to fix my makeup now."
He looked at me and rolled his eyes.
"Women," he said, and we both laughed as I poured myself a cup of coffee.
She was good for her word, and back in just a few minutes, her new ring proudly on her finger and her makeup repaired nicely.
"Here, honey," she said, "for Stephanie," and she handed me a ring box. I wasn't surprised at all to see her engagement ring in it.
"Thank you," I said and kissed her very lightly, not wanting to mess up the makeup.
"We're in things all day," Greg said, closing the distance between us, "so tell mom no need to hold dinner or anything."
Then he surprised me.
He kissed me before taking mom's hand and heading for the door.
It had been a real kiss too, not just some weird European air kiss thing.
Before I could formulate a response they were out the door to the Century Club, whatever that might be.
I finished my coffee and decided to walk the couple of blocks to Stephanie's place. It was a pretty morning and I was full of energy.
So I did.
I didn't have a key but the door was unlocked when I tried it so I went in and found my bride-to-be in the kitchen, bent over and reaching into the refrigerator.
She yelled when I put my hands on her hips and I stepped back, barely avoiding the elbow she swung around.
"Easy," I said, chuckling, "just me."
She visibly relaxed and smiled.
She looked like Earth Mother. Her blonde hair was loose and flyaway, evidently, she had just run a brush through it when she got up this morning. Her face was scrubbed, the makeup that hid the little lines around her eyes was gone. She was wearing a big sack dress, what I later learned was called a muumuu, with short puffy sleeves tight on her upper arms with elastic. The sleeves made her big soft upper arms look even bigger and softer. Bare feet were peeking out from under the hem of the muumuu. She had no jewelry on and she didn't need any decoration.
"Well, good morning, Earth Mother," I said and she giggled.
She closed the distance between us and wrapped those big soft arms around me, pulled me close, and kissed me.
It was a perfect morning kiss, full of greeting and promise, but with no hurry or urgency in it.
I felt her warmth and softness through the layers of material between us and liked it.
"Have you had breakfast yet, honey?" she asked.
"Nope," I said, "just shagged mom and Greg off to some meeting or other."
She giggled and said, "Welcome to my world."
She took my hand and led me into the front room where she sat on the couch.
I watched as she did that thing only a woman can pull off. She pulled the sleeve down her left arm while rolling her shoulder up until her hand disappeared, only to reappear through the neckline of the muumuu. She pulled the neckline down more and then reached in with her right hand and, in a move so casual it had to have been done hundreds of times, pulled her big breast out.
She patted her lap and said, "breakfast."
So I laid down on the couch, my head cradled in the crook of her arm, and took her nipple in my mouth. Her milk started flowing immediately, warm and thick and sweet. She reached for the remote and turned the TV on. I sort of listened as I nursed but she had on some silly daytime program and I didn't have the background to follow it.
I suckled until she used a finger to break my latch and then we squirmed around she offered me the other breast after doing that double-jointed thing again to get her other breast free.
"Is that how you really see me?" she asked softly, stroking my hair as I suckled.
I released her nipple, enjoying the warm dribble down my cheek as I said, "how do you mean?"
"As Earth Mother?" she asked, and lifted her breast, using her thumb and forefinger to express a split stream of milk that spattered onto my forehead, "nourishing the world from my body?"
I chuckled and said, "more like as Earth Mother, loving all, caring for all, big and beautiful and the ideal all women aspire to."
She smiled broadly and put the nipple back in my mouth where I started suckling again.
"Good answer," she said.
I had never imagined actually drinking my fill from a woman's breasts, but I did. I was full when I released her nipple and I was oddly content.
"Are you sure you want all of this, Davey," she asked in a soft, husky voice.
I opened my eyes and met hers across the swell of her breasts.
"Stephanie," I said after thinking for a moment, arranging my thoughts, "I'm overwhelmed. Clearly, you and mom and Greg have thought about this a lot and I'm the new guy."
I paused and she smiled and said, "we have."
"But the thing is," I said, still laying with my head in her lap, "I've been surprised by how well I seem to fit in."
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Well," I said, "for instance, when Greg left with mom this morning I wasn't jealous. And I know, with no question at all, that I want both you and mom pretty desperately."
"So, you like your women fat and thin," she said.
I laughed and said, "she's hardly thin and you are just plain beautiful."