by Jamie Knight
“What misunderstanding?” Sara asked, cutting to the quick.
“About me, about how I am with relationships. Particularly what’s happening with Elsa, or more accurately what isn’t happening with Elsa, which is everything. Or, should that be nothing. Nothing is happening with Elsa is my point. Hasn’t been for over a year.”
“You seemed pretty friendly at the lodge.”
“She seemed pretty friendly at the lodge. You missed the part where I basically threw her off me and went after you and Alex. Aaron saw me, he’ll tell you. I wanted nothing to do with her. I had no idea she would be there. I feared she might, but I didn’t know?”
“Feared?”
“Well yeah, that she would pull some crazy shit like that. She can’t let go. Thinks we’re still together. Not matter how many times we break up or get back together, she still thinks we are together. My mother does too. Sees all other women as gold-digging whores.”
Sara took this in. Taping her fingers meditatively on the table, actually building up a pretty nice rhythm.
“So that day at the office, when she came in wearing nothing but boots and a coat- ”
“Totally out of the blue and nothing to do with me. It wasn’t even a ploy to try and get us back together. As far as she’s concerned we are still together. I trust you heard what I had to say to her about that.”
“Indeed I did. I’m pretty sure people on the International Space Station heard it. You made your point quite clear. I just thought you were being a prick.”
“I was. I was being a prick but not the way it looked. I was sick of her games and furious at her for trying to come between me and Alex. Alex already had issues because of what my mom said when she caught us in the street.”
“Yeah, she told me about that.”
“No surprise there. Anyway, it’s bullshit. My mom is as nuts as Elsa, at least on that account. Elsa is in the past. I have had a few one-night stands, but only between relationships with her. All that stopped the second I met Alex. Even during the months between when we saw each other. I haven’t even thought about another woman since I saw her at the Christmas party. Now she’s carrying our baby, and I’ll never see her again.”
I hadn’t planned on crying. I wasn’t really raised to show emotion, though not just because I was a boy. Stoicism was highly praised in my town, it helped keep you alive. Despite that, I cried then. Blubbering like a baby right in front of Sara.
“I will neither confirm nor deny anything about a pregnancy or if it is, in fact, yours. Alex needs a break, not a broken heart. I can’t promise anything, but I will talk to her for you. See if I can get her to at least her you out. Tell her what you just told me, and you should be fine. Maybe leave of the last part, about never seeing her again though.”
Chapter Eleven – Alex
It was a bigger job than I’d anticipated. I’d had Aaron and fam to get the stuff in but unpacking was down to me. At lest they cut the tape first. All I had to do was open the top and decide where I wanted to put the stuff inside. It looks seemed unlikely that what I owned would fill up the apartment. I really never appreciated what it took to start up a household. My parents had always done stuff like that, but I was learning how to be an independent adult really fast.
I had just placed my last book on the shelf when a knock came upon my door. The phrase ‘nevermore’ flashed through my head as I went to answer the door. The baby weight only slowing me down a little. If anything the feeling of her was getting to be a comfort, even through she hadn’t started to move yet. I knew she was there and that was enough.
“Can you talk?” Sara asked.
“Um, yeah, last I checked.”
“Good.”
She came in and sat on the couch. I couldn’t put my finger on it but there was something about her that seemed edgy. A far cry. From her usual in control self.
“Would you like a drink?”
“No, I’m okay, thanks,” Sara said.
“What’s up?” I asked, sitting on the couch with her.
“Have you considered telling Klaus about the baby?”
If here is one thing to be said about Sara, for good or ill, she defiantly gets right to the point.
“I-I’ve thought about it. I mean I think he should know. That I’m pregnant, and she is his, but I don’t know if he would be really happy about it.”
“Why? I think he would be a great dad. He’s already had a little sister after all, so we already know that he’s used to kids.”
I’d never really thought about it that way before. I wasn’t quite sure how things were with his sister but have very reason to e that were alright. She’d gotten into medical school, so she must have turned out alright. I didn’t know then that he had basically raised her after what happened with his parents, though if I had it definitely would have made a difference.
“True,” I conceded, “I just don’t think he would be very happy about it. He’s a player, besides which, he already has a girlfriend. I don’t think he’s going to want some love child in the picture I can do this one my own.”
“Maybe it was a misunderstanding. Things can not be as they appear. Maybe you should try to talk to him. I know you’re used to being ing guarded, but you might want to open up your heart and let him in. You might be surprised.”
I couldn’t help but feel betrayed. Sara was supposed to be my best fried but was pushing me to be what a guy who really hurt me.
“H-how can you say that? He really hurt me and - ”
“He came to me. After the 4th of July party. He was pretty drunk which only made me believe him anymore. He was well past the point of self-preservation.”
“What did he say?”
“I can’t say much. I respected you confidentiality with him and owe him the same courtesy. What I can say is that I believed him. I think he is the real thing.”
I was a mess of confusion, really having no idea what to do. I didn’t want to get my heart broken but also trusted Sara’s judgment. If she believed there was something I didn’t know and Klaus could be trusted, maybe I should give him a chance. I really wanted to have a stable, happy relationship like Sara did with Aaron. There were times after they got together when I would feel a pang of envy. I wasn’t proud of it but also couldn’t deny it. It was like my body had been longing for love, true love, ever since I’d found out it was possible. Even though it had always seemed aspirational.
My mother always said that men would just hurt me. Tried to keep me away from them under the guise of religious piety until I was old enough to think for myself. I couldn’t even tell her the first time I got a boyfriend. I was really happy, despite her negativity. I’d only recently come to realize that she was bitter because my dad left. In her own twisted way she had been trying to protect me from going through what she’d gone through. The first time I felt anything like what I’d seen with Sara and Aaron were when I was with Klaus. Even with the weeks in between when we would see each other. Strictly speaking we’d only had one date, though to be fair it was wonderful. As had the first do days at the resort. The more I thought about it, the more I began to doubt my actions. Maybe I really had overreacted. I would never know for sure unless I talked to him. I loved her, but I didn’t want to end up like my mom.
“I’ll think about it.”
“Okay, do you want me to tell him?”
“Not yet.”
“Okay.”
Sara left me to myself and my thoughts. Trying to figure out what I should do. Just as I was trying to come to a decision, I realized that there was someone I still hadn’t consulted who had a stake in the whole business.
“What do you think, Izzy?” I asked my belly.
For the first time since I’d found out I was pregnant, I felt a flutter of movement from the baby.
“Are you sure?” I asked, not sure I hadn’t imagined it.
There was a second flutter that was definitely there and response to m
y question. I knew I had my answer. Isolde wanted to know her daddy and I had to open up my heart to love.
Chapter Twelve – Klaus
The second ticked by in a torturous slow march. There was no news from Sara, so I figured her talk with Alex didn’t go well, or hadn’t happened at all. I couldn’t really blame her, it was a pretty thorny issue, getting Sara caught between her boss and her best friend. It still would be nice to have some semblance of hope. As it was, I’d done everything I could think of short of becoming a stalker to get in touch with her. There was a time when I was raging. A cutting blue fire of hate and resentment but over time it had gone out. Replaced but a deep, dark sadness. I felt like I was missing out on something really great and was beginning to think I might never be truly happy again.
It was like a siren call on the deep, dark sea. The message light blinking on my office phone. Fool that I was, I was just desperate enough to answer it, despite my distraught state of mind.
“What is it Sara?”
“There is a young lady at the desk for you, sir.”
I might have been cray, driven around the bend by despair, but I could have sworn I detected a certain ring in Sara’s tone. One that let me in on exactly who the ‘young lady’ in question was.
My heart slammed up against my rib cage as I rushed out to see if it was really her. My jaw nearly dropping to the floor as I saw her, wearing the same dress that she had been at the 4h of July party.
“I-I’m sorry to bother you to work, but I thought I should tell you in person.”
“No problem at all,” I said, barely able to contain my elation.
“I’m sorry I’ve been avoiding you to. Not answering your calls and all that. I was afraid of getting my heart broken. Really broken. Not a good thing generally but, as you’ve no doubt noticed, I’m carrying our baby.”
I was elated. So much so, I took Alex’s hand and lead her over to the office intercom on Sara’s desk.
“Attention everyone, I have an announcement to make. This is my girlfriend, Alex, say I Alex.”
“Um, Hi,” she said nervously as I held the intercom out for her.
“I just found out that I’m going to be a dad!”
Alex blushed, clearly flattered but also looking a bit uncertain.
“What is it?”
“It sounds strange, ‘girlfriend,’ I like it though.”
“What’s been happening?” I asked.
“Well, my mom threw me out because I’m pregnant. I move in with Sara and Aaron for a while, but now I’m in the process of moving into my own place.”
“By yourself?” I asked, no doubt. Sounded as appalled as I felt.
“Oh no, Aaron and Sara help, a lot with other people. Everyone’s been really nice.”
“Well, that just won’t do!”
“Won’t it?” Sara and Alex asked at the same time.
“No, you are moving in with me. Whatever it costs to get out of your lease I will pay it. I don’t ever want to be without you again. I am going to be there for you and our baby. What you saw at the lodge was bullshit. My crazy ex still thinks we’re together. We broke up and got together a few times in the past, but we were done for good a year ago. Before I met you at Christmas. I was a player once like my mom insinuated. But only between bouts with Elsa. Never after I met you. You are the only woman I have ever really love and when we were together the first time that was it. Elsa tried again after I got back, and I told her off, Sara heard it.”
“It’s true, he was furious, told her it was long over and said he never wanted to see her again,” Sara concurred.
“I even told my pushy mom to forget it about Elsa because I was in love with someone else.”
“Who?” Elsa asked, tears already beginning to roll.
“You, I love you.”
“I love you too,” she blurted, falling into my arms.
I held her close, minding her belly, stroking her back and kissing her head as she cried happy tears.
“Do you want to go home?” I asked.
“Can you?”
“I’m the boss, I can do anything.”
“I still have stuff at my place.”
“We can get it later.”
“Okay,” she conceded, her face pressed against my chest.
Taking a risk, I scooped her up into my arms, barely noticing the extra weight from the little one, I carried Alex away, her arms around my neck and her face pressed restfully against my chest, listening to my heartbeat.
“Wow,” Sara marveled, as I brought her up to my Rolls.
I’d traded in my Jag a few months back, hoping the newer mode light help quell the raging storm of sadness that had been raging in my mind. It didn’t but the car was still pretty nice. Setting Alex down onto the passenger seat, I went around to the driver’s side as she did up her seatbelt.
Alex had her head on my shoulder by the time we got back to my place. She didn’t seem tired just like she wanted to be close to me. Carrying her into my place I set her down on the couch, after closing the front door with my heel, and took her hands.
“How are you feeling, sweetheart.”
“A bit drained but pretty good.”
“That’s good. You’re home now, you can do anything you like.”
“I’d like to go to bed,” she said, gently stroking my cock through my pants, “think you’re up for that?”
“Always, baby.”
The kiss was as passionate as it was pure. The two of us falling right back into our rhythm, as though the last several months hadn’t happened, and we were right back where we were before the ill-fated ski trip.
I’d though about taking her into the bedroom but could feel that we were both to urgent for that. Five months without sex will do that. We were both desperate for each and the sooner we were back together again, the better.
Alex pulled off my suit jacket and started on the buttons of my shirt as I worked her dress up over her head. My shirt coming off at about the same time as her dress came free. I gazed down upon her radiant beauty, a feeling of pure contentment running through me. Alex covered her belly, looking down.
“You’re beautiful, my darling,” I said, caressing her cheek, making her look at me.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, it is a change, but change is good.”
I gently caressed which had somehow gotten even bigger. Her bra barely able to contain them. Not that I was about to complain.
“I know, they’re huge right?”
“Absolutely. We’re going to have to get you some bigger bras. For now though, lets get you some relief.”
Caressing my hands behind her back, I unfastened her bra and slowly lowered it down and away, feeling Alex relax as I did so.
“Better?” I asked, massaging her tits again, careful to avoid her nipples.
“Much,” she exhaled.
“Are they tender?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll be careful.”
“I know.”
We kissed tenderly, and I guided her back so she was resting her weight on her elbows, Alex opening her legs as she went.
Continuing to kiss her, I stroked one of my hands from her tit down along her chest and over he belly, until I’d reached the waist of her panties. She gasped preciously as my fingers brushed the outside of her wet pussy.
“Sensitive?” I asked.
“Even more than usual.”
“How’s this?” I asked, lightly gliding my fingers over her delicate pussy lips.
“Perfect,” she moaned, arching her back ever so slightly.
I caressed her pussy as we made out, making up for lost time. When she was ready I slipped a finger into her tight, warm pussy and softly fingered her, Alex’s hips following the the slow roll of my loving strokes.
Working my way down from her mouth, I kissed along her neck and between her tits, my free hand still massaging each of them in thei
r torn. I then kissed along her baby bump, my hand close behind, caressing its way down from her tits toward her pussy.
My mouth and other hand joining the hand that was already fingering her, I slowly slid down her panties, my mouth following suit, kissing down along her pelvis to her eager pussy. She nearly screamed from the first touch of my tongue. Pure elation escaping her in one massive burst. She settled down as I continued to lick, caressing my tongue softly along her sweet, tender pussy lips. My instinct was to absolutely devour her but that would probably be too much for her. As it was she nearly purred with pleasure, as I licked her to a bone shaking orgasm.
“Come here,” she said, as I licked her clean.
Going to my one true love as she rose to meet me,, she started to undress me, a process with which I assisted until, in not time at all, I was completely naked, my hard cock bridging the space between us. A gap soon closed, first by her hand and then by her mouth. Alex licking and sucking my throbbing cock almost frantically, the pent-up energy after our months of shared abstinence coming out all at once, seeking sweet relief. I had to take hold of her hair, gathering it up in my hand, to keep her from hurting herself as she began to hungrily gulp my cock. Slamming her head up and down on my monster cock, driving it further down her throat.
It wasn’t long before I was ready to cum, Alex easing her way back up the length of my shaft, her soft lips caressing me as she did so, to give herself room to accept my load. I took mercy on her, controlling the blast of my cum, dividing the river of cum into five smaller volleys, giving her time to swallow one before giving her another. Alex looked up at me, her face glowing with divine radiance, her beautiful eyes on mine as she happily accepted my cum, smiling as she swallowed it all down.
“Ready?” I asked.
“Absolutely,” she enthused.
“How would you like it?”
“Um, from behind, I think.”
Helping her to her feet, I watched as Alex turned around and bent over the bed like she had the first day at the resort. Her ass and pussy on full display. I slipped a finger in to make sure she was still wet, making her gasp and then moan as I fingered her. She was definitely ready. Laying a hand on the small of her back, I guided the head of my cock gently inside her, feeling like I was coming home.