Chapter Thirteen
Saturday morning we were both keyed up.
I took her again while she was involved in her morning sickness and then injected another hundred ccs of water into her growing baby.
I drew a bath and bathed her, enjoying the way her belly now peeked up through the bubbles.
While she soaked I went to the kitchen and made coffee.
When I got back to the bedroom she was standing in front of the full-length mirror, slowly turning, her hand lightly caressing her belly.
I walked up behind her and pressed my body against hers, my arms encircling her, my hands covering hers on the roundness.
"You are beautiful," I said, nuzzling her neck.
She leaned her head over, offering her neck.
"Even my stretch marks?" she asked, her fingertips tracing the marks.
I nipped at her ear and said, "especially your stretch marks."
She responded with a little hum,"mmmmmmmmmmm," and guided my hands to her breasts.
"Even with my titties all full and saggy?" she said with a little giggle in her voice.
I lifted her breasts, full and heavy, and rolled her nipples, thick and distended.
"Especially with your udders full and saggy," I said.
She giggled and said, "mmmmMMMMMMOOOOOOO000000ooooooo."
Which made me laugh and pull on her nipples.
"Should I build a stall for my beautiful cow?" I asked.
She shuddered and giggled and said, "is it too crazy that the image that just flashed through my mind was exciting."
"Maybe kinky," I said, tugging her nipples some more, "but hardly crazy."
She giggled and said, "David, I love my new look. Can I take it bigger?"
I patted her belly, "as big as you can stand is fine with me."
"Will you still love me when I'm huge," she asked.
I gently squeezed the soft layer of fat she had accumulated where her waist used to be.
"More cushion for the pushin'," I said, "and besides that," I went on before she could say anything, "you know that I believe women are SUPPOSED to be soft and round."
She leaned back into me and said, "Good. Now feed me please, God, the hormones have me feeling like I really AM eating for two."
I chuckled and said, "breakfast in bed or will you join me."
She giggled and said, "in the bed of course."
So I helped her into bed and went to the kitchen.
I don't claim to be a good cook, but I do breakfast well.
I puttered around, making a six egg omelet, a half-pound of bacon, English muffins, Grape jelly, and orange juice.
When I got upstairs, breakfast on a tray, I found her sitting up, her breast pump latched on, and a smile on her face.
I crawled up onto the bed beside her and fed her while she pumped.
"Now this," I said, grinning as she chewed a bite of her omelet, "is a level of intimacy very few couples ever achieve."
She giggled and opened her mouth for another bite.
We lazed in bed that way, the slow feeding, and pumping followed by me nursing like a hungry baby, enjoying the way her breast was changing, her nipple larger and firmer, her stroking my hair and humming little lullabies.
Finally, around noon, I said, "well bride-o-mine, what will you be wearing to your photoshoot."
She smiled and said, "stay put," and rolled off of the bed.
The stripes I had laid on her ass Thursday night still showed and I'm pretty sure she put some extra swing in her hips as she left the room.
I heard water running and the blow dryer going and then it got quiet.
I assumed she was doing her makeup.
When she came back into the bedroom my first thought was Betty, Don Draper's wife from that TV series Mad Men.
Her blonde hair was done in a lightly upswept hairdo. Her makeup was a delightful mixture of demure and slutty, with light eye makeup offset by bright red lipstick.
It was the dress that set it off though. A very light floral pattern in the pattern that would have been comfortable in the 1950s, back when women hid their bellies behind yards of cloth.
Lace patterned nylons with a nice straight seam, and 3" pumps completed the outfit.
She had accessorized with a heavy stone sort of jangly bracelet, a necklace with a silver feather pointing at the cleavage of her breasts, and dangly earrings.
Christ, she looked good.
"Christ you look good," I said.
She smiled and actually blushed as she did a slow turn.
"Now I don't know for sure what to expect today," I said, taking her hands in mine, "but remember, you can always say 'no.'"
"Nuh-uh," she said, grinning, "you created this monster. I ain't sayin' no to anything honey. I'm all in."
"All right then," I said, "let's go see what Thomas and Vivian have in mind."
I think we were both a little nervous as we headed over. Even singing along with the oldies station felt oddly awkward.
At the place, which I jokingly called the Compound, there were a dozen cars parked in front of the main building.
Thomas and Vivian opened the door as we stepped onto the porch.
Both were dressed I noticed.
"Welcome," Thomas said, shaking my hand and kissing Arlene chastely on the cheek.
"Welcome," Vivian said, hugging Arlene softly and kissing me lightly on the lips.
I gestured around at the cars parked.
"So not exactly a private photo session," I said.
Thomas chuckled and said, "little is private when you join The Life."
They led us inside and there were at least two dozen people in the room.
I was surprised men outnumbered women, I guessed about 15 men to 8 or 9 women.
We were introduced around but the names sort of rolled off of me.
There was Roger and Aaron and Paula and Annette. A black man named Conrad was ridiculously handsome. A brunette introduced as "Elsie," although I doubted that was what was on her birth certificate, had breasts that made Arlene look flat-chested. Mame, whose face was a mask of wrinkles and I imagined was at least 70 and maybe closer to 80.
The TV had, of all things, a baseball game on and about half of the people seemed to be engrossed in it.
"Something to drink?" Thomas asked.
"Beer for me," I said.
"Can I get a screwdriver?" Arlene asked.
"Be right back," he said and left the room.
Vivian gestured to a small table and we sat.
"Are you excited?" she asked.
"Yes," we both said in unison, "but nervous too," Arlene added.
"No need for that honey," Vivian said, "you can always say 'no' if you decide you don't want to do something."
Thomas was back then, my beer and Arlene's screwdriver in glasses.
He had two envelopes that he ripped open, emptying one into my glass and one into Arlene's.
"Ummmmmmmmmmm," I said, "what's that?"
"For you," he said, tipping his own glass to me, "some of that magic elixir Vivian and her pharmacist boyfriend have mixed up that will keep you hard and cumming like a garden hose."
"For you," and here he tipped his glass to Arlene, "a little something to relax you, just a tiny bit of LSD, and a little something to get the juices flowing."
I looked at Arlene and she looked back at me, doing the one eyebrow thing.
"All righty then," I said doing my best nerd imitation, clinking glasses with Arlene and taking a deep swallow.
"All right, we're going to start now," Thomas said to the room, "we'll call when we need you."
"Come along you two," Thomas said and led us through one of those corridors that this place seemed to have everywhere.
The room he led us to appeared, to my untrained eye, to be a professional photography studio. There were lights and those umbrella things with shiny stuff on the bottom all over the place. Several cameras and, I realized, video cameras, were mounted around the room. The space centered on what I realized, when it started to turn, was a big turntable about 20 feet across. As I watched, the scene became a living room that would have been at home in any tract house in America.
There was a couch, chair, coffee table with some oversize books, and the back wall was a floral pattern wallpaper.
Vivian led Arlene to the couch and sat her down, talking to her outside of my hearing.
Thomas puttered around setting up a half dozen cameras.
"Video?" I asked.
"Yep," he said, "the best advertising medium since billboards were invented."
"Okay baby," he said to Vivian, "whenever you're ready."
Vivian said, "What was the name of your first pet, dear."
Arlene looked puzzled but said, "ummmmmm I guess Buttercup, my first cat."
"Mmhmmmm," Vivian said, "and what was the street you grew up on?"
Again that puzzled look but she said, "well, Krameria in Denver."
"Okay honey," Vivian said to Thomas, "roll."
There was nothing dramatic like clicking buttons or anything like that, but he said, "you're on."
Vivian turned to the video camera and said, "We're here to interview Buttercup Krameria who says she thinks she's ready to start selling what her husband doesn't seem to want much anymore."
When I frowned Thomas said, "don't worry big guy, it's a standard script."
Arlene giggled prettily and said, "well, I hadn't thought of it quite that way but I suppose you're right."
Vivian paused and looked her up and down.
"So when are you due dear," she said.
That stopped her for a second but then she said, "June 3."
"So seven months down," Vivian said, "are those magnificent boobs producing yet?"
"Not yet," Arlene said, "but when I pump I'm starting to get a few drops of a clear liquid."
"Well dear," Vivian said, "let's see them."
Arlene stood and pulled the maternity top off.
Jesus, she was sexy. The way the stretch panel of the skirt embraced her round belly highlighted rather than hid. And I realized she had a nursing bra on, something I hadn't seen before.
"Oh, my," Vivian sort of crooned. "Stunning."
Arlene gave a look so wonderfully coquettish that it had to have been practiced in the mirror as she reached up and unhooked the snap of the left cup of the nursing bra and lowered it, revealing her breast and nipple, dark and hard, sitting proudly on the broad cone of her areola.
She squeezed her breast between both hands, starting at the base and slowly working forward until she got to her areola.
Then she worked her nipple and areola, pumping them with her fingers, and when a clear drop formed my erection was instantaneous.