PLEASE NOTE: This is a continuation of the stories "Donna from Daycare" and "Donna and Kevin Together." Unlike most of my stories, there was a limited amount of sex in those earlier parts, and there isn't very much in this one either.
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Kevin O'Brien woke up and smiled at the sweet face of Donna on the pillow next to the one he was using. He loved her so much as to almost constitute worship, and he knew that she returned his feelings. Both of them had been involved in extremely negative earlier marriages, but those unions had ended, and they had found each other. That day was an important one to them, for they were planning to start a series of events that would banish the negatives from their lives and commit either of them to the other forever. Before he could do any of those things, however, he had to go to the bathroom.
After washing his hands and face, Kevin padded out to the kitchen in his slippers and pajamas and turned on the coffee pot, which had been prepared the night before. While it was brewing, he poured milk into two bowls, one for Kerry and one for Kate, and added blueberries from the freezer. The bowls went into the microwave and, while the fruit was thawing and the milk was warming, he got out the whole grain cereals the children always ate for breakfast on weekdays, along with spoons.
When Donna moved into the apartment with Kevin and his two children, the adults found it necessary to set up a routine for weekday mornings, and it had been working quite well. He was the one who prepared breakfast for everybody and, by the time he had placed the bread in the toaster and gotten the fruit and other ingredients out of the refrigerator, the coffee was ready, as was the fruit and milk for the children. After filling the cup marked "Donna" and the one with his name on it, Kevin added the proper amounts of cream and sugar to both of them and kissed the rim of Donna's cup where he knew she would be placing her lips. With a cup in either hand, Kevin returned to their bedroom, nudged the door open with his foot, and went in to greet his beloved.
She was still asleep, or pretending to be, so he set the coffee on the dresser and went to the bed to gaze on her face again. This time, he did more than just smile, bending over and gently kissing her lips. He grinned at the smile that spread across those same sweet lips, and kissed her there again. This time, Donna opened her eyes, sat up in bed and spread her arms wide for the good morning hug she expected and received. After another long kiss, Kevin brought their coffee over to the bed, and they sat there, enjoying each other's presence and talking of their important plans for that day.
"Today's the big day. One of them anyhow, Kevin commented.
"I know. Are you sure you want to go through with it."
"As sure as I am that debits go to the left and credits go to the right." Kevin enjoyed his career as a partner in a large regional CPA firm, and it paid well, but it wasn't as important to him as he sometimes pretended.
Donna knew that, and she also knew that her man was saying that he was more sure of what they were doing than he was of anything. She felt the same way. Since moving into his apartment with Kevin's two sweet children, all four had been almost deliriously happy. On that day, the divorce from his bitch of a first wife became final, and they could finally start the process of their getting married. He would also no longer be responsible for any maintenance of his first wife, but that was far less important than the freedom to marry the woman that he considered his soul mate.
The first thing they would have to do would be to get a marriage license from City Hall. They had talked over the rest of the process, and had decided that a wedding at that same place was too impersonal so, since neither of them was affiliated with a church, they would hold their wedding where their neighbors and very good friends and neighbors, Fred and Wilma Brown, were long-time parishioners.
Fred and Wilma thought of Kevin as a substitute for their own offspring, who were thousands of miles away, and they loved Kate and Kerry as though they were their own grandchildren. Their affections were warmly returned, and the three O'Briens had a very close relationship with the Browns, who saw the only problem as being that Kevin was not as happily married as they were. He had told them of his bad marital experience, but they still believed that women and men should be together and that Kevin and his two kids would all be better off if he remarried the right woman. When Donna came on the scene and they saw the obvious love among Kevin and her and the children, the oldest generation conspired with the youngest to get the whole group together, where they obviously belonged.