Based on the series of stories by patricia51 and linda_s ©
To Linda and Patricia:
I can't thank you enough for letting me write for your series. And I also can't thank you enough for the encouragement you gave me.
To the rest of the readers:
This is my first erotic story for publication in any medium. Feedback is greatly welcomed. But I'd like to recommend that you visit my homepage and see a list of my favorite authors and stories, and visit those sites as well. I'll update the list every so often, and I hope you like what I like.
Although this story is fiction, there ARE some autobiographical elements in it. Lori, as she appears here, is based on a real person I knew a few years ago. The sex scenes – well, I have learned a few things. And a Helen Palmer Geisel book about the goldfish, recently reprinted, now sits on my sister's bookshelf awaiting the time my niece is old enough to appreciate it.
Michael Gibson could hardly wait as his wife, Lori, "freshened up" in the bathroom. She had just spent an hour putting Carol, age four, and Stephanie, just shy of two, in bed. Carol could talk pretty well, Stephanie was just learning, and he had heard them both chatter that they weren't sleepy even though they were. Mike and Lori had wondered how the girls would do together. So far, so good. Carol seemed to love her little sister. Mike thought he was a pretty good father, but he thought his discipline was wretched. Fortunately, neither of the girls had done anything out of the ordinary. Besides, one look from Lori and the girls minded.
A shadow went over Mike's face as he thought about Lori's miscarriage a few months earlier. She had been far enough along for them to know it would have been a boy. Mike thought he took it harder than Lori did. But Lori was so sweet and good-natured that she seemed to take it all in stride. Mike was very grateful that Lori's job with the city had given her enough insurance to carry her through the pregnancy, the rush to the hospital, and the recovery period.
Mike was a police trainee, having dropped out of the Academy twice when each girl was born to be a house dad. Police trainees don't get paid much. Fortunately, Mike was ranked at the top of his class and he was sure to get a job with the county sheriff's office. He had been working extra hard, and he had been too tired at the end of each day to do much more than sleep. Tonight, with exams out of the way, he was hoping for more.
Lori was taking an unusually long time to freshen up, and Mike thought he knew why. They weren't going out tonight – couldn't afford to, unless Lori got gift coupons from her friends at work – but he had an idea about what she was wearing. Lori really liked to dress up nicely, and had since he had met her in Marine boot camp a decade ago. She still had her dress uniform carefully packed away in a special closet. Now, working in one of the top city offices, she wore nice dresses or suits with various feminine touches. At home, she usually changed to jeans and pullovers or T-shirts, but sometimes she wore short skirts or short dresses and lingerie to die for.
He hoped she would wear a short skirt tonight. They were going to watch a movie on DVD – she had gotten a good deal on the player through friends at work – and he had a really good idea that they would pay more attention to each other than the movie. He wondered if they would make another baby tonight. The girls were the only people he and Lori loved as much as each other, but he had always wondered how Lori would do with a son. He also wondered if he could provide for a son, and how he would raise a little boy.
And that's all he got to wonder, because Lori came out of the bathroom. She was wearing a short skirt all right, with bare legs and a sheer short-sleeved blouse. The blouse wasn't too tight, and Mike could tell Lori had on a camisole and her pink bra underneath. His eyebrows went up. The camisole and a bra? That meant she was wearing the full ensemble that her Marine basic-training bunkmate had given her, to show to him one steamy night. She had kept the ensemble as carefully as she kept her dress uniform. He could count on his fingers how many times she had worn that lingerie since.
"Are you ready, Sergeant Gibson?" asked the former legal secretary in the Judge Advocate General's office, with a twinkle in her eye.
"Ready if you are, Corporal Gibson," replied the former tactical advisor to a country plagued by narco-terrorism. Mike had loved a lot of his assignment – especially meeting the common people who were trying to survive in a place where "turf war" was a literal term. He had put in for patrol duty so he could meet the people of his adopted hometown and help them out whenever possible. Lori's job with the County Attorney's office had helped him out a lot, because she got to meet a lot of regular citizens and had told him about their problems and hopes.
And that was as far as Mike's practical mind got. Lori took his hand and led him to the family room, where a romantic comedy awaited.
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As romantic comedies go, Mike thought, this one wasn't bad. During the first hour, he had laughed out loud several times. Lori, he noticed, had that "oh, how sweet" look on her face quite often as she looked at the two romantic leads. "Oh, how sweet" wasn't what Mike thought when he looked at the woman on the screen, who though chastely dressed so far had a body most other women would die for. Mike suspected she kept making movies to pay for cosmetic enhancements.
Lori, on the other hand … she was