High School Class Reunion Ch. 2
Sizemedium
This is day two of events at our 50th high school reunion. This is mostly fiction but there are some parts that actually happened.
My wife and I slept in because we were up late fucking. Today was the usual reunion golf outing; however, I did not feel like getting up at 6 am to play golf, especially with some of my male classmates - the jocks. They definitely had nothing to do with me in school.
We dressed and went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. Annie was sitting alone at a table working on her cell phone. From the empty dishes, I realized that she had already finished her breakfast.
"May we join you?" I asked.
"Sure but I am about to go back to my room," Annie replied.
"After breakfast we are going downtown and look through all the stores and art galleries. Would you like to come with us?" my wife asked.
"No, I am really sore...err that is, I am really tired and I think I will take a short nap. All of us girls who were in Rainbow are meeting for a reunion luncheon. Nice seeing you guys but I am going to retire to my room for my nap," Annie said. She grabbed her purse and headed for the elevator. We noticed that Annie was walking bowlegged as she headed for the elevator. Both my wife and I quietly laughed.
"I am not sure that she enjoyed you as much as I did last night," my wife said.
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We walked through most of the stores and the art galleries. While in the last gallery we ran into an old high school friend, Judie. She had 3 of her paintings on display and we talked about high school times.
Judie was a very beautiful girl in school and way out of my league. I remember teaching her how to develop film in camera club.
"Good morning Judie," I said. "You have some lovely paintings on display. Your work just keeps getting better."
"Thank you for the kind words and for coming in. Now that I am retired, I have more time to paint," she replied.
Just then, another high school friend joined our group.
"Hello, Martha. Great to see you," I said.
Martha was a freshman when I was a senior. She was noted for having bright red hair of which there were only three redheads in our high school. Her father was a Baptist minister in town.
"Hi guys. You have some very nice paintings on display, Judie," said Martha.
"Hi, Martha. Thank you," Judie said.
"You know, Judie, one of your paintings is inspiring me to go take some wild flower photos. Do you remember where you saw them?" my wife asked.
"The gallery is not very busy. I would be happy to show you where I got the idea to paint these flowers if you would like," Judie said.
"That would be great. Anyone else want to go?" my wife asked.
"I think I am ready to go back to my hotel, but thanks," Martha said.
"I think I will pass too," I said.
"I can take you back to your hotel if you want," Martha said to me.
"Thanks, that would help," I replied.
My wife always gets excited about photography. "Great! I will take our car because it has 4 wheel drive and my camera stuff is in the back. Let's go, Judie."
Martha and I walked down the street to her car which was a an older van with a bad paint job.
"Please overlook our car. Now that we are retired, no more nice cars," Martha said.
Martha had married a Baptist minister, Harry, and when they retired, they learned that there was no retirement for them after 30 some years of service, just some small Social Security benefits. Recently I had been helping them with computer issues. Martha had written me an email with a lot of computer problems. They live in another city so my wife and I went down several times to fix their two desktop computers. I knew that they did not have much income so I was able to get a used laptop for them for free. Her husband has had several age-related medical issues. Every time that he was in the hospital, we would visit him and usually take Martha out for a meal.
"Not a problem, Martha. By the way I am staying at the Monarch Suites," I said.
"We are staying at the Comfort Inn. Harry is at the church doing some Baptisms and some pre-marriage meetings for the church here until they can get a new pastor. It gives us some needed money," Martha said. "Would you mind if I made one stop before I take you to your hotel?"
"Not at all. I really have nothing to do until the dance tonight at 7," I replied.
"It should be fun. I heard that they have hired a disk jockey who will play the music from when we were in high school," Martha said. "I don't know if Harry and I will go because when my husband gets involved at the church, it is usually late when he gets back to the hotel."
We drove out of town and up an old dirt road to the famous makeout parking spot that all the kids used and still do. It sat on a hill overlooking the town. There were a lot of trees and a dozen or so pullouts where you could park unseen by others.
"I hope you don't mind my stopping here. I worked a year after high school to earn money for college. During that time I spent a lot of time up here and I just wanted to see it again," Martha said. "I remember at night you could see all the lights in town and it was so pretty."
"You spent a lot of time up here?" I asked. "But you were the daughter of a strict Baptist minister. How did you do that?"
She turned sideways in her seat so that she faced me with her legs tucked under. "If you remember, I had red hair which implied that I was fiery and rebellious AND I WAS. I was not the typical Baptist kid," she replied.
"So you came up here to makeout after you graduated? What about during high school?" I asked.
"No, I did not come here during high school but I did during that year I was working here."
"If it is not too personal, may I ask if you had sex while you lived here?" I asked.
"No I did not. We mostly did a lot of kissing and occasionally some touching, but no sex. I was a virgin when I married. Did you come up here?" she asked.
"No I did not. I could not get a date if my life depended on it."
"Why was that?"
"I had a little personal problem that got noticed and the gossip about it spread."
"What was the problem?" she asked.