Meeting Her Part 6: Revelations
by LolaPaul49
Life changing secret come to light during the holiday season, after the Mink date and the end of the school year, leading up to a Christmas overnight at the Hightower mansion. Seeds of love are planted and a marriage is uprooted by a dead lover, opening the door to a brighter future for all.
Chapter 0 is background information.
Chapter 1 deals with Getty.
Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are short and advance the plot.
The rest of the chapters contain various intimate encounters.
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Chapter 0. Fall Exam Schedule
A word about university schedules. Classes typically include the partial first week of December, plus the following full week. Classes end Thursday night, Friday is Study Day when some faculty hold informal review sessions, there might be hints about the final exam. The second full week is exam week, sometimes including the weekend and running into the next week. Exams follow an unusual and very rigid schedule because the exam periods are twice as long as regular class periods, plus there are common exams that need special blocks of time. Every class has one, and only one, unique exam period. Students leave campus after their last exam is done. Faculty are free to leave after grades are in.
The Saturday between the last class and the first exam is Graduation. Graduation must come before exams because that is the only way to insure faculty and students will be present.
You might reasonably wonder, what happens if a student takes part in the graduation ceremony/celebration but then falls short in one or more of their courses? Are they struck by lightning for the affront to the gods of academia? Or maybe torn apart by the gargoyles depicted on the ancient walls?
Well, the fact is that graduation is a parade/ceremony for parents, a bit of dress-up theater to make folks who pay the bills feel good. However, participation - walking across the stage - has no real significance. The only real requirement to walk across the stage at graduation like the real graduates is access to a cap and gown, whether you are graduating or not.
What really counts takes place after the semester. The transcript is prepared after the final grades are in. When sufficient grades and everything (library fines, lab fees, parking fines, rented cap and gown returned, etc.) else is checked, the paperwork is subjected to a "final check." You are not graduated until all the boxes are checked off at that desk.
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Chapter 1. Aftermath
Monday December 7, 2020
Monday morning after the Mink date, Nancy stopped at Isabel's office to tell her about her friend Sammy. She thought Isabel might still be intimate with her husband so Nancy worried about the baby and Sam's potential biological visitors after being buggered in public. She gave Isabel the flash drive with the pictures of Jorge hugging the VW Beetle with undue affection and indecent exposure during sodomy. Nancy agreed it was very disgusting.
Isabel thanked Nancy and said that part of her marriage was suspended some mouths ago. Still, having more insight into her husband was always useful, and the pictures were even better because, just that fast, they could be shared with Jorge's family. Because they were friends they also touched on Nancy's love life. Nancy mentioned she was done with Getty, who never scored with her. However, she had enjoyed a "secret special lover" since Spring, even if she was not worthy of him. (She said "since Spring" so Isabel would not think of me.) She admitted to talking me (her co-author) into the date at the Mink, where I was a wonderful.
Isabel thought it was interesting that they had both reached hard final decisions about the men, Getty and Jorge, around Thanksgiving. Isabel let slip that she had a guy "on the side" since early October. The guy had popped into her life. "It was just sex... at least it started that way... but with me kicking Jorge out it might turn into something more."
After hearing some details from the Mink date Isabel assured Nancy that she was a prize for any guy, and her Mink date seemed a very promising step up in self-esteem. "You are worth it, maybe you should go after him," Isabel said.
"Tennis Double wedding?" Nancy said. There was a fictional protocol for a celebration by the alums. It was from a story written and rewritten over the years that was corny and erotic, with things like an arch of tennis rackets, doubles service at the bachelor party and a wedding night where the bridal suite was shared, and not just with the extra friendly bridal couples.
"That would be something," Isabel said with a smile. "Something so naughty for us... and so much fun. Still, the arch of tennis rackets, where we exit the tennis court nude with our husbands after the service... I control the court in the athletic building so it could be arranged..."
"I wonder how many tennis alums we could get to attend?"
Isabel went right to keeping the memories. "Imagine if we had parts photographed... with video cameras..."
As usual they parted with a hug and a more-than-friendly kiss - a bit friendlier than usual - that they kept feeling good about.
As the door closed they both asked themselves why they never explored each other in a friendly way. In the shower they washed each other's backs, and they admitted to themselves there was some attraction there. They often thought about that contact afterward, when they were touching themselves in the dark. But it was never the right time.
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After her talk with Isabel, Nancy took her 3-month old Nissan truck in for it's first oil change, Getty had given her a free "full service" coupon. It was still morning and Getty worked evenings, but in the lot she saw a Ford F-150 that looked just like Getty's. When she asked she was told it belonged to a customer.
In the waiting area she ran into "Big Mike Logan," one of her best high school lovers, they embraced with a kiss. Mike was keeping up the family business as a con man and fence for questionable goods while running a bar that doubled as a hot used car lot. He had a really good memory for swag and a lousy memory for who he got it from.
Mike got his name in High School. He was big. His Eastern European last name was more or less unpronounceable, but it did start with "Log" and as it happened, in high school he looked a lot like a character in some cop TV shows that ran continuously on basic cable TV. The nickname caught on. (The same actor played one of the central romantic interests on "Sex And The City" which had imprinted on Nancy.) He was a year older than Nancy, but they graduated together because he stayed in high school the extra year. He said it was to graduate but actually it was to sell cheap weed to other students on school grounds, thereby building a loyal customer base without involving the police.
Nancy had dated Mike a few times, including taking her to prom where he got a limo and made it a big romantic deal. Mike was far and away the best of Nancy's first half-dozen lovers. But they both knew it was play acting. plus their family connections trumped any romantic future before it started.
Mike always acted like seeing Nancy warmed his criminal heart. He was not married, but had a few kids by different women; he always said that his career choice was not conducive to what a wife needed. But he supported his kids better than a lot of married men did. "Like a professional athlete," he claimed. "Not one of the bad ones."
They were talking when Mike noticed Nancy's ring on her necklace, it flexed his great memory and he made a face. "Uh, where did you get that?" he asked. "I have not seen it for a decade. It is supposed to be long gone from this earth."
"It is my 'maybe pre-engagement ring' from Getty, I forgot to take it off. I'm breaking it off."
"Getty? That little shit... I may break him off. Look, I hate to say it but that ring is a total fake, a composite stone in a fake ring. It is not worth the cost of an oil change. The ring has a iron core with a lead alloy facade for weight and lousy thin gold plating. The stone is a composite, a student's work assignment while learning gem cutting. Most of the stone is glass but there is a thin cap on the top made of moissanite which will scratch anything but a diamond. An expert can tell right away, but most folks don't have a clue. Did he tell you is was a caret?"
"He said it was a bit more."
"I should kill the rat-bastard turd... no offense, but his type makes proper villains look bad. You really should take it off, that metal is bad for you." She did exactly that, there was a very faint mark. Mike saw it and he got seriously pissed; for him that means he calmed down. That caused Nancy to worry, she knew Mike.