(Author's Note: This story was originally submitted under the wrong category. As it is a story based on very true events I felt it necessary to correct that error and also take the time to better relate the raw emotions and sensations with bolstered descriptive details. I hope you enjoy these edits even more. Thank you.)
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I walked through the terminal with bags in hand looking for some close family friends. I had received a Christmas card again from them this year and replied with my usual letter updating them on my life and career. My career had only just begun a little over a year ago. I was in the Air Force stationed in Germany. I had told them in my letter I was coming home on leave in February. I had received a letter back from Mrs. McQuinn saying she and LtCol McQuinn were going to pick me up. They insisted I stay with them when they heard I was going to be coming in to McGuire Air Force Base which is where he was stationed now and where my military flight had brought me back from Sembach AB, Germany. I hadn't seen them in a good while. And I could never turn down a request from Mrs. McQuinn. She was the sweetest woman in the whole world. Her husband and my father had been had been stationed together during a couple of assignments.
And there they were.
Lt Col McQuinn jogged toward me from the entrance doors of the terminal. Before I could set my bags down, he wrapped his big beefy arms around me and gave me a huge bear hug. He lifted me off my feet, luggage and all.
"Good to see you again, boy." He said as he jerked me side to side. "Been a long while."
"Oh, Tom, put the boy down. He's not a little guy anymore, he's a grown man." Mrs. McQuinn walked up along side us and no sooner had Mr. McQuinn released me and I was able to drop my bags than she took up the hugging. Mrs. McQuinn was rather short in stature so her arms barely wrapped above my waist, her head buried itself in my lower chest. Her hug felt so warm. I had always felt so comfortable in her arms. She had always made me feel that way. Mr. and Mrs. McQuinn were the 'huggingest' people I knew. They hugged anyone and anybody. It felt good right then after being away from family and close friends for so long.
"So how is our grown man?" She asked rubbing her cheek into my ribs. "Hmmm, seems like you haven't been eating so well over there in Germany, Stevie." She reared back and looked me up and down before poking her finger into my midsection. "I think I have my work cut out for me these next two days getting you fed before I send you home to your momma."
"Oh, it's alright. I eat well enough. It's just all the working out I've been doing. The military has gotten me in the best shape I've ever been in. But I sure won't turn down a good meal from my favorite cook." I bent down to whisper in her ear. "Just don't tell mom I said that." Then I gave her a hug of my own and squeezed her as tightly as I dared.
"Oh, my. You have been doing some exercising. Very strong arms there young man." Mrs. McQuinn leaned back again and this time reached up to touch my biceps. "I bet the girls will be impressed, too." She winked up at me.
The girls.
By girls, Mrs. McQuinn was referring to her three daughters. The two oldest, Sara and Samantha, were twins and twenty-one. There couldn't have been a set of twins that were so different. In appearance were totally different, Sara, taller and more of a dark brunette. Samantha was a couple inches shorter and with a light brown, not quite blonde head of hair. Most times you'd never even know they were twins even standing all together as a family. The youngest, Donna was still in high school, now eighteen and a senior. She was short like her mother.
She was also just as much a ball of energy as I remembered. It was her, the first of the three that greeted me as we walked into the McQuinn house that evening.
"Hi Steve." The familiar voice resounded in the living room. Before I could fully turn around Donna had run and stretched her short arms around me. She gave me a warm hug just like her mom had done back at the terminal.
"Hi Donna. Good to see you, too." I wrapped my arms around her head and squeezed, twisting her back and forth playfully. Her cheek and ear rubbed me not much higher than her mother's had at just above my belly.
Finally I released her and she stepped back so I could get a good look at the baby sister. My, had she grown. Well, maybe not so much in stature but surely in all the proper womanly places. She most definitely had taken after her mother in another way. The curves of an eighteen year old woman had replaced the skinny features of the young fifteen year old girl I had seen the last time. Looking nearly directly down upon her I couldn't help but see the almost massive bosom she now carried. As she bounced up and down on her toes it, or they, shook with an outwardly excitable effect in that scoop neck blouse of hers.
I realized I was staring, so I blinked and looked up toward Mr. and Mrs. McQuinn expecting to have been busted for staring lewdly at their baby girl. I saw they had both left the room however. Not seeing my bags, I assumed Mr. McQuinn had taken them to wherever I was sleeping that night. Knowing Mrs. McQuinn she was out in the kitchen already.
"Have a good flight?" Donna interrupted the stillness.