Felicity

Chapter 36: Ellie

I was a schoolteacher and she was a high-powered lawyer. I was a good listener, polite, semi-handsome and a patron of the arts.

She had just accumulated her tenth million when we became friends at a theater but I had no clue of that although I was fairly sure she made more money than a teacher.

Her name was Ellie.

She was very cute, small, a brunette with a very nice smile.

She had apparently assumed I was gay at first but never asked and I never said. Apparently that most guys that go to symphonies, musicals, and operas by themselves must be gay has become an entrenched urban legend.

Over time she had decided I was not and had just asked me to be her date at her firms Christmas party. Oddly she offered to pay me for my time.

Our conversation began at the intermission of Wicked and had continued at a nearby restaurant. We had agreed we loved the play. We were sharing calamari appetizers and drinking Asahi beer at a Japanese place across the street from the artist venues when she asked.

I answered her proposal by saying, "Actually I noticed that there is always an empty seat next to you at each theater. I would prefer you take me there each time you need company."

"That would be even better, it would save me from having to coerce someone to come along with me. Mom has a boyfriend now so my usual date is not available."

"I am sure you can get any date at any time you want, what's the catch?"

"Thank you. How old are you?"

"Thirty-nine."

A brief silence ensued before she said, "I am forty. OK, forty one. I have never been married and although I enjoy men I seem to prefer women, but I do not want either. I am married to my career.

I do need to be seen with a companion at events, which is why when you passed my drink to me at intermission and paid for it seven weeks ago I decided to hang around with you and invite you to sit with me. I can pay you a salary to be my boyfriend."

"Wow, kinky. What firm do you work for?"

"The Spencer-Davis Firm."

"The most conservative bastion in the city. How did you end up there?"

"My father was an original member of the firm but he never advanced much. He was handed most of the pro bono cases. I am in corporate law.

The truth is I am tired of the proposals and the pressure to marry. 'We Are A Family Firm' is the corporate logo and I don't have a family except for Mom."

"I will be happy to be your date at the company party but you would have to be my date at our school party. Don't worry; everyone you will meet will be happy to see you. They think I am still in mourning over my failed marriage."

"Are you?"

"No, never have been more than mildly disappointed."

"I accept, if it's not the same night as my party."

"It is next Friday at a banquet room by the bay. Yours?"

"The Friday after that at the Marriot downtown. We have a deal. What should I wear to yours?"

"What you are wearing now would be fine. And yours?"

"Black tie. I will get you a tux."

"No need, I have one. Let me write down where the place is, we can meet there."

"Third floor at the head of the boardwalk?"

"Yes, I'm glad you know the place. Dinner will be fried seafood but you can get it grilled or a vegetable plate. I have to tell them by Tuesday."

"Grilled. We are having a seven-course dinner with three choices for each. I will bring you the request form. Right now I want more calamari and another beer."

I ordered two of each and we talked for another hour.

During our nearly two year history of running into each other we had nodded to each other for some time then said hello for sometime but the last four months we have spent intermissions chatting with each other. We both had season tickets to each of the art venues and a couple of times we had run into each other at the baseball park or a classic rock concert. We were acquaintances.

On that early December Day we had become good friends.

After we finished the calamari and beer I walked her to her car and kissed her cheek before she drove away. I was about to back away in mine when she pulled up behind me, walked to my window and handed me her card. She had written her personal number on the back.

I asked her for another card explaining that teachers don't have them, and wrote my full name and cell number on the back. She leaned into my window and gave me a kiss on the cheek. As I drove home it came to me that had been my most enjoyable evening in years.

She called me the following Wednesday and asked me if we still had a date.

"Hell yes," I answered.

"Well OK then," she said. "I'll be there at seven."

"I will be by the door," I said.

When she came in we hugged. It was a real 'I am very glad to see you' hug. Once upstairs I introduced her to my friends and they immediately interrogated her.

All liked her and some of my lesbian friends really liked her. She was soon at ease with all of them and had a great time.

As we visited with others around the room she held my hand. I wondered if she just wanted to present a positive image or was nervous to be in a room in which she knew no one but I could not figure that out.

I eventually decided that she simply wanted to hold my hand. I was more than happy about that and I made sure we held hands at all possible times.

Dinner was good and the Secret Santa exchange was a lot of fun with many risqué presents. Ellie got an electric massager that could be used anywhere on her body, anywhere. She told everyone she already had the industrial strength version of the unit and offered to swap it. After the hoots and risqué remarks calmed down she swapped it with Lara, our school librarian, for an afternoon sailboat cruise with cheeses and wine on the bay.

Lara then received the brunt of the verbal abuse, which she really enjoyed.

The gift I had purchased for Ellie to give as a secret Santa was a DVD package of the Pink circus show that went to my best friend Angela, a lesbian.

Angela kissed Ellie right on the lips to the hoots of everyone.

My mentor and good friend Fay showed shock and displeasure at the kiss. She saw the disappointment on my face and we stayed away from each other for the rest of the party.

As we were all getting ready to leave Fay came up to Ellie and told her how happy she was the I had chosen a pretty and intelligent woman then kissed her softly on the lips.

As surprised as I was by that kiss she surprised me even more when she kissed me on the lips; our first kiss.

She whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry. I'm an old woman. Please don't stop loving me."

"No chance of that," I said then gave her a soft kiss on the lips and a warm hug.

Fay then walked over to Lara and put her arm around her waist and kissed her cheek as she pretended to steal her vibrator. Everyone laughed at the very surprising stunt.

Fay then turned and winked at me.

"You two are important to each other," Ellie said.

"Yes we are."

After dinner Ellie led me to the amusement park and got tickets for the roller coaster. She saw the terror in my eyes and asked, "What?" Have you never been on a roller coaster?"

"Never voluntarily."

"Oh good, this not voluntary. Come on."

I managed not to scream or get sick and my eyes were open at times. Ellie laughed as she raised her arms every time we plunged towards the bowels of hell.

"Want to go again?" she asked me after we got back on safe ground.

"No, the line is too long. Lets go see who is playing music."

"OK," she said and held my hand as we walked over to the fountain area stage.

The band was good and people were dancing so we did too. I did notice she was trying to get me close to the squirting water fountain but I managed to stay away. After the dance I took her hand and led her right through the middle of it to the other side where Angela and her partner Mandy where watching us.

Not so miraculously we did not get wet. I had observed the sequence of the squirts and thought there was a ten second pause between the cycles and as I had hoped I got the timing right.

Angela was incensed by our dry escape and ordered us to walk through again. I told her that Ellie needed to get home or we would but that I would call her the next time we were there.

"I do not need to go home just yet," Ellie said then drug Angie through the fountain. They got soaked.

While Mandy and I watched two dolled up women play in the water she asked me if she should be worried.

"No, but she would allow both of you to seduce her."

"Hmm, very interesting."

Fay and Lara came to us and hugged us then walked on. They were holding hands.

Mandy asked, "Did she say anything to you?"

"No, but she has apparently decided to make sure the people she likes know she likes them. She worries she is getting too close to dead."

"How old is she?"

"Just fifty three and healthy, but apparently she realizes she has missed a lot by acting like an old school marm all her life. You and Angie may need to seduce both of them."

Mandy said, "We have already seduced Lara."

We were laughing as the wet ladies came towards us with menace in their steps so we hurried away from the fountain and were near the parking lot before they caught up with us. Fleeing did little good as Angie and Ellie embraced us getting us very wet.

Ellie kissed me.

It was a real kiss.

I very much enjoyed it and she did not mind when I extended it a little.

Our kiss ended when both our butts were slapped. Both Angie and Mandy gave me lascivious kisses but their kisses to Ellie were cheek kisses. After all they were teachers in a very public place.

We said goodnight and Ellie and I walked to her car holding hands.

I got another kiss with a full embrace then she got in her car and drove away.

I drove home thinking that Friday night was a hundred times better than the previous Friday night and that Friday night had been my best in well over a year.

"I should accept her offer of employment as boyfriend," I thought.

Ellie called me the next morning and asked where we were going to meet that night before the symphony concert.

"I didn't know we had a date for tonight."

"I reminded you while we were leaving the roller coaster."

"That would have been a bad time to ask me anything. I was thanking my lucky stars I was back on the ground. Anyway the answer is seven at the Hardrock. We can share a pesto appetizer and have a beer then after the concert go to the big Vietnamese place and pig out."

"You are such a good boyfriend. I might have to give you a raise."

"Good, I need it. You are an expensive girlfriend."

"See you at seven. Bye."

I said bye and wondered if she had really told me we had a date. My season tickets to the symphony were a lot like my baseball game tickets, scattered dates throughout the season, the cheaper season tickets. My next ticket for the symphony was for late January. Ellie likely had full season tickets and may have assumed I did too.

Either way I was happy we had another date.

That night she kissed my lips before we sat at a table. We ordered and she brought out some legal papers from her purse.

She said, "This is an agreement that I can end our arrangement anytime I want and when I do you get one month's severance pay.

This one is a pre-nuptial agreement in case it seems to me we need to marry.

There is a clause that states you will keep our agreements a secret or they become null and void. This is for direct deposit of your paycheck.

You have been hired."

"I will not quit my teaching job," I said before looking at the papers.

"No, no, no, I don't want you to that at all. I like your friends better than I like mine. The main reason that clause is there is to make sure they don't have a reason to dislike me if I end the agreement. I will tell them you dumped me and get all their sympathy."

"Oh man, I forgot you are a lawyer. Give me the pen, I'll sign."

I signed the papers and the bank form and handed them back to her. She rolled them and put them in her purse then got on my lap and gave me a serious kiss that lasted until our beer and pesto arrived.

I thought I heard applause.

She returned to her chair and for the next five hours were a normal date, considering my date was with my part time employer.

We held hands during the concert, we kissed at every opportunity, we stole each other's food at the Vietnamese restaurant and we kissed some more.

We kissed again before she got in her car then both of us headed south until she took the exit to the expressway.

I wondered if we would fuck.

As we kissed by her car I know she felt my erection but did not shy away from it. As she turned to get into her car her hand had lightly brushed against it. She had an "I know a secret" smile as she left.

Or it could have been my imagination.

Around ten that next Sunday morning she called and asked me if I was up for the champagne brunch at an island hotel.

The football game I wanted to watch was the late game so I said; "I'll meet you there."

She kissed me with enthusiasm when we met and we again held hands as we walked in. The resort hotel's brunch is a buffet of Bellagio quality except much smaller. We ate like starving pigs and when done I suggested we walk it off with a stroll on the beach.

Holding hands was replaced by arms around each other, partly because it was December and it was cool on the Texas beach.

After a while she said she was cold so I had her jump on my back. She got a ride to her car and my body kept hers warm. She entertained herself by nibbling on my neck and ear.

When we got to her car we kissed then kissed some more.

"We are going to have to stop this or get in your back seat, people are staring," I said.

She unlocked her rear car door and got in and I followed. We made out like teenagers in the back seat of a car until a couple with kids came to the car next to hers. We heard the kids giggle.

We kissed again, got out of her car,kissed again as she got in the drivers seat then I got in my car and we went to our respective homes.

While on the way home she called me to thank me for a wonderful day. I apologized for not calling with my thanks first. She giggled and said bye.

I had decided that we were very likely going to fuck, she had pressed her body to my erection each time we kissed and had allowed my hands on her tits and thighs throughout our make-out session. Just before we had to stop her hand was sitting softly over my erection.

I masturbated as soon as I got home.

The game I wanted to watch was in the second half when I got to the TV. Ellie and I had again spent five hours together and again it seemed much less time than that.

We did not see or talk to each other that next week except for one phone call.

"Is it possible to start a fire hours after you set something up? No electronics involved?" she asked.

"Yes, easily. A mixture of hair gel and cat litter will get hotter as time goes by and if inside a flammable container like an envelope it will get hot enough to ignite it."

"So that was how they did it. Thanks, see you in the foyer at seven thirty Friday."

I said yes but she had already hung up. That evening I listened to the news wondering about suspicious fires but there was nothing.

Friday evening she looked astonishing. She always looked nice or better but that night she was amazing and I told her so, apparently several times.

She whispered, "You are not getting a raise so cut it out."

I said, "OK," and remained silent for a few moments then said, "You look delicious," and kissed her right there in front of everybody.

She seemed uncomfortable at first and I began to pull back from the kiss but her lips followed mine so I stopped my retreat. The kiss lasted until we heard someone clear their throat near us.

An older couple was smiling at us and the woman said, "I would say get a room but you already have one. However, you have a lot of people to whom you need to introduce your boyfriend starting with us."

Ellie stood in front of me in such a way that she hid my erection but she pressed her ass to it giving it no chance to fade.

I already knew she had a mean streak in her.

Fortunately my slacks hid it well enough so that it was not noticeable unless people were looking for it. Two women did look for it and both made sure Ellie knew they had seen it.

Somehow Ellie was proud of that.

My erection was brushed by her thighs, hands or ass until the long round of introductions ended just before the first course was being served.

The best I could say about dinner was that it was interesting. The chef had used a lot of wine and the food was presented well but as we started on the main course I already knew I was going to need a club sandwich from the deli. The portions were nearly microscopic.

After dinner there were prizes handed out and Ellie won a one-week vacation to Bora Bora for two.

Several said to us, "What a perfect place for a honeymoon."

We just nodded.

The dance portion of the evening quickly degenerated into more interrogations so I suggested to Ellie we go to the deli and then go say hello to Angela and Mandy at their favorite club."

"Where is their favorite club?"

"Down the street from the deli."

"Oh," she said. Then she understood and said, "Ooh!"

At the deli we managed to eat all of our huge sandwiches, mine was corned beef and hers was pastrami. The beer was very good.

The line to go into the lesbian club down the street from the deli was long but Angie was waiting for us on the porch and just took us in with her, she had a VIP pass.

Almost as soon as we got in a blur jumped into my arms and drowned me with kisses.

She stopped for a minute and said hello to Ellie saying, "You must be the one that has put him in such a good mood. Thanks. I'm Andrea, his best daughter."

"My only daughter. This is Ellie; we just left her firms Christmas party. The place was full of old people."

"So you felt right at home then."

I swatted her butt then asked, "Where is Tracy?"

"She stayed at the hospital with her mother. Her mother may or may not have had a heart attack. She was her usual whiny self while I was there. Can you give me a ride home later?"

Before I could answer a young lady named Shelly took her hand and drug her out to the dance floor. I turned to say something to Ellie and found her in a full lip kiss with Mandy that did not end until Angie pinched her partner's butt then she kissed Ellie deeply.

After Angie and Mandy went to the dance floor I took Ellie's hand and led her to the bar. Veronica the bartender jumped halfway over the bar and kissed me. I introduced Ellie to her and Veronica kissed her too. Two Dos Equis quickly appeared on the counter for us.

"Many of the girls here know you, are you a regular?"

"No, maybe two or three times a year with Angie and Mandy. I have needed to pick up my daughter from here twice when her ride went off with someone else. Veronica and the tall girl about to kiss me are former students."

I endured the kiss the best I could, which was well.

After my young, tall, stacked former student left I said to Ellie, "Andrea has dabbled in gay sex but is not a lesbian. Her two best friends Tracy and Shelly, the blonde girl that dragged her out to the dance floor are.

Andrea is not twenty-one-yet so she has that no alcohol wristband but she doesn't drink anyway. She is a sophomore at The University."

"Must be expensive for you."

"No, she has a full academic scholarship. She costs me less now than at any other time in her life."

"Lets dance."

I spent the next hour dancing with Ellie and assorted other women plus Richard, a gay former student and friend of Andrea.

No one seemed to be surprised that there was a formally dressed couple dancing in a lesbian club.