Her best friend Lynda Curtis had admitted that she had feelings for her husband Charles. Diana Richards suspected that Lynda hadn't told her just how deep her feelings were.
I'll have to start paying attention to how you act around him so I can figure out if it's just a deep physical attraction or if your emotions are getting too involved...
I know I don't have anything to worry about where Charles is concerned—he's a one-woman man and I know he loves me beyond reason... But I'm worried about you...
If Lynda was in love with Charles, it could create a severe wedge in their friendship and she didn't want anything to come between them. Lynda was the best friend she'd had since she drifted away from Lynn.
My best friend back in Virginia...
with whom she'd grown up all through their school years.
Except my senior year when Lynn left for college...
Like Lynda, Lynn had been older than her with a level head on her shoulders.
Yet she treated me as an equal...
Both of them had always told her that she was a good person and that she deserved better than what she was allowing for herself.
Lynda looks nothing like Lynn, but it's a little ironic how similar their names are! And their personalities are the same! I've needed that steadying influence in my life...even if I didn't always take their advice...
But now, Lynda is the one with a problem! And I haven't a clue how to help her... I can't help her...I'm part of the problem! I'll just have to sit back and let Lynda try to handle this on her own...
But I'll have to keep my eye on how she handles it! I don't want to have to punch my best friend for making inappropriate moves on my sexy husband...but I will if I have to...
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At the beginning of July, Charles came to the movie studio to pick up Diana from work early. They had asked for a couple hours off to get ready for a 4th of July party they were hosting the next day. As they walked through the studio lot, Charles made some cheeky remark. Diana reached back and pinched his ass. He jumped and yelled.
Then he growled, "Why, you...!"
Diana shrieked with laughter and took off running as Charles chased after her. They weren't paying attention to where they were headed. He stopped her in an area of the lot on a set that looked like an empty street scene. They didn't see anyone around at the moment.
She smiled when he started to quote another scene from
"The Quiet Man,"
but changed a few of the words to fit their situation.
"If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a movie studio in Los Angeles with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told them..."
As he went to grasp her shoulders, she spun around with her back to him and did her Mary Kate imitation again. "Oh, but the kissin's a long way off yet!"
You know I want you to kiss me...
"Huh?"
I'm not that dumb! I know what you really want...
"Well, we've just started the courtin' and next month, we'd...we'd start the walkin' out together and the month after that there'd be the thrashin' parties, and the month after that there'd be..."
Charles put his arms around her waist from behind. "Nope!"
And HE wasn't that dumb either...
"Well...maybe we won't have to wait that month..."
I know I wouldn't...
"Yep..."
I don't think you really understand my urgency...
"Or for the...thrashin' parties..."
I have no idea what a thrashin' party is...
"Nope..."
I don't know what that is, but it wouldn't keep me from you...
Diana turned around to face Charles. "Or...for the walkin' out together..."
"Nooo..." he said softly and deeply.
She put her hands on his shoulders. "Then so much the worse for you, Charles Richards, for I feel the same way about it myself!"
Come and get me, sexy man...
She smiled widely and threw her arms backward for his embrace. He wrapped his arms around her and leaned down to kiss her neck as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
They were startled suddenly when they were blasted by a wind machine that was being aimed directly at them! Diana shrieked and started laughing as Charles yelled, "Hey! What the hell?!"
They had stumbled onto a set that a crew had been preparing for a stormy street scene. When some of the crew came back from a break and saw them doing their scene, they decided to provide some of the special effects.
Someone in the crew yelled, "I haven't heard anyone yell cut! Keep going!"
Charles and Diana looked at each other and laughed. They continued with the scene. They pretended to get caught in a storm that suddenly blew up, holding each other in the "rain" when the crew turned on some waterworks. They let themselves get soaked. Charles put his suit jacket on Diana's shoulders and they shared a couple tender kisses while their love for each other showed on their faces. Their last kiss was a bit more passionate than the one John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara had shared in that scene, but the look on Charles' face when it ended was every bit as tender and loving.
The "rain" ended and the crew cheered and clapped while they took a few bows. Charles bent down and picked up his jacket off the ground from where it had fallen off Diana's shoulders. Then he took her hand and they waved good-bye to the crew as they scurried off the set, both of them laughing softly.