The concert that night was a huge success. Pamela and Vera had taken a chance by booking huge football stadiums for the tour. In setting up the concert at the stadium in Jackson, Mississippi, Veterans Memorial Stadium, the seating capacity would be slightly over 40,000; it would be embarrassing if she didn't draw well. However, despite Pamela's lessening popularity the concert was sold out. There was a buzz of excitement right from the get go as her fans anticipated a wonderful time.
Pamela and Natasha were identically dressed and with the aid of the presence of the ubiquitous huge screens the entire audience was treated to the full exotic effect of their provocative costumes. Pamela's new songs were well received and greeted by thunderous enthusiastic applause.
Natasha's contributions were exactly as Pamela had envisioned. The audience was vowed by her playing. Her violin playing complimented the other musicians to elevate the music to maximum listening pleasure, but Natasha was skillful enough not to let her performance overpower and negate the rest of the band.
Having had the benefit of viewing the 'bond' videos, Natasha pranced around the stage very seductively as she was simultaneously playing her violin. Her antics prompted constant wolf whistles and enthusiastic spontaneous cheering from the male members in the audience. At the end of the concert everyone in the audience felt fully entertained and satisfied despite the fact that most of the time Pamela did not play the kind of music that had garnered her initial fame. Pamela was totally thrilled by the audience reaction as it augured well for a successful continuation of her show business career.
At the end of the concert, Natasha finally met her half brother and sister. Pamela had arranged her children to see the concert and to come back to the dressing room which she and Natasha shared. Peter was now fifteen and was a spitting image of his father. Little Hannah, now thirteen, and although very much like her mother, possessed unmistakable features of her namesake: her maternal grandmother Big Hannah.
Given Pamela's constant disparaging of her motherly skills, Natasha had come to expect that her sibs would be snooty and obnoxious typical of so many celebrity children. However, Peter and Little Hannah proved to be well mannered betraying no conceit. After the initial awkwardness they got along splendidly. The meeting was a total success and Natasha was totally pleased to acquire an addition to her circle of family relatives.
Leonid had retired. With Vera's financial assistance he and Grusha had acquired a comfortable retirement home in Jackson. Thus after the concert, Natasha went with them to this home to spend the night. Some of the rest of the family had tagged along and so an impromptu party ensued lasting a few hours before Natasha finally got to sleep.
The next day Natasha went to Anna's home in Crystal Springs where almost the whole Starikovich family and in-laws had gathered to take advantage of Natasha's visit. At six o'clock Natasha left for the Grant mansion to meet her paternal family and have dinner as planned by Pamela.
To say that Pamela Rose and Larry Grant did not have an orthodox marriage would be an understatement. Still their marriage worked and as far as their adoring fans knew it was a successful one. Their marriage really worked because of the understanding they had established before the wedding. Each of their desired lifestyles was not changed but at the same time they enjoyed the benefits of being married. The main principal benefit was the image projected to the public, which in turn had a positive impact on their careers.
Thus, despite each leading what most would consider tawdry, lewd, steamy sexual lives, such behavior never came to light. Even if some members of the media did suspect that all was not as honky dory as it would appear; both Pamela and Larry comported themselves in public as if they were a couple in love with each other and enjoying the happiest of marriages.
They always explained their separate residences as merely the result of the exigencies of their careers not as a result of any discord. Since Pamela and Big Hannah were not close to any of the relatives they had, they always made a point to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas at the Grant mansion in Crystal Springs. Pamela was sure to emphasize this fact to the media. You could always count on Pamela and Larry to appear at appropriate social functions as a couple. Whenever not with each other neither one of them was ever seen in an important public function in the company of another person of the opposite sex.
Outside of public events, if Larry was spotted on a date, he was always able to explain away the circumstances and insist he was not on a date. His dates had no inclination to protest such assertions since considering his amatory skills they never wanted to admit to their closest friends that they had agreed to a date with him. As for Pamela she never dated since she was only interested in sex with men not in companionship with them.
Pamela and Larry even occasionally had sex with each other. For Pamela she was always curious to learn if Larry's sexual techniques improved any considering the ever increasing number of women, she was aware he had fucked. Amazingly enough despite his extensive sexual experience he still refused to spend any appropriate time on foreplay. Pamela had gotten used to such lack of skill on his part that she was able to will herself into arousal when the occasion should arise. Thus, she was not dry when he penetrated her. That way sex with him although not exciting was at least tolerable.
The viability of their marriage was able to withstand even a potentially truly ugly sex scandal that recently surfaced in public. Some two years previously in pursuing a sexy reporter assigned to report on the team he was then playing for, Larry sent nude photos of himself to her. It was a dumb idea but as the female was not really interested in him nothing came of it. But in June of the current year the photos were discovered by an acquaintance of the reporter, and he caused them to be released on the internet.
To protect her own public image the reporter avowed that she was humiliated and hurt by Larry's unwanted intrusion in her life. She had wanted to forget about the whole thing and that is why she had not come out in public until she was forced to by the exposure of these photos on the internet.
The NFL alarmed by the potential image harm of the story chose to penalize Larry severely. They suspended him from preseason training as well as the first six games of the new season. Given his age, Larry knew he would unlikely be able to regain his starting QB job with his team after such a lengthy absence. Thus, he chose to retire and to take up a position in public relations with his father's businesses.
The furor of the scandal threatened the carefully crafted perfect marriage image that Pamela enjoyed. But she was able to defray such harm by her public reaction to the scandal when first approached by a reporter. When the scandal broke out the entertainment and sports reporters were clamoring to get a comment from Pamela. The first reporter to do so had spotted Pamela when she was in midst of shopping at one of her favorite fashion stores in Beverly Hills, CA.
The reporter accosted her for an impromptu interview and the following transpired:
"Pamela, I'm Shannon Calvert of the Hollywood Reporter. Can you spare a few moments to answer some questions?"
Pamela ever mindful of the need to cultivate the media, especially entertainment media, replied, "Sure Shannon. By the way I am always entertained by what you write. So fire away I can spare a little time."
"Great Pamela! Just to be brief do you have a comment on the state of your marriage?"
"My marriage? Well, I don't know what you mean by that question. Perhaps you can elaborate."
