(All characters are fictitious. No similarity with anybody is intended).
Part 15.
Paul.
I held open the door to the taxi for Heather to climb out and held her hand as we walked up the steps into the hotel.
I was wearing my suit. That was a mistake. Even after nine in the evening it was hot. I could feel the sweat running down my spine.
I looked around the foyer for Howie and Louise but they were nowhere in site so I led Heather across to the entrance to the restaurant. Or followed the crowd more accurately.
There was a large poster on a stand by the doorway. I didn't recognise the name of the artist appearing but the face looked familiar. A large man in a white tuxedo approached.
"Yes sir." He said in a slow drawl. "You have a reservation?"
"We don't." I replied.
"We are fully booked, sir."
"We are guests of the Wolfensteins." I said quickly, having the feeling we were about to be evicted.
He looked at a list of names on the board he was carrying then looked around the room.
"Howard and Louise Wolfenstein." I continued.
"Table eight."
A waiter appeared as if by magic from behind his back as we followed him through the lines of tables to the front of the restaurant where the dance floor separated the diners from a low stage. Howie rose to his feet as we approached and held out the chair next to him for Heather. I took the forth seat with Louise between us.
She smiled at me and squeezed my leg underneath the tablecloth. I could feel my prick stirring. Painfully. It badly needed a good night's rest. I placed my hand upon hers and moved it back onto her own leg.
"I've already ordered." Howie was saying. "The cabaret starts at ten."
"Who is it?" Heather asked.
"An old friend of Paul's." Howie answered.
Oh.
"You don't mean?" I started.
"Mary Belle." There was a look in Howie's eyes. "She's getting to be quite a star in these parts. Made a record or two. Did well in the charts."
"I liked Mary Belle. She was fun." Louise joined in. "She was always very patient with me when we lived in Jamaica."
"Mary Carver." I mused. "I wonder how she came up with that name?"
"We might get a chance to ask her later." Howie waved to a waiter. "Champagne alright for everyone."
I'd have preferred a nice cold beer.
"Oh Champagne." Heather was almost bouncing up and down in her seat. "Let's drink lots."
The water appeared with the first course and was given an order for a second bottle. It was going to be a long night.
Louise was squeezing my hand beneath the table so I moved it onto her thigh and ran my fingers up towards her crotch beneath her dress. Her legs opened slightly and I pushed my finger against her fanny. I felt it open slightly through the twin layers of her tights and panties.
A waiter was moving around behind us pouring the Champagne into our glasses. I pulled my hand away from Louise's hole and picking up a wafer thin piece of toast forked some smoked salmon onto it.
I looked around the table. Everybody seemed happy.
The toast crunched in my mouth. It was very good.
I liked Mary Belle as well. She had been one of the receptionists at the hotel in Jamaica where Howie had been the deputy manager to learn the ropes of hotel management. His father had made him work in four or five hotels since leaving university. It was how that he had learned and it hadn't done him any harm, I heard him say more than once. Not that I think Howie had minded. An endless stream of hotel gusts for him to fuck, not to mention the staff.
He had been fucking Mary Belle when we had gone down to Jamaica for his and Carole's wedding. I knew that, I'd seen him. Twice. Although I think Martha thought it was me fucking her when they had caught me and Mary Belle in some bushes with her naked and trying to take my shirt off.
That had been on Howie's stag night.
"So you played the piano for her?" Heather asked.
"What? Who?" She was talking to me. "Yes. By accident. Her usual player hadn't turned up."
"Don't be shy Paul." Howie said. "He also played in the largest night club on the Island with her."
"Oh. I'd like to have heard that."
"He was wonderful." Louise smiled placing her hand upon my thigh.
I drank some Champagne.
"If it hadn't been for you she probably wouldn't be here now." Howie was smiling.
He was up to something.
"Does she know we are here?" I asked.
Louise was moving her hand.
I drank some more Champagne.