We're a Wonderful Wife
Chapter 10
Dark Angels
Finally, after what seemed like a month but was only a week Lanh's big SUV was loaded, mostly with Krissy's gifts, and the kids were all hugged and kissed one last time and it was time for Lanh, Don, and 8-month pregnant Karole to head back to Colorado. Their Christmas visit to Minnesota had been short and sweet, and for the first time in her life Karole felt sorrow at leaving somewhere. Arlo cried his little eyes out, he wanted to go with Aunt Karole but when he found out that his mom wasn't going to come with him, that made his decision even tougher. He looked longingly at Aunty Karole and back at Mom heartbroken over the decision that life forced on a two-year-old.
Karole's heart was aching for the little guy, just days ago he was afraid of her because when he felt her baby move, he thought that Karole ate a baby. But since his Uncle Don vouched for her, Arlo and Karole been almost inseparable. Karole looked at Tam, Arlo's mother, whose eyes were moist, her heart was aching for her little boy's quandary too. "Ah'll be back little guy, and ah'll have a little girl to come see you. We can teach her how to go fishin' an stuff like that, ok?"
"An' baseball too?" sniffed the heartbroken two-year-old.
"If you'd like," said Karole as she tousled his black locks of hair. "And Aunty Kim-ly will have a baby boy, we can teach him too."
Hope began to spring in Arlo's broken heart. He looked up at Aunt Karole with big tear filled but hopeful eyes. "An me? You teach me?"
"Yeah lil' fella, we'll teach you baseball too," said Aunt Karole as she gave Arlo one last hug. "And maybe Reggie soon too," came an unbidden thought leaving her to wonder where that came from.
That evening Karole and Kim-ly had retired to their bedrooms early so Karole could get up, help milk the cows and have a good breakfast before heading out, and as usual they ended up sitting on Kim-ly's bed, leaning on each other talking about everything, usually men. Both had a varied and exciting love life, and both lived in terror of becoming exactly what they were right now, pregnant unwed women. "What birth control did you use in college?" Kim-ly asked Karole that late evening.
"Promise you won't tell?" asked Karole sheepishly.
"Promise!" said Kim-ly as she crossed her heart.
"Mah roommate," said Karole quietly.
"What?" asked Kim-ly almost laughing. "Your roommate? How does that work?"
Karole blushed and said softly. "You know, you see that guy with them shoulders, and that tight ass and that big ol' package and you know he'd do you cross-eyed, or you'd see that superhot professor with just the right amount of gray in his beard and he smells like sweet pipe tobacco and drives a Mercedes and when he looks at you your panties just melt, ya know what ah mean?"
Kim-ly could feel her nipples hardening just from Karole's descriptions. "Oh, I know, what about it?"
"Well, you come back to your room and your roommate just gets out of the shower and you tell her all about Mister Wonderful and how he got your juices flowin.' Next thing you know you an' your roommate are working out those frustrations and a toy from your sock drawer joins the party an'..."
"No!" gasped Kim-ly, "You? Really? That's so HAWT!"
Karole was ecstatic that Kim-ly didn't think she was a pervert for her lesbian affairs, she smiled in relief and went on. "Ah missed guys but for birth control it worked, ain't no chick ever knock up another chick..."
"Wellllll..." said Kim-ly, "that's not exactly true..." she patted her tummy.
"What do you mean... how can a woman do that..." She shrugged her shoulders dumbfounded.
"My OB/Gyn... I found a sperm donor and Dr. Schaeffer, a woman, took care of the rest."
"Couldn't you do it the old-fashioned way?" asked Karole.
"No, it's too..." Kim-ly rolled her eyes in thought. "No, I'm not going to say. Just leave it at that, let's just say that my Danh is a Turkey Baster baby."
"A what?" laughed Karole.
Downstairs in their suite, Don and Lanh embraced in their shower. As their lips parted, their eyes met, and Lanh slowly eased her way into the shower chair. They realized that this would be the last time they were in this room until May, their wedding anniversary, and the anniversary of the rebuilding of the bunkhouse into Lanh's house, so they were a little sad. This house and these people meant so much to Don and Lanh that they felt sad to leave, and even though Colorado brought them and Karole together, they were both beginning to feel that the move was a huge mistake.