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"She looks angry." She actually did.
"Do you have any others?" he wanted to know. He was Pat Palmer, my best friend at work.
I have other friends. Family friends I have known for years. School friends, a handful who might be friends for life. Military friends, it would surprise most people if they were to find out I had served my country since I was so often critical of it. I guess I felt putting my life on the line gave me the right to talk crap. In the end it was only a few years of service and I did not re-up when asked. I also have a couple friends of my wife that she has generously shared with me. Finally, society friends I inherited with my family.
"I do have other photos, but this is my favorite." I told him. Honestly, we had been talking about our wives, something stupid like how long they take to get ready or how many shoes they need. Then Pat shocked me by asking to see a picture.
"Let me see the others." He demanded.
I was slightly annoyed. I don't normally go around showing pictures of my wife. I was expecting a polite positive response. Or at least one of those comments that was open to interpretation. You know something like: "Wow, look at that hair! She is really something! So, that's your wife."
When I pulled out my phone to show him the photo, I was actually planning to show him the others. He expressed an interest so there was no reason not to.
"This is us when her mom took us to Olive Garden." She was wearing a forty-niner's sweat shirt and jeans. I had my arm on her shoulders when I took the selfie.
"This is her company's Christmas party." Her company over did everything and hired a well-known professional photographer for the event. Blaze looked incredible in her formal gown. She had the professionals do her hair, makeup and nails. She looked like a model to me in that photo. Her rich dark hair piled up on her head then falling below her shoulders. Her dark brown eyes flashing, her full lips looking very kissable. Her elegant gown deluded you into thinking you would see more than you ever did and all of those jewels were real.
According to her, the makeup concealed all the flaws in her face. Emphasizing her high cheek bones. Taking away from her too large nose and making her eyes seem bigger. Frankly I never saw anything wrong with her face and did not really see a difference. Her boobs were another story. They were a perfect 34C, the makeup people had done some kind of shading thing on them to make them really pop out. Combined with the effect of the gown they seemed impossibly large and gravity defying. I was forty-five, she was thirty-eight but the cosmetics and the professional photograph took somewhere between ten and twenty years off her apparent age.
"It would not fool a flight of stairs though." She said when I tried to compliment her. I looked anemic in the photo. With her hair done up and her high heels I looked shorter than her too. I was wearing a tux but it was a rental and it did not do me any favors. I did not look like I should be the one standing next to her, I looked outclassed. I am never happy at her company Christmas party, but I remembered being particularly irritated that the photographer gave her his card and told her she could get a twenty percent discount on boudoir photos by using it.
In the next photo she was wearing a t-shirt plugging Corona beer and a pair of cargo shorts. I never see her drink beer so I assume she bought the shirt because she liked the color. We were playing put-put and she is posing with our daughter Nicole. If you did not know, you might think they were sisters. "This is Blaze with our daughter Nicole." Pat nodded.
My wife is the oldest daughter of the San Diego Firestones. She does not have a brother, so her father insisted she keep the family name when she married. She pointed out to me that she was already known by Firestone professionally so it only made sense to keep the name. Our son would carry my name. Her dad gave me some land on the west coast to make up for my inconvenience.
When we found out our first child would be a girl her dad pressured us to hyphenate her name. Nicole Firestone-Stone sounded kind of stupid, so I did not put up much of a fight and she ended up plain Nicole Firestone. My father-in-law was happy. I ended up with more land. The Nicole part is for me, I am Cole Stone. Ni-Cole, get it?
I ended up showing Pat a half dozen recent images of my wife. Comments while I did so were pretty non-commentary. "Uh hah, yep, okay..."
"She looks like she is angry in all of them." He told me.
"Well, she does not really like having her picture taken." Sounded lame even to me.
"Don't you have any where she is not angry?" he asked.
I actually do have one. She was standing naked in front of a mirror putting on her lip stick. I snapped a candid shot of her. She looked surprised in the photo not angry. Because of the angle the distance and the mirror you see her full head to heel from behind and full frontal in the mirror. Her dark hair cascades almost to her butt. She has a lovely apple bottom I want to grab. Her nipples are hard, standing out like erasers, her areola are dark chocolate and larger since having the baby. Her dark brown bush is neatly trimmed and her pubic hair looks almost black in the photo. You can faintly see the stretch marks on her boobs and tummy from having Nicole. They embarrass her. I tell her they are her tattoo to commemorate the birth of our daughter. Pat is my office friend, but he will never see that one. That belongs only to me.
When I took it, Blaze asked for my phone. I thought she was going to delete it. Instead, she fucked my brains out. I think she let me keep it because I lock my phone and I promised to keep it in a separate file to prevent accidents. I think it would be a great boudoir study.
I lock my phone because of something that happened in high school. I had a crush on one of the girls in my homeroom. After incredible effort on my part, I finally got her contact number. (Basically, it took almost a week to work up the courage to ask for it.) I was feeling pretty cocky when I went out for pizza with my friends. I went to the restroom and left my phone on the table. We had been playing a game together and I never thought twice about it. They were smirking when I got back but they would not say why. I assumed they were talking shit about me and did not think about it anymore.
That night I decided to reach out to my crush and I discovered my friends had texted her for me. "I want to suck you brother's big fat dick and have him come in my mouth while you watch and rub one off." Those are not the exact words but I can assure you it was truly nasty. A compilation by three horny eighteen-year-old guys with no redeeming traits. She blocked my phone and I never really got a chance to explain. That is why Blaze and I are the only ones who can unlock my phone.
"You need to get a photo where she is not angry." Pat demanded.
I promised I would, but I knew it probably would not happen. I take snap shots on my phone. She hates snap shots.
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"Why do you hate having your picture taken?" I asked her. We had been drinking. We were back at our hotel room and switched to beer, but neither one of us was willing to give up our buzz.
We had just been to a funeral. Blaze had a sister two years younger than her. Her sister Ember Hunt (My father-in-law allowed her a name change) had a daughter about two years younger than Nicole. Veridian Meadow Hunt died before she really got a chance to live. She was walking with her friends to raise money for charity when she was crushed by a car that was out of control. That tends to happen when the driver passes out. A number of her friends were injured, but she was the only one who died.
I did not think Ember would be married for long. Every time she looked at her husband, Mike, she remembered losing her daughter. You could see it on her face. Either one of Veri's parents would have gladly traded places to let her live. They were not given that option of course. It sucked.
"I don't." Blaze said in a low voice. We were drinking beer straight from the bottle and lining up the empties. It is a normal way to drink beer, but I generally drank from glasses or frosty mugs. I don't think I ever saw my wife drink beer before.
"You don't?" I had forgotten what we were talking about. I had lost a niece. I had planned to take her with us on camping trips. I would teach her and my daughter how to fish. They would become BFF. I had been robbed of that, but I could not say how upset I was because others had it worse than me.
"I don't mind having my picture taken. Not really." I thought she was going to sigh. Instead, she burped startling both of us and begin giggling. In a moment we were both laughing like idiots.
"We were the three musketeers. Judy, Trudy, Booty and me." She lined her empty up with the others then pulled a cold one from the ice bucket. She held the bottle against her forehead a moment.
"Wouldn't that be four muskets?" I asked, not sure how this had anything to do with selfies and the like.