[Preliminary Note: There was an interesting comment on Chapter Two of this series. I tried to contact the commenter, but he doesn't accept communication through Literotica. So, if you read this, and I assume you will, please contact me. I would love to have feedback to make sure I'm getting things right.]
I felt pretty in my poodle skirt and Angora sweater. The bra was tight and I liked the feel of it against my little titties. The pantyhose were comforting in the way they squeezed gently. It took me three tries, with Nadine's coaching, before I managed to get that movement I've seen a bazillion times down and I smoothed the skirt as I sat. I managed to bang the heels of my unaccustomed high heels against the door sill as I stepped up into the truck. I felt awkward and I was reminded of what Marylouise was going through as her pubescent body grew so quickly and arms or legs that would have cleared the table or the chair yesterday banged into it today.
Nadine and I both got the giggles as I finally settled into the seat with a sigh.
When she got into the truck she sat with a sigh, turned, and looked at me.
"Are you happy Ron?" she asked, and I noticed it was "Ron," not "Ronni."
I started to reply but she touched my lips with her finger.
"No, Honey," she said, holding my eyes with hers, looking as serious as she had in months, "are you really
happy
? What we've done so far, me with Diego and you with all of this," and she gestured with her arm, taking in my new look, "has been good. Hell, it's been wonderful. But if we go to the next step, there's no turning back."
Again I started to speak as she sat for a second, quiet, organizing her thoughts, and again she stopped me.
"No, Honey," she said again, "if we take the next step we'll have to tell the girls. And they can't keep a secret."
This time I touched
her
lips.
"We would have had to tell them when you brought Diego home," I said, "I've known that all along."
I stopped and touched her lips again when she started to say something.
"Are you ashamed of me?" I asked.
Her eyes got big and overflowed, sudden tears making dark, mascara streaks down her cheeks.
"No, God no, Ronni," and I noticed it was "Ronni" again, "I love you. I could never be ashamed of you."
"Do you want to go back to the way things were a few years ago?" I asked.
"No, Baby," she said, and she was crying now, those dark streaks running all the way to her chin and her nose was running now, water-clear mucus flowing over her lips to make a thick teardrop, dangling from her chin, wobbling a little with each breath, "I'm so sorry but, no."
"Are you happy?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, and I could see her control failing, "Yes, oh, Ronni, yes, I'm sorry but I'm happy."
"Then Sunday, when I make dinner, I'll dress in that Donna Reed outfit we bought and we can tell the girls that they now have two mommies," I said, my fingertips lightly brushing imaginary hairs from her forehead.
For the first time in over a year, for the next five minutes, I was the Man of the House, comforting her. I held her as she cried, softly said the words you say to gentle a crying wife or a frightened dog. "It's okay, Honey," my hands brushed her hair lightly, "I've got you. Ronni's here," fingernails lightly dragging down the side of her face, "We'll be okay," my lips brushed her forehead. Things like that and I realized I was crying with her.
It was a timeless moment and I felt oddly male, comforting my wife, but also female, consoling a lost child.
Finally, she pushed me away, grabbed the steering wheel so hard her knuckles turned white, took a long slow deep breath, and huffed it out.
She turned to look at me and smiled in that crooked way she might have when one of the girls came home, crying with a skinned knee or stubbed toe.
"Oh, Ronni," she said and I recognized the tone from that knee or toe, "I've ruined your pretty sweater."
I looked down and saw black streaks along with shiny snot on my sweater just above the small rise of my breasts.
"I think
Woolite
will take it out," I said.
"Okay, then," she said, and with the decision made my old Nadine was back, "let's get you ready for your presentation."
We drove back across town and she pulled into a parking lot but surprised me by driving around the building to the back. Across the front, the sign proudly proclaimed the
Olympus Spa
was inside, the image supported by the faux Greek columns bracketing the door. In the back, a smaller sign over the doors identified it as the entrance for
GURLS
with that stick figure of a woman you see, the skirted figure symbolizing the ladies room, with a little dick peeking out from under the skirt.
There were only three cars in the lot on this side of the building.
Inside there was a counter with the gayest looking man I had ever seen behind it. He was a bleached blonde, made up like it was prom night, dressed in a vest and the shortest shorts I had ever seen, most of his ass on display, and Go Go boots that would have been in style in the 1970s but worked with his outfit.
"Ronni for her one o'clock," Nadine announced.
He did something on his computer, smiled, and said, "Oh, here you are." He smiled up at Nadine, "The full treatment I see."