This story is part of a continuation of my
Road Trip
series (see the end of 'Road Trip -- California' for a list of the chapters of that series, in order to be read). You need not read that series to enjoy this series. Although real places and celebrity names are used for realism, this story is fiction. Please 'read, enjoy, vote, and comment.'
This chapter will be dramatically enhanced for you if you read
Road Trip -- Ohio
. This story can be found at the author's web page by clicking on the name Romantic1 above.
Synopsis of This Story Up to This Point
: After a motorcycle road trip laced with grief, love, incest, and sex, Jim moved in with country singer Crystal Lee and her sister Ellen in Nashville. With Crystal's help, Jim became a top country singer. He got tapped to do a movie, enjoys several orgies with his leading lady Jill Danes, and finds a new love interest in a. The film crew moved to Nicaragua to film on location, and Jill was kidnapped. Jim did a bold and risky rescue using his skills he learned as a Green Beret. Shooting finished on Jim's movie. He returned to Nashville with Ellen and Claire for a sex-filled week with Nadia their housekeeper before Crystal returns from Europe where she did a movie. Upon Crystal's arrival, Jim and Crystal do a press conference where a reporter asked Jim about his fathering a child in Ohio. Jim initially ducked the question, but his answer indicated the reporter's accurate assessment. The media went wild at the prospect of a Jim having a hidden baby. A few days later, Jim and Crystal sneak off to join his child's parents in Michigan after they too have fled the paparazzi; as a group, they decide to allow the pretty reporter from the press conference to interview Jim, Crystal, Summer -- the baby's mother, and George -- her husband.
Crystal Clear Ch 10
Babies, horny dads, playful wives, and a loving reporter
Edie, the pretty reporter from the Dayton Daily News, appeared nonplused. "You ... err, how can I ask this delicately ... you conceived a second child last night?" She looked between Summer and me about a dozen times in ten seconds.
Summer spoke, "Yes, exactly."
"How do you know you're pregnant? You can't tell for sure for at least a couple of weeks."
"I can," Summer replied. "I knew it the second he ... the second his seed touched my egg. I'm certain. I'll confirm it in a couple of weeks."
Edie wasn't satisfied, "No, no. Say more. I mean you must feel different today than yesterday, describe that."
Summer spoke softly, "Jim and I connected on many levels last night -- mind, body, and spirit. We resonated on such a deep level I can't begin to describe it; we can almost read each other's thoughts and feelings. Our bodies were so in sync with one another, so in touch, so vibrant together; we peaked together over and over. Lastly, and on that deeper level, Jim and I were in touch with each other's souls. I do believe we are soul mates, the feeling is that strong. In other times and dimensions, spiritual dimensions, we are loving beings; here we are those loving beings having a human experience -- and that's how I know I conceived."
Edie turned to George, "And you're happy with this situation?"
George broke into a big grin, "Ecstatic actually. We wanted to have two children, and now we will."
Edie sputtered, "But ... but ... didn't your wife sleep with Mr. Mellon a couple of years ago and last night?"
George sobered a little and then toyed with the reporter, "Oh, yeah. I guess he did." He paused and got serious; "The issue is whether the ends justify the means. In this case, and with the personalities of the people involved, we each think it did. At the request of my wife and me, Jim made love to my wife. Now, I love them both dearly. I wasn't sure they'd fall in love, but I am over the moon that they did. I think it's important to the mother and the babies to know that both their parents love each other. They do."
"Aren't you jealous?"
"Of what? Jim putting his penis in my wife and leaving his seed. Hardly. I'd be jealous if he tried to take her away from me. I'm jealous that I can't sing and act like he can. But am I jealous they made love, no; I think that those times they made love and connected were some of the truly beautiful moments I could gift to my wife."
I jumped in, "Edie, there's an underlying philosophy we all share. We share a belief in the concept of polyamory -- giving your loved ones the space to love more than one person at a time."
Edie nodded for me to continue.
"Most people think of love as a zero sum game. If I love Crystal, I can't love you without taking something away from Crystal's bucket."
Crystal slipped into the conversation, "But what we found is that the more people you love, the bigger all your buckets get. You end up with more love than you could wish for -- and I'm not talking just sex, I really mean love."
I spoke again, "I guess we reject that zero sum game assumption, and so far I can tell you our lives are all amazing. Besides the sex, I'm talking about all the other warm and romantic feelings that go along with love. In doing that, we disavow allegiance to the principle of monogamy -- that's the shorthand name for the zero sum game."
Edie asked, "But if you're with Summer, you're not with Crystal. You can't physically be in two places at one time."
I responded, "Right, and that brings us to the principle of 'compersion' -- a word that got coined because our vocabulary had nothing that stood opposite the word 'jealousy.'"
I turned to my son who had been playing on the floor between all the adults. I spoke to Edie, "How do you feel when you see my son playing well with a toy?"
Edie answered, "Happy. Glad that he's happy and content. I can see that he's learning something, and exercising, and growing. If I were his parents, I'd feel proud at his accomplishments and excitement when he did something new, like learn a new word or walk for the first time."
"Do you feel threatened because I spend time with him? Would you if you were his mother?"