Chapter One
I looked around the table at the two dozen people, a dozen couples, arranged in the classic boy-girl-boy-girl pattern around the table. It was my first time at Laura's Club, that was all she called it, The Club, with the capitalization obvious in the way she said it, and I was nervous.
But I was in love. I had proposed. And she said she wouldn't marry me until she saw how I handled her "Group," and the way she said "Group" made the capitalization clear on that as well.
So here we were, at the private room in the restaurant in the Holiday Inn in, well, let's just call it Smalltown.
"Okay," Arlene said after doing the dinging the glass with a spoon thing, "we have a new member," and she nodded at me, Laura said, "stand up, sugar," so I stood and around the table, they all said, "Welcome, David."
"So let me review the rules," Arlene went on. She was big and buxom and pretty in that mom-next-door way of a bottle blonde who spent quite a bit of time in the mirror to make the best of what she has. I liked looking at her and listening.
"We'll pass the hat and the men will draw out a key. Then there will be a 30-minute break for the men in the bar before you go to the room indicated by the key," she said, grinning around the room. "I know it's complicated. Is everybody with me?"
Around the table, we chuckled and said "yes."
"Any complaints from the women will be dealt with in the morning when we get together for 11:00 a.m. brunch," she went on, and the men around the table groaned while the women called variations on "that's right."
"Everybody clear?" she asked and the group replied with variations on "yes."
"Well then," she said and lifted the biggest cowboy hat I had ever seen, gave it a good shake, and handed it to the guy on her left. My memory said he was "Roger" although with all the people I had met at this gathering I'm not certain of that. He pulled out a key card and slipped it into his pocket without looking.
The hat was passed, hand to hand, around the table. The whole thing had the aura of ritual. No one spoke. It all seemed very serious to me and I had a weird urge to giggle.
When it got to me, I pulled a key card and put it into my pocket.
"Maybe you got me," Laura said, leaning close and a very soft whisper. Even so, she drew dirty looks.
When the hat got back to Arlene she put it on her head and said, "men, shoo."
I followed the rest and stood and headed for the bar.
We gathered at a large table in the bar and ordered. It was an interesting group, very eclectic. The oldest was another David and I guessed him in his 70s. The youngest was Aaron and if he was drinking that beer legally I was surprised. I was one of the smaller men there at my 5'9" and 130 pounds. Mitch was the biggest, probably 6'3" and easily 250, maybe pushing 300.
They asked me how I had met Laura and I told the story of the wedding, of my role as a groomsman, of her as the Matron of Honor, of her hitting on me and taking me back to her motel later, and how I had, much to my surprise, found myself in love with a woman twice my age and twice my size. They all laughed and told me I was a lucky guy but warned me to be careful.
"She can wear a man out pretty quickly," Fred, who some called Si, said.
I just grinned.
"Time's up," Charlie said from the head of the table, he seemed to be the unofficial patriarch of the group, "and we do NOT want to keep the ladies waiting."
We all stood and headed for the elevators. I looked at the key card envelope and punched 11 since the room number written on the envelope was 1114.
At the door, I hesitated and took a deep breath before pushing the card into the slot and watching the little LED turn green.
I was not a virgin, but this was completely new to me. It was like the Penthouse magazine that some of the guys in the barracks used to have, with their stories in the front of the magazine had suddenly come to life.
I opened the door and she stood there.
I had to run through my memory to come up with a name.
"Well hello Trudi," I said.
"You remembered," she said, smiling broadly, "and I get your cherry. This is my lucky day."
She was, I figured, the second oldest woman in the group. I guessed her in her middle 60s. She was one of those women whose face had settled into a mass of wrinkles. Her blue eyes were clear, her short hair was frizzy, and she was fat.
She was fat in that delightfully soft way of some women. She had about four chins that spread up to become a soft frame for her entire face. They wobbled a bit when she spoke.
She was in a sheer thing, I later found out it was called a peignoir, and obviously nothing else.
And I found her oddly attractive. There was something about the soft dimpled fat of her upper arms, the rolls of belly fat showing under the sheer garment, the fat thighs, and calves that tapered to almost delicate ankles, that I just couldn't look away from.
She smiled up at me.
"Ever been with a fat granny before?" she asked.
"No," I said simply.
She took the two steps to close the distance between us, put her arms around my neck, and pulled me down for a kiss.
It was a good kiss.
No, it was a God DAMN good kiss. Her lips were soft and hungry, her tongue was a wet, warm, darting thing, her arms were soft and heavy and irresistible. When I reached around, as far as I could, and felt the soft rolls of fat of her back she arched into me and I could feel her belly, big and soft, engulfing me.
An EXCELLENT kiss.
"Drink?" she asked, when she broke the kiss.
I was still unsure what the proper protocol would be so I said, "yes please."
She smiled. A good smile. "I have beer and some Jim Beam," she said
"Beer," I said.
She was oddly light on her feet as she went to the tiny refrigerator and got two beers.
"There's no hurry," she said, taking a drink and crawling up on the bed beside me, "we're not expected until the brunch."
She smiled, a wan sort of half-smile, and said, "I know what I look like, David," she said, "and if you're not interested it's okay. I won't give you a bad report."
I laughed at that, took a drink, and crawled up on the bed beside her.
"I'm just learning what you look like," I said, my fingers finding the tie at the neck of the peignoir and giving a little tug, undoing the bow at her throat, "and I want to learn more."
I pushed the sheer material back and looked, smiling when she actually blushed a little.
She was quite flat-chested, her breasts were just big, dark nipples on another roll of fat.
I liked it, and I liked the way her breath caught when I bent and took that big nipple into my mouth and began sucking.
She stroked my hair and said, softly, "mommy issues?"
I chuckled and released her nipple and smiled up at her.
"No, Trudi," I said, "I just like tits."
She laughed at that, a booming belly laugh, and any tension between us was erased.
"So," she said, sitting up with an odd grace and shrugging out of the peignoir, "ever been with a fat granny before?"
I grinned, my BEST boyish grin, the one I practiced in the mirror, and rolled out of bed.
"No," I said, starting to unbutton my shirt, "but I'm fixing to be."
"Wait," she said and reached for the little clock radio. She turned it on and fiddled with the station selector until she found a soft station. Peggy Lee was doing the definitive version of "Fever" and Trudi grabbed the other two pillows, sat up, adjusted the pillows behind her, reclined, and said, "now baby, take it off."
I grinned, just a plain grin of happiness this time, rolled out of the bed, and stood for a moment, catching the rhythm of the snapping fingers. I spread my feet apart a bit, got my hips moving in time with the beat, and started unbuttoning again, making it a striptease for her.
She whistled softly and said, "yeah baby."
She let out a little squeal of delight when I flashed a nipple and applauded when I turned my back and slowly eased the shirt off.
I kept my hips moving through another slow turn while Peggy did the outro - "what a lovely way to burn, what a lovely way to burn."
Billie Holliday came on next, "Stormy Weather" if it matters, and I picked up my striptease again, at a much slower tempo with the new music.