Before driving home from the airport after our Cancun Spring Break vacation, we did some grocery shopping. We would be home now until we left for the wedding and then our honeymoon in Monte Carlo. I was getting tired of eating out at restaurants every night and some home cooking sounded good, even with Alexis' meager cooking skills.
After putting away the groceries and unloading our one suitcase, I went to my study room and closed the door. I had a power lab report to write and then I really needed to study for a mid-term exam in Thermodynamics. Alexis knew that the door closed to my study room meant that she shouldn't disturb me. She adhered to those rules because she had her own study room and the closed door meant the same thing for her.
So, I was surprised when Alexis knocked and immediately opened the door. She stuck her head in and said, "Baby. Rachel is here and says it's urgent that we come over to her side of the house ASAP." I groaned and dropped my forehead to the textbook like I was trying to quickly absorb the contents through osmosis.
"What's the emergency Babe?" I said. She shrugged her shoulders and looked as confused as I was. "Can you ask her?"
Alexis responded, "I can't. She hurried back to her house. She seemed frazzled. I have no idea what's up."
I pushed myself back from the desk and said, "Well, I guess we should go find out what's going on."
We went down the hallway and through the door separating her mansion from our guest house. No one was in sight, so we walked through the foyer, which ran around eighty feet from our door to the front door with several rooms branching off to the right and left. Two chandeliers hung down from the twenty foot ceilings and both were turned to maximum illumination. We had never seen either of them on high before. The Oriental carpets muffled our footsteps as we headed toward the front door.
Mitch appeared from the last doorway on the right which we knew was the study. She was urgently waving us toward her and we picked up our pace. Alexis looked at me with confusion on her face and said, "What the fuck is going on?" It was my turn to shrug my shoulders. Mitch disappeared back into the study and we turned the corner and stopped short as a room full of people jumped out at us yelling, "Surprise. Happy Birthday."
There must have been fifty people in the room as party poppers and blaring horns sounded. Alexis grabbed my arm and looked up at me like I was going to make everything crystal clear. I was as confused as she was. Rachel came across the room, took our hands and pulled us into the room. She was all grins as she said, "I told you I'd have to plan a party for Alexis' birthday. I decided that we hadn't celebrated your birthday either so I invited everyone you two know."
I looked around the room and random faces became members of the Football team and cheerleaders; Alexis' friends from her classes. The SH5 team was there which included January along with her Basketball friends, Jemelle, Jo and Julia and even their coach, Jennifer, who was grinning broadly at me. I hadn't seen her since that day in her office. I hadn't been hanging out in the gymnasium or the field house much since football season was over.
Dean and Josie came over and said, "Happy Birthday, guys." Jan came over and introduced us to Holly. She was exceptionally tall with light brown hair pulled back in a tight pony-tail. Neither Alexis nor I knew her. She was the fifth member of the starting girl's basketball team. She had not been there that day in the sauna. She was scanning me up and down with a lascivious look on her face. Alexis saw the look and looked at me for an explanation. I shrugged my shoulders.
Cheerleaders Mindy and Morgan and former cheerleader April pushed through the crowd and hugged and kissed Alexis. Right behind them was their former Coach Hannah. She smiled and kissed and hugged me and then Alexis. Alexis looked up at me with a "WTF?" look on her face as she dutifully hugged Hannah back. I shrugged my shoulders again. I was doing that a lot lately.
Mitch muscled her way through the crowd surrounding us and hugged and kissed us both. She ran her open hand across my crotch when she kissed me. It didn't go unseen. Rachel had moved to the doorway behind us and was talking with John. He was apparently working as he was pushing and pulling wheeled carts with food and snacks consisting of shrimp and cocktail sauce; Buffalo Chicken bites and bleu cheese; scallops wrapped with bacon; crackers and sliced cheese and a variety of other snacks. John set up the carts along the far wall and two minutes later was back with two more carts. One held desserts of all kinds and another with every variety of soda and bottled water. I was certain that this crowd would have preferred beer but Rachel, as the University Chancellor, was not going to be caught in a scandal providing alcoholic beverages to under-age students.
The crowd thinned around us as everyone headed for the food and drink. Football friends: JR and Jason, Spitfire and Rocket, who along with Dean and I had given Olivia the ride of her life when we got back from the Bowl Game, came over and shook my hand and said "Happy Birthday Meat". They all hugged and kissed Alexis. I was sure that was more their goal than wishing me a happy birthday.
As parties go, the crowd broke up into smaller groups for conversations and then different groups formed into different conversations. We all had a great time. No one made a move to engage in anything remotely related to sex. Not in the Chancellor's home. They knew where they were and everyone acted as perfect ladies and gentlemen. The only one who had made an overt sexual move had been Mitch and she lived here.
My mind kept going back to my studying for tomorrow's exam but I would never diss Rachel by quietly disappearing back to my study room. I would be the last one to leave after profusely thanking Rachel for her thoughtfulness. Gradually, our friends started to take their leave. My Engineering friends stopped to shake hands and to remind me that we had a big test tomorrow. I just nodded and smiled as they went to express their thanks to Rachel for being invited.
By eleven o'clock the crowd was down to Rachel, Mitch, Alexis and me. John was cleaning up the study and taking trays across the foyer to the kitchen. Rachel waited for John to leave the room before she pushed herself against my body and kissed me passionately. I kissed her back the same way and then she separated when she heard John coming back across the foyer. She clearly didn't want John to see her being affectionate with me. I took Rachel's hand and thanked her for the special party. Alexis did the same. Rachel glanced quickly at John as he walked toward the foyer with more trays of mostly eaten food. I said our goodnights and followed John into the foyer and made our way to the opposite end of the house to the entrance to our apartment.
I went to my study room and Alexis said, "I'll probably be asleep when you come to bed," as she went directly to our bedroom. She was correct. I studied for two more hours and when I quietly walked into our bedroom, Alexis was doing her poofing/snore. I went to the bathroom and closed the door while I brushed my teeth. I stripped naked and went back in the dark bedroom. I gently slid under the covers being careful not to wake Alexis. She didn't stir but she stopped poofing for a couple minutes before resuming. Her rhythmic breathing quickly became monotonous and I drifted off to sleep.
Alexis had no morning classes. I did. She moaned as I pulled myself away from her. I had unknowingly spooned behind her during the night and I had her left breast was in my hand when I woke. My morning woody was trapped between my stomach and Alexis' lower back. I ignored my woody and it gradually went away as I did my bathroom stuff for the day.
The days seemed to slide by more and more quickly. Classes seemed to be getting monotonous again. I was forcing myself to study. I still wanted the Engineering degree but now I was assessing the reasons why. It was becoming more of a means to an end. I had no idea what I was going to do after. I had the money to just play for the rest of my life but I didn't see myself as being satisfied with that. I figured I'd go crazy before I was thirty. What I needed was a hobby like Alexis' art.
The long awaited and much anticipated wedding was only a few weeks away. I was wondering if I would be the clichΓ© groom suddenly asking himself what the fuck he was doing. I figured nerves and pre-wedding bickering would be normal but I had none of those. I was as excited as Alexis and she was getting giddy. Final exams were underway and the semester ended before the end of May. Everything was set for the wedding. It had all been thought through by professionals and by Emma. All I knew was that I was getting married. I knew none of the details. I was certain that everything would be spectacular.
The only persons who had to fly in to leave for the wedding were my sister Thia and Emma's sister Jane and Jane's step-daughter Julia. I had met Jane and Julia at Dee's and Jarrod's wedding. Jane was a hot-ticket. She would fuck any guy with a pulse or woman for that matter. Thia had a boyfriend but chose not to bring him. I was sure she didn't want him getting in the way of her fun with her family and new friends. I had purchased round trip tickets for all three of them and mailed them weeks ago. Thia and I had talked on the phone and she was over the moon about this adventure.