REVELATIONS AND NEW BEGINNINGS
I sat on the edge of my favorite chair, left arm on the arm rest and chin resting in my palm as I leaned forward and awaited what my wife wished to impart. She had asked that I come straight home from work and said she needed to talk to me before we went to the company celebratory party. Business was skyrocketing and we had become a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Since I usually came right home from the office after work, for her to ask me to do so gave me the impression that something important was happening. So, of course, I did as she asked. When I arrived home she immediately directed me to take a seat.
Perched on the front edge of the cushion of the chair, I watched with rapt attention as Carmen glided towards the chair directly across the slender center table from mine. Small and waifishly slender, Carmen was a nymphlike beauty possessing a skin tone similar to burnished copper that seemed to glow with an entrancing warmth like the effect of a rubicund splash of color at the edge of the world which heralds the birth of a new day, mousy brown hair that fell in a tumultuous cascade of waves to the small of her back and which sparked beneath the light with the glint of carnelian embers as highlights, and a face possessing the attributes of a fashion model.
Carmen had, in fact, once desired to be a fashion model. She'd even begun the initial phase of entering the profession, but then fate took a hand and that career path fell by the wayside for her. In other words, she became pregnant. Of course her having a child did not have to be the end of her career and she planned to get herself back on track shortly after the child was born. But again fate had other ideas and she almost immediately found herself pregnant again. After our second little girl was born we had an argument about whether or not she would again attempt to seek employment as a model. When I say we had an argument, what I really mean is that she argued about it. She argued both sides of the issue with anger, frustration, and a bit of fear that she would no longer measure up to the physical standards required for the profession. I just served the purpose of being a sounding board she could unleash the fury of her thoughts and feelings upon.
"You don't have to give up just because we have a couple of children, " I informed her one night as we were getting ready for the Christmas Eve party being held in the executive offices of the company I worked for. I reminded her that Tyra Banks was a mother.
"Tyra Banks didn't carry or give birth to any children. She employed a surrogate."
"How about Adrianna Lima, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum?"
"You know, your encouragement would work a lot better if you just stop knocking me up," she murmured under her breath.
I walked over to where she stood and wrapped my arms around her from behind.
"I would stop knocking you up if you weren't such an irresistible and insatiable little nympho," I had breathed gently in her ear.
Carmen and I sat across from each other for a long moment and did not speak. It was as if she was having a hard time composing what it was that she wanted to say. When she spoke there was a serious expression on her face.
"I know what you're trying to do," she finally stated. "For the last couple of days you've been sexually teasing me and filling me with relentless desire. You know this is my fertile time, and you know how hot I get when I'm ovulating."
I did know.
Wordlessly, I vacated my seat and walked over to where she was. Moving to stand behind her, I bent down and lowered my face into the crux of her neck where I flickered the pointed tip of my tongue against the sensitive flesh there, knowing it to be one of her various erogenous zones and wanting to give her a rise in that always smoldering area between her slender thighs.
"Stop that." She said, pulling away from me. "If you keep that up we won't make it to the party."
"We don't have to go. We could stay home and...."
"And what? Create baby number three? I don't think so." I watched with admiration as she slid the slender, delicate fingers of both hands down the front of her hot pink evening dress. The hot pink of her professionally painted fingernails shimmered as she sought to smooth the fabric across the flatness of her abdomen. It never ceased to amaze me that she never got fat during pregnancy like some women, but remained her girlishly slim self. When she was at her most gravid only her tummy would swell, and following her giving birth it would resumed its flat state almost instantly with only the presence of distended skin there to mark her as having given birth. "You know you can't blow this off. It's obligatory."
Turning away from me, She grabbed her coat and proceeded to leave the room.