Part 28
Jennifer and I were in the kitchen cooking breakfast when Tommy and Mary Louise came out of the master bedroom, holding hands and exchanging secretive smiles.
"Did you two have a restful night?" I asked pleasantly.
Tommy and Mary Louise exchanged a lingering glance. "Restful?" Tommy smiled. "Not exactly...but I'm not complaining." Mary Louise was blushing to the roots of her crimson hair.
"I need to visit my dressing room," Jennifer said. "Mary Louise? Could you help me with something for a minute or two?" They disappeared into the princess bedroom and I heard excited giggling as the door closed.
"I guess things went well, then," I said to Tommy as I turned the frying potatoes in a skillet.
"You could say that, Dude. You could definitely say that."
"Did you sleep at all? Or..."
"Oh, a little bit here and there. I hated to close my eyes, afraid she would disappear, I guess. And whenever I did doze off, I had the strangest dreams..."
"Like being in a place where people called you 'Ya-na-sa?'" I asked casually. "Because they thought you looked like a buffalo?"
Tommy's eyes widened as he stared at me. "You hear me talking in my sleep?"
"No. These bedrooms seem to be nearly sound-proof. But I heard you talking in my dream. And so did Jennifer."
"That is wild, Dude." Tommy leaned over the kitchen bar, lowering his voice. "You're not fucking with my head, are you?"
"No. I don't expect you to believe it, though. But give it a chance, and you'll see. I can't explain it...but it's happening and it's been happening to Jennifer and me for a while now."
"That's just too freak for words, Dude. Maybe it's some kind of mass hypnosis thing?"
I shrugged. "Whatever it is, it's happening. And it has to mean something."
"Convince me a little more, Dude. When we were all in this dream-place, uh, how did we meet?"
"Jennifer and I watched you pop Mary Louise's cherry, to be brutally frank."
"Damn! Now that's really spooky. Even more spooky, I actually got a thrill out of it when I saw you were watching."
"We all did," I smiled, "Except maybe Mary Louise, because she was flying too high."
"Wow. So maybe the dream is telling me I am actually about to get laid?"
"Kind of looks like you already did. Only thing you don't know yet is what it feels like in this world."
"I'm pretty sure it's going to feel damn nice, dreams or no dreams."
"I'm pretty sure you're right, Dude," I said. I began transferring breakfast food to serving plates and placing them on the counter. "How about setting the table, Dude?"
Soon everything was ready but the girls were not yet back. We waited as the food cooled. I called out, "Come and get it before I feed it to the dog," but got no response. I tapped lightly on the door to the princess bedroom and got no response there either. I turned the doorknob and it started to catch, as if the lock had been only partially engaged, then the door clicked open and swung inward an inch or so. And I had a clear view of Jennifer and Mary Louise, naked on the princess bed. Their whispered conversation was audible, but barely so.