I was just settling into my easy chair after dinner, Edna was finishing up in the kitchen, and the kids had retired to their bedrooms to do their home work, when the phone rang. I let it ring figuring it was for Edna but after the fourth ring I picked up just as she did and I heard her answer, "Hello."
"Edna? Is it really you?" Said the caller.
"Of course it's me. You called this number didn't you? Who is this?"
"It's me, Sally; Sally Benson, from Central High.
"Sally, oh my god, it's been years......."
I hung up at that point because that is when all the female squealing began. About twenty minutes later I remembered that I wanted to call Sam Browning about our golf game next Saturday and when I picked up the phone the women were still at it.
Just as I was about to put it down again I heard Edna say, "Oh my gosh, did he really ask for me?"
"Yes," Sally replied, "He specifically wanted to know if you would be there. He said he wouldn't come if you weren't coming too."
"I haven't seen him since the summer we graduated," Edna said, "and I haven't even thought of him in years."
"Well he said that he never forgot what happened on your prom night and the rest of the summer nights until you left for college."
"Prom Night." Edna said with a sigh, "Oh, I'll never forget that night, no woman ever does."
"Then you'll come? Can I tell Adam you will be there? I'm trying to get as many people as I can for our twentieth reunion."
"I don't know yet. I'll have to talk to Cal and see if he can get away that weekend."
"Are you sure you would want your husband to come too?" Sally asked.
"Oh you are so nasty." Edna giggled, "Of course I do."
And then they gossiped on for another fifteen minutes before hanging up.
I had met Edna after she graduated from college and never met any of her high school friends, except for the Cynthia, who was her maid of honor at our wedding. I knew she wasn't a virgin when we married but neither was I and neither of us had ever questioned the other about our prior lovers. Now I was curious about this Adam.
What made me even more curious was that Edna didn't mention the phone call or the reunion until the invitation came in the mail several weeks later. The envelope was mixed in with the other mail on my home office desk when I was opening the months bills.
"Edna," I called out, "there's a letter here for you."
"Who's it from?" She asked from the kitchen.
I raised my voice to answer. "Return address on the envelope says Sally Benson."
"Who is Sally Benson?"
"Edna, how would I know? Do you want the letter or not?"
"Open it and tell me what it is."
"It's an invitation to your twentieth high school reunion."
"Oh my." she said as she dried her hands walking into the room, "I haven't heard from her in years and I've never gone to any of the reunions."
"Why not?" I asked, wondering why she was denying knowing about the reunion.
"I guess because I never wanted to leave you home alone with the kids or drag you along to a reunion where you wouldn't know anyone."
"Don't you want to go?" I prodded.
"I don't know, I haven't thought about it." Why all this denial, I wondered?
"Well I think you should go. It will be good for you to get away and renew old friendships." I said, stirring the pot a little.
"Do you really think I should go?" she questioned hesitatingly. "No, I don't think so. I wouldn't be comfortable without you being there with me?"
Clever of her to plant the seed of her going without me but that's not going to happen. "Not to worry my dear, I have a client there that I can see on Friday. I will be looking forward to spending the rest of the weekend away."
"Oh," she said as a fleeting look of disappointment faded behind a forced smile, "That's great. I'll get back to Sally and let her know we will be coming."
I noticed it didn't take her long to make up her mind to go after my encouraging her. I wondered how this was going to play out. I also wanted to know more about this Adam and the first place I went to was her high school year book.
I found him there, the only Adam in her class. Adam Zoblinski, wide receiver on the football team, guard on the basketball team, second base on the baseball team, a real jock. A good looking guy according to his year book picture, just the kind of guy a pretty eighteen year old girl could fall for.
Next to Edna's picture were several scrawled blurbs, the most interesting was signed by Adam saying, 'To the prettiest girl in our class, I look forward to seeing more of you in the future.'
'Seeing more of her.' I said to my self, I wonder how much more he saw of her on all of those nights that summer. From what I can figure out so far, this is the guy who took her cherry and she not only hasn't forgotten him but she is looking forward to renewing an old relationship.
The weather was beautiful on the October Thursday when we arrived at the hotel that was hosting the reunion. Edna was buoyant and excited with anticipation at seeing her old friends. She hadn't been back in many years because her parents had moved to Florida not long after we were married.
We hadn't been in our room for more than fifteen minutes and we were still unpacking when there was a knock on the door. When I opened it, there stood Cynthia, "Cal," she exclaimed, "it's so good to see you again. You look just as good as you did on your wedding day."
She looked good and she felt even better when she reached out and grabbed me in a hug that connected us from knee to lip. The kiss she was giving me was not what I would have expected from a woman I had only met a few times in my life and her body, pressed against mine, was causing a reaction from me that she couldn't miss but that she did ignore.
"Edna," she shrieked as she loosened her grip on me and spotted my wife, "My god, you are as beautiful as ever. How do you do it after two kids and all these years?"
They went on and on as only women can and I found out that Cynthia had the room adjoining and connected to ours and we were having dinner with her and her fiancé tonight. At seven o'clock we met Cynthia and her fiancé in the restaurant for dinner. Guess who the fiancé was? Why was I not surprised when he was introduced as Adam?
The dinner conversation was lively, probably because the drinks were flowing and the flirting going on around the table. When the three piece band began to play I had the first dance with Edna and then the swap happened. Edna grabbed Adam and I was left with Cynthia. She moved in on me like I was made out of fly paper. By the second song she was humping my thigh like she wanted to cum right there on the dance floor.
"Ok Cynthia," I said, "What's going on?"
"What do you mean, what's going on?"
"Cyn, you're all over me like fleas on a dog. That's my wife over there carrying on with your so called fiancé just like you are doing with me and we both know that I never did anything to encourage you to come on to me like this. By the way what happened to Henry?"
"Oh god," she groaned. "I told Edna we could never pull this off. Henry is long gone; we never should have been married. We split three years ago and you are right, Adam and I are not engaged. I'm supposed to seduce you so that Edna can relive her high school prom night with him. I'm so sorry Calvin, I'm so ashamed of myself and my friend. You don't deserve what she has planned."
"I can't say that I have been completely in the dark about why she wanted to come to this reunion but I never knew you were involved in my seduction. You don't seem to have minded the assignment."
She had the decency to blush when she answered, "No, I didn't mind it at all."
"What did she plan for tomorrow and Saturday?"
"She is going to tell you that she and I are going shopping after breakfast but she was really spending the day with Adam. Then we were all going to go to the football game at five o'clock and the party afterwards. After the party, you and I go to my room and those two will be in yours. Except for the dinner dance on Saturday night, I don't know what she has planned for the next day."
"Will you do me a favor Cyn; will you not tell her that I know what's going on? I want to know how this is going to play out. I want to know just how sound my marriage really is."
"I don't know Cal, she's my friend. I feel funny caught in the middle of all this.
"Then let me talk to her tonight and if she admits to what she has planned and doesn't go thorough with it, then there is no problem. But if she won't give it up then there js nothing either of us can do."
She reluctantly agreed and when the band quit playing at eleven we went up to our rooms. As I closed the door I turned to Edna and asked, "So are you going to tell me Edna?"
"Tell you? Tell you what?" she answered my question with hers.
"What was happening between you and Adam tonight?"
"What was happening? Nothing was happening. You were right there. I saw how close you pulled Cynthia when you started to dance. I didn't do anything you didn't do. He's my friend's fiancé and I find him charming and as long as you were dancing with her I kept dancing with him."
"Edna, I'm not stupid. The way you were monopolizing Adam and the way Cynthia was coming on to me told me right away that they were not engaged and that you and Adam had some kind of connection."
She looked away from me, her embarrassment was clearly evident. "I knew him when I was in high school."
"Knew him?" I repeated, "Knew him how? As a friend or in the biblical sense?"