I hope all my readers agree that this is a Loving Wives story. I'm sure many of you will want a complimentary story about Pam and Bev. So would I, but I think it would be better written by a woman. So, if there is a lady author who would like to write this story from Pam and Bev viewpoint, please let me know.
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When my wife, Pam told me that my sister had invited her to visit for a few days, I accepted it though I wasn't very happy about it.
When we married twelve years ago, my wife and my sister became best friends. I joked about it telling her she only married me so she could be pals with my sister. Her reply was that I married her because I couldn't marry my sister. You see, at almost the same age they were so alike in appearance they were often asked if they were sisters. If only their personalities hadn't also been so similar.
My Mum wasn't there when Pam and I married. She had left my Dad three years earlier. At that time, I was living in my own apartment near where I worked, several miles away from them. I didn't know anything about it until my Dad told me a couple of weeks after she left. 'Don't worry about me, Son,' he said. 'She wasn't much of a wife anyway.'
My Dad was only forty-two at the time and still, a fit, good-looking guy who I knew could look after himself. I'd always been closer to him than my Mum, When I was a kid, just the two of us often went camping and fishing, He was always at my school and college events. Whenever he could he took me to all the major local sporting events. Thinking back on it I don't remember Mum ever being with us.
My sister, Beverly was much more a Mums girl so I was surprised she wasn't more upset when we met after Dad had told her that Mum had left him. At the time Bev was a beautician, working as a make-up artist with a local TV production company.
Things have changed a bit since then. Mum has totally disappeared. Dad has married again and I know he is much happier with his new wife, Heather. Pam and I now have two kids; Christine, who came first, is now eleven and her brother David, is now nine. Pam is the librarian at the local college so she can be there for the kids. Me, I'm a partner in a small printing company, with my best mate Gareth.
Bev has moved to London and is now a freelance make-up consultant in the fashion business. Pam and Bev, only Dad calls her Beverly, are always in contact in some way or another.
Since she moved to London five years ago I only see Bev every other month when she visits Dad. It's only in the last three visits that I've noticed how she's changed. She is still my bright, bubbly sister, but it's her appearance that's changed. I know that Dad noticed and I'm sure Heather did, but it was only after her last visit that anyone said anything.
Dad actually got me on my own when he asked me to help him pick some tomatoes from his greenhouse. 'Richard, did you notice anything different about, Beverly?' he asked almost as soon as we got there. Like my sister, he never shortened my name.
I thought for a moment before deciding to share my observation. 'Yes, Dad. Something's changed, I've noticed it over the last three visits.'
'Heather noticed before me,' he admitted. 'She says it's the people she's working with.'
'Well, she is working with some of the top fashion houses and you know how queer some of those people are supposed to be.'
'Your sisters not queer, Richard. Heather says that she seems so much more, chic,' he emphasised.
Chic, I wouldn't have said that about my beautiful sister. She was certainly been wearing an expensive jumper and skirt, and I thought she had Jimmy Choos shoes. I know that more than once I looked at her and knew I couldn't afford to buy Pam what Bev was wearing.
'She was certainly wearing some very expensive stuff,' I told my Dad. While I was thinking more about her demeanour.
When I asked Pam if she had noticed any change in my sister she hesitated before replying. 'Not really, she's certainly able to afford some pretty expensive clothes. Those were Jimmy Choos, she was wearing.'
'I thought they were,' I told her. 'How she can walk in those astronomically high heels I'll never know?'
'They were a bit high, weren't they? I tried them on and couldn't even stand up in them.'
Bev wasn't mentioned again until her next visit a couple of month's later. I had thought a couple of times that Pam seemed a bit excited about seeing Bev again. As soon as Pam and I arrived at Dad's, and we had all settled down, I noticed my wife and Bev soon chatting quietly to each other.
Bev again looked absolutely stunning, this time wearing a dark blue dress that even I could see was a perfect fit and style to show off her slim body and lovely bust. How, I wondered, could a woman as lovely as my sister still be single? I asked her when we had a few minutes together. 'Oh, don't worry about me Rich, she always called me Rich, I like being single.'
During our conversation, I asked her. 'What's it like being responsible for the make-up of so many top models?'
'It's not as glamorous a job as you probably think, Rich. After a while you get to know exactly what works for each of them and what doesn't.' A few minutes later she asked me how Pam and I were. That surprised me because I knew how often they were in contact either by phone or text. 'We're fine,' I told her. 'Work gets a bit intrusive sometimes, but Pam understands, and I always make it up to her.'
It was a week after her visit when Pam told me that Bev had invited her to spend the next weekend with her. She didn't quite tell me but by the way she asked I knew she didn't expect me to object. She could be like that sometimes and I'd learnt to accept it.
Thursday night Pam did everything to let me know how much she loved me and enjoyed my lovemaking. Even so, without understanding why, I still wasn't happy about her visit to my sister. Early Late Friday afternoon I drove Pam to the station. It was a three-hour drive to London and Bev had told her not to as parking would be a problem and they would be using taxies anyway.
'I'll call you as soon as I get to Bev's apartment,' Pam told me and I'll call you again during the weekend to let you know what we're doing.' I got a long kiss and then she was gone. I'd had the kids to myself before, once when she looked after my Dad when he was recovering from a prostate operation. Another time she had to go on a two-day seminar.
The children were younger than, now they were old enough I could take them somewhere exciting so on Saturday we went to Alton Towers. They were exhausted by the time we left so I had a quiet drive home. I picked up a McDonalds, something their Mum would never allow.
They were munching away in front of the television when Pam rang about seven.
'How are the Kids, darling?'
Luckily, I was clearing up the kitchen and she wouldn't hear them eating so I could honestly tell her they were watching television.
'What did you do today?'