Duo The In Between Years

The last instalment ended with the tragic deaths of Beth and Joel. I couldn't just leave it like that.

Here is a day in the life...

I woke up to find Beth cuddled up close to me, sound asleep. She looked so cute, adorable and delectable in her see-through nightie and no panties. I smiled at this breathtaking vision, and fell in love with her all over again.

It was our 1st anniversary! We were back in our home in Charlotte. A whole year had flown by: a whole year of adventures, music, laughter and undying love.

Our lives had been a busy one together. Up in Canada, we spent time with my children and grandkids who adored Beth. We had become very popular on the local music scene as DUO and much in demand. Beth had busied herself during the day with studying Canadian law and volunteering at Legal Aid. I spent my time maintaining our home, booking gigs and making meals for us. We began cooking dinners together, which we both loved doing.

Back in Charlotte, we spent fall and winter back together with April and Darius as the band called "North and South", equally in demand around the city. April was our booking manager. Beth was finding her way along the legal profession and I taught guitar to underprivileged youth and adults.

Every day over the past year I thought I couldn't possibly love Beth more, and yet every day I did. So, I just lay there, staring down at this picture of loveliness, this woman to whom I had given my whole being and would for all my days.

The night before I had gone around the world on her, like the first night we made love (and have many other times since). I kissed and licked my way all over her erogonous zones: her nipples, toes, and the inside of her thighs, then worshipped her pussy. I just adored her lovely pussy, and making her scream and squirt, which she did in abundance last night. She wanted to return the favour but I just said "Tomorrow my love, I want to save it for our anniversary", and she smiled, cuddled up to me and fell asleep immediately.

As I stared at her with deep, indescribable love, Beth slowly stirred, and opening her mesmerizing blue eyes, she saw me smiling down at her and smiled lazily in return:

"Mmm, good morning my beautiful husband, what a wonderful way to wake up, seeing your handsome face over me!"

I replied as I reached down to caress a cheek: "It's just as wonderful being able to stare at your stunningly gorgeous face for minutes on end and watch you at such peace."

I leaned down for a gentle kiss and we both murmured at the same time (of course):

"Happy Anniversary!" and giggled into each other's mouths.

I rose a bit and looked at her with all the love I could muster.

"A whole year of being with the woman of my dreams; a whole year with you, this amazing, entrancing person who has made me happier than I ever thought possible; a whole year filled with music, laughter, love...and mind-blowing sex!"

She smiled back up at me with love shining in her dazzling blue eyes and whispered:

"Right back atcha my precious love!"

I raised my arm in invitation for her to snuggle up to me, which she did with a sigh of contentment. We lay there for a bit, revelling in the contact. Beth again whispered:

"Oh my Joel, I love you beyond words or measure, I love you beyond anyone or anything I have loved or will ever love. This past year as your wife, I am completely fulfilled, deliriously happy and joyous. You are, and will always be, the perfect man for me. No one could ever come even remotely close!"

I looked at my gorgeous Beth:

"My sweet angel, every day this year as your husband has been a precious gift. I have never felt so totally alive in my entire life and it's all because of you. I love you so deeply, so completely, so fully. I adore everything about you, and I'll never get used to these feelings that seem stronger each and every day I'm with you."

We kissed gently at first and then with greater passion as our desire for each other began to overtake us. Our tongues did a dance of joy with each other. I reached for one of her cute little breasts and she reached for my now raging erection. Our want and need sexually for one other had not diminished one wit over the past year, and it still felt like we were in our honeymoon phase. We were the perfect couple, age difference a non-issue to us and to our friends and family.

Beth yanked down my boxer briefs that I slept in and lovingly grasped my hard cock, running her fingers over it with a feather-light touch, causing me to shiver with lust. I reached my fingers down to her pussy and felt the wetness that was already seeping. I rubbed my fingers across her slick nether lips and she groaned into my mouth.

"Baby, I need you in my mouth. I want to give back some of what you did to me last night!"

I replied with a hoarse whisper:

"Only if I can do the same, my goddess!"

With a gasp of anticipation, Beth quickly scrambled over top of me with her incredibly delightful pussy on top of my face in the classic 69, one of our favourite positions. I inhaled the scent of her arousal and just admired the glistening wetness of her cute pussy lips for a moment. Then I began kissing and tonguing her lovely cunt relishing the taste and feel. She moaned loudly and then plunged her mouth down on my cock taking it all the way in.

While enjoying the sublime skills Beth had picked up over the year sucking my cock, I started lapping my way from her clit right up to her pink rosebud, where I spent a considerable amount of time rimming her and sticking my tongue in as far as I could.

Beth half moaned, half cried out in ecstasy and lifting my balls gently out of the way proceeded to do the exact same thing to me. This double rimming drove us to new heights of lust and desire.

I don't how long we kept this up but she eventually went back to my cock, running her tongue all around the inside of my foreskin, while cupping and massaging my balls. She pulled my foreskin down and started bobbing her head up and down with the inside of her lip's sucking on the head. The sensation was driving me crazy.

Not to be outdone, I inserted my middle finger into her ass and my thumb into her pussy while flicking my tongue against her clit... the classic Venus Butterfly. The effect was immediate as, true to her nature, she came hard, screaming on my cock in ecstasy, squirting into my mouth. I drank down my breakfast treat with great relish. How I loved the taste of her juices!

I kept this up and my precious love continued coming, but with a determination as she spasmed, she renewed her ministrations on my cock. She went full tilt, using her hand and mouth, jacking me off, while swirling her tongue around the head. Beth desperately wanted my cum in her mouth. Not having come the night before, it didn't take long, and with a cry I came hard, spurting a huge load into her mouth. Oh the feeling was incredible, radiating from my cock throughout my whole body. I poured out my sublime pleasure and all my love into her mouth. Beth kept my cum in her mouth to relish the taste. I could feel her tongue swishing it back and forth.

Our mutual orgasm lasted interminably until we started coming back down to earth. We eased up with the pressure on each other and Beth collapsed on me. She pulled off, and finally swallowing my cum, planted adoring kisses on on my cock while I did the same to her pussy lips.

After we both stopped spasming, Beth raised herself and turned around, coming up to cuddle with me. We both sighed in satiated satisfaction. Beth grinned at me:

"Wow, what a delicious way to start our 1st anniversary!" As she gently caressed my dick.

I just replied languidly:

"Mmm hmm."

We lay there, lazily basking in the afterglow of our oral lovemaking. It was when we started falling asleep again, then Beth snapped awake and said:

"We need to get up baby and get started on our day. Remember, we're meeting Mandy, April and Darius for brunch to celebrate."

Rousing myself, I nodded and as we got out of bed, I replied:

"Yup, for sure. Would you please go and start pouring the coffee and I'll make the bed?"

She looked at me perplexed:

"Why? You always bring coffee to us in bed."

I smiled

"Just humour me, babe. Go, before I dive between your legs and get you all hot and bothered again!"

"Oooh, you're a wicked man Mr. Young!" She giggled.

I chuckled, spun her around and swatted her lightly on the bum;

"Guilty as charged Mrs. Young, now git! I'll be along shortly."

She giggled again and sauntered, humming happily, out of the bedroom and I went to the door to listen. I heard Beth gasp loudly and then she cried out in joy. I went, stark naked, and joined her, grinning like a fool.

The truth was, I had her coming hard the night before so she would fall asleep soundly. I then got up and hung the living room with all kinds of paper decorations. Bright colourful bursts of paper mache flowers on the walls; paper signs saying "I Love You" and "Happy 1st Anniversary!"; and best of all: "Don't you fucking dare buddy!"(Beth giggled with delight when she read one). There were framed pictures of our wedding; little paper origami figurines-scattered about the room (April had made them, she had quite the talent for origami), coloured paper streamers hung from the ceiling edge sweeping down to a vase of two dozen fresh red roses.

Beth turned to me, tears of happiness starting in her eyes:

"Oh my God Joel, this is absolutely amazing, for our paper anniversary! When did you do this?"

I kept grinning

"Last night, after you fell asleep. Why do think I made you come so hard? I know you always get real sleepy at night when I do that to you."

Beth hugged me fiercely, with tears of joy running down her face:

"Oh, my beautiful romantic hero! I love it, I love you. You always seem to know how to make me happy. The greatest thing to ever happen to me was to become your wife. I am sooo blessed!"

I just held her as she cried out her happiness. I turned her around so she could get a better look. She stared in wonder, and laughed/sobbed/giggled again at the "Don't you fucking dare buddy!" sign, leaning into me as I held my arms around her tummy while planting loving kisses on the back of her head.

Beth broke my hold and ran into the kitchen and grabbed her phone off the counter. She came back and took pictures of it all, minus the "Don't you fucking dare buddy!", and sent them to her friends. They almost immediately began replying how romantic it was and congratulating us on our anniversary. April, of course, made a smart assed comment about how sickly sweet we still were. We just laughed.

She went to take a closer pic of the roses when she noticed a small box nestled in the greenery.

"Oh no Joel, more?"

"Yes my heart, this is only a mere token of the immense love I feel for you."

Beth took the box and tore off the delicately wrapped paper. She opened it and gasped at the earrings and pendant set. The setting was musical eighth notes, with a large white sparkling diamond where the note head was, and black onyx for the note stem and flag.

She looked at me in disbelief, tears still in her eyes:

"Baby, this is indescribable! It's absolutely gorgeous. I...I don't know what to say! Thank you; thank you thank you!"

She threw her arms around me and in between kissing me, said:

"Joel, Joel, you spoil me! I'm beyond happy, and I'm so deeply in love with you...oh my precious, wonderful husband!"

I just held her fiercely, overcome with joy at seeing my heart and soul so happy.

She suddenly broke away and said:

"What's wrong with me, I'm being so selfish! I almost forgot what I got you. Wait here."

She dashed off, her pretty little bum wiggling naked underneath her nightie. I stared at this delightful sight as she disappeared from view.

She came back in with a little box and a grin:

"Here my love, I hope you like it!"

I smiled in return:

"If it's from you, I'm gonna love it."

Beth handed me the box and I eagerly unwrapped it. It was my turn to gasp. It was a rose gold chain with a custom-made, brilliantly designed, fusion of a treble cleft and acoustic guitar pendant. The body of the curved part of the cleft and guitar were integrated and shaped like a heart. Where the sound hole would be, was a sparkling blue sapphire. It reminded me of Beth's eyes. It was stunning.

I looked up at Beth with tears now forming in my own eyes:

"Oh Beth, it's simply breathtaking! I absolutely love it! Thank you my amazing wife. Did you design this?"

She sighed in relief, nodded and smiled that beautiful smile:

"Yes baby, I wanted something very special and unique for you. Isn't it incredible that we both thought of custom-made jewelry for one other? But I guess, that's no surprise, seeing as how we're so attuned to each other."

"That is so true! And now we have our performance bling!" I smiled back.

Beth put on the earrings and we helped each other put on our necklaces. We just stood there looking gaga eyes at one another. Then we realized that we were both standing naked or nearly naked wearing only our jewelry, and we started giggling and then laughing uncontrollably. This was us, this was the incredible life of joy we had together.

I walked, still butt naked, into the kitchen and poured us both a coffee from the brew machine. We stood there leaning against the counter, sipping our coffee and chuckling at the silliness of it all.

Then Beth said:

"My love, why don't you grab your guitar and let's sing our song."

Our song was one we had written together: Never Like This.

We had also written some other songs and were driving to Nashville the following week to record them. But, Never Like This was the first one we wrote together and it was forever going to be our anniversary song.

I went to our music room where our equipment and my guitars were kept.

I stopped at the doorway in complete surprise and shock at the sight that greeted me. There, on a stand, with a big bow on the headstock, was a brand new Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster model in beautifully grained Cocobolo wood.

I had admired this guitar for a while now and was thinking of buying it, but had been so busy with our lives, I just never seemed to have the time to look into it further. I just stood there stunned, and then went and picked it up studying and admiring its beautiful craftsmanship.

Beth had not followed me, so I went back to the living room where she was still admiring my decorations. She glanced at me with a shy smile:

"Do you like it?"

I looked at her with wonder:

"Oh babe, it's...it's...incredible! Now I'M the one being spoiled! I'm all out of words, but thank you from the bottom of my overwhelmed heart!"

She giggled (God, how I loved to hear her giggle!):

"I guess we just enjoy spoiling each other!"

I walked over to her and leaned in for a long, loving kiss.

Beth whispered,

"I can't wait to hear it."

I hefted this beautiful instrument looking at it, then turning to Beth:

"Do you know how much I love you?"

She smiled at me:

"Of course I do, because I know how much I love YOU!"

Then putting on a goofy face, I wise cracked (in my best Bugs Bunny voice):

"Nyahh...So what if we's a bit late for brunch doc? Dis is way more importanter! Besides, I does recall, dat I treatened to dive between your legs again, and I don't make no idle trets!"

Beth giggled at my goofiness, and grabbing my hand, she tugged me to the music room...to start with...

...

Running late, we walked hand in hand into the outdoor cafe where we had first met face-to-face just over a year ago. I reflected on all that had transpired over that time: the long drive down, my surprise show-up, the explosion of our love, the never-ending incredible singing we did together, the near-death beating, the hospital wedding, the disastrous end to our honeymoon, the wonderful times up in Canada with my children and grandchildren, and the immensely incredible sex we had. So much had occurred, good and bad, in such a relatively short period! The good outweighed the bad almost exponentially and I often had to pinch myself to make sure it was true.

We were greeted at the entrance with big hugs by our good friend Mandy, just newly promoted to Manager.

"Beth, Joel, Happy Anniversary! I'm so happy for you guys!"

All three of us walked, each one holding on to one of my arms, to our table where April and Darius were waiting.

They both jumped up and hugs and kisses and "Happy Anniversary!" along with "We know why you're late!" were exchanged, the latter making me grin and Beth blush.

We settled into our seats. Mandy had already said all our meals were on the house in celebration of our anniversary. It was her gift to us. We were all beaming and relishing the great vibes of our anniversary.

April seemed particularly happy and animated, even more so than she usually was. Even Darius was being more chatty than his normal stoic self. Something was up. I noticed April's left hand was under the table holding Darius' hand. They kept looking at each other with barely disguised smirks. Beth was oblivious, delightedly showing off her new jewelry and talking about our gifts to each other.

I leaned forward and said to April and Darius.

"OK you two, something's up. C'mon...out with it!"

April said hesitatingly:

"Well, we didn't want to overshadow your anniversary, but this happened last night."

She raised her left hand from under the table and we immediately noticed the large sparkling diamond ring on her finger.

Beth let out a scream (she'd gotten really good at that), and dashed over to April to give her a huge hug.

"Oh my God April, at last! Congratulations my bestie!"

I got up and gave each of them a big hug, although hugging Darius was like trying to put your arms around an oak tree.

Sitting back down, I said with a grin:

"Way to go, congratulations you guys! You set a date yet?"

Before either of them had a chance to reply, Beth piped up in a perfect imitation of April:

"Baby, I better be your maid of honour, or I'm never speaking to you again!"

April, Beth and I just howled, while Darius and Mandy looked at us bemused and perplexed.

When I stopped laughing so hard, I explained to them that this is exactly what and how April had said it to Beth, after we had sung live together for the first time just over a year ago, right here in this café.

(See Songstress for the back story)

Still chuckling I turned to Beth:

"Babe I never knew, you're quite the mimic!"

Beth giggled:

"Oh, I know a party trick or two!"

April then answered my original question:

"We haven't set a date yet, because we wanted to know your schedule with you two back and forth to Canada. And yes, you silly girl; of course you're my maid of honour, and..."

April turned to Darius who with a big smile said to me:

"...and Joel, I'd like you to be my best man."

"Oh wow, I'd be completely honoured D-Man!"

I turned to Mandy:

"Mandy, I think it's time for that special bottle."

"Absolutely!" And she jumped up and dashed off to the kitchen.

She quickly came back with a bottle of Dom Perignon and champagne flutes.

"I dropped that bottle off yesterday and now we have a double reason to celebrate!" I said as I popped the cork with everybody cheering.

We had a wonderful brunch, celebrating and laughing with each other. All too quickly it was over, and we had to leave.

"Gotta go and see Sam, and then we'll see y'all in the square for the big launch!"

That night, we were going to do a live debut of Never Like This. April and Darius were also going to debut their new song they had written together: Been Looking For You.

With our popularity with the local crowd, tonight's show was sold out. Mandy was delighted over the spill over business the cafe would have.