Ch 16.
This is the story of Stephen who can see peoples emotional state as a colour.
Stephen commits to his new venture, and celebrates with his family.
All character are over 18 years of age.
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Monica and Peter later confirmed another appointment for late the following week, as Monica's mother was busy and being difficult to nail down. The website was starting to bare more fruit with a steady stream of enquiries, and a referral from Monica cemented my next client couple. My career path now confirmed, it was time to confront Helen and officially hand in my resignation.
On Monday afternoon, I made my pilgrimage to Helen's office and gave her the news.
"I'm very disappointed," she said giving me a wink, "not so much for your role here in the office you understand!"
"That said though, I think you really have found your calling, and I won't try to keep you from it."
We had some further small talk and I asked about how her relationship with James hads been going since our dinner and last encounter.
"Fantastic, I've taken a new lover - Mike. He is bi-sexual and has a huge cock," she replied gesturing what must have been a 10 inch length.
"James also seems much happier, I think he's been denying his sexuality all these years and that was causing him to act out like an alpha. He loves cock sucking -- who knew? He seems happy to jerk off while I enjoy myself. All well as they say!"
Helen thanked me for my efforts both at home and in the office and promised to send me referrals. I ended my day free to pursue my own interests. Getting home I was pleased to see Mom, Dad and Jen would be home for dinner. Everyone had been very busy the last few weeks and it seemed we hadn't caught up in ages. I quickly grabbed a short shower and headed downstairs, everyone was already seated at the table.
"How are things at the practice?" dad asked.
He and Mom started referring to my work as "the Practice," I think to make it sound more official than perhaps it really was, but I kinda liked it so didn't object.
"Very well, we made a major breakthrough last week," I said without giving any specifics. "Enquiries are up, and I have a second client."
Everyone was very pleased that things were going well. Jen said she knew I'd make a success of it. I wasn't quite there yet, but word was getting around and I was pleased with my progress.
Just as we were finishing up dinner Mom looked up excitedly and said, "I have some news."
Jen and I looked up expectantly, "Your Aunty Jane, Uncle John, Charles and Tess are coming over and are going to the weekend with us!" mom continued.
Aunty Jane was mom's sister. She was a couple of years younger but they could nearly have been twins. Growing up they were inseparable, and when we were kids we would often holiday together as families. Jen and I, and Charles and Tess were similar ages and were like peas in a pod. About 4 years ago, Uncle John got a job on the west coast and moved the family which made it a lot harder to catch up.
Jen enthused "That's great! I can barely remember when we were all together last, they are so much fun, I remember laughing so hard I nearly peed myself."
We were all keen to have them over.
Mom commenced clearing the plates when she bumped the now cold gravy jug and spilled a quantity in her lap. She jumped back in surprise. We all laughed at the mishap.
"Let me help you with that," I said.
