I am dashing around in the kitchen, Sally and Wilma telling me to slow down. Tony walks past when there is a knock at the door he looks over at me then takes my hand and drags me along to the door. When the door opens I see Constance standing there with another woman. I have to look twice to realize it is the policewoman who had volunteered to pick up the movies. Behind them I see Scott and Francis they wave as Constance takes my arm and propels me back into the kitchen.
"To be honest I was expecting to see you swelled up like a balloon already." She says in a low whisper.
"Oh don't worry I learned how to control the growth rate, I'm only three and a half weeks. I'll just give birth a month early, and don't worry she knows already, that is the lady who delivered the porn. My secret identity is turning into an open secret I think half the station knows." I say with a grin.
"I met her on the way out from delivering them." Madeleine says taking Constance in her arms. "Say did you watch the one I left, I already owned that one."
"Yes, it was weird I kept asking Tony where the man is." Constance laughs, Tony pulls me out of the kitchen again.
"Hey sit down, you are not feeding an army, the kitchen is clean." He sits me on the stools next to Wilma.
"I think Frank is going to be buying one of those Xbox things now." She says looking at him.
I look over Frank is sitting there playing football against Derek. Francis sits next to me looking a little jealous.
"My wife won't let me buy one, she swears that the kids are grown up and almost off in college no need for that nonsense."
"Francis you could just buy one and put it in your office." He smiles then shakes his head.
"I wish she visits me there."
"Do it anyway call it part of your job you are looking for obscene materials in the games. You can ban imported items I don't think she would do more than turn her nose at the games." Scott says walking past to get a coke.
"Scott where is your wife? I could have sworn Tony said she was coming."
"She is, had some meeting to get to so she is going to be fashionably late. Say I thought you were going to be wearing that black dress Wilma is always gushing about." He takes a seat next to Francis, Tony heads out to check on the coals.
"I am, just been busy making sure everything is ready." I say getting up to go into the bedroom.
"She's checked on everything being ready at least eight times in the last twenty minutes." Wilma says as Sally follows me.
I pull the robe off as Sally puts the dress on the floor, I sit then sidle over to it. With my feet firmly entrenched in carpet Sally pulls the dress up until I can grab it. I fit my arms in it then pause as she sniffs then gets the deodorant.
"You really gotta remember this, you smell fine when you go furry a lot but when you don't you gotta wear the deodorant." She scolds me as she puts it on.
"Deodorant was still something not done when I grew up." I say shivering at the chill of it.
"Excuses, excuses come on get your arms in it." I put my arms through the sleeves, Sally goes behind me to zip it. "I still can't believe you are not flexible enough to do this. Oh don't tell Derek but I've forgotten to refill my pills."
"Great, you can help me puzzle out the books your mom gave me I have to go search a lot of the words." I say giving her a hug after I am zipped.
"Huh and here I thought you knew Latin, get your shoes on, I still can't believe you would not take the sparkly black shoes from that specialty store."
"They were not as good as these, besides sequined dresses should have sequined shoes. The purple ones I wore last Sunday have stretched after a couple days wearing them, these will be fine eventually." I get up and twirl for her Sally smiles at me.
The men all gawk at me when we come back into the living room, Constance and Madeleine gawk as well. Tony gets our stand alone mirror over to me and I gawk at myself. I look really good, the dress has a plunging bodice that extends down to perhaps a hair over my belly button. The long skirt is sequined in a star pattern, the arms have sequins at the shoulder under lace. The body of the dress is sequined under more lace with a little tuft sticking out around the edge of the bodice. The real kicker are my breasts, they are barely covered enough for decency laws. When I turn to the side you can see most of me under my breasts.
"I hope the press doesn't see you like that, they will think I'm having an affair." Francis says with a sigh.
"Hell if my daughter wears that dress I'll have to kill her." Scott remarks with a whistle.
"I am married now you know." I say holding up my ringed hand.
"Yeah but did you have to have Simpson as your middle name, the clerk almost had a fit when we gave him the form to get married." Tony says smiling at the memory.
"Frank said changing your name after getting the card is hard so I figured what the hell and just took your last name to start with, they demanded a middle name."
When my radio squawks Frank reaches over and turns it off, Scott gets up from his stool and takes it to the wall to plug it in. Tony scolds me for forgetting to plug it in again then goes to cook hamburgers and hot dogs.
"Did you get the good franks or are we having the basic again?" Frank asks while Derek is doing a silly little winner dance.
"I bought a package of Sally's favorite, hard not to she was there, and I got the cheese one you mentioned along with a bacon dog."
"She made the chili last night can you imagine, home made chili cheese dogs." Sally says with a big smile.
"Wait I thought Jaguar was out and about all last night." Scott looks a little confused as he sits down again.
"I got it going then told Sally how to do it, I think the entire police force knows the recipe now." Scott laughs, Wilma grins.
"I wrote it down, I made Frank get me a scanner while you were in Brazil. He's going to post a copy to the boards tomorrow."
"Unless the radio ladies beat me to it, I think some of them were copying it as well" Frank gets up and goes out back to help Tony with the grilling.
"There is one thing I don't get, why did you get a coal grill?" Constance asks looking outside at the bag of charcoal leaning against the far wall of the terrace.
