For those of you that you have been reading along about Ronnie's journey, I hope you are enjoying it. I need to give a hearty thanks to Randi, editor extraordinaire, for taking time away from her busy schedule to assist in the polishing of this endeavor. You make me sound good. For you readers, enjoy, JDC.
Part 6 Holidays
The night before Thanksgiving, Uncle John called and said he would like to see me. I walked across to his house, and, as was my custom, walked right in. He was waiting for me in what he liked to call his study. It was just a room with a big flat screen TV and several bookcases full of books. There were also a couple of big padded chairs and a bar.
"Sit down Ronnie. I've wanted to talk to you for some time.," he said. "You've grown up well, Ronnie, and I feel you're quite a man. I need to ask you a question. Have you been sleeping with Tabby?"He looked at me in his normal strong way, and said, "Don't bother to deny it son, she's already told me about it. I suspected it for some time. She was always so happy and everything was Ronnie... Ronnie... Ronnie."
"I'm sorry Uncle John; it was a question of circumstances."
"I can't say I'm happy about it son. Legally, it isn't a problem, but community wise, it's still looked down upon. Do you understand what people were going to say? Do you love her enough to survive that kind of bigotry?"
"The answer to your question, Uncle John, is yes I love her very much, but I think it's a moot point. She broke it off with me two days ago, before she came home."
"That explains a lot, Ronnie, especially the fact that she has been sulking around here like somebody pissed in her cornflakes. Frankly, I'm relieved, not for just her sake, but for yours as well. She is a little spoiled and strong willed, which is my fault I suppose, but it's a bad combination. I don't think you have the personality to stand up to that, but I have to admit that she sure could have done worse,"
"You have to know, Uncle John, I love her dearly, but I think you're right."
He then asked me how Robbie and Miranda were. We had a long conversation, in which I told him that Miranda came home with me, but Robbie had a game and couldn't make it. He told me about what was going on around his ranch and that he'd had a good year.
I excused myself and went home to get some sleep. It had been an emotionally tiring evening.
During the night Miranda slipped into my room and climbed into bed with me. No one else was home, so she was all over me within a minute. We fucked twice during the night and we woke up next to one another, which was a good feeling. She then wanted me to do her in her ass, so I accommodated her.
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I didn't see Tabby until Thanksgiving dinner, since I was trying my best to avoid her. She called Miranda once and asked her to come over. She sure didn't mention me, so I was relieved.
At Thanksgiving dinner, I was sitting across from Tabby with Miranda at my side. All I was getting from across the table were cold, heartless glares. I just didn't let it affect me. My dad asked me if I got to see much of Tabby up at school and I thought Miranda was going to spit her drink all over the table. He just looked at her funny.
"Sorry Daddy, it went down the wrong way."
"Yeah, Dad, I see Tabby and Miranda all the time, they even have me over for dinner once in a while."
"Excuse me, I need to leave the table." Tabby was up and gone from the table.
Miranda said, "I'll go check on her; maybe she's ill." With that, Miranda got up and left as well.
Uncle John said, "I haven't seen people leave the table so fast since the old days. Bunch of hands pissed off the cook and he put soap in their beans. They were shitting bubbles for two days solid."
"God, John, and at the dinner table too," My dad said as he started laughing at his uproarious uncle.
We all just howled and sat there laughing. Tabby and Miranda came back in a while, with Tabby's red eyes clearly visible. You could tell she'd been crying. Uncle John asked her if she was okay and she said yes.
The rest of the Thanksgiving break was relatively uneventful. Tabby and I didn't see each other, but she and Miranda went Christmas shopping together on Black Friday. I just stayed home and studied. I did have a chance to call April, and we talked for quite a while. I asked her for a date for Saturday and we went to the cinema. Afterword we went to be local diner for burgers and fries. She asked me if this was going to be a regular thing and I told her it could be if she wanted it to. She smiled and said absolutely.
I explained to her that I was a little bit on the rebound from Tabby and she said it didn't matter; she would take what she could get.
I was kind of excited when I went home, thinking I might finally be on the track fate had intended. I guess that wasn't to be.
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When we got back to school, April and I had several dates and the coat hangers spent many nights on the doorknob.
I really started to feel like I had something good going with April. We went out on a lot of dates and did a lot of things that young couples in college do.
One morning when I was waking up in my room, with her in my bed next to my side, I got up to go to the bathroom while April was still asleep. As I looked down upon her naked body, I thought about how lucky I was to have such a vision sharing my bed. When I came back from the bathroom, I lay in beside her and snuggled up tight, trying not to wake her. She stirred just a bit, rolled over onto her back and I kissed her with a great deal of passion and love.
"Ummmm, good morning, Ronnie."
I began leaving butterfly kisses from her neck down her chest, pausing to pay tribute to her breasts. As I took her nipple in my mouth and began nibbling and sucking she started moaning loudly. As I traveled lower and got to her navel, I could smell her arousal. I just had to taste that wonderful pussy. I began sliding my tongue from the bottom to the top of her slit. I slid two fingers into her hole and started a come here motion with my fingers till I found her G spot, while tonguing her clit. She was going crazy now and begging me to finish her. As she soaked my hand in her orgasm, I sucked her with more suction then I had ever done in my life.
"Oh God, Ronnie, I love you; I love you so much."
I was startled when I heard her say that. We really hadn't talked about love and commitment, but I definitely was ready to move our relationship to a higher level.
"I love you too, April."
I thought I would start my day off with a bang, pardon the pun, so I slid up and entered her and began a steady lovemaking rhythm. As our physical force increased and she came, I unloaded inside her.
"Oh, Ronnie, I want to be with you forever. You are my life now."
"Let's meet at lunch and talk about us, April."
I could hardly wait for lunch time to see April. As we met and began eating, we talked about our wants and needs, planning our future. She said she wanted to build her career as an accountant and I talked about me being an electrical engineer. This is when things started to enter strange territory.
I told her that I would probably need to go east to find a job in my chosen field. She said that she had always wanted to go back to our hometown to become a CPA. I pretty much brushed that off and didn't worry about it.
I told her if we were going to be married; we needed to wait until after school, so we'd have all that financial stuff behind us. She pretty much agreed with that.
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We were both floating on a cloud in our relationship for the next 11 months, which quickly stopped when we went home for Christmas break. Since we had been inseparable for almost the last year, April accompanied me to the annual family Christmas party, while Robbie was there with Karen Dawson. Unbeknownst to Miranda or me, he kept In touch with Karen while he was in school and they were still an item. Tabby and Miranda were there together and seemed to be enjoying themselves. I hadn't seen much of Tabby at school and when I did it wasn't pleasant.
Whenever I came to visit Miranda, Tabby wouldn't speak and kept giving me death stares. Miranda knew I was happy with April and seemed to be glad for me. I looked at Tabby and thought about my feelings for her with a sense of sadness, wondering what could've been. I quickly forced those thoughts from my head. I was with April now and I was quite pleased.
It concerned me a little when Tabby caught April alone and I could see them in a heated discussion. I knew that couldn't be good, especially when Miranda talked to her, as well. From my standpoint, they both seem to be rather serious discussions, too serious for this festive occasion.
While I was taking April to her parents house after the party, she kind of blindsided me, saying, "Ronnie, what about kids? How soon you want to have them?"
"I'd like to have kids as soon as we can. If we have them early in our marriage, we will have our health and be able to do active things together as a family."
"What about our careers? Are you seriously going to the East to work? I want to come back here for my career."
"There is no coming back here for me; there are no places I can work in my chosen field here."
"Ronnie this isn't going to work for me. I want to come back here; I need to come back here. I also don't want kids until later. I want to build my career first."
"April I want to build a life with you, but I can't do it here."
"If we can't do it here, we can't do it anywhere."
"Are you saying you don't love me enough to follow me? You can be a CPA anywhere."
"I love you Ronnie, but I'm coming back here to live my life. Tabby said you didn't love me enough to come back here."
"I love you, April, and I would come back here if I could, but I can't make a living here as an electrical engineer. This is an agrarian area, not an industrial one."
"Ronnie, I hate to do this, but we need to go our separate ways, it just won't work between us."
"April, I can't believe that you're not even willing to give this a try. If you love me enough, we could make this work."
"If you love me enough, you could do something else and come back here with me."