The Week-end Away -- Part 2
The next day, Saturday, at breakfast, Michelle was up and awake earlier than either her 18-year-old daughter, Ali, or Dr. Jimmy Baker. From his closed bedroom door, Jimmy could hear Michelle moaning and groaning as she dragged what he surmised was the last of the wood he had brought in the night before, into the cabin's fireplace. After listening to her grunts and wood scraping against the floor, Jimmy could take it no more, he dressed quickly and opened the bedroom door.
"Hang on, Michelle," he called to her, "I'll take care of it." And he went over to where she was, took the four foot long log with an 8-inch diameter off her hands, lifted it and placed in on the mildly still-burning embers. "Looks like we need more wood, yeah?" he asked.
"Right," she answered, "why don't you go get some whilst I start breakfast. Coffee or tea?"
"Whatever's the most at hand," he replied, really preferring his own tea, but not wanting to rock the boat after the doings of last night, in case Michelle had heard what went on after she left his bedroom. Then he put on his trainers and without tying the laces, went out and one at a time, brought in six logs the same size as the one that was already burning away merrily. He had just brought in the sixth, when he heard from upstairs, a yawned, "Good morning everybody." It was Ali, still dressed in her midriff shirt, bedroom trousers and woolly socks, leaning over the balcony railing with a huge smile on her face. She waited until Michelle was out of sight, then lifted her shirt and extended her tongue as she tilted her head to the left and to the right.
"Well, somebody's in a good mood, thankfully," Michelle called up to her from the cook-top where a kettle was just starting to get hot. "And how did
you
sleep last night," she asked Jimmy, "I thought I heard you tossing and turning for quite a while, there, Jimmy."
Ali had to leave her position, leaning over the balcony railing, and was laughing so hard that she pretended to cough.
"Oh, dear," Michelle said, "I hope you're not getting a cold! Do you feel all right, love? We have that long walk around the lake today, remember? Do you think you're up to it."
"I'm just fine, mum," Ali called down, "I think I just swallowed something." Then quietly, so that only Jimmy could hear, "or did last night." And giggled cutely to herself. Looking up, Jimmy shot her a "be quiet" look and went to see if Michelle needed assistance with morning meal.
"Does anyone want pancakes?" Jimmy asked.
"Oooh, let me," Ali called down and bounded down the stairs again. "I make my own buttermilk for pancakes!"
"Really?" Jimmy said quite curiously.
"Oh, yes, she loves to do that, especially for guests," Michelle told him.
"Mum," Ali said sounding hurt, "Jimmy's not a 'guest'! It's really good to have him around." And she got milk out of the fridge and reached for vinegar out of a lower cupboard. As she did so, she splayed her knees and balanced on the balls of her feet, then bent her head low to peer behind her at Jimmy. She then bounced up and down next to the open lower cupboard door so that Michelle couldn't see her activity at her new lover. She then stood, closed the cupboard door, mixed the two ingredients and let them stand.
"Well," Michelle said, encouraged, "glad to see you two getting on so well. And glad to see you out of your funk about Byron." She was getting the flour out of an upper cupboard as Ali was scrounging around for the other pancake ingredients.
"Byron?" Ali said in surprise, "I haven't thought of him this whole time. Hmmm, I wonder why?" And she looked over her shoulder at Jimmy, who again shot her a "stop-it' stare in return.
They finished preparing the pancakes, coffee and bacon, for Jimmy, and sat down to eat. Michelle sat at one end of the kitchen table, Ali sat across from Jimmy, halfway down the length.
"Well, let's get breakfast out of the way so we can go for that walk," Michelle said, "it's going to be a lovely day and I think the exercise will do me some good."
"Oh, I think we could all use some more exercise today," Ali chimed in, "don't you think so Jimmy?" And leaned over her empty plate as she extended her left foot, still in the woolly sock and stoked his leg under the table.
He nearly spit his coffee all over his plate as he felt her contact again.
"Are you all right?" Michelle asked. "Do you have the same cough as Ali? Gee, I hope I don't get sick, too!"
"I don't know, Michelle," Jimmy answered and looked across to see Ali now leaning back, arms crossed in front of her, "it might be something she gave me." And again, Ali could barely contain herself in the humour of the questioning, so she turned her head away and bit her lower lip.
"Well, let's get dressed and to it, then," Michelle told them, "I'll wash the dishes later. Let's go."
The all put their dishes in the sink and headed to their respective rooms to change to "hiking" gear: basically jeans, shirt and hoodie, gloves and comfortable walking shoes. They met up at the rear door and headed out into the sunny, but crisp, air.
"You guys will probably walk faster than I will, but don't worry, I'll catch you up," Michelle informed them. Ali looked at Jimmy and whispered to him as her mum walked out the door, "only if we let her, eh?"
"Besides, you need me to lead you there and back again," Michelle teased.
"Actually, mum," Ali said, "I remember the way as well, you know. So if we do lose you, I can get us back here safe and sound."
"But, don't worry, Michelle," Jimmy reassured her, "we won't lose you." And Ali looked slightly disconsolate at his reaction.
So, out the door they headed, and just as surely as Michelle stated, Jimmy and Ali, both fit and encouraged to show as much after last evening's activities, walked ahead up and down the leaf-covered path, whilst Michelle lagged behind.
"Hold on there, just a minute," Michelle called to them periodically and breathlessly, "ungh, oh, I'm coming. Ungh, oh." At one point, as they rounded a corner to the path, Ali grabbed Jimmy by the collar of his hoodie, put his back against a large tree that stood guard between them and her grunting mother, and kissed him deeply, entwining her right leg around his left. Then she skipped off, giggling all the way. Jimmy caught her up in short order and this time he grabbed her, put her back against a large guarding tree, and kissed her, holding her face in his hands, then massaging her breasts through her clothing. And despite the multiple layers she wore, he could feel her nipples harden as they embraced and exchanged oral bodily fluids.
"Oh really," Ali asked, "well, my love, wait till tonight, I'm going to wear... you... out." And she again skipped away merrily.
They had to stop-start many times along the path to allow Michelle to "catch up" and at one point, the elder woman even picked up a branch to use as a "walking stick" to help her complete the journey.
They arrived back at the cabin and Michelle and Ali took off their shoes, not knowing what they might have walked into along the way, and Jimmy went out to the wood pile, and gathered more fuel for the fireplace. He added the first log to the near-dead fire and placed 5 more logs along the wall next to the hearth.
"I'm not feeling that well," Michelle said, exhaustedly, "I'm going to go for a lie-down, then maybe I'll go to the store and get something for dinner. You guys can come with me or stay here, whatever you want. Ali, where's the ibuprofen?"
"It's in the suitcase upstairs," Ali told her.
"OK, then I'm going to go have a bit of a lie-down," Michelle said, getting a glass of water from the kitchen sink, "get me up in an hour or so, ok, Ali, won't forget, will you?"
"No, mum," Ali said, rolling her eyes to Jimmy, "we'll play backgammon. Mind if we put on some music, that won't disturb you will it?"
"No, that's fine," Michelle said back, moaning and groaning her way up the stairs again, "just not too loud, ok?"
"Of course not," Ali called after her, "after all, I have to redeem myself from last night."
"I think you already did that," Jimmy whispered.
"What would you like to play for, Jimmy?" Ali said quietly as she put on a Norah Jones CD. "Any stakes in mind? Or would you rather wait till she's gone to the store? Of course... it could be longer than an hour from now." The girl said playfully. "Maybe I'll forget to wake her and then where would you be, especially with
that
in your trousers already?" And she nodded her head at the erection already evident through Jimmy's jeans.