John and I are back to avoiding each other again. Both of us are feeling guilty for the pain we've caused each other. I feel guilty because of Alex and he feels guilty cause he was there. Cass has been our ear to talk to as Temple tends to avoid us and Lar is busy at his own house and at Alex's because the baby is due any day now.
Alex gave me a call and told me he was sorry for telling John but he felt it was best to just lay it out there so he could come to terms with his emotions while I slept. I thanked him for doing what I was not brave enough to do.
"Maria, you don't always have to be the brave one you know. John was able to calm you down. Maybe you should forgive yourself and then go forgive him. Try to move past this, before my son comes into this world."
I guess he's right I should forgive myself for the past. When I brought up my concern over our friendship, Alex let me know, "If he's half the man you say he was, he'll let it go. Take my Natalia for example, she wasn't happy about it at first. Yet her love for me and you she was able to see it through our eyes and accept it. It's the future we should truly care about."
I'm such a tore up mess inside though, how do I start to forgive myself?
Temple walks up from downstairs and looks at me sipping on my whiskey, bottle right next to my glass.
"Darling..... I'm going to tell you some honest real life advice." He sits down and gives me a diva like attitude, "I am over this relationship drama between you two. GO and kiss and make up and move on or at least let a brother sneak a smile at him." Temple winked at me and had me suppressing a laugh at his words. "I'm serious girl, that is a sexy ass man, I can smell the pheromones in the air when you two see each other. Makes me think of that soup commercial from back in the day 'MMMM hhmmmm TASTY!'"
Now I'm grinning from ear to ear, and I'm also pretty tipsy too at this point. "I don't know if he is ready to talk to me about it." I groan thinking about it.
"HMMM I wonder why..." He cocks his head to the side, "maybe it's because you're not even talking to each other? Think that might be why?" He eyes me up and down.
"You're right Temple, I should just go talk to him. I mean he's is the man I love. I've pined for him for so long. Even with Alex I really wanted John. I've always wanted John. When he first started working there at the office.... I thought he was such a good looking young man. Little shy but as time progressed and I realized I liked him, I wanted to make him mine. I kept avoiding it though cause I didn't want to hurt him like I tended to."
"Well obviously, you did make him yours. Otherwise we would not be having this conversation right now. Now, that being said, you did it once now go on up and get your man!" Temple encouraged me picking up the bottle and snapping making it disappear with my glass.
"Don't worry it's up in your room along with another glass for him. GO! " Temple ordered me to go and get John and talk.
I saluted Temple who proceeded to smack my ass, "That's for your attitude there little missy. Now go on and get or I'll do it again."
I took off out of the kitchen stopping at Cass's room and knocked. Cass opened the door and I asked if John wanted to talk. Cass gave me a look, "Uh.... he went upstairs to talk to you actually."
I do a little squeak and run upstairs and hear Cass laugh as I go. I make it to my door and see John standing there.
He gives me an awkward and embarrassed look, "Can we talk?" He implores me with his eyes and a hesitant grin.
I gesture him in and he opens the door for me and in we go.
"I actually wanted to talk to you too." I say as I walk in and turn to sit down.
Before I can John pulls me against him and holds me looking down at me.
"I'm sorry Mary. I forgive you for everything that I feel that I was wronged about, but can you forgive me?" He stares at me such hope and longing in his eyes.
"Oh John, I forgave you a long time ago, I just had to forgive myself too." I reach up to caress his cheek and his eyes flutter close cherishing the contact. I glance at his slightly parted lips and back up at his still closed eyes. I lick my lips and lean forward pausing before going to plant a kiss on his lips. His eyes open and see me closer then we've been in a while.
My heart beat is steady as he looks at me and closes the gap between us softly caressing and moving his velvety lips over mine, teasing my lips with a swipe of his tongue across them. I open my mouth and let his tongue enter running circles around mine.
I run my fingers through his hair pulling his head down more to me, to dominate more of his mouth. He picks me up by my thighs and I wrap my legs around his waist and he moans against my intake of breath.
"Oh Mary. I feel like it's been a million years since I've felt you touch me like this." John whispers as he holds me looking at me as our lips part.
"Then we should make up for all that time." I smirk at him and he takes me to the bed to put me down and kiss me more.
.....
God why didn't I just apologize sooner? I've been starving for air I thought, I was really starving for Mary.
She is so much stronger now too, that grip she had on me with her legs was amazing. She's always been beautiful in my eyes, but damn I never knew her sex appeal could get any higher.
Our lips touch each others favorite spots and our tongues taste where they have long awaited to taste again. I move down her neck and make her gasp and moan in delight. I rub her breast through her shirt and she removes her shirt.
"Are you sure? Mary I don't mind just kissing you, I don't want to push you too far." I've only just talked to you in days and I do not want to mess this up.
"John, just kiss me, what ever happens, happens." She pulls me down.
I decide to take my time worshiping her skin with my lips and tongue, relishing the feel of it against my skin. It was soft and silky against my lips and sweet to the taste.
Teasing her sides with the light caress of the back of my hand, I felt her body shiver. My gaze peered down from her face to watch my hand as it glided soft and slow back up her side to slide across her stomach and up between her breasts.
Her eyes were heavy lidded, filled with lust and begging for more.
My hand slid under her bra to cup her breasts in my hand.
Her eyes fluttered open before closing and lifting her torso gently off the bed to press my hand against her more.
Her nipple was taut against my palm as I rotated it slowly under my hand bending back down to kiss her again deeply.
She moaned against my lips, urging me to touch her more.
Hungrily, I began to grasp her breast in my hand moving the bra off and left her lips to place my mouth on her perky nipple.
She gasped when my hot, wet mouth took her into it. My tongue flicking against the hardened peak. My lips sealing and sucking on her beautiful mounds.
I moved my mouth to her other breast and freed it as well. I devoured it, my own appetite now becoming insatiable the more I tasted her.
She was beginning to reach for me and I let her take off my shirt. The second my skin was free of it she latched on to my own peck and sucked, licked, and bit it.
Teasing me with a seductive smile as I gasped looking down at her.
That was all I needed to see to lose my resolve and patience.
I ferociously began to devour her lips with my kiss, removing her bra with one hand and quickly tossing it to the side.
I undid her pants, sliding along with them until my feet touched the floor.
Grabbing the cuff of the pant leg, I swiftly pulled them from under her and tossed them away.
She giggled that giggle of hers, making my heart ache and burn for her even more.
"Whats so funny?" I ask her, tickling her ankles with my caress.
"You looked like a matador the way you pulled those off." She blushed doing her little giggle again.
"Ah..." I whispered as I leaned over to stalk her like she was my prey.
I kissed and breathed in the scent of skin on her calf. I spread her legs as slowly I kissed my way up from her calf, glancing at her hungrily between each kiss.
I make it to her thigh and her legs are trembling in anticipation as nibble lightly on her tender skin.
She whimpers and it undoes me completely.
Our eyes are locked as I turn my head from her thigh to in between her legs...
"MIJA! THE BABY IS COMING!"
"...." -__- "....."
Fucking cock blocked by a redcap! Are you serious?!
...
"I'm so sorry! But the baby is coming! Get dressed you two, haz el mambo, más tarde. Vamonos! Rápido! (do the mambo, later. Let's go! Fast!) Lar rushes us and exits the door and Mary quickly gets dressed and pulls a bag out of the closet.
Lar comes in and sees we're dressed and ready and snaps us to a place I've never seen before. It's a old style Italian villa and had marble floors and a grand staircase that swirled upstairs.
I didn't have much time to look around as Mary darted down the hall way and into a room where Alex, Cass, Belle and a few other people I'd never seen before were in there.
On the bed in the middle of the room was a pretty dark haired woman who was obvious by her pained expression and sweating was in labor. Alex held her hand and catered to her. Wiping her head with a cool cloth and rubbing her back as she grimaced.
"Oh Grazie Dio! You're here! Sin." The woman called out to Sin and I knew this was Natalia, Alex's wife.
"Sin, it hurts!" She cried.
One of the ladies I didn't know chuckled out, "You're having a baby! My dear sister, I tried to tell you." She shook her head and walked out of the room, Cass following her.
"Well let me see what we are dealing with." Mary said and motioned for me to move or leave.
Lar and Belle grabbed me and pulled me off to the side closer to the head of the bed.
Mary lifted the sheets covering the bottom half.
"Okay your not crowning, so give me a minute." She looked around, "Where's my wash basins? I need some more hot water and towels too."
She put a gown on over her clothes and washed up, before putting on gloves.
"Okay, I'm going to check how far you're dilated Nat, it'll be slightly uncomfortable. Just relax, I'll do it as soon as you're done with your next contraction."
"Did her water break?" She questions Alex as Natalia starts to have another contraction.
"Just before I sent Lar to get you." He says returning his attention back to Natalia.
As soon as she done having her contraction, Mary checks and pulls back.
"Good news, you're 8cm dilated so it'll be happening very soon. You're almost there, sweet heart." She beams proudly at Natalia who gives her a weak smile.
She looks at us over in the corner, "Men out, except for Alex. Send her sister in please, if she's not to busy billing and cooing with Cass."
She's authoritative and a sense of finality comes with her statement that leaves no room for argument. Not that I was wanting to stick around.
Out we went and sure enough Cass has his arm around Natalia's sister but quickly retracts it when we send her back in.
It's about thirty minutes of walking in circles outside the room when Belle opens the door and sends us for more hot water and towels. Handing me a basket of dirty sheets and then Lar and Cass the basins of water.
We hurry off, I let them lead the way and we're back in no time at all with new clean basins full of hot water and new towels and sheets.
We hear Natalia's cries of pain and Mary coaching her through the process. Us out in the hall are not the father, but even we are all a bunch of nervous ninnies looking at the door.
"More towels!" Belle shouts out and Lar runs off and gets them to her. We hear Natalia shout and shortly Alex comes out clutching his hair.
"Don't worry Alex, all the women do this near the end. It's just the pain talking." Belle says reassuringly. "She'll want you again in a minute so just stay put."
We're all kind of standing around and Cass breaks the silence, "So how was your guys talk going?" He asked looking hopeful.
I cleared my throat uncomfortably and Cass sighed, "I thought it would work out tonight." He shakes his head and Lar laughs.
"Oh no, Mijo, you're reading that wrong. They were talking just fine...Con sus manos y labios. (with their hands and lips.)"
"LAR! You still don't know how to knock pendejo!" Alex shakes his head and slaps Lars arm.
Indigently Lar retorts, "I did knock, but no one answered. I thought she was asleep. These two were just so into him being a cohino that they didn't hear me."
Belle suddenly sticks her head out the door, "Alex, she want's you again, she's crowning."
Alex rushes inside and I'm saved from the awkwardness that was building prior.
Soon we hear a good cry and then a baby's cry. Good and strong and loud. Suddenly Belle sticks her head out, "More towels! More Water!"
We run at the urgency in her voice and come back to find out she was pregnant with twins.
After a little while we were allowed back into the room. Natalia's been cleaned up and hair brushed. Holding her babies one in each arm. She hands one of the two to Alex and the other to Mary who swoon and fawn over the little bundles of joy.
Mary hands the baby over to Natalia's sister and Alex walks over and I think he's going to hand the baby to Lar.
To my evident shock he offers the baby to me. "John would you like to hold her?" I nod and take the little baby girl in my arms and she yawns and fusses a little before falling asleep.
I'm floored and can't stop smiling. The little wrinkled, brand new to the world baby isn't that cute yet, but seeing the new little life it really does make it absolutely beautiful. Not wanting to hog her I hand her over to Lar and Alex takes the other baby.
"This is my son." Alex holds him up for me to see, he's already got a full head of black fuzzy hair.
I chuckle, "Well we know who's he is going to look like with that hair." Mary comes over smiling at me and laughs.
"You got two for one and a one of each. I'd say that's not bad for a couple who only wanted one kid." She chuckles behind her hand.
"Well I wanted a boy and she wanted a girl. Looks like we got our wish." Alex gazed at his wife beaming and full of love and pride.
Mary took me by the hand and took us out in the hall and we went for a walk around the houses interior.
"Sorry, I needed some air, too much going on in the room after such a stressful situation." She says holding my hand as we head up the stairs taking a seat at the top on the stairs.
"No problem. You're alright though?" I ask her concerned.
"Yes, I guess so." She sighed.
"I guess so? Doesn't sound very reassuring." I lean over and nudge her shoulder with my own.
"Sorry, I just don't know if you remember for me to even try to talk about it." she avoids eye contact with me and I lift her chin with my finger.
"You can always ask."
She pulls her chin back and pushes her hair behind her ear on one side.
"Before we got married I asked you to really think about the fact we'd never have biological kids together. You said you didn't mind?"
"Yeah, I remember some of that. I remember telling you that our jobs kind of put restrictions on having a child anyways." I nod recalling that much.
"Now that you've seen that and no longer have the job, you think your feelings might change?" She seems scared of what I might answer with.
I think about it for a minute and chuckle.
"You know, I'm not even worried about it. I prefer to practice the art of making them, if anything."
That made Mary blush and I noticed her toes curled through her sandals.
"Yeah, sorry but babies never stick to the plan or schedule when it's time." She covered her face shyly trying to hide her blushing grin.
"You were amazing in there by the way, I didn't know you knew how to deliver babies."
"I guess you're right, I never did tell you. I delivered every single one of Sarah's children, grandchildren, and then Moll was the last...." She stared off into space but quickly came back to smile at me.
I wrapped my arm around her and sighed. I saw something out of the corner of my eye and motioned Mary to take a look too.
Cass and Natalia's sister were making out down around the corner on the other side of stair. We smiled at catching them and watched as Cass picked her and they disappeared into a room.
I guess I had to give it the kid.... At least one of us was getting lucky tonight.