Goodbyes

You wake up to the smell of eggs and coffee, and the sunlight beginning to creep into the room through the cracks in the curtains. You could still feel the afterglow, and admittedly some soreness, as you stretched and blinked yourself awake. Under your breath you say “Melanie, you are a magician.” Sighing, you got up and grabbed a clean pair of underwear and some sweats and went to use their shower.

James and Melanie’s house was slightly nicer than yours, but the only real part of it you envied was their waterfall shower, though admittedly your bath tub was nicer than theirs. Right now though, the hot shower dropping down on to your body felt like little drops of bliss on your skin. Almost as if every drop of water were soft kisses on your body, and chuckled to yourself thinking about the times there were soft kisses on your body in this shower. Thinking more on it, your hands started drifting downwards…

After an…extended stay in the shower, you finally make your way downstairs in your sweats, and see Melanie and James sitting at the table enjoying the breakfast you smelled earlier. “Good morning you two. The food smells divine.” They look to you as you speak and both give you big smiles.

“Sleeping beauty arises! Did you forget we have work in an hour?” “…” OH NO! “I didn’t bring ANY good clothes! James you HAVE to cover for me until I get there, I’m sooo sorry.” He starts laughing at your outburst. “First she sleeps with my fiancé, then she needs me to cover her at the school. Tsk Tsk. How the mighty have fallen.” Melanie slaps his shoulder, and looks at you. “Addie, honey, there’s no school today. James is being an asshole.”

If it was even possible, the look you give James would have been lethal. “Don’t make me steal your fiancé prick.” That only made him laugh harder, and even Melanie chuckled at that one. “Addie, enjoy breakfast. Outside of James’ cruel prank, we want today to be a nice capstone to our time together. We all knew this would end when one of us got married, and as sad as it is, this is the last time the three of us can be like this.”

The gravity of her words hit you as you sit by your plate, and you realize you never fully processed what that meant to you. You had dated women for most of your life, but James was the only man you had ever enjoyed sex with. Melanie was the second best woman you had ever slept with, just behind your girlfriend, but when all 3 of you were together the sex was truly earth shattering. This had been a lengthy affair, and knowing it was ending made you feel worse than you had imagined.

“Adelaide, don’t look like that.” You lift your face to meet James’. “Yes, one chapter is closing today. However, you’ll still see me practically every day at the school, and our door will ALWAYS be open for you should you need it. Our legs however...” Another smack from Melanie makes him flinch, and while you understand this isn’t a final goodbye, it remains a goodbye all the same.

“Well, since this is a goodbye of sorts, let me just say what we’ve shared has meant a great deal to me, and I’m so happy for you two. I think maybe this will even push me into proposing to Carrie a bit sooner too.” They smile, and Melanie grabs your left hand. “We’re happy for the two of you as well, and it’s safe to say what we’ve shared means a great deal to James and I.” You knew this would happen, but the tears come none the less.

The rest of breakfast was shared in companionable silence, with the occasional small talk thrown in when appropriate. Your sorrow replaced with resignation, you decide the best course of action would be to get home. They try and convince you to stay for lunch, but you know that staying too long will only hurt, or lead to a frantic sex session.

So you make your final goodbyes and begin to make your way home. On the way you see Clair in her garden and say hello, commenting on the fact that her green hair made it almost impossible to spot her, she simply laughed and said “That’s the point.” You recall seeing her chase after one of her strays yesterday, and decide to ask how it went. “Oh… let’s just say it was an adventure! I’ll tell you about it some other time.”

Chuckling as you continue walking, you begin to take in the commune at large, everyone seemingly out and about on this pleasant morning. You pass a couple of your students, say hello to James’ students Luke and Leia. Well, that’s what everyone calls the twins, their real names are Powell and Beth…Stewart? You can’t remember at the moment. They’re laughing over some shared joke, something you envy as you never had a sibling.

Then, as you got closer to home you quite literally ran into something very hard, but when it fell on top of you, you realized the it was a who, and the who currently had their very sizable, and soft, breasts mashed onto your face. Perhaps not the worst way to go after all? “Oh my god, I’m so sorry. Did I hurt you?” You recognize the voice, and now that she’s started lifting her… err… distractions off of you your mind starts working again. “No, no. It’s fine Sonia, really.” Then under your breath “*More than fine*.”

Her smile tells you she heard you, or at the very least noticed your staring, and you can feel yourself go red. “No need to be embarrassed cutie pie. You’re at the perfect motor-boating height. A shame I wore a top this morning or you would have had a mouthful a second ago.” You get redder, and realize that last night has made you unusually comfortable around everyone. You want to crawl into the nearest hole. She continued torturing you though “Although you have that day after glow about you, so maybe you already had your fun with someone else? No matter, if you ever want someone to treat you right you can come and find me.”

You thought you were about to faint, but she just winked and walked away. You stand there for a moment collecting your thoughts, and when you remember to breathe you realize a couple of your neighbors are either looking at you concerned, or have a knowing grin on their faces, so you high tail it out of there. “I just gotta get home” you think to yourself. You finally see your house, and you almost run inside because after everything that happened last night, and your run in with Sonia, you’re about ready to JUMP your girlfriend.

As you open the door you yell, “Carrie, honey, if you’re here please tell me you have nothing planned for the next hour because I’m in need of you.” You turn the corner into the living room and your girlfriend….and Jack Opal. “EEP!” For the third time today you go beet red, and throw your hands up to your face. Why is this happening to you? Jack speaks first “Well, if you two need me to leave I can come back later…” Carrie is unusually calm, but her silence says a lot. Why is he even here?