Roberta and Jeff
went to her room, almost out of habit. As soon as
they were in the room, and the door was closed, they were kissing and
pulling at each other’s swim suits.
"Is this all we’re ever going to do?" asked Jeff.
"For right now," said Roberta, standing naked in front of him. "We’ll talk when we’re done."
"OK," he said, taking her in his arms.
Their lovemaking
was torrid, as usual, and passionate, with the passion of two people
who had bottled passion up for too long. They almost
had to make love first, because neither could think of anything except
that, until they had done so.
"I love that so much," she panted, as they rested.
"Even if it gets you pregnant?" he panted back.
"Especially if it gets me pregnant," she sighed.
"I don’t get that," he said.
"I don’t
know what’s going to happen when the week is over," she said
softly. "If you get me pregnant I’ll always have something
from you to love and cherish, though."
"You could just love me," he said.
"Are you saying you’re going to get a divorce?" she asked.
"I don’t know," he said sadly. "I want to, but I don’t want to, at the same time."
"I feel the same
way," she said. "But I don’t think of this as just a
fling, or an affair. I wish you were my second husband,
almost." She grinned then. "Except you’d be my number
one husband. Phillip would have to settle for being number two."
"This isn’t funny," said Jeff. "I’m pretty sure I’m falling in love with you."
"Just pretty sure?" she asked archly.
"I thought I was
in love with Melanie," he said. "Now I don’t
know." He frowned. "Do you remember what it was like,
in college, when you finally figured out that the real reason for
college was to teach you how little you actually know?"
She nodded.
"I feel like that now," he said. "I don’t know much, any more."
"I know I’d rather be with you," said Roberta. "But I dread the pain and anger of divorcing Phillip."
"I guess
that’s the best way to describe how I feel too," he said.
"I know she’ll pitch a bitch, even though she obviously
doesn’t love me. I wish I could just make it all go away
quietly. If that could happen, I’d snatch you up in a
heartbeat."
"Even if I’m pregnant?" she teased.
"Especially if you were pregnant," he said seriously.
They got up and
got dressed, to take a walk in the moonlight, just to prove to each
other that they could think about something other than sex
together. It only worked marginally well. Roberta
said she felt like she was on her virgin honeymoon, and said it was
much better than her real one had been.
Jeff took her back to the room to make her even happier.
