It’s been a few months since my last update, I wrote out everything I wanted to get off my chest but it’s way too long. So I’ll cover one issue at a time:
The Dinner:
A few months ago a business constituent of mine invited me to a charity dinner; I get these invitations a lot but rarely attend. I usually go to a few of these a year just to make a showing. I RSVP’d for two people with a check to cover the per-plate price, put it on my calendar and basically forgot about a second after. The Dinner Event was a usually a mishmash of who’s who B-rate local politicians, business owners, VPs and senior sales guys. The politicians are looking for votes, the business owners are looking for help, the VPs are looking for contracts and the sales guys are skulking around for loose change – me, I just go to shake hands and eat an over-priced meal.
Weeks later in the middle of the week, my wife tells me she’s going to her sister’s for the weekend (hours away) for an event they’ve been planning for “kids day and girls night out”. I thought it was a good idea as my daughter hasn’t seen her cousins for a while. She tells me that Angie (who has quit her job and full time nanny) is going with her so she can watch the kids while the sisters and old friends let loose.
Aside: My wife and I were very apprehensive about letting Angie stay with us but months later we really don’t know how we did everything without her. She’s a huge help while never getting in the way. My daughter loves her and my wife and I no longer feel rushed and exhausted from trying to keep the 3 of our schedules in sync. Yes I still take a dip in every now and then but it’s different now; I could only explain Angie and I alone now as utilitarian. I work out of my house during the week sometimes with my daughter in school/wife at work and it’s just…I don’t know. If I want to, she will but she’s doesn’t get in my way at all. She doesn’t go out much anymore even when I suggest it; she says she just likes being ‘home’. /aside
A day or so goes by and I’m working at home looking at my calendar for the rest of week and remember, “####, the dinner”. I call my wife who basically says I’m SOL because she’s not cancelling her plans to go to some dinner. Girl 3 (who pops over randomly at my house when she sees my car outside) and Angie were at my house and overheard my conversation and chimed in after I hung up with my wife:
Angie: Oh no
Girl 3: What dinner (not looking at me while she talks as usual).
Me: It’s a charity dinner event at (name of country club)
Angie: That’s a really nice place, a friend of mine works there and says she makes really good money.
Girl 3: Well I’ll go.
Angie and I both look at Girl 3 with a look that says, “you’re not (name of country club) material”.
Me: (to Girl 3) I’m not sure you’d like it, it’s kind of a stuck up crowd.
Girl 3: You’ve never seen me dressed up, I can be the Ice Princess when I want to be.
Me: Well it’s already paid for so sure; it’s a top-notch kind of even so evening gown and (cuts me off).
Girl 3: I know what to wear.
Angie looks at me and cringes. Just the thought of showing up with a short-haired girl with a lip ring and jeans would just be awesome for networking with my 50+ year old clients. I figured I’d just fake a Shingles, MRSA, SARS outbreak or all three before the dinner and bail to avoid the embarrassment.
It’s Saturday afternoon, the wife, daughter and Angie are hours away visiting family and I’m supposed to be at a charity dinner in a few hours. It’s about 5pm when I considered going solo just for the cocktail hour, make a showing then disappearing before dinner – I go back and forth with this idea on the pros and cons when I hear the keypad at my front door chime. It’s…Girl 3, who doesn’t look like Girl 3. All of her hair is the same color, her dress is magnificent, makeup is perfect, no earrings or lip rings and she looks amazing.
I walk over to her:
Me: You look fantastic
Girl 3: (glows, smiles at me and I can honestly say we haven’t looked at each other eye-to-eye a lot). Thank you. Well are we going silly?
Me: Yes, yes we are
I head to my room to finish getting ready, Girl 3 follows me. I’m looking through different tie combinations to compliment her dress. While I’m doing that she starts looking through my wife’s jewelry collection.
Girl 3: Do you think she would mind?
Me: No, go ahead
Aside: My wife has a collection of jewelry that I’ve bought her, her friends have bought her and she bought herself. Most notably is our 5th anniversary engagement and wedding ring set; she loves those two rings but thinks they’re too gaudy to wear every day so only wears them during special occasions. /aside
Girl 3 picks out a nice necklace, earrings and my wife’s 5th anniversary ring set. She looks beautiful.
We go to the event (I cut out about 3 pages of her/I interacting with guest but let’s just say we were noticed and like by a lot of people).
After leaving and heading back to my house, she staying “in character” and we enjoyed the most sensual sexual interaction we’ve ever had. For the first time, I saw her as submissive and interested in both of us enjoying our time together in and out of public.
The next day, I wake up to my Ice Princess smiling at me. We just laid there silently until my phone starts ringing. I turn it off without looking at it, but it rings again. It’s my wife so I answer:
Wife: (screaming...a lot...for a long time...with a few words between...)
Aside: I don’t want to put exactly what she said in print because it was mostly expletives so I’ll summarize. The Ice Princess put the pictures of us all over her Instagram and Facebook. About 20 pictures of us together, at the event, with my wife’s jewelry on. Apparently, a friend my wife's knows was also at the event and called her to ask if "everything is okay between us because he seemed very happy with his woman friend".
Yes, that happened.
I’ll stop here for now…