Alyssa was still a bit in shock, so she hardly noticed that Natalie had taken her arm and they were walking down the street toward Natalie's car, while Natalie was carrying on about one of their old school chums who had been recently arrested for 'some kind of indecent acts with a dog of all things!', and then was mysteriously let off by a judge who dismissed the charges saying 'what goes on in the privacy of one's own home (or back yard as the case may be), is no business of the state or of this court'.
Alyssa stood by the open car door and felt Natalie's hands gently helping her into the car. She settled into the plush seat of the Lexus and enjoyed the smell of a very new car. 'I wonder where she gets the money...' she began in her mind, but then remembered that Natalie had married a doctor, who she spent the whole 10 year class reunion introducing to everyone and making a spectacle of how rich they were (he did plastic surgery for some very rich clients, and was quite good).
Alyssa began wondering if she was being led somewhere she might not want to go. 'I have already spent time in an adult bookstore today, so why not keep the adventure going?' Satisfied with her self-reasoning, she looked over at a smiling Natalie. 'Did I orgasm because that girl in the book was named Natalie? Was I thinking about this Natalie?' Alyssa shook her head to clear it. Too many thoughts were flooding her at once, and she had to focus before the dyke broke.
Alyssa suddenly burst out laughing!
"What is it, Alyssa!" Natalie suddenly had a look of sincere concern on her face. Was her friend having a mental breakdown?
"Oh, Natalie, take me home now before I pull a stomach muscle!" Alyssa managed to get a sentence out between here laughs and settled into a warm smile, and occasional chuckle. She couldn't tell Natalie what she'd really been thinking! 'The dyke broke...!' she thought and managed to keep it to a chuckle again. I've had too many new things happen today! Maybe spending time with Natalie will settle my mind a bit.
Natalie looked over occasionally, speculating on her friend's mental state. Alyssa began talking about some of their old school chums she had heard from recently, and Natalie relaxed when she realized that this was the same girl she had always known. In fact, she remembered Alyssa would burst out laughing at terribly inappropriate times on occasion (more in Jr. High than in later years, but still on occasion), so this wasn't really out of character for her.
Alyssa turned the conversation to Natalie's life. "So how is Jeremy doing these days, is he still making the rich and famous more beautiful than nature intended?"
Natalie hesitated, then blinked away the tears. "He's no longer with us Alyssa."
Alyssa didn't comprehend at first. "Did he leave you for someone else?"
"No, I mean he died"
Alyssa was shocked. Jeremy had been younger than Natalie, and was the picture of health just a few years ago. "What happened?"
Natalie gathered herself as she pulled into the drive of a modest two-story house. Not quite what Alyssa had expected considering the wealth they had flaunted at the reunion.
"Jeremy did one too many boob jobs that overdid the chest size. You've seen those haven't you, the ones that look like massive infected boils that are about to explode and kill everyone in the room?"
Alyssa was taken aback. She hadn't really seen any boob jobs as far as she knew. "Well, actually..."
Natalie wasn't really listening and went on, "Well, it finally happened. One of his over-inflated clients came in for a check-up, and when Jeremy began squeezing, the boob went off and the stud in her nipple sliced neatly through his carotid artery. They say he didn't feel much of anything because he was dead in less than a minute."
"That is horrible!" Alyssa really was horrified. Why would anyone want boobs that big anyway? (Her mind was taking off at 100 MPH again!)
"Anyway, the woman survived but sued the practice for most everything Jeremy and I had. Even though he had a $50 million life-insurance policy, the death was so strange it has taken over a year to get it and threats of litigation, but they finally paid up when I threatened to go to the newspaper and TV with the story. They really showed their cowardly side when I threatened to tell the WHOLE story. They had been helping Jeremy cover up several other malpractice cases, and the boob-boom was an accident just waiting to happen!"
Alyssa nearly lost it again, but the tear in Natalie's eye choked the laugh before it could begin. It wasn't funny at all to Natalie, in spite of how ludicrous the whole story seemed.
"Let's go inside and talk about something else for a while, okay?" Natalie looked at her friend for a response. The garage door had closed and it was getting stuffy in the car.
Alyssa nodded and followed Natalie into the kitchen. |