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When I found Kelly weeping in the bathroom, I was utterly freaked out. I thought for sure I had done something to upset her, but instead, she told me about her douchebag ex and another way he had manipulated her emotionally. At that moment, I didn't just want to be Kelly's champion; I wanted to make sure she never felt insecure for the rest of our lives.
Kelly Jenkins wasn't the type of woman to need a man to save her, but even super moms deserved a reprieve from their exhausting schedules. Thus, instead of ranting about Geoff 's douchiness, (which would have been wholly warranted) I gave her a break.
That's also why I convinced the kids to help me make her a special breakfast so that when we woke her at 10:00 am, she would feel valued. The kids may have made a giant mess in the process, but the look of pure joy radiating from Kelly when she woke to her breakfast caused my heart to jump.
"Thank you so much guys!" she said to four beaming faces. "You did this for me?"
"Mommy we made eggs, and toast, and bacon, and pancakes!! Do you like it?" Mazie asked.
"I do like it. I bet it all tastes delicious."
"Watch out for the jelly Ms. Kelly. Daddy says it's pumpkin Jelly, but I've never heard of it so it may be yucky," added an enthusiastic Katie.
"Katie, it is a real thing. I heard Ms. Shawn telling Mazie's grandma that she was going to make some," John retorted in his best smarty-pants voice.
"All right guys, let's give Ms. Kelly a few minutes to eat her food while we clean up the kitchen," I said to a room full of groaning kids. "The first person to get to the kitchen can throw a pie at my face at the festival tonight." Overwhelmingly excited at the prospect all three of the 5-year-olds raced for the kitchen leaving Kelly with a now dozing Mandy lying beside her.
"Thank you for this Dale!" Kelly said affectionately while stroking Mandy's hair.
"Pshaw, it's all part of my master plan to woo you," I said, before giving her a swift kiss on the nose. "Now eat your food, and I'll let you be the first to throw the pie."
When Terry Sadler asked me to be a part of the throw a pie booth, I was so excited that I'm pretty sure Terry sniffed my coke last night to check for alcohol. But since I was one of the festival's biggest fans, I was all about being a part of the magic that the event brought to the community.
Each year since 2001 when Terry and Shawn first opened their brewery, they've held their annual Halloween Festival. I think the festival initially became successful because the community was mourning the loss of loved ones during the events of September 11th, and they needed an escape.
The festival wasn't about haunted houses, even though the haunted hayride was always great fun for the little kids. Instead, it was a tribute to a simpler time when the harvest season was the heart of our rural communities, and people just wanted to enjoy fellowshipping with others.
And now, I was officially part of the action.
It turned out that all three kids made it to the kitchen in a tie. So, I ended up buying Kelly and each of the 5-year-olds their own whipped cream pie to throw at my face that night. Because of Kelly's hyper photographic tendencies, the kids would also have plenty of pictures to commemorate the day that they got to throw a pie at my face.
Sunday morning, we all skipped church to help with the clean up around the farm. The men and I were tasked with taking down the booths and hauling all of the hay bales back to the main barn for winter usage.
While we were busy in the fields, Kelly took the kids up to the main house to play under the watchful eye of Candace, who she paid to come up for the day while she helped sort through all of the remaining pumpkins.
Where many pumpkin farms were stuck with the remaining pumpkins for compost every year after Halloween, the Sadlers tried to salvage as many as possible for their various products (i.e., candles, beer, jams, etc.).
It was quite fascinating how little they wasted.
Around 4:00 pm we had made a significant enough dent in the festival cleanup that Terry had us call it a day. "Dale, why don't you go clean up and we'll meet up at the house for one of Shawn's dinners at 5:00 pm?"
Thankful for the hour to rest and shower, I was happily surprised to find that Kelly had been given the same reprieve. Remembering that Candace had the kids up at the main house, it only took me two seconds before I shed my clothes and surprised a very naked Kelly in the shower.
"AHHHHH!!!! OH MY GOD DALE WILSON!! You scared the shit out of me!" Kelly yelled while smacking me on the butt with a wet hand.
"Owe!" I yelled while laughing hysterically at how shaken she was. Unable to resist her, I jumped into the shower and wrapped her in my arms till her body began to relax, and I knew that I had been forgiven.
"You're a turd!" she said, with a huff.
"That's okay. You still love me," I said with my cockiest grin.
"That I do, Dale." Then with sudden seriousness, she locked eyes with me, and my libido went wild.
The lust that radiated from her had me immediately at attention and us ravishing each other in a very ungraceful and slippery way. But neither of us cared. Today was the first time we'd been truly alone in almost two weeks, and we weren't going to waste it.
Unfortunately, we were in a tiny bathtub, and unlike the movies, there was no way we were going to be able to get it on in a 3x5 without injuring ourselves. Thus, once things began to escalate, we decided to wash up as quickly as possible and dry the hell off. Laughing at our slapstick attempts to get to the bedroom, we finally found ourselves standing next to the master bed kissing.
With only 35 minutes till dinner, Kelly and I didn't even bother with foreplay.
Slamming our faces with the need to consume, within two movements I had her lying under me on the bed. Then I grabbed ahold of her thighs and thrusted into her center with a voracious need to claim what was mine.
With our bodies held together like unbreakable magnets, we continued thrusting our pelvises together so forcibly that you could hear our bodies thrumming throughout the lean-to. Suddenly, Kelly's walls tensed around me, and her body sucked me in towards her center. With my tip touching her innermost walls, Kelly started convulsing around my cock, and when the tremors exploded, we came together in a series of massive shock waves till we were both completely sated.
Coming down from our sexual frenzy, I suddenly felt emboldened and decided, To hell with waiting.
Which was why at that moment, I caressed Kelly's face and asked, "Kelly?"
"Hmmm?" she replied dreamily.
"Will you marry me?"