“The place looks great, Bro, you guys did an incredible job,” Marco compliments his friend.
“Well, I can’t take too much credit, I did the basics out front and inside. Elsie created the masterpiece with the food table and the Christmas art inside while Brian did the lights back here. I finished up the food today. Did you bring some egg nog?”
“Yep, it’s already set out at the bar for you, Brian gave us a hand,” Marco answers nodding his head.
“Which reminds me, I should be greeting and fraternizing with the other guests.” John turns to look at Elsie, “I’ll see you in a little bit, don’t let any of these goons from the gym try to steal you.”
“Me? Hah! I’d have them pulling their tail out from between their legs before they even knew what happened,” Elsie snaps.
Smart ass Elsie is back.
“I don’t doubt it,” John laughs. To Marco, Elizabeth, and Jane he says, “Have fun and let me know if you need anything, help yourself, the bedrooms are upstairs, mi casa es su casa,” John smiles at them before leaving.
“You two look like you just came out of a magazine photo shoot. No two people should look as good together as you guys do,” Elsie tells Elizabeth and Marco.
She’s right. Marco has chiseled features and striking good looks, he’s the perfect complement to Elizabeth’s light skinned beauty and European features. She’s wearing a scoop neck, winter white, jersey sweater that clings to her small frame with matching leggings and Marco has on a body-hugging, navy, cashmere, V-neck sweater and perfectly fitting jeans. The man is a walking god and she is his muse.
“She’s right, you two make me sick. Go blacken out some of your teeth, would ya please?” Janie teases them.
Elizabeth and Marco are obviously crazy about each other and their adoration shows in their faces, when they look at each other.
“I’m going to go get us something to drink, would you like anything in particular, Baby?” Marco asks Elizabeth as they both laugh at their friends’ comments.
“Just some cider for now, thank you,” Elizabeth answers him as he lowers to peck her lips.
“Can I get you ladies anything,” Marco asks Janie and Elsie. This guy is too perfect and too imperfectly perfect as well.
“Yeah, a big sexy beast, to go please. No need to wrap him, I’ll take care of the trimmings myself,” Janie answers him with her hands on her hips.
“Well, there’s a room full of them, I’ll see what I can do,” he laughs.
As he walks away, Janie throws a hand up in the air and exclaims, “What the hell?! I’m the one who’s had a boyfriend for how many years now, ten, and you two probably have more sex in a week than I do in a year. There is something seriously wrong here!”
“Sorry, Janes, probably more…,” Elizabeth says with a playful expression on her face.
“This totally sucks!” Janie huffs and rolls her eyes.
The three of them laugh because it is funny.
“And what’s going on with you and John,” Elizabeth asks Elsie wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.
“Tonight is going on with me and John,” and Brian she adds in her head. “I decided to say fuck it and just, well, fuck it I guess. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s just tonight.” ‘Cause I don’t know if he or Brian will still want me when they see how damaged I am, the worry tries to creep in and ruin her night. She pushes it out refusing to let it.
“Holy shit girl, I want to know details, how long, how big, positions,
E V E R Y T H I N G! You hear me?!” Janie practically pins her to the ground with her glare.
“I get it, you need to get laid through me. Got it!! Now down, girl, down,” Elsie laughs.
“Yeah, I’ve already wanted to cut a vein over Elizabeth’s fucking sexcapades, now it’s your turn. I have no life, GOD!” Janie shakes her head in mock disgust.
“Well, honey, it looks like your troubles just might be ending. Lookey, lookey what the cat’s dragging in…,” Elsie says, looking over Elizabeth’s and Janie’s heads towards the house.
More people have spilled out of the house onto the lawn and a good-sized crowd has arrived. Marco makes his way through the people, standing on the porch and down the stairs with Scott close behind him.
All three ladies turn to look at the two men approaching them. Janie’s mouth is open, maybe in surprise. Elizabeth is smiling like a kid and it’s all she can do to keep herself from jumping up and down with glee.
Elsie is looking at Marco as he’s walking towards them smirking.
“I’ll be damned, that cocky son of a bitch knows exactly what he’s doing,” Elsie says more to herself than to the girls.
“Oh, yes he does,” Elizabeth coos, a satisfied grin plastered on her beautiful face.
“Alright, Liz, keep your panties on,” Elsie laughs.
“I’m not wearing any, he ripped them off before we left the house,” Elizabeth tells her friends with a naughty smile.
Elsie and Janie’s mouths both drop open as Elizabeth looks at them sweetly, batting her eyelashes.
“Shut up,” Elsie laughs.
“I so totally hate you,” Janie moans.
“Hi, beautiful, been waiting for me?” Scott asks, as he walks up, smiling at Janie.
“You’re a good boy, Marco, Elizabeth can keep you. And as for you, Big Boy, yes, I might have been waiting for you after all,” Janie answers Scott with a flirty little smile on her face.
“I’m glad you approve,” Marco chuckles, winking at Janie as he hands Elizabeth her cider. “Here you go, Baby.”
“Well here I am Gorgeous, and may I say you ladies are looking lovely this evening,” Scott says as he greets the other women, complimenting them as well.
“Well, Big Fella, it looks like you might be a keeper too,” Elsie says smiling at Scott.
“Why El, you could be right,” Janie says looking at the big, sexy, burly man standing in front of her.
“Why,
