Road Tripping Pt. 09

April was relieved and a little surprised by the young woman's frankness. It appeared some of Molly was rubbing off on her, which was a good thing when it came to being responsible about contraception. Hiding behind pleasant sounding nicknames and outright bullshit did far more harm than good and kept the maternity wards busy.

April also noticed the large fading bruise on Molly's right forearm and was told about her takedown of the thief in Worcester, a few days earlier.

"Mom, I Love You and we are all well and happy. The only sad thing is that tomorrow we have to drop Sara off in Harrisburg by eleven AM since because she has work at noon. We then are heading right to Chicago."

Sara Touched April's arm to bring her attention. "I will miss both of them terribly, now hugging April to her. They will be back in late May and then early June. In July we are all going to tour together for the month, going all the way to California and seeing the country. It will be Awesome, and I am getting all the overtime at work I can to save for the month I get laid off from our annual July shutdown anyways."

"We can't wait to all be together, going across America together Mom, I wish you could join us for more of the tour."

"I wish Randy and I could leave work for a month and go across the country with all of you guys and your friends seem very nice too, but I'm a slave to the Mortgage for another two years and Randy has one more year of child support. In the summer of 1990, we will both be free and who knows I may just take that month and see a bit of America and leave Patty to have the house to herself. Her and Drew will likely be together, but I doubt they will get married any time soon If she goes for a masters like she has talked about."

All three stopped to have a long group hug and all were now very stoned from the two joints and what was packed in the bowl in the ashtray. "Let give the men a chance to smoke now, Randy is dying to have a joint and I told him you get good weed out here. Did you try those mushrooms you showed me?"

Both Molly and Sara burst out laughing and told her they had done them yesterday and Sara said, "They had been great fun and an enlightening experience that both had kept her safe throughout."

They hugged again and then all stumbled out of Andromeda laughing and all red eyed from the two joints and a bowl.

Randy, Lou, and Joe all went to smoke up front of the wagon after a moment to let the smoke clear around the car. Many were openly smoking here today but it still paid to be a bit cautious.

Star came over see April and the rest while they were hanging out and Molly was mostly running the grill while a steady stream of customers came by. Star asked April if she could give one or more of her "Sex Ed" lectures like she had given Molly and she presumed her other children, while she gave her a quick look at her school on wheels. April was impressed with the seriousness of the school and said she could give a lecture to the older kids the day before the concert here in July on or before the show day, and she gave Star her phone number to let her know which would be better and to have another contact for Molly if there was a serious problem on the road, or they failed to turn up where expected. A mother always worried a little.

Returning to the grills, April asked Star how her pregnancy and the twins were doing so far.

Star looked at Molly who said she had said nothing to her mother about her pregnancy and certainly nothing about her having twins.

April interrupted them saying "She didn't have to tell me; I've been an RN for twenty-eight years and was head ER nurse for eight. I've seen it all!! You look like you are doing good, how are you feeling so far?"

"I feel mostly great except my feet are not happy, with swelling and with the extra weight I'm putting on. They are good in there as long as I'm careful with what I eat. One of them doesn't like cheese and a few other things I used to eat. That one started kicking a week ago when I had some cheese."

"I bet that one is the boy. April replied. If I were to guess I'd think you were having one of each, a boy and a girl!"

She lightly touched her slightly protruding belly from left to right and said "Boy and Girl, I think but I'm not a doctor, but I got a lot of time around the field. Obviously, I never had twins myself," laughing and looking at Molly.

Gina and Celesta had come to join the group of women to see what was up with their daughter/mother. Celesta touched her mother's belly and April guided her hand gently and whispered to her about what she was feeling.

"Wow Mom! I felt one of them move, I want to be a nurse like Molly's Mom, can I come to her talk too?"

"You might be a bit young for that one but if any of the kids want to learn more about nursing, I can talk about that too, but I have to let you know Celesta that some days are very hard and long and there are a lot of bad things you will get to see, not just the joyful things like your future siblings."

Watching all of this from five feet away Sara said that was cool to see.

"She is scarry good and cool" Molly told her as April looked at both the "Girls" in her eyes.

"I would know you were knocked up before you did." Winking at both of them and laughing.

"How? " Molly mouthed to her.

"Your mother would know!" As she winked at her again.

I will definitely give your students and anyone old enough a good lecture with maybe a shorter one for the younger ones, which Celesta frowned at since she was still being included in the "Kids" group.

"Randy and I hope to see three of the July shows so we can work out any changes that have to be made and I can get some things to hand out. Then drawing the now six women in close she said Randy and I are going to take a week off in September when they usually play a bunch of shows at Madison Square Garden. He has tons of hotel points built up from his work and we will get some hotel rooms for ourselves and You and Lou and Sara too if all are still together then. Don't tell Lou or any of the guys and let's keep it a surprise for now.

"Cool Mom, Lou and I will be there with Sara too if her work allows and with a good man of her own too and we won't tell any of the guys."

"Joe and I will be there in July fifteen years between us and three kids with two more on the way. I'm not giving him back. I'm just not too sure about September right now."

Star then looked at April with her deep green eyes and said in her soft voice "Lou and Molly will be there. They are truly in love, and I know they have some unusual things in their relationship, but I can tell you understand her deeply. Lou is a good and kind man and if my daughter were a dozen years older, I would feel good about her being with him."

"I hope to see you there too Star, but I think you might be a little busy and recovering from a recent birth by the first half of September if not a week or two before. We may have some time for more shows before the New York ones so we will see."

Star was quiet for a moment while they all talked around her as her mind raced about what had just been said by April about New York and the usual tour before going around the east coast in the fall. Her dreams of how her delivery went were being laid out in a parking lot in New Jersey months before the time. She smiled and hugged Celesta saying nothing. One should never try to influence these things.

April asked Star if she planned to have any more kids after the twins telling her, "I told the Obstetrician after Patty that either he tied my tubes, or I was going to make him pay for and raise the next one!"

Star laughed and spoke. "I plan to have one more in about four years after the twins. We have talked and the time of My last will be when Molly is having her first."

April looked at Molly with her Ta'Pau like smile at this talk of children, sat down, grabbed a Molson from the cooler and just downed about half of it in one gulp, belched and spoke. "Thank God four years at least, and I assume with Lou I hope?"

All the women smiled back at her, knowing how tight their bond had become and unless a tragedy intervened, they were destined to be together.

The energy of this gathering of so many souls whose deep past was only beginning to be explored was felt by all on many levels, even down to those still under construction squirming lightly inside Star, and the young Celesta, who would remember and retell of this gathering for over a century into the future.

All were chatting deeply as the men stumbled out of the front of the car, smiling, and talking away. The women all smiled at the three very stoned men so many of them loved. They knew two of them were also just as connected over time with the women gathered. Randy, April had told them was a very good man to her and all she knew, but it was still an unknown if his soul had met some or all before this time.

The three very high men looked on the large gathering of smiling women looking at them and decided that it was best to ask few questions now and you would get answers later in private. All were happy at least and that was what counted most to them.

All sat and talked for hours as the day got a little warmer and nicer out. April met Bob and Larry, Gina's husbands, many of their other friends and went to look all around their stands, buying some jewelry, with April showing Star the leather necklace, she was wearing that Molly had made for her back in her Girl Scout days.

Molly was a little embarrassed by her showing off her early work but told April that she was doing some work on various pieces and showed her some of the ones she had made so far and were waiting for a few things to finish.

Star told both that her work was good and that once she got some time to finish some pieces, they would both try and sell them. It would help keep them on the road and if things went well, she could take it even further.

Molly and Lou gave April a update of their plans for the next few months. They would likely be out west until mid-May, then come back to see Sara, her, and Lou's roommates and apartment before going to Florida for June first and his parents thirty-fifth anniversary. After that it was back north again to say hi to all again then back out to California by mid-June. They would pick up Sara as soon as they could before the first and the beginning show on that tour was July second in Rochester New York.

Molly then told her mom they had a hotel room near Foxboro for the third and fourth of July and a couple was going to join them for the shows for a week and their first "Game Night" together over the week on tour together for several shows.

"You will get to meet Megan and Mike too Mom and they are very cool too."

"My Bad Little Hot Pants! She Laughed, you are having too much fun out her, and now you have an assistant. We have a hotel room in Providence for the fourth. It was the closest we could get with Randy's points for the four of us." She laughed.

"No April, Sara said to her, I'm her student and I am learning a lot from her, Lou, Star, Joe, and many others too. All are helping me to become a strong woman, and a happy woman who is not afraid to seek out and settle for nothing less than being happy with who I am and who I am with. They will have to love in the light!"

Molly added. "We are all learning and growing together, and I hope becoming better people. I know I feel better about myself and physically the hard work, dancing, and other things she added with a wink, have me feeling better than I have in years. I hated being at a desk most of my day."

"You look good and happy Molly. You have a bit of color, even with the sunscreen you need out here and I'd bet you've lost at least five pounds since I saw you last with all of the Exercise." She finished with a laugh looking at all three of them on the tailgate as she got out her camera and insisted on several pictures. Molly got out hers for shots of all of them to finish a roll she could give to April to get developed.

"April went into her large bag and dug out an older Polaroid camera and six extra cartridges of the self-developing film. "I've had this sitting around for years and the film will expire in six months so why don't you and Lou take this and send me some pictures of your trip and you can give some out to friends and send some to your folks too Lou. I hope you are calling them too?"

April then whispered to Molly and Sara, "how about you get me a polaroid of Lou for me, with a laugh and another wink at both of them.

"Mom! Molly reacted, then thought for a moment and then whispered, What the hell, I will see what I can do for you, but you better keep Patty out of your mail or both of us will have a lot of explaining to do!"

In her mind she made a note to ask Sara if she would, One, help her get the shot, and two, mind including a shot of her cute little self in there for April. She did say she thought Sara was "Yummy" too.

Lou sat back and smiled, saying nothing, but hearing enough and figuring out the rest that soon he was likely to hear a click and see a flash behind closed eyes one morning soon while his morning wood was being photographed for April. It seemed fair since he had seen her very nice large breasts twice although the 357-magnum had kind of ruined the first viewing.

After finding a skirt for herself in Star's racks, April, Molly, and Sara all took off to do some shopping and talk some more. Lou and Randy took turns selling food and running up front for bowl hits.

Randy had not planned on working today but this was more fun than his usual job on Wall Street, and the clients were far nicer! He wished he could duck out of the building for a bowl hit after a meeting at his office. Four more years until he could collect his pension, he kept telling himself!! He would have some funny stories of his day to tell those at work who knew where he was today with April, who most of them knew.

All came back with many new items. April had seen Molly wearing Lou's heavy shirts every time the clouds cooled things today and bought her a wool coat and colorful poncho and a smaller matching one for Sara. By the time they returned they were out of food and Lou was finishing up cleaning off the grills and Randy was half sleeping in a chair with his feet on the tailgate. April was happy to see him relaxing, she knew his job paid well but it was a race between him retiring and that place killing him!

Ed, Val, Donna, and Maggie joined everyone else in the walk to the arena after fun day in the lot meeting April and Randy and just having a good day. April heard the threat from Maggie repeated about Lou's potential kidnapping and asked for details and if he could be bought or if ransoms could be outbid.

Molly gave her mother a dirty look and took Randy's arm while sticking her tongue out at her and all laughed approaching the arena gates.

The group made their way in for drinks and snacks, talking and seeing who was near to who tonight. Molly had the single ticket, but she was on the same level, three sections over from as April and Randy and had Star and Joe in between them for a gathering point.

Lou and Sara were on the upper level this time but directly above them and near Ed and Val in the same section. They met up and shared a bowl and a joint during both sets and dancing together for most of both sets.

April and Molly got some alone time when Star and Joe went to talk to some other friends and April sent Randy for some more food and he was told not to hurry, so she could talk to Molly alone.

She was quick to reassure her mother that all was well with them, and that Sara was a mutual thing again

"I'm not judging you and now you know that I understand more then you thought I would. Like I said I think Sara is very cute and If I were your age, I'd be all over her too. Lou has also seemed to have been nothing but good to you and I don't blame him for going along with YOU!" Emphasizing what had been said about who had brought them together with Sara.

"You invited a cute nineteen-year-old into your bed and I don't blame Lou for going along with you. He is not an Idiot by any means!! I know you two love each other and you turn each other on a lot. I washed your clothes remember."

Putting a hand on Her daughter's shoulder to help convey how she felt even deeper. "If all of you are as happy as you look you have my full blessings, and of course you are all being careful not to get her pregnant along with yourself."

"I supervise every condom, Mom. No babies allowed for a few years, and she needs to find a good man of her own."

Leaning a little closer and talking more softly to her mother. "We are all hoping she finds a good man to share with both Lou and I too!" She whispered with a dirty little sly grin of her own as April hugged her close

"You truly are my daughter Molly holding her close and kissing her cheek. I only hope Lou is a better man at helping provide for a family than your father was when we were young. Randy and I met thirty years too late to try the kind of crazy life you are living now."

"Lou is a good man who works hard out here when we need too. He has shown me nothing but love and respect out here with him along with just being fun to be with. All three of us work well together out here along with all the other good things we do well together."

Randy came back with the food and drinks to find the women all smiling and hugging. He knew his night was going to go smoother now that he saw all was good between April and Molly. He had figured out that the girl, Sara who was traveling with them was more than a friend to both and this could be complicated. Molly was a good kid and Lou had been fun to hang out with and done nothing to show disrespect to either woman today.

April would have torn his head off if he had!

Randy passed out the drinks and set the nacho bowel on the empty seat while lighting and passing a joint to April and on down the row as Molly was smoking one heading their way from the other direction. His Ex would have killed him if she ever saw him smoking pot with one of their kids. This was a much better way to live he thought, taking the joint and watching April's large breasts sway to the music. It was going to be a good night!!

Lou and Sara were having a great time above with Ed and Val, dancing the whole set through. It was different for Lou with Sara, more like if he was with a younger sister. They had fun and there were hugs and kisses on the cheeks, but none of the deep kisses both enjoyed in private with Molly. Neither wanted to make it look like they were anything but friends in public, the same as when Sara and Molly were out in public.

Even here there were some limits societies put on them if nothing else so as not to embarrass the primary members of their partnership publicly.

Still there was a wonderful time with some fun flirting at times and more than a few whispered jokes about later tonight and what they had bought. Lou kept asking quietly, if they needed to stop for any more batteries and other little whispers to keep Sara's horny mind swimming with the music, pot, and love all around her. The "Toy Store" had included free extra "Copper Tops" to all for free for the large morning purchase.

Sara and Val almost fell out of their chairs when Lou asked seeing they had similar size feet asked, "You two have almost the same size foot. Did you two try any of the same ones at the sale earlier?"

Ed looked on with no idea for the next 5 or so hours as to why his wife and Sara were being so goofy tonight.

Sara punched Lou on the arm like Molly would have.

They all met up between sets and Randy bought two very overpriced pizzas and two hamburgers for Star who could not take the cheese. It was crazy prices, but he knew none of these guys were wealthy and April would appreciate the gesture for all these "kids". He was surprised when Lou had explained how he was affording this all so far and he was actually ahead since he left home a few weeks earlier.