Clerow's Dreams

Clerow was asleep , dreaming......For once it wasn't about his wife's older sister, Mabel...who used to be his woman....That was a long time ago....Almost an eternity now... He was dreaming about Cora-beth, his wife...who was about to deliver their second child...He was thinking about Peaches...a can of peaches he had to help himself to one night....


He went down into the shed and to his surprise...He was joined by Cora beth...wearing a see through night gown with nothing under it....The moonlight seeemingly shone through it showing Clerow a silhouette of that young, sexy body....They smiled as he opened up the can of peaches...

She told him that she had been awakened by all the noise her sister and him had been making in the bedroom.....then she winked at him...and curled her lip in that sexy way she always did....He didn't mean to...but before he knew it....he had her nightgown up over her hips and his already erect penis inside of her.....They made slow , sweet love in the shed that night....

"Ohhhhhhh Cleeerow.....you don't know how longggggg....how longggg. I've wanted you to put your large hands around my hips...how lonnngggg...I've wanted you inside me....ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." she moaned as he made love to her in that shed on that hard couch that they had moved into the shed once they got a new sofa for the living room..

He wanted to tell her the same thing....but he couldn't bring himself to say it....after all, hadn't he just left her older sister's bed?

He awoke with a startled look on his face.....He smiled... He carried the guilt of his betrayal to Mabel for years....and he wondered if he only married Cora-beth or Corrie as he called her with affection because she had been pregnant with his daughter....He had tossed this out of his mind.
Whether he had or not...He had learned to love her for her now...Had seen that although she wasn't Mabel...She was something special in bed too....and at times...even more passionate....It was hard to tell....even harder for guys to believe, but it was true....

Mabel and Anita were watching his and Corrie's daughter...they were coming to the hospital later. He drifted off to sleep and thought about Victoria....Mabel and Corabeth's older half sister..
He had had her too.... When he first came to Philadelphia...She had been married to Pastor Struthers... Pastor Struthers was a different man then...Running around with several women...
She had her blues.....and she sympathized with Clerow , who was still holding a torch for Mabel...
Who she did not know at the time, was her younger sister...Nobody knew it....

Clerow eyed her sympathetically and kept making his drink. He mixed a thawed 12 ounce can of frozen lemonade ("that cool refreshing drink"), another twelve ounce can of frozen orange juice, a cup and a half of sugar, one teaspoon of vanilla extract, another teaspoon of almond extract and eight cups of cold water..topping it off with two liters of lemon lime soda, chilled.

"He comes home with lip stick on his collar and the smell of
perfumes that I don't wear...I've known about his affairs for years
but I've never said anything...but now...I just can't take this anymore.
I'm 40 years old...I've given that man the best years of my life.."

Clerow said nothing....He thought of his Mabel....bad enough she was seeing that brother from
Philly, but stepping out on him with this old fist licking Pastor too??? She was dating like a....
like a... well like a man and he couldn't take it...but he had hurt her...he had cheated on her with her own sister...he and he alone was the reason why Mabel was here in this God forsaken city
instead of in Monroe, Louisiana....their home.

He took two large pitchers and a large punchbowl and combined the first six ingredients...He gently added the soda....Then he took two chilled tumblers and served his Citrus Punch.

"Oh My.....You Southerners got a way with food and
beverages...This is off the chain Clerow."

Clerow said nothing...He eyed this woman strangely...sitting there in his bathrobe....She had been just distraught about two hours ago, when he found her about two blocks from Mabel Jenkins house...It was the night before the Church Potluck...He was watching Mabel's house and so was this woman...Since they had "caught " each other..they began talking...They shared each other's pain and eventually, she shared herself with Clerow in his bed...

"Ohhhh my goodness, you are so...welll, so well endowed....ohhhhhhhh my gooodness..." she moaned as Clerow and she rocked in an incredible rhythem in the small bed in his small apartment....Her body was as comely as Mabels and Corabeth's...He felt like he had died and gone to heaven....They made love seven or eight times that night..until they were both spent...
It was one of maybe two nights that they ever spent together...She would go on to divorce Pastor Struthers and marry the church deacon....Larry Weatherford.....

Sometimes when she saw him with Corabeth...Her younger sister, she looked at him funny... or at least he thought so. Corrie told him that that was just his imagination.Sometimes she looked at Mabel funny too....He never liked being around both of his wife's sisters at the same time....How many men could say that they slept with their wives two older sisters and live to talk about it?

Only his younger sister in law ,Anita had a clean slate...Clerow had never slept with her and didn't intend to either... She became the only one he could talk to and thus became his favorite sister in law. Anita, who knew the whole story didn't judge him and always had a sympathetic ear. He had a sympathetic ear for her problems with Chance Howard, her current boyfriend.

"Hey ...Hey...wake up man, you'll sleep your life away." came the unmistakably gruff voice of Gus, the bartender at Josies...Where Clerow hung out when he wasn't working or out with his friend Kevin on a caper.

"Hey...uh..oh hey Gus...I must have drifted off." said Clerow.

''Yeah..I can see that." he said.

Gus and Kevin and Kevin's wife, Sepia (who it was revealed recently was his wife's first cousin) were in the waiting room with me...They had brought tumblers of coffee and donuts...

"Aww guys thanks...you didn't have to." Clerow said.

"You shoulda told us that before we sprung for this grub." laughed Gus...Kevin and Sepia joined
him laughing..

"I aint heard nothing yet." said Clerow

Mabel, her new man, Piano player, "88" and my daughter arrived soon after as did Anita ,Chance Howard, Victoria and Deacon Larry Weatherford...For some reason, he did not feel uneasy being around the Jenkins girls now...Not with their men present.

A Doctor walked out and looked at us.....

"Mr. Hamilton...Clerow Hamilton???" he said.

"Yes sir." he said as he stood up.....

"You are the father of an 8 pound, 13 ounce little Boy........He was just born about a half hour ago......I came out here, but you were knocked out....I figured I'd wait." he said.

"You figured you wait??" said Gus, looking at him incredulously. He shrugged his shoulders and managed a weak smile....

Everybody clapped and smiled.....Sepia, Anita, Mabel and Victoria all took turns hugging and kissing me....Clerow passed out cigars to Kevin, who slapped Clerow on the back, Gus , Deacon Weatherford and Chance Howard...

"Can I go see her Doc?" he asked.

"Sure....Sure...Follow me." he said.

He scooped up his two year old daughter and said to her- "You got a brother now baby...we are going to see him and mommy." She smiled... Mabel looked at Clerow and managed a weak smile....

''Congratulations Clerow....I'm happy for you." she said....He wondered if she really felt happy for him? he'd just have to take her word for it.

He walked into the bedroom and there was Corabeth holding thier second child.....their son!!!

"Heyyy Corrie....We did it...You did it....." he laughed.

"You were right the first time babe.....we did it... I named him after you...Clerow Emanuel Hamilton Jr. I hope you didn't mind.?" she said.

"No..Not at all." he said.

By Now, Gus, Kevin, Sepia, Anita, Chance, Mabel ,Victoria and Deacon Weatherford had entered the room.....They were all smiles and cheers.....Clerow pinched himself to make sure he wasn't still dreaming....He wasn't!