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Perfect Timing
Date: 12/30/2015, Categories: Mature, Author: marlowe, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
Food delivered to the table and empty plates taken away, wine bottles emptied and quickly replaced, compliments following compliments, smiles and laughter flirting under a veil of stolen glances, pledges and promises and truth and lies smothered under the sound of raised voices and clattering plates. The taxi dropped them back at ‘The Royal Belvedere Arms Hotel’ just after eleven . After staggering unsteadily through the door, Beverley made a quick detour to the kitchen returning with a smile and a bottle of champagne in each hand. Corks popped and the wine flowed, too many toasts inviting too many drunken off-key choruses of ‘Happy Birthday,’ Beverley deliberately letting his age slip into the song and casually announcing that at forty-two she was twelve years younger than Charles. Standing at one end of the bar, George and Charles giggled and laughed like a couple of teenagers, swapping lewd anecdotes, telling dirty jokes and making suggestive innuendos, unaware that their voices were too loud. Sitting on stools at the opposite end of the bar, Mark and Beverley talked quietly over the commotion, flirting with each other at any given opportunity. George’s overexcited and overloud voice broke their flirtatious interlude. Holding his hands about ten-inches apart he proceeded to tell a joke about a large penis, but with an alcohol fuelled memory lapse he missed the punch line and in an outburst of hysterical laughter he pointed a finger at his friend and colleague shamelessly ...