THE EMEREALD CITY FREE FAMILY CLINIC
CHAPTER 10
Sitting in the middle of a very long rectangular table, my wife and I are chatting as we hear the clinging of the champagne flutes on our guest's tables as this is signal that our guests would like the two of us to kiss. Never being one to deny my beautiful wife a kiss, Arizona and I kiss each other tenderly as she brings her hands up to cup my face. When the kiss ends, I stand up suddenly as I cling my flute to signal to our guests that I have something to say as I begin "Arizona and I would like to thank you all for making the journey to Seattle and being a part of our surprise today. To our children, we both love you dearly and will never be able to repay you for your kind generosity for what you have shown us today. To my wife, Arizona…my Arizona…For as far back as I can remember…I have loved you…I am still in love with and for the rest of my life…I will love you. You take my breath away everyday and I cannot thank you enough for loving me. You and I together raised three of the most loving and giving children a mother could have ever hoped for and I love you beyond measure and beyond words". I look down at my gorgeous wife as tears fall from her eyes as I wipe them away with my thumb and I finish by saying "To my wife, to our parents, to our children and to all of you wonderful people we all get to call our family…I love you all and Happy Wedding Day everyone". Everybody stands to salute my wife and I as I kiss her tenderly again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking as I would like to thank all of you for flying with American Airlines today as we are making our final descent and will be landing shortly at Miami International Airport. The local time is 2:22 p.m. with the temperature a balmy 84 degrees". Arizona is still asleep in my arms as I try to wake her since she did not hear the captain speak. "Baby, do you want to wake up? We are arriving in Miami". My wife begins to stir in our adjoined seat as she flings her arm across my body and her left hands lands on my right boob as she forgets where she is for a moment and begins to squeeze my breast as she moans very softly and then says "I so love the way your boob still feels in my hand" as she now begins to massage my boob and kiss me deeply. Before the free show my wife is giving the other passengers in first class goes any further, I lean forward and then over my wife to quietly tell her that we are still on the airplane. With a second deep and passionate kiss from my wife, she takes her hand off my boob but not before caressing it one more time as she kisses my caramel flesh peaking out of the top of my dress while she moans a little and smiles that special smile back at me. Just as we adjust our seats and ourselves to prepare for our landing, my wife grabs a hold of my hand as she whispers to only me "Occupy my time, Calliope" as I turn to face her and kiss her lips softly and say "Remember Spain" as I watch my wife listen to me intently.
For the past fifty days or so my Calliope and I have spent our honeymoon traveling around Europe. This special gift was given to us by our family as a wedding present after we exchanged our wedding vows again after twenty five years of marriage over seven weeks ago. We started off with our own villa and private beach on an island off the coast of Spain. Then for the next seven weeks we traveled through Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, with several stops in the United Kingdom and finally on to Ireland. We left Dublin this morning and now are about to land in Miami to regroup with our family for Sofia's actual wedding day. My wife is talking to me right now about all the destinations that we have just experienced in Europe as she is trying to keep my mind occupied on something else instead of the two of us being on this plane that is about to land. You see I have this fear of flying and all my life I have had this fear but since I was in a plane that fell from the sky over twenty years ago, my fear has been heightened recently. My wonderful family thought about this matter when they gave Calliope and me this wedding present and throughout our honeymoon we took trains everywhere except for the initial flight to Spain and this flight from Ireland. So now my wife is talking me down, if you will, to calm me down because the airplane's take off's and landings are the worst parts of my fear. As I listen to my wife's calming voice talk about our honeymoon as she holds me close and my hands tight, it is the kiss she gives my on my lips, the tender, loving kiss that brings me back to reality as I see everyone rise from their seats and the movement from the plane begins that I can release the deep breath that I have been silently holding onto as I see my wife smiling back to me and hear her say "I love you, baby" that I truly know I am safe. Calliope begins to take our carry on luggage out of the overhead compartment as I ask "Who's picking us up" as she laughs a little and says "Well according to Christina, she texted me about two hours ago, everyone at the house said they wanted to come to the airport but Sofia put her foot down and told Gus and Bailey to come and get us". "Miranda" I ask as my wife says still laughing "No, Shepherd" I too laugh a little thinking about how our daughter is freaking out right about now.
June 30, 2036 is a beautiful summer day here at the Torres Estate as the warm ocean breeze is in full swing as our daughter's wedding begins. As everyone stands to wait for the bride to be escorted down the aisle, my wife and I are seated in the front row as we watch our sons accompany their sister as she has her arms laced inside each brother arm and the three of them walk down the aisle. When the priest asks everyone in attendance "Who gives this woman to marry this man" every Robbins Torres family member, related or not, stand and say "We do" as our son Daniel finishes by saying "And so does our father" as our son Carlos raises Sofia's veil and each son kisses his sister's cheek. With the wedding ceremony and reception on the Torres Estate, most of the wedding guests are able to stay at the Torres home during their stay here in Miami. The reception begins to wind down as everyone is hailed into the foyer area by our daughter as she stands at the top of the steps to toss her bouquet to all the single ladies in attendance as Diego slides his head and upper body under our daughter's wedding dress to retrieve her garter belt with his teeth so he may to toss the object to the awaiting single men in attendance. Then after Sofia and Diego change from their wedding attire and into casual clothes, everyone follow the happy couple outside to their awaiting limousine that will take them to the airport and then from there our daughter and her husband are on their way to their honeymoon in Fiji, Tahiti and The Cook Islands for the next month.
5 months later...Thanksgiving Day Weekend...Torres Estate in Miami.
All the Robbins Torres family members related or not finally reach the Torres Estate in time for the Thanksgiving Day celebration. With some of the family members dressed in Miami Dolphins football clothing and some dressed in Seattle Seahawks football clothing, my father and I still dress in our Patriots colors as we are New England fans. But today it is Miami and Seattle playing football later today on this Thanksgiving Day. As everyone passes through the kitchen area, putting their two cents in on what they would like to have for dinner, my wife Calliope along with her mother and mine are the chief chefs today as I hear my wife say "Thank you all for your ideas but I think that after all these years both of your abuela's and I know how to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner so leave our kitchen and go watch your football game". I slide off the bar stool that I had been sitting on as I walk up to kitchen island and to the three women and ask "Can I help with anything" as all three women look directly at me and without even thinking about it they all shake their heads as they smile at me and say together "Nooooo". Then both my father and father-in-law walk up to me as my father says "Why don't we let these three gorgeous women do what they do best" as my father-in-law concludes by saying "Arizona honey, why don't the three of us venture down to the wine cellar to find several bottles of wine for dinner". My Calliope comes around from behind the island as she kisses my cheek and whispers in my ear "I love you" as I tell her I love her too but I secretly know that her and our mama's don't want me anywhere near the kitchen while they are cooking such an important meal for everyone. After over twenty five years of marriage, my wife knows that I still cannot cook as well as the three of them and so do I as I follow behind the male heads of our wonderful family as we make our way down to the wine cellar.
The stories that are being talked about at the Thanksgiving Day dinner table this year range from Seahawks and Dolphins football, Red Sox baseball, Carlos' impending bar exam next summer, Daniel's new career change coming in six weeks, my wife Calliope and my honeymoon as well as Sofia and Diego's, my parents move from San Diego to Boston after my father finally retired from the Marine Corp this past September, to how well my practice is doing as well as how well Grey+Sloan Memorial Hospital are doing both financially, just to name a few stories but no one was prepared for the announcement that we were all about to hear next. Sofia stands as she clangs her wine glass that is filled with apple juice, as she thought no one saw her place the beverage in the glass as she sat down to dinner tonight but a mother always knows, and once she has everyone's attention then Diego stands too as he kisses his wife lips and I hear him whisper "You can do this Sofia, just take a deep breath and tell everyone our good news" as he kisses his wife's cheek as she smiles at him and only him and then turns to her family and says "Diego and I found out yesterday that we are going to have a baby. I'm about four weeks along and the baby's due by the first of August".
I, along with every member of the Robbins Torres family stand to applaud our daughter and son-in-law and the good…great…fabulous news that they have just shared with all of us. Every single family member congratulates the proud new parents as my wife turns to me and says "Arizona, we're going to be grandparents" as my wife kisses me. My father-in-law shouts from his eighty-two year old body "This is indeed a celebration…we need some champagne…boys will you go down to the wine cellar and bring up some bottles please and make sure one is non-alcoholic for my beautiful, beautiful granddaughter" as he gestures to our sons and to every male family member that is under the age of thirty. For the next two hours we celebrate…we celebrate so much that we all forgot about the football game between the Seahawks and the Dolphins. Then all of the younger group of relatives decide that they want to go dancing as my father-in-law calls for a town car to take our young family members to a club so they could do just that as our sons and daughter come up to my wife and I and tell us they will not be too late as we kiss them and walk to the limo to see everyone off.
With the middle aged related group of the family beginning to clean up the dinner dishes after both set of our parents go and relax in the family room to watch the end of the football game, I notice my wife is nowhere to be found. I walk back into the kitchen as every body is taking care of the leftovers and placing the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, I ask if anyone has seen my wife. Addison says first "I saw her walk towards the beach a few minutes ago" as I turn to walk out of the kitchen and out to the beach area. But first I grab two clean champagne flutes and pour the rest of the liquid from the champagne bottle evenly into the glasses. My wife's back is to me as I see she is standing ankle deep in the Atlantic Ocean as I stop on the veranda to take in the sight of this gorgeous beauty. My breath gasps a bit as I stare at my wife from afar with the moon setting in the eastern sky across the ocean as it illuminates my wife's body and I can see her standing there in her very short cream colored shorts that accentuates her gorgeous ass and her long and slender legs so well as the subtle slightly dark blue tank top is covered by a see through cream colored blouse. I stand there for a moment longer as I silently think to myself how magnificently stunning my wife is right now. When the feeling comes back into my legs, I begin the journey towards my wife but first I stop to place the glasses of champagne on the small table in between the chaise lounge chairs that adorn the beach.