Chapter 5

The special weekend that Corny and Eric was waiting for was here and they were both fabulously dress, feeling flirty and ready for their night of fun!

Corny wearing an orange top, a royal blue skirt, and a pair of six inches pair of gold pumps that had a dazzling effect in the dark and made her look and feel much taller and elegant that she actually was.

While Eric on the other hand was handsomely dress in white shirt, a fuzzy gray vest over it with sparkling of silver, the same color pair of pant as the vest and a pair of black gentleman shoes!

Obviously, he had gone to the barber to have his head trimmed, his face groomed and his hands manicured causing him to look extraordinarily attractive than customary!

Eight-thirty sharp he was at Corny's front gate banging on the gate to let her know that he was there and ready to pick her up!

And after stepping through the front door of her house after telling her aunt good-bye, Eric was floored to have seen her!

Immediately, he told himself that he didn't deserve her and how lucky he was for her to be out on a date with him!

Tears were spelling when he had set eyes on her and quietly told himself that he would never ever lose her!

He would stand up and fight for her no matter what!

Corny was looking fiery hot and was feeling just the same!

She turned around to kiss her aunt her final goof-bye and that's when Eric saw the long split in the back of her skirt exposing and elongated and very beautiful legs!

Eric thought, he was going to be in trouble for the entire night if he didn't hold her close to him! Because he knew for sure that other guys were going to be chasing after her drastically!

But, he was ready to protect and defend his love from any alluring figures that were ready to capture her attention away from him!

Now Corny was facing Eric and began walking towards him with a gigantic smile all over her face!

She was fully packed with excitement and overjoyed to be venturing out this date with the man who has been warming her heart and had her daydreaming about him walking down the church passageway with her; but more rousingly, him holding her in his loving arms and making passionate love to her for hours, and possibly, every day of her natural life!

Seconds later, Eric open the gate for her, took her hand in his and escorted her to his car after closing the gate behind her!

Before seating her beside him in his car, Eric passionately kissed her on the lips, complimented her on how wonderfully gorgeous she was dressed, and with grin still on her face, she thanked him and extended to him the same courtesy.

Very soon they were on the boulevard and heading to a fancy eatery which Eric had booked for them to start off their first night of dating!

For Corny it was a shocker when she saw Eric pulled up into the parking lot of the elegant eatery and announced to her that this is where they would be dinning for the evening!

It was a place she had passed time and time again and knew that there was no way she could ever afford this place if she wanted to just treat herself!

Eric wasted no time in getting the car door for her and walking her towards the entrance of the building where he press the buzzer for the receptionist to let them inside.

Once inside they were ushered to their seat and handed they menu booklet after being seated.

Gazing around, Corny loved all that she had seen and that Eric for choosing this place for them to dine!

As they ate and chatted about their future, how they truly were feeling about each other, and all that they both were expecting to accomplish in the near future!

Corny expressed that she would like to start classes at one of the technical colleges in the next three months while Eric went into more details about his new promotion and finding a place where he could open to operate his own gas station.

Their future looked bright and there seemed to be no stumbling block in their way hindering their plans or progress!

Corny was loved struck and never remembered to ask Eric about any personal questions pertaining to his person life; like where he was living now!

Who is the woman he was seeing before he had met her and how long since they had been together?

How long since he had been with another woman since that relationship, or even if, his mama was even alive?

Not even how old he was did she get to find out from him like she had contemplated on doing before they had gotten any closer with each other!

She loved him!

Was falling deeper and deeper in love with him, and most of all, she trusted him completely!

She believed all that he had presented to her about himself to be nothing but real, and presumed that he was too good to her... too attentive to her to be involved with another woman or even girlfriend!

Fully digesting a platter of steam fish with all the trimmings, a basket of creamy butter mini-bread, few glasses of wine and blueberry ice cream cake for dessert the two flaming hot lovers both agreed that the dinner was a huge success!

This eatery didn't disappoint... it was certainly a wonderful treat, a gorgeous place with fabulous customer service and excellent food!

After picking up the tab, Corny and Eric began telling themselves that this would be their own little private spot whenever they needed to get-away from the stresses and hassles of life!

The lighting was lovely - dim and soft to the eyes and made the surrounding feel heavenly!

The music was soothing, melodious and was encouraging pure romance!

The seats were well cushioned and very comfortable and made one wanted to be seated there forever!

The ambiance was excellent... just perfect and could bring out any romantic sensations that has been in a season of restraint or had been buckled down for a very long time!

Since their tummies were now overflowing and needed to be half way empty, Eric decided that they should go dancing to release some of the weight from their bellies! He recommended that they went to a night club he knew to be of good reputation and good taste, and just as exquisite as the restaurant where they had dinner earlier on!

Corny, being a dancer for a living wasn't too enthused about the idea at first to go dancing, but on second thought, she gladly agreed; after imagining that she would be enfold in Eric masculine arms, a feeling and moment she secretly and gladly cherished!

Plus, she had never seen Eric dance before and wanted to see how well he was at busing some moves on the dance floor!

And so the hopped into the car and journey to a wonderful night spot called Howie's Disco & Bar!

Soon after finding a parking lot the loving young couple made their way inside the establishment where they had seen many persons on the dance floor enjoying themselves' and showing various dance moves!

Excitingly, Eric grabbed Corny hand for them to go on the dance floor but she resisted at first pulling away her hand from his grip!

Gentle he pulled her into his embraces, kissed her in the cheek and told her not to be afraid!

Trusting him, she followed him to the dance floor!

And soon after both were dancing to the rest of the disco tune playing on the sound system!

It felt very good to be out there dancing with her partner! Feeling his nice strong arms directing her that way and this way!

Gripping her tiny waist at other times and occasionally packing on kisses on her lips, her face, and her hands so as to keep the mood of romance in the air alive!

Shortly after that song was finish, the selector changed the selection to what was known as soft music causing all who were there with their significant other to hurry to the dance floor and locked bodies with their mates and swayed around in circles to the rhythm of the music!

Eric and Corny danced for quite a long time before stopping! They had slowed danced to around eight or nine music before stopping and finding themselves somewhere to sit and give their feet a rest!

As soon as they were seated in the club, someone came up to them to take their orders, in which Eric stated that he wanted two beers and Corny on the other hand wanted a small bottle of red wine chased with a bottle of coco-cola!

Their love and companionship towards each other were definitely getting stronger!

Sitting at the table they began smooching at each other lips, rubbing at on each other's back, folding hands together, and at some moments, gazing into each other's eyes with great intensity!

They were both lost into love!

For Corny this was indeed the right love relationship for her and she couldn't ask for a better man to be in her life.

Eric was a loving man, a patient man, a very generous; and also a very thoughtful man.

Corny considered him to be hers and had no intention of ever losing him or letting him go to any other woman because she knew what she had with him was very sincere, superb, and so solidly special.

Not long after receiving their drink, someone; a female came by their table, and began staring all over Eric with folded arms and a vex demeanor written all over her face.

Eric, ignoring the presence of the female hovering over their table, continued to hold onto Corny's hands securely hoping and praying that this person would just disappear!

But soon after noticing that she was being ignored, the strange woman patted Eric on his shoulder as if, she was an officer of the law, and he, a wanted criminal!

"Who is this?"

The strange woman asked.

Still, Eric ignored her!

"It seems as if you are not hearing me well Mr. Bent; but I said; who is this you are out here sitting with?"

Once again Eric ignored the stranger who had called him by his last name!

"Do you know her?"

Corny whisperingly asked.

Hands still folded into hers, he brought her hand to his lips and kissed the back of her hand repeated, indicating to her that she hand nothing to worry about.

"So you are not going to tell me who is this that you are out with at this time of the night when your wife and your children are at home wondering where you are?"

The tall dark stranger bellowed out!

Learning for the first time that she was kissing and gripping on some else's property, Corny began pulling away her hand from betwixt Eric's grip and folded them in front of her on the table.

Corny couldn't believe what she was actually hearing, however, she wanted to hear more about what this strange woman was broadcasting inside of the club!

So she sat there, still patiently waiting for the next word that would come out of the stranger's mouth!

"You are going to sit there and be a dumb jackass with me, Eric Bent?"

The bizarre woman lashed out!

"You can play silent night all you want, Eric, but this sure isn't no damn holy night out here with you having some young woman kissing-up all over while your wife and children are at home with very little... almost dying from hunger!"

The weird stranger continued to bash Eric.

Finally, Eric silence was broken and he stood up into this woman's face and yelled on the top of his voice.

"Just shut your damn mouth!"

"What woman and kids do I have suffering or dying for hunger?"

Eric asked sternly.

Now Corny became quite confused and wondered if this woman was someone suffering from mental illness, or, was she possible drunk?

But her answers came back quicker than lighting when she burst out and bluntly asked Eric.

"What do you mean by what woman and children?"

"You have completely forgotten that you are married to my sister, and that you have three children together... two girls and a boy?"

The stranger questioned with protruding eyes and hugged hips!

"Shut your mouth, you stupid woman; because you don't know what you are talking about!"

Eric shouted at the strange woman.

"You just come here talking all this rubbish, creating embarrassment and spoiling my perfectly good evening with your nonsense!"

He continued defending himself boisterously.

"You are now standing here addressing my sister, you wife and your own children as garbage, as gibberish, as gobbledygook because you want to impress this supermodel?"

"Just remember that when you married my sister, she too looked like a super model!"

The weird woman continued to vent.

Corny just couldn't believe what she was actually hearing!

She wanted to ask the strange woman what was her sister's name and where was she living?

But, she was in a state of puzzlement and too afraid to say anything, fearing that the situation might just escalate from where it was into something even more dangerous, if she should only open her mouth!

However, she wanted to know the truth!

Was she really falling for a man who was actually tied up and had established a stable family already?

Corny began beating up herself and calling herself stupid because she hadn't asked him those important question that she should have so she could get some insight into his life before hooking up her!

"But then again, would he have told her the honest truth?"

She asked herself!

And for the next forty-five minutes or so, Eric and the strange woman kept on arguing back and forth about the exact same issue!

Corny now began believing every single word that the strange woman was uttering since her story was very consistent and free from glitches!

"You are married to my sister and have three children who are now living in lack because you refuse to care for them!"

Watching from the side of the table where she was still seated, Corny was taking in every solitary word that the stranger was saying to Eric, and she began playing them over and over again in her head!

She knew that if she should ever leave the night club without asking questions about what Eric was being accused of by this stranger, she might never ever know the truth about Eric Bent secret life which he had never voluntarily spoken to her about.

So slowly, Corny got up from her seat, went over and stood by the stranger where she looked Eric dead straight in the eyes and ask.

"Are you married?"

With glassy eyes, Eric stared into Corny's with dead silence!

Ten seconds went by and still, there were no answers!

Again Corny spoke!

"Eric, I need for you to tell men the truth right here and right now! Are you a married man?"

Like a lamb, he remained silent!

Now the strange woman began calling out the name of his children repeatedly like she had had their names tattooed to her brain for recitation!

But still, Eric would budge and give Corny the answer that she wanted to her!

He wasn't saying yes neither was he saying to no to her questions!

"Well, since I am not worthy of the truth, I guess we are done here... we done seeing each other!"

Corny said heartbrokenly while grabbing her purse from off the table and heading for the exit of the night club!

Swiftly, Eric reached for her hand to stop her from leaving!

And again, Corny ask him the same question that she needed answers to!

"Eric, I need to know the truth!"

"Please, just tell me the truth so we can move on from here! If you are married or not; I will not leave you, but I need to know!"

Still hesitant, Eric refrain from answering the question asked of him but instead, he continued to express his love for Corny and kept on apologizing for the embarrassment that had befallen them on their first night out as a couple.

Tears began streaming down Corny's face and now Eric had his hands up on her face wiping them away!

Seen his hands were wrapped around her waist like a corset belt, his face placed between her head and her shoulders as he held her closer and closer to him without any reluctance!

Now she was in that same familiar embrace! That same embrace which had made her fallen in love with him and made her wanting him more and more! Sucking up all the sweetness from his masculine cologne and feeling the coziness of his bulging muscles against her tiny body!

Tenderly, Eric began kissing Corny from one side of her face to the other as he ignored the blazing voice of the stranger who had rudely interrupted their romantic date and staring eyes of those who looked on in puzzling wonderment.

And there in that wonderful moment of loving embrace, Corny asked Eric her question one more time!

"Eric is this true; is this woman your sister-law? Are you really married to her sister and bore children together with her?"

Still pressing his envious lips against her cheekbones and massaging her back repeatedly, Eric grip Corny closer to him and softly whispered in her ear...

"Yes, but we have been separated over two years now!" Corny was now in dire disbelief!

Her entire body fell limp into his arms, and more tears continued to flow through her eyes like her tear ducks were made up of the Hoover Dam!

But, those tears were only a sign of her brokenness and the heart pain that came along with it!

There in the club, the two hearts that were beating as one were locked together as balls of tear drops trickled and trickled and trickled down Corny's face again and again!

She was in Eric loving and comforting arms, but he couldn't sooth the pain and the tears away!

It seemed like all the pain boiling in her souls was now being displayed on Eric's shirt, causing his clothing to be soaking wet and splattered with her make-up and her tears!

And as soon as the last tear drop was expelled from her body, Corny state of whimpering and heartache turned into that of angry rage!

Now the six inches dazzling gold pumps she had on her feet were off and in her hands; and angrily she began clobbering Eric in the head and on his face with them fiercely, until, all her pain and frustration was depleted from out of her, and blood began to spilling!

Many patrons began running towards the exit of the building while some onlookers, after hearing the commotion and witnessing the blows Corny was severely laying on Eric with her shiny golden pumps, ran to his defense!

She was now standing near the dance floor weeping while holding one pair of shoes in her hand while the other lay on the floor near to where Eric stood holding his wounded head.

Aware of the blood dripping from his forehead, Eric hastily took off his vest, immediately ripped it open and used it to bandage his head decreasing the blood flowing from his wound onto his face!

He then began dipping into his pocket and removing cash to pay for the drink that he and Corny had ordered earlier on before the big turmoil began causing major disturbance on the entertainment scene.

Still standing there weeping, heartbroken, confused and even remorseful for what had just transpired, Eric extended his hand to Crony bidding her to come to him, but, she just wouldn't move from where she was standing!

And even after Eric had stepped towards her, trying to console and bring her home, she refused his gesture by walking away from him, picked up her other foot of shoes and made her way towards the door of the night club.

Once on the outside of the building, a force of lunacy seemed to have taken over Corny's mind and possible body too! She began running down the street with great speed like she was a sprinter in the Olympics hundred meter race!

No one knew where she was running to or even why she was running!

Some presumed, she was afraid of the police coming there and slapping the hand-cuffs on her wrist and then hauling her off to jail!

However, that wasn't the case with her!

She was in total shock and running was her way of dealing with the pain, the hurt and all the drama she was experiencing at the moment!

All her hopes and dreams were now out the window -shattered, and she didn't know who or what to trust anymore!

Corny had now outrun herself!

Walking was the only fitting thing for her to do right now! And while she was walking she was hoping for a taxi to come her way and bring her home right away!

But the more she walked, not one taxi came to satisfy her wish!

It was only some of the patrons from the club who were stopping their vehicle offering her a ride home while some were making their own sexual intentions known to her, if she should ever set foot into their vehicle what to expect!

In spite of her state of desperation and weariness, Corny decided on walking until she made it home Pembroke Hall, no matter how long it took her to do so.

As she walked along the lonely dark road with all the business door shut and occasional driving past her, Corny could hear a horn tooting into the distance like it was a case of an emergency and driver needed everyone or everything off the streets or out of its way!

Frighteningly, Corny turned around to see what all the noise was about, and when she did, she noticed that it was Eric's car coming from a distance tooting his horn to get her attention! An attention that he had already assumed that she would reject no matter how severely struck down and shattered her situation had been.

Seconds later, the car blowing the horn was at her feet, and it was no other person than Eric around the steering wheel with his silvery looking vest use as bondage around his head like he was an Arab!

"Corny; get inside the car!''

Eric demanded!

But, Corny looked inside the car at him and kept on walking!

He was determined to take her home fearing that someone with very scrupulous characters might cause her great harm at that hour of the night!

She was being stubborn as a mule while he was being extremely resolute in his decision of bringing her home safely!

There was no way, he was going to allow her to walk home all by herself one o'clock in the morning hours!

He didn't care if the police or anyone saw him on the street hassling her to get into his car because he wanted her home in one piece and alive!

She was still precious and very dare to him even though, she had cracked his scull with her six inches pumps; he wanted her safely home and very much sound; just like he had taken her from her Pembroke Hall residence five hours earlier on that evening!

Eric had now stopped his car, got out from around the wheels and began chasing Corny on the main boulevard going south in the direction of where Corny worked.

Even though Eric was on the big side, he was running very fast; but, he was no match for Corny, she was moving in lighting speed causing Eric to quit his chase and get back into his car and then go after her again!

He knew he had to come up with something convincing to get her into his car so he could take her!

His heart was beating heavily and he was very perplexed about how the entire evening had turned out between them!

He not only wanted to take her home, but he also wanted to explain to her about what had cause this unexpected uproar and uncalled for rift between them at the disco club.

She needed to know the entire truth and he wanted her to hear the truth from him and only him!

After starting his car engine and pressing on the gas, Eric finally caught up with Crony.

Once again, she flatly refused to enter his vehicle!

While still out of breath and needed water and a place to rest for a while but she told herself to keep on going and she would be by the Windom Hotel in no time; so, she never have to set foot in Eric's car ever again!

However, that was never to be realize after a strange and derange figure jumped from one of the store fronts, unexpectedly grabbed her and began pulling her toward the back of the building while she desperately struggled to get loose from strong grip!

Corny began screaming on the top of her lungs while she tried to bite her attacker who was placing his hand over her mouth to muffle out her screams!

Thankfully, Eric heard those screams, jumped from his car and began pursuing... chasing after this dirty, filthy and crazy man who was now dragging her like a bundle of dry straw in a barn to the rear of one of the large store buildings on the plaza!

Eric was now up close to the derange stranger with a large piece of stick in his hand, drumming one hit after the other across his back or any other place on his body that he could find to strike him so as to get him to let her go!

But, it was like Eric was fighting a four hundred pound gorilla... every time he would strike the derange man with the firm piece of stick he had in his hand; the stick would just bounce back off into his hand like he had some form of spring resisting each on thrashing!

Realizing that this man was no match for him, Eric threw the stick aside and began screaming as loudly as he could until his mouth was dry and he had grown weak from doing so!

Corny was now on the ground, and just as the lunatic was about to sexually assaulted her, she took a firm grip of the foot of shoe she had above her head, and plunge it right into his eye-ball of the insane man until blood began gushing out!

And even with one eye gone or badly damage, the man's insanity had the best of him! Because he wouldn't let up... he was still trying to make his sexual action a reality!

So Corny pulled the shoe heel from his eye and again, she slapped him real hard, this time at his ear temple!

It was a slapped which had caused him to abruptly stop in his track and changed from his intention; holding onto the spot where Corny had used tremendous force to knock him out and crippled his sexual behavior.

Eric weak and wounded from his head injuries, made his way over to Corny who was still lying on the ground, and there, he tried helping her to her feet, thinking that he could eventually bring her to his car to rest.

After wrestling and tussling with that demonic lunatic, she had no more strength or will to fight with Eric, and now she was gripping onto his shirt to get to her feet and thanking him for coming to her assistance.

Gentle, he led her to his car where he aided her onto the passenger seat, before taking his position around the staring wheel as if, he was ready to move from that spot.

But, Eric had no immediate intention of removing the car from there just yet! Because, he urgently wanted her to know the truth about him being a married man and then have her give him a chance at their relationship.

He wanted her to know that yes, he was still legally married, however, he wanted her to realized that he had long separated from this woman - his wife, for over two years now and had no intention of recreating a knot with her even if she was furnishing him with gold and a trillion dollars!

Right now, Corny was the only one who could give him joy within and without, make his heart sing and have him feeling just like a mighty king ruling over his palace!