Forever Lovers by Suellen Smith

pictures ended up being much more sexy and
seductive than could have ever been if the whole scenario had been
planned. For Jim, it was a successful shoot – actually, his best.
It landed Lily on the cover of the calendar making her the most
celebrated women of the year in Kansas.
    The calendar came out that fall a few months
later for the following year. It was bought by nearly every male
over the age of sixteen, which they promptly hung on their wall
long before January. The calendar was especially popular at Ft.
Riley, which is located just twenty miles west of Manhattan,
Kansas. It is one of the United States army military bases that
originated in 1853 as it played a major role in settling the Wild
West with the famous Buffalo Soldiers. Today, it houses and trains
around 25,000 men and women – a small city for Kansas.
    Nearly every single man on the Fort Riley
base bought the calendar that fall. It became like a status symbol
to own one. Whenever any of the soldiers went out cruising for
women, they kept their radar out for any of the twelve calendar
girls like they were on a scavenger hunt. There was a small wager
among them on who could find one or all twelve. It never happened,
but it lifted the spirits of the young men who were away from home
for the first time and brought some light heartiness to basic
training. One young man swore he'd seen Miss August at the
Stampede Festival last summer. No one believed him and after that
whenever someone saw a redhead, they'd ask him good-naturedly if
that were her as they laughed at their own joke.
    The calendars were sold nationwide on a
website that connected with the entire USA, but the Kansas calendar
was by far the most popular. Lily became the pinup girl that year
for soldiers on every base. She was the Betty Gable of the
twenty-first century.
    That same fall, Melvin from Kansas, sent his
Navel brother SEAL, Jack, a calendar from home. Eat your
heart out brother , he wrote. Look what you're
missing. Ha, ha. Better hurry home before they're all
taken.
    Jack was in the barracks on Cordovan Island,
California that he shared with other members of his SEAL team,
going through letters from home like his other buddies since mail
call a few minutes earlier. No one got much mail any more since the
invention of the cell, Skype, and smart phones. So, others took
noticed when someone did. Jack had just opened the manila envelope
from his brother and was pleased with the small token his brother
had sent to remind him of home. As he began to flip through it, it
wasn't long before his buddies realized what he was looking at and
began to gather around. Quinn was among the crowd.
    Well, hell! Quinn thought, when he
peeked over Jack's shoulder and saw Lily on the cover of the Kansas
calendar with her butt cheeks hanging out. And that was before he
notice the wet blouse that molded to her tits like glue, showing
off her pinpointed nipples of raw sex appeal begging to be touched.
It didn't help that his buddies were all hovering and making
inappropriate comments about his Lily's anatomy. Quinn
gritted his teeth muttering with impatience, “Let's see the rest of
the calendar.”
    By evening, one of the SEALS had located a
store in the area with enough Kansas calendars for every one of his
buddies. Much to Quinn's chagrin, his fellow SEAL mate bought them
all and started passing them out like candy, no one was left
out.
    As time went on, Quinn became irritable with
the thought of Lily being fondled by his entire SEAL unit and that
irritation began to fester. So, after a few months passed, the
calendars began to vanish; especially, as it became closer to the
end of the summer when all the calendars would be turned to the
eighth month of the year, Miss Bombshell August. When the
other Seals began to complain about their calendars disappearing,
Quinn's only sarcastic response was, “Maybe someone's using them to
wallpaper their bathroom.”

CHAPTER 16
    It was late fall and the honky tonk bar