Miss Lola.

Hollis.

I've come to believe that true love comes around only once in a lifetime and without question Lola is it for me.
She's everything I've ever wanted in a woman and then some and I can't hardly wait to get married to her.

I know that I'm ready this time because I'm in a different place emotionally from when I married my first wife, Ana.

Yeah, I'd been hot , young and very full of myself when we started dating and the only thing on my mind back then had been bagging as many girls as I could and Ana had sure been one fine piece of tail.

We ended up doing it on our first date and a month later we got hitched because Ana was pregnant and I hadn't wanted her dad coming after me with his twelve gauge shot gun and

nine months later our only child, Jeffrey, was born and I had to quickly find a job to support my new family which meant working at my family's funeral home business until I could open the car dealership.

How that happened is that my parents loaned me the start up money and it had taken me close to ten years to repay them.

So I guess you can say that Ana and I married for all of the wrong reasons which is never the right reasons to marry someone and I'm determined not to make that same mistake this time around.

No,sir.

I was going to make this one count, come Hell or high water.

Yeah, I've got plenty of lusty thoughts about Lola too but she's making me hold off because of her crazy three month rule and at first I was plotting to make her break it until I realized that she was right.

Most guys spend half their time trying to get some instead of trying to get to know the woman and appreciating her as a person because all we see is the sex and some of us have ended up missing our wives with an attitude like this.

Granted, not every woman is a potential wife or even wife material but that's something that has to be worked out between the individuals involved.

Well, this three month rule is helping me to start seeing and appreciating Lola as a woman and not as a sexual object put on earth just for me to

conquer but it's rough having her so near and not being allowed to touch her gorgeous body until after three...no..it's been one month now so I have two more months to go.

Sigh.

Unless she agrees to marry me tomorrow and Hell, that would be nice but I already know that Lola wants a big, fancy wedding and it's going to take time to plan something like that and I hope I don't burst before then.

It already feels like I'm carrying two hot, throbbing stones inside of my Calvin Klein briefs.

Right now I'm seated in my therapist, Doctor D's sunny office as he steeples his long fingers and peers over them at me. The doctor is gray haired, with a thick beard, walnut brown skin and a soft accent.

"How are things, Hollis?" He asked.

"Great actually."  I lean back on the couch and get comfortable. "I'm in love."

His bushy brows raise.

"Wonderful. Who's the lucky woman?"

"Her name is Lola Simmons. She's the one I've been searching for all these years and I've finally found her. She special, Doc."

"So, you're confident that she's the one? Why?"

I thought a second and then said,"When I'm with Lola, I'm complete and completely happy. I've never felt this way about any woman, including my first wife. Lola makes me want to be a better man."

"That's very positive." Doctor D remarked, writing something down on his pad. "What about Jeffrey? How does he feel about your new love interest?"

For the first time I'm uncomfortable.

"Jeffrey is having a little trouble with it because he still hopes that his mother and I will get back together."

"Is this something which you might have unknowingly encouraged him to expect?"

"Oh, no. I've always made it plain to him that it's over between his mother and I. That ship has already sailed."

"You seem very confident about your answers today." The doctor observed.

"That's because I'm sure this time." I say very firmly.

"Tell me about Miss Lola."

"She's beautiful, first of all and strong and even though she got pregnant at sixteen, she still managed to complete highschool and beauty school and now she runs her very own hair salon."

"And what else?" Doctor D gently prompts.

"Well, Lola raised her children pretty much by herself because their dad abandoned her while she was pregnant and that takes a certain level of guts. I really admire her."

"You're describing the things she's done. What do you know about the woman herself? Her emotional make-up?"

I feel a slow grin spread across my face.

"Well, she can be a little prickly sometimes and.. and she's sassy but those are the things I like."

"And what things don't you like?" He asked.

His question made me frown as I gave it some thought.

"Well, she can be a little head-strong at times." I said.

"And do you see that as a potential problem?"

"Not really. I don't mind giving her her way sometimes but I'm man enough to stand up to her if necessary."

The Doctor raised a skeptical brow, jotted something else down.

"So, where do you see this relationship heading?" He asked.

"I'm going to marry her, Doc." I said.

"Well, congratulations, Hollis. You deserve something positive in your life."

I grin and say, "Thanks, and hey Doc? You're invited to the wedding."

"Thank you Hollis. I would be very happy to attend."

During the short drive to Williams's Motors I replay everything the Doctor and I discussed in our last session and realized that I haven't told my parents, Randolph and Rachel Williams, about Lola and so I call them right away.

"Well, hello son." Dad's husky voice tugs a grin onto my face.
We have a solid relationship, and he was one of those dads who knew the importance of spending quality time with all of his children.

I'd learned so much about what it meant to be a real man from my father.

"Hi, Pops. Just wanted to touch bases with you guys today. I have some great news."

"Hold on while I patch your mother in on the other line." He said.