Chapter 97

The next day Grace and I were having lunch when she got a call. She showed me the phone before she answered it, and it was Mandy. They talked for a few minutes, then hung up. “She told me they just arrived, and will see us on Saturday.”

We spent the rest of lunch wondering what all Mandy had planned, and decided to just see how things turned out. We spent the rest of the day doing the paperwork that was required when doing paying flights, including some new things the FAA now required.

That night we stopped at a diner on the way back to the motel, and after we read the next chapter in our books we cuddled together on the loveseat. And I told her about all of my girlfriends when I was in LA. Most of them she knew about, like Shawna, Kris and Crystal. Zoe was a bit of a surprise, and I admitted I had no idea what her age was when we started.

“I mean, think about it. The first time was a big birthday celebration, and I thought she had just turned sixteen. I just did not realize that for Mexican families, the equivalent to sweet sixteen was when a girl turns fifteen.”

“None of the signs clued you in?”

I chuckled and shook my head. “Sure, some said ‘Feliz Quinciñera’, but it just did not sink in at the time. And she is the one that instigated things, I did not chase her.”

But I screwed up when I again brought up Gina. “She was a stripper, right?”

“Well, yes and no. She was one before I met her, but by then she had gotten hurt so was a waitress. She sometimes brought me drinks when I was working as a DJ, and started flirting with me.”

“And she’s still a waitress?”

Fuck, I had to really thread a needle here. “Well, now she works for the company that Aunt Linda works for.”

Grace looked at me for about thirty seconds, and shook her head. “George, are you saying what I think you’re saying? She’s a porn actress now?”

I sighed in my head, and nodded. “Yes, she is. But think a moment, the company she works for is not like most. Yes, it’s porn, but, hell. You know the show I wrote the theme song for? She’s one of the stars in it now. And she does a few other things, that is mostly what she does.”

“You know, I’ve never really seen it. Can we go online and see what it’s like?”

“Grace, you want to see a porn movie?”

She giggled, then nodded. “George, I’ve seen some in the past. But most are just lazy. Horny slut meets guy, lets him do whatever he wants for fifteen minutes until it ends.”

“Well, the ones that Linda writes and Rocco makes are not like that at all. The one I helped create is more like a sitcom than what you’ve seen in the past.”

And that is how I found myself hooking my laptop up to the television as Grace made some popcorn. And I had found the first episode as she was setting the bowl on the table in front of the loveseat along with a glass of what looked like vodka and orange juice for me and a wine cooler for herself.

I hit play, then took a seat next to her. However, even I was surprised when on the screen was Luna with her face inside of a logo that had “LAF Productions” on top and “omnes ad ludum perveniamus” under it. It was obviously a parody of the old Mary Tyler Moore logo with the cat, but when she opened her mouth she gave a rather sexy moan.

I laughed at that, and Grace asked me what that meant around the logo. I paused the video, and said I honestly did not know. “You know, I was there when they taped it, but I’ve never actually seen this episode. I saw a later one with Gina at her place, but that was a copy for her that did not have that logo.” I went ahead and put the phrase on the bottom into a translator on my phone, and started laughing again. “Grace, ‘omnes ad ludum perveniamus’ is Latin for ‘Let’s all fuck’. In fact, I bet that’s exactly what LAF productions stands for. That’s actually kinda clever, it sounds like ‘laugh’, but stands for something completely different.”

She was shaking her head and laughing, and said that made sense. I reached forward and hit play again, and the opening credits started. And I saw her smile as the quasi disco version of “All She Gets From the Iceman is Ice” started playing. But the images below once again showed different clips of the show.