Countdown to Dress Rehearsal.
Bella's POV
Bella woke up refreshed and excited about the activities that would take place today. It was Thursday and the last rehearsal for all of the participants in Creation Song before tomorrow's Dress Rehearsal would take place tonight. Prince had thought long and hard about what apparel he wanted the General Choir and the Ensemble to wear and the Angels also. He felt that Robes were simply too ordinary to frame such a unique piece of music and vocalizations. He had decided that the General Choir would be dressed in Black Slacks for males, Black Flowing Skirts for women to mid-calf with black silk shirts with flowing sleeves and gold vests. The Ensemble would be just the opposite. Gold Silk lined Pants for men and Gold Silk lined Form fitting Skirts for women to just above the knee with Gold Shirts with Flowing Sleeves and Black Vests. Women would wear 3 inch Black Pumps and mid size thick gold hoop earrings. Arch-Angels would wear Shiny Black Robes with Gold Breast Shields while all other Angels would wear Soft Gold Robes with Shiny Black Breast Shields. The apparel had been approved by Jesus and made by the Angels. Prince would be dressed in Gold Pants and a Gold Shirt but his shirt would have Black Cuffs with gold Cuff Links and a high Black Collar. His vest would be Black with a Gold Treble and Bass Clef embroidered on the left side. Final fittings had occurred last week and only one outfit needed any further alterations. That was to be completed today so that the Choir member could try it on again with plenty of time to make any further adjustments. The Angels had done a terrific job. Once they had on their outfits at the fitting, they had stood in their places so that Prince could see how they would appear to the Congregants in the audience. They gave off the desired effect and Prince, Michael, and Sandalphon were very pleased as were all the participants.
Prince was still sleeping. All of the fine tuning of the performance had him really tired and stimulated. He needed to rest, Bella would make a Vegetable Frittata for two this morning. But first...she would make coffee. She got up and made her morning water, washed her hands and brushed her teeth and headed into the kitchen and put the coffee on.
Prince's POV
Prince heard Bella get up and struggled to wake from the heavy sleep he had been in. His dick was throbbing and it had been much of the night. He got up and relieved himself and washed his hands and brushed his teeth and then he ran cold water on his member hoping it would go down, but he remained as hard as a rock. He dried if off and went back into the bedroom. He was horny as hell...the long rehearsals and working with the Angelic language had taken its toll. He had controlled himself well but now he needed some relief or he would never make it through the rehearsal tonight and the Dress rehearsal tomorrow. He went into the kitchen where Bella was making coffee and just as she was about to pull the eggs out of the refrigerator, she saw a handsome Prince wander into the kitchen. He took her by the hand and led her back into the bedroom. He sat her on the side of the bed and with a slightly crooked smile said..."STAY". Going into the bathroom he removed his pajamas and came out with nothing but a smile on and a fully unfurled member. He picked Bella up, placed her back in bed and then climbed in himself.
Several weeks before, Prince had during his sleep suckled on Bella's breast while sleeping and it really comforted him. He had thought it was a dream but a week ago, he had asked Bella about it and she had said no it had been real, but that Jesus had advised her not to bring it up until he remembered himself. When he got really tired and or stimulated or really horny for her it helped him. While other people might have thought this strange, both he and Bella enjoyed it. Once she understood how much he liked it and how much it helped to calm him she was more than willing to allow him to suckle one or both breasts as long as he kept himself in the safe zone. Sometimes to do that he had to caress himself to let off a little steam (she knew he was pretending to be inside her or inside her mouth)...but it helped and they had no serious incidents because of it. She had been a little reluctant to allow this at will at first, but when he got in that condition out of desperation, he had started to suck his thumb and she knew then he was working through his nurturing issues also, and so one morning she had removed his thumb from his beautiful mouth while he was rubbing himself and presented her breast to him instead and he had sucked it greedily. She had then allowed him to do so whenever he needed it since. He was really stimulated from all of the rehearsals with the Angelic language and the Universe's involvement and this morning he was really horny! When he had taken her hand in the kitchen she had seen how big his member was. It was fully unfurled and it had led the way into the bedroom from inside his pajama bottoms. Now he was naked next to her under the cover. He now said "Mama can I suck my titties". As always she said are you going to be a good boy..."uh huh" he said and she let him slide her gown off of both shoulders. He then rolled over on his side and started to rub her nipple between his thumb and forefinger and then he slowly licked her nipples with his tongue one at a time and finally he would close his eyes and start to suck on one of them greedily sometimes and sometimes gently...today it looked like it would be both. Today he was hornier than he had been since these rehearsals started. He sucked her and rolled the other nipple between his thumb and forefinger. While this made Bella really hot she was able to tolerate it without losing it because it really allowed him to function better which made her happy. Sometimes when she got really hot she would touch herself so she too could let off steam, but never to the point of orgasm. They had not compromised her Vow about intercourse either, or his Promise. Prince sucked her right breast and then pulled her toward him so he could suck her left. As he did, he put his hand on his shaft and started to caress his dick. He then started to kiss her and his tongue asked permission for him to enter her mouth. She let him and his breath hitched as did hers and he moaned. He was still caressing his dick but moving just a little faster. On two other occasions when he was in pretty tough shape he had asked her to touch him and because he did not ask often she had, and had brought him to orgasm. Bella he said, "I really need it. Please baby will you touch me"? She knew he did need it as he had been whimpering in his sleep last night. She had learned that was an indication of just how hypersexual he was becoming. She already knew that could and would lead to a meltdown.
So she kissed his lips and let her fingers drift over his hand on his shaft. She did it again and his hand started to shake. Then she wet her fingers with her mouth and slowly ran them down the underside of his shaft along the vein. He groaned aloud. "Bella please rub it, please rub me" his voice said and his eyes pleaded. She touched the tip of his dick in a circular motion with her index finger. Within a minute or so pre-cum had covered her fingers and now she did the same to the tip with the palm of her hand. Her hand was literally wet now and she began to rub his shaft with her whole hand. He began to push his hips up and down encouraging greater speed of movement with her hand. He then wanted to suck her titty again and he did. His breathing became rapid...and he said "Bella, I want, I need to come...is it okay"?. He stopped sucking her and looked up into her face and eyes while still moving his hips and enjoying her rubbing his big hard dick. She smiled at this beautifully strange man of hers and said yes baby you can come. "Can I come on your belly"..."yes baby you can". He then took his hand and put it over her hand and moved it even faster and as he did his breathing became ragged and he said "I love you Bella...I need you Bella" and then it was just "oh Bella, oh Bella, oh Bella" and then he got up on his knees and his body began to shake almost violently and he came on her belly. As he came holding and rubbing his dick, he rubbed it in his cum on her belly and in her naval which excited him more and he came even more. Bella was really hot and rubbed herself a bit while he was ejaculating...and then he collapsed on her and started nuzzling her neck and her ear. "I love you Bella" he said and fell asleep and so did she.
When they woke up, Bella got up and so did Prince. She went into the bathroom, washed her hands and then went back into the kitchen to make the Frittata. She heard the shower turn on and knew that Prince had gotten in it. She poured a cup of coffee for herself and dressed it. Taking a sip she began to prepare the Frittata. She heard the shower turn off and wanted to have the Frittata on by the time Prince came into the kitchen...she got it started and then poured him a cup of coffee...he came in just as she was adding his two sugars. She handed him his mug and he gave her a gentle and sweet kiss on the lips. "Wow Mama, you take real good care of your man. Thank you for this morning. I was about to lose it". "You are welcome my love". He looked at the Frittata and said yum. She made some toast in the toaster buttered it and then removed the Frittata from the flame. Prince set the table, got out the orange juice and they sat down. He blessed the food and they ate. Once they had eaten, he said he would take dish duty so that Bella could shower. She did and then they both finished dressing discussing the plans for the day as they did. Walks with Jesus were suspended until after the premier of Creation Song so were the meetings with Mary. There had been so much to do and they had been running like crazy. But today...things would be slower until an hour before rehearsal. Prince and Bella were meeting the lighting guy and were going to run through the lighting cues for the entire performance including the dance segment. He would actually perform them tomorrow at the Dress Rehearsal, but they wanted to be certain he was comfortable with all of the lighting cues. Prince wanted to just spend time with Bella and relax until then. She was all for that. Once she was dressed, she changed the sheets on the bed saying wash sheets, so that those that she had just stripped would be fresh, clean and folded in the linen closet in a few minutes. Bella's hair had grown since she had arrived in Paradise. She pulled it back and up into a pony and then loosely braided it. She pulled tendrils out in each temple and then putting on a little lip gloss she went out and sat on the sofa next to her beautiful, strange, mad genius. She chuckled out loud as she thought of the newest knick name she had given him. As she sat down he put his arm around her and gave her a peck on the cheek. He had been thinking about the day that they had ridden out to the lake...their relationship had moved to a new level on that day which meant a lot to him. He was thinking about something Bella had told him and that he had wondered about since. "Bella, do you remember the day we biked to the lake", he asked? "Of course, it was one of the most meaningful we have ever spent together", she said. You told me that you had only known me as an entertainer until later in your life. "Yes baby, I did". "What did you mean by that? I wonder because no-one male or female has ever known me or gotten me the way you do".
"Well it is kind of complex but I will be happy to share it with you". "As I told you, after we met that one time at The Hardrock Cafe, I was very curious about you and what had created the reaction we obviously had to each other. But a few months later, you married Mayte and that seemed to be the end of that. It did not make sense to wonder anymore because even if it was very meaningful you were no longer available. Prince looked at Bella and said "but you knew about Paisley Park right? You could have looked me up especially since I had no idea how to find you". "Yes Prince I could have...but to what end? I was 10 years older than you in that incarnation and while there have been many successful relationships between men and women with such an age difference...even when the woman has been older, you, it seemed only wanted to be with women that were 10 and later 20 years younger than you. I didn't need that kind of rejection in my life. Further as you told me, you found out Mayte was pregnant a few months later and married her. That would have broken my heart. Those kinds of things went through my mind before they happened and so in the end I am glad I did not pursue you then. Plus Prince, I did not want to be in the kind of infidelity cycle that was constantly reported about you. Even when you seemed happy you would end a relationship sometimes without telling the person you were with that it was ending and start a new one without telling them that either". "Yes I did those things and I am not proud of that", Prince said. "Baby please understand" Bella said, "I share this to tell you what I was thinking not to blatantly find fault. They are simply facts in the story". "I know" he said..."I just squirm every time I think about some of the foolish things that I did". Bella leaned in and kissed him on his cheek. "You are much wiser now baby and make much better decisions...it is called growth" said Bella. "But I had this deep interest in you despite all of that. I guess I faced that you would never be mine, but I still was driven to know everything I could about you. I followed your career, where you were performing and the music you were making...always the music. Very little in those days was being leaked onto the net. That would not come into play until you opened the industry's eyes on the power of the internet. I was not in the position to be able to access and own bootlegs so I was not privy to much of the unreleased stuff but, I had one friend who was married to a minor player in the business who had the hook up for some of the unreleased pieces".
"I started hearing things like Open Book and Get Blue, which I think you had given to another artist but I had not heard it. I remember the first time I heard those songs, they struck me so deeply that I looked up the lyrics and what I read and heard was so profound that I began to realize that despite the fact that the war with Warner had interfered with air play of your music...you had continued growing and had moved far beyond the Purple Rain era place of growth. You had become a profound lyricist that I not only had to respect but whose mind and compositions I loved. I fell in love with you through the words that you wrote which were reflections of both your heart and mind. It was at that point that I became a true connoisseur of your music".
"Unlike some of your followers, I was not really interested in what woman you were talking about for the most part. I realized that If you listened to your music and lyrics especially, you would tell us what was going on in your life and mind in many instances and so I did. That is when I began to understand how lonely you were and how internally wounded also. I read about your childhood and began to understand why I heard such dark themes of death and suicide in your work. That seemed incongruent on the surface from a man who appeared to have everything. And then the songs of intense longing began to register with me. Some of those songs were also among the most beautiful to me like Sea of Everything...very simple but oh so beautiful and meaningful . There were some like Strollin' that were upbeat but for the most part what I was hearing was hurting me and scaring me. When I heard The Breakdown particularly the version you did in Montreux in 2013, and June I knew that you were preparing to leave and then I heard the Piano and Microphone Tour recording of Noon Rendezvous and Venus de Milo done is Sydney Australia. Baby I cried and cried because I knew we...I... had already lost you. It was like you were saying goodbye to your songs, to your precious, amazing children. 2 months later you were gone".
"I was devastated and angry and so many things. It took me two years to realize I had a choice I could live out the rest of my days and die maybe from the breast cancer I was diagnosed with the year after you died or a broken heart. Or I could act on what I felt the Universe was directing me to do through your music. I knew your pain from your eyes in so many of the pictures I had collected of you...but I needed you to know mine without you and I could only call out to you and hope that a merciful God would allow you to hear and answer me. I needed you to know that I believed that I was made to be with you and that I wanted you more than anything in the world or 100 worlds could offer me. So on the second anniversary of your death I began to cry out to you to tell you what was in my heart. I needed you to know that I loved you, truly loved you and wanted you more than anything forever. Eventually I felt that you had answered me through your songs. Here and 4-Ever were songs that showed up mysteriously and gave me hope. I decided to trust you as Here asked me to and I held onto my hope for 6 long years talking out loud to you every day and praying that you could hear me. When I died and Michael and Uriel came to escort me to Paradise, I was petrified. What would I do if you weren't there? And then I saw you and I have not regretted for a moment all I went through to be here with you now".
Prince looked at Bella. Every time he thought he knew the depth of her soul, she shared or did something that showed him he had only scratched the surface. This woman was so full of love for him that he could drink from the well for a million years and never reach the middle. Holy God he loved her and was so, so grateful that this amazing creature found him so desirable and appealing. He pulled her to him...and as he had so many times before, and knew he would a million times more, whispered in her ear, "I love you Bella Bruner. Thank you Father for this brilliant, kind and loving woman".
Neither of them was hungry at lunch time because they had eaten breakfast so late. But they both knew that they would be starving for dinner. Prince said "baby let's go to the Gathering Place for dinner tonight. We need to keep these next few days as simple as possible. We perform the Suite for the first time on Saturday evening". "Yes we do...wow" Bella said! That is almost unbelievable she thought. So they had their plan and they sat on the sofa and cuddled and talked until it was time to go to the lighting rehearsal. When they arrived Bella and Prince sat out in the audience area so that they could see the effect of the lights. The Soul that they were working with had been a lighting expert on Broadway during his lifetime. He really knew his stuff and hit every cue. They were thrilled but nervous...a good nervous like one has before every major performance.
The Choir members and Angels starting drifting in. In about 15 minutes after the lighting cue rehearsal ended all were present. Prince stepped up to the Director's Podium and said he would not be making any remarks this evening after the rehearsal and asked Michael and Sandalphon if they wanted to and they declined. So he said" I want you to know how proud I am of each and every one of you. Your work has been amazing and the finished product is not describable in words. I need you to know that this has been one of the most memorable working experiences I have ever had. You have made me better; you have made me grow and I am grateful. Saturday, I know you are going to bring the Worship experience to a whole different level for all of Paradise and the Universe and for letting me be a small part of that, I thank you. I love you and God bless you".
With that all took their places and Rehearsal began. It was completed without so much as a flaw and when it was done. Prince broke down and cried. Bella and Amiir went and encircled him in their arms. Moments later they were joined by Samuel and Sarah and Michael and Sandalphon. There was not one dry eye in the Temple and in the world below a feeling of hope swept the earth that night and would remain and grow as Creation Song continued to be performed which would be for a very, very long time. Prince wiped his eyes and he and the Ensemble and the two Angels that had become his friends, Michael and Sandalphon with a thought went to the Communal Gathering Place and broke bread together and shared their love for one another. And the Creator glowed both in the atmosphere of Paradise and also in the inner and outer atmospheres of Earth and 1000 different worlds known only to the Triune God.