That may be more of a positive outcome than most legal marriages, would you say?”“What has this to do with your company?”“Oh. We encountered a...few financial oddities, starting with one at the university. We worked on it as a team, and solved it satisfactorily, and that spurred us think in terms of a business opportunity, and it snowballed from there. Having a team of undergraduates to hand, we involved them all and recruited them into the company structure.”“You did this, yourself?”“Gosh, no; I. He leans back, feet still touching the floor and spreads out his arms. Another unfamiliar ceiling. Muffled sounds of a woman moving through her house. A fan turning on. The ceiling turns to liquid and begins to swirl. His eyes slowly flutter shut and breath deepens and slows. He knows he should toe off his shoes and move the rest of the way onto the bed, but he enters that state of floating between sleep and awake, and moving is off the list of options. His body’s gone to sleep but his mind. His wife’s sister Rose was unable to pull up stakes and move with them to the country despite her devotion to two young nieces. The girls were just barely out of their toddling stage and as cute as two buttons, but appeared to be a constant irritant to his spouse for some undefined reason that seemed rooted in something not related to their happy home.His Gloria was quite happy to accept the accolades for giving birth to two such beautiful and perfect little darlings, but she had no time for. His blue eyes seemed to scream “What are you waiting for!?”, but Max didn’t make a move. I put my hand on his neck and touched his soft cheek with my thumb. I then started playing with his hair when I noticed him smiling. He then said it out loud – “What are you waiting for!?”. I didn’t respond anything, but I was naturally hesitating as this was going to be my first time to kiss a boy. I knew he wanted me to make this first step myself, but I wasn’t sure this was the best way to encourage.