‘Does it look like it?’ Nate asked. Cody shook his head. ‘It looks like you took on Rambo and lost. Badly.’ Nate snorted and started coughing...up yet more blood. ‘That damn log felt like a train. I wish I’d seen it coming.’ ‘It was pouring rain. There was no way you could’ve seen it.’ Cody looked at him with pity. ‘Anyway, I’m going out to try building a fire. Coming?’ he asked me. ‘I’ll be out in a minute,’ I said. Cody nodded and walked outside. I turned to Nate, ‘I’m gonna go wake up Liv.. When you just seem to click with that someone, everything feels comfortable with them. It is so easy to get used to little things, like having a hand to hold, an ear to whisper into, a head resting on your chest.Lying here, spooning behind Tina, my head propped on my hand, stroking her hair, it felt like it had been an age since we had been like this, uninterrupted, not just over a week. In that week, even on the days I was distracted, I had felt antsy like I had an itch but couldn’t work out. I said, “What to fuck. I don’t need Viagra.”My wife said, “You and I know that but she doesn’t. Just listen.”Then I heard the pregnant girl say, “Why not, I’ve let a whole bunch of guys poke around down there. My gynecology doctor had a class of ‘almost doctors’ at one of my visits and asked me if they could examine me. Little did I know that there were twenty of them. I was in there with my feet up in those stirrups for almost two hours while they fingered me. My legs were numb when I tried to. "Was that here when you sat down?" "No..." He had a strange look on his face, "What was it again, that she wished for?" I looked back down at the little girl and smiled, "She wanted a Mommy and Daddy so she never had to go back to the orphanage again." I felt a slight tickle against my neck, brushing it away, I commented, "Poor kid she just wants parents to love her and take care of her." I took my hand and held her chubby cheek. A soft reflection from my gleaming thumb nail brought my.