" He grabbed one of the bags, then leaned indutifully for her kiss on his cheek."Thanks, sport," Heather said. "Mmmm, smells good. What'scooking?" ...agu, again," he said wrinkling his forehead in a frown. "I wishyou'd teach me more stuff to make so I could have a bigger rep-repa- repatore." Repertoire," she corrected, as she began putting the groceriesaway, "nice try though. Listen, Kev, I don't mind simple stuff. I'm thrilled that you take it upon yourself to make anything. Honestly, you. He had never said that out loud to me before. I swallowed the sarcastic response that I would normally spew forth in fear and instead turned my head to look at him again direct into his eyes and said ‘I love you too.’ I was so proud of myself and happy but also scared as hell. Now that words were out I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen now. He moved his hand from it’s current place on my shoulder and put it on my leg that was crossed over the other one, starting to gently caress it,. My wife, Cindy, took off for a week-long visit to her longtime girlfriend up in Wyoming, leaving me home alone. Of course, I didn't really plan on being alone the whole time she was gone. I was on my cell phone calling Veronica before Cindy's car even got fully out of town that morning, probably.Cindy had taken a week off to drive up to Cheyenne to visit her girlfriend, Janet, before. About six years ago, Cindy left on another visit and while she was gone I sanded and refinished the floor in. Back when I was a lot younger, (age set at 18 for obvious reasons, though I was a good bit younger at the time...), I was a young 18 Y.O. with raging hormones.My Mum was 49 and still in great shape. Her sister, Helen was 3 years older, and still looked fabulous.Aunt Helen was on holidays at our place one summer. She would often visit, but this was a different experience, because she was grieving the loss of her husband.Betty (Mum) had separated years ago, Dad took off with a young air head.