Chapter 5
Still breathing hard, I lifted my weight slightly on my knees and elbows so I wasn't crushing Lisa-Marie quite as much and leaned my mouth down by her ear.
"Is it just me, or is someone watching?" I whispered.
"Unh huh, there is. Turned me on somehow though." She whispered back.
"Oh great," I sighed softly. "Now what do we do?"
She chuckled slightly, then turned her head away from me a bit and said loudly. "Oh, I guess we should tell her to CLOSE THE DAMN DOOR, it's drafty."
"Oh jeez, I'm sorry." I heard Andrea's voice.
Then the door slammed, a few quick footsteps and another door slammed.
"That was a bit mean." I said quietly as I rolled over to Lisa-Marie's side.
"Don't tell me you weren't thinking of something the same." Lisa-Marie almost growled. "Don't get me wrong. I don't mind her looking. I just don't want her to be sneaky about it."
"Keeripes, I don't think I want her looking either. The next thing you know, she might be touching and then who knows what."
"Riding . . . on top of you." Lisa-Marie giggled and she developed a sudden frown. "No, I don't think that's a good idea either. I want you strictly to myself. Dammit, why did she have to peek? Now we've got another problem."
She rolled over to the side and sat up, then looked at me. "I'm sorry Tom. I know that you'd love to rest, but I think we'd better tackle this one right away and head on."
"Oh jeez." I groaned, but I knew she was right.
I really didn't want to do anything except cuddle and perhaps doze for a while, but she wanted to solve problems. I bent over to reach for my shorts, however she grabbed them out of my hand.
"No, don't even wipe it off. If she wants to see sex, dammit, she can see the aftermath too."
"But like this? My dick is all gooey and . . ." I glanced down, then up at her face and grinned. ". . . and you're dribbling."
"So what, dammit? She's the one that's pregnant. Don't you think she's ever dribbled?"
With that, she grabbed my hand and marched to the door throwing it open hard. Two steps and we were across the hall and she lifted her fist to knock on the door.
"Andrea, we need to talk. Now!" Her voice was loud, harsh, and demanding.
After only a few seconds, the door slowly opened and Andrea was staring at us. Her mouth fell open and she let out a tiny squeak, then her hands lifted to cover her face as she stepped back and sat on the bed.
"Omigod. Omigod. I am so, so sorry. I know I shouldn't have looked. I've been screwing up all day and I think this is the worst. I know I need my ass kicked and I couldn't complain if you did. I guess I'd better see if I can phone Willy and maybe get him to take me to town or something."
"Whoa!" I growled loudly and saw her jerk, then lift her head to stare at me.
"Andrea, we are not kicking you out." I growled again, just less loudly. "And while we aren't prudes as you can plainly see, we don't like to have someone sneak around and peek at us. Okay?"
"Yes." She whimpered quietly, then she started to cry.
Lisa-Marie turned at frowned at me. "Go back and lay down, you're too grouchy to be in here and we need to talk girl talk. I'll come join you in a while."
"Fine. I'm too damn tired for this crap anyway."
"Tom, just shut up and go!" Lisa-Marie snapped.
So I stomped out, then decided I needed the bathroom and went there first. And was faced with a sad fact of life, there were now women in the house, the bathroom looked and smelled like women. I snorted, it could be worse, it could smell like a bus-depot men's room and when I thought about that, I decided that I didn't mind the smell at all.
After a quick whiz and a bit of a cleanup, I headed for bed. As I walked back down the hall, I realised that I should really apologise for barking at Andrea and I paused outside the door of the room Andrea was using. I could hear a murmur, but no words, so I tapped on the doorframe.
"Lisa-Marie?" I asked softly.
"What do you want?" Lisa-Marie's voice answered.
I sighed. "I should at least apologize to Andrea for shouting before. I really didn't need to be so loud. I could have done the same thing without raising my voice."
"It's okay." Andrea said softly. "I deserved to be shouted at, maybe I deserved even more than that. What I did was wrong and besides, I've been a bitch to you all evening. By the way, you can come in, I promise, I won't bite."
"Umm." I hesitated. "I'm still nude and . . ."
"So, I saw you before." She sighed softly. "Lisa-Marie explained that you guys run around nude upstairs all the time and I don't want to make you feel like I'm a prude or anything."
"It is okay if you come in." Lisa-Marie added with a chuckle. "After all, I'm here to protect you."
I sighed and stepped into the doorway, then I stopped in surprise. Both Lisa-Marie and Andrea were standing up and facing me, but now, both of them were nude. I couldn't help comparing them and while Andrea did look nice, she just wasn't as nice as Lisa-Marie. It wasn't that she wasn't very alluring, she just didn't send that spark through me the same way. Which didn't mean that the sight of the two of them didn't affect me. I'd gone from completely soft to full attention in seconds and Lisa-Marie grinned mischievously.
"See. I told you that you'd get a rise out of him." She crowed and then winked at me. "What do you think Tom? Don't you think that for a pregnant broad, she looks really good?"
At the moment I didn't dare to say anything, so I just nodded and did my best to smile. Andrea was blushing and her eyes dropped for a second, then flashed back to my face, if anything, her blush deepened.
"I . . . I think I'd better let you guys go to bed." She stammered.
"Sounds good to me." I turned and walked out, heading for the bedroom, but I heard Lisa-Marie's voice behind me.
"Honey, if you're chasing us to bed because he got an erection, then you need an education." She laughed. "Guys get those all the time. They can't help it."
"Yeah, especially when there are gorgeous women around and both of them are teasing wenches." I muttered to myself as I rolled into bed.
I lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to get to sleep. Perhaps it was the low murmur of voices across the hall, perhaps it was the question in my mind about what was going to happen because Lisa-Marie had adopted a live-in friend, perhaps it was something else, but sleep was eluding me.
Finally I couldn't take it any more. Rolling out of bed, I walked quietly over to the other doorway and peeked inside. The two of them were laying on the bed facing each other, whispering quietly.
I tapped on the doorframe again, making both of them jump.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to surprise you, but I couldn't sleep." I grinned sheepishly. "I was just wondering if I'd lost my bed partner for tonight?"
"Oh don't be silly." Lisa-Marie sighed, then sat up and turned to Andrea. "Hugs please."
After they hugged and wished each other pleasant dreams, Lisa-Marie came over to me and grabbed my hand.
"Come on lonesome, let me tuck you into bed."
In our bedroom, we snuggled and she kissed me lightly, then pulled back.
"Are you upset or something?" She whispered softly.
"Not really, it's just that I can't understand what you want." I sighed softly. "I know that we couldn't just let things go, but I can see how having Andrea here would upset her folks and maybe even Fred's folks. Then too, there's the thing you did with the nudity business. How long is she going to be here? Am I going to have to be around a sexy nude woman for long, knowing that I can't touch her? How is she going to react to being around a nude guy? I don't want to screw us up, but we don't really know her very well and we have invited her into our house. Now we're complicating things. It worries me."
"Umm, I see. Well, I admit I might be wrong, but she shouldn't have peeked in at us like she did and I guess I went of on a weird tangent." She murmured. "First, although I don't know them well, I think her folks are going to reconsider and take her back. Then from what I understand after talking to her, Fred's folks are pissed off at him for what he did to her, so I'm not worried about that. As for Fred, he can go fuck himself for all I care, you should hear the crap he's told her. I think we're going to have to give up our nudity around the house, but now that you've seen her and she's seen you, the shock value is gone. This way if you happen to see her in the nude, or if she sees you in the nude, it will be easier to handle. Okay?"
"That's fine as long as one thing doesn't go wrong." I sighed. "It also means that as long as she's staying here, I'm going to want you to come out on the weekends, just so I'll feel safe. We have to think of what impression we could make on others, if you aren't here it will look bad to them. It isn't that either Andrea or I would do anything, it's just that the neighbours might think we did and you and I are going to have to live here for years. We don't want anyone suspecting that there's any hanky panky going on. After what you and I had to go through to get over your just calling me 'Unca Tom' and the repercussions of that years later, you should realise that we're walking on shaky ground here. People's impressions of what we do now, can make a big difference to the way our life will go in the future."
"Oh, I never thought of that." She said slowly. "I was just thinking of helping out a friend and . . ."
"Yeah, I know. I wasn't thinking about all this before either." I sighed and wrapped her in my arms, hugging her gently. "One of the reasons I love you is that you act quickly and you're usually right. The problem is that sometimes, something happens to screw up what you plan on doing."
"Mmm, I love you to." She sighed as she pressed against me. "I'll tell you what, you hop into bed, I'll run to the bathroom, and then I'll join you and we can snuggle. Maybe we can even think of a couple of options, okay?"
I kissed her lightly, then got into bed again while Lisa-Marie ran down the hall. Now that I'd said my piece to her, I found I was a lot more relaxed and I was feeling quite drowsy when she slipped back into bed at my side and she snuggled close.
"Maybe I should insist Andrea stick around so I can have an excuse to come home every weekend." She teased.
"And what about when my course ends and I'm here all week?" I mumbled. "By then she'll be in her second trimester and I understand most pregnant women get really horny then. I could get raped."
"In your dreams." She snorted, then chuckled softly. "To change the subject, I think I'd better call Mom in the morning, so she doesn't bug my roommates with her usual Sunday morning call to me."
"It might be an idea to ask her for advice on this other thing too." I sighed.
"You're almost asleep, aren't you?"
"Unh huh. Busy day, so I'm tired. I'll tell you about it tomorrow."
"Okay. Sleep then." She sighed. "Love ya."
"Mmm, you too."
I woke up in the morning and found myself alone in bed. I got up, dressed, visited the bathroom and went downstairs to find Lisa-Marie siting at the kitchen table with her books spread out in front of her.
"Good Morning. I wondered where you were." I bent and kissed her.
"I woke early and came down to study, only to find a little elf had left a lot of things we needed for the kitchen." She smiled as she stood and flowed into my arms.
"Not an elf, just me." I grinned. "Is there coffee ready?"
"Of course, but I need a real kiss before I'll let you go get a cup."
After paying the toll, I was pouring myself a cup of coffee when someone knocked on the door.
"I'll get it." Lisa-Marie announced and went to the door.
"Is my daughter here? I want to see her right now!" A loud voice demanded.
"She might be." Lisa-Marie answered, her voice just as loud. "Are you a man who would kick his daughter out into the snow and cold in the middle of the winter?"
My jaw dropped and I turned toward the door to see Andrea and Willy's father standing there. He was simply staring at Lisa-Marie in astonishment.
"We did take in a homeless, pregnant waif last night so she wouldn't freeze. Could that poor child be your daughter?" She continued haranguing him mercilessly.
"It's not like it looks." He said, his voice almost a whisper. "She was going to go against the proclamations of the church and the . . ."
"Oh, yeah! Sure!" Lisa-Marie barked. "And because she was taken advantage of by a smooth talking bastard who got her pregnant, that gives you the right to tell her how to live her life does it? Just because that's how you happen to interpret the words of a book that was written more than two thousand years ago and dealt with a completely different society? Just who made you and your pope the judge and jury of how a young woman lives her life and what she does? That young woman is of legal age to make her own decisions mister, and you should take that into account."
She paused and I'd swear she stood taller as she drew a deep breath.
"One other thing you should consider, this is not your property and you have no right to waken people at six o'clock in the morning, making any sort of demand that they kowtow to your wants and desires. Just for your information, that poor young woman was a total mess when she arrived on our doorstep. Since she is resting now, I plan to let her sleep as long as she needs. I will pass on the fact that you want to talk to her when she awakens, but what she does about it, is up to her. I'll abide by her decision."
"But . . ." He protested.
"Please come back later if you wish to apologise to her, or perhaps you should send someone else, especially since you seem to be somewhat less than diplomatic in your manner of approach." Then Lisa-Marie astounded me by closing the door in his face.
I hadn't moved. I was still standing at the kitchen counter, simply staring at her in amazement. As soon as the door was closed, she seemed to shrink and she slowly turned toward me with a lost look on her face. I was finally able to come out of my astonished paralysis and I walked over to wrap her in my arms, hugging her tightly.
"Oh Tom, what have I done?" She whispered.
"Probably about the same thing I'd have done." I grinned as I thought about it. "I might not have used quite as big a whip though."
"You aren't angry with me?" She sighed, turning her face up toward mine.
"Oh hell no!" I swore softly, hugging her tightly. "Proud is more like it. I didn't know I was going to marry a wildcat."
"Oh jeez, I just hope I didn't screw up the way people will treat us. Everyone has been so nice, then I went and lost my cool."
"Well, I doubt if your losing your temper is going to get out to many people and if it does, they're probably going to see things your way. I'd be willing to bet that he's going to ask Willy to talk to us later, probably after doing the chores."
"Do you think so? Really?"
She looked so sweet, so vulnerable, it was hard to believe this was the raging termagant who had torn a strip off of Andrea's father only moments before.
"Yes." I scooped her up in my arms, lifting her face to the same level as mine. "Yes, I think things will work out. One way or another, you and I will make sure it does."
I think the hug and kiss I gave her then did more to convince her of my sincerity than my words. As we talked over our morning cup of coffee afterward, she surprised me by telling me that she didn't think Andrea should go home again for a month or two. When I asked why, she wouldn't elaborate. Instead she changed the subject, asking me about how my day had gone, the day before. Since we hadn't taken the time to discuss that, I told her what had happened.
We were still discussing that and then what we thought we were going to do about Andrea when the phone rang. I picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Hi Tom, it's Pam. Can Joe and I come out to see you this afternoon? We have a gift for you and Lisa-Marie."
"Sure, we'll be here, do you want to talk to your lovely daughter?"
"Oh, I thought she was staying in town this weekend?"
"Things happened. We had a friend in trouble and she came out to help me handle it."
"Anything we can do?"
"Not unless you want to help take the pressure from an angry neighbour off of us somehow." I snorted. "Look, it's really complicated and Lisa-Marie wants to talk to you. She can explain."
I handed the phone to Lisa-Marie, then poured myself a cup of coffee and made toast and jam for myself while she and her mom talked. I'd polished it off and was just sipping the last of the cup of coffee when there was another knock on the door. I stood quickly.
"I think it's my turn." I grinned at Lisa-Marie and she stuck her tongue out at me, but didn't argue because she was still on the phone.
It was Willy at the door and he had a sheepish look on his face.
"Hi Tom. I'm sorry I told Dad that Andy was here and that he came over on the warpath. What did you say to him, he came home looking like he'd been run over by a stampede of buffalo?"
"I didn't say anything." I grinned, waving him inside. "He started off on the wrong foot with Lisa-Marie and she dug out a verbal shotgun, then gave him both barrels."
"Wow, remind me never to get her annoyed with me." He sighed as he looked at Lisa-Marie. "Dad said he doesn't think he's welcome around here anymore."
"He's welcome back when he apologises to your sister. And don't talk too loudly, she's still sleeping." Lisa-Marie said sharply, breaking off her conversation with her mother for a few seconds.
"So Andy is okay?"
"I think so." I shrugged. "You realise that this throws a monkey wrench into her whole life don't you? She's got a lot of adjusting to do and she's going to need a lot of help."
"No problem. And Jean said she'll help too. She had a huge fight with Fred, but one good thing came out of this, she's agreed to marry me. Maybe we shouldn't say anything to Andy about that though, what with Fred and all."
"Congratulations." I held out my hand. "That was fast."
"Yeah. Well, she wants out of the house and I can't blame her." He sighed as he shook it. "Fred wasn't there and I don't know what I'll do the first time I see the skunk. He hasn't been home for two days and his mom is fit to chew nails and spit rust."
"His mom is mad at him?"
"His dad too. Says he can't understand why Fred would drop Andy, especially after getting her pregnant. Fred is doing a whole bunch of stupid stuff. I was over at his grandmother's place with Jean last night and she's just livid about this stuff too. She said that Andy could live there with the two of them if she wants to."
"You mean Nettie and Matilda, the Granger sisters?"
"Sisters? Oh that's funny, but I guess since they used to be married to two brothers and now they live together, it might be their way to stop gossip." He grinned.
"Oh, I see." I chuckled. "Well, to each his own I guess."
"Yeah, I don't think Andy would really be comfortable there." He shrugged his shoulders. "Anyway, what do I tell Dad? He's going to be after me as soon as I get home to find out what's going on."
"Just tell him the truth, Andy is still asleep, so we don't know what she wants to do." I shook my head. "After all, she's eighteen, that makes her legally a grown woman and able to make her own decisions."
"You don't want me to remind him of that, do you? That'd be like waving a red flag at a bull."
"Lisa-Marie already did." I snorted. "If you want, I'll come along with you and tell him myself."
"Oh jeez, no." He shook his head and grabbed his hat in both hands. "He'd just give you a piece of his mind about the whole thing."
"Well, he'd better be prepared to apologise to Lisa-Marie for the way he greeted her on her own doorstep and he'd better apologise to Andrea about kicking her out into the cold too. Otherwise he's going to be the one getting a piece of my mind. Right now I'm not very happy with him on either account." I said seriously.
"Dammit Tom, that sounds like Silas could have said it."
"Family trait." I growled. "It comes naturally."
"Yeah, I suppose." He nodded and opened the door to got out. "I'll tell him that too. See you later. Oh, and thanks again for helping Andy, I owe you."
I sighed as I looked at Lisa-Marie who smiled wryly and shrugged her shoulders, but didn't comment since she was still on the phone. I glanced up the stairs, hoping Andrea would wake up soon. I wanted to tear out part of the wall in the old box room so I could start preparing to put in a main floor bathroom, but I didn't want to wake her with my noise. I decided that I could at least get the tools that I'd need, so I headed for the basement to get them, then I heard the toilet flush. As I turned around, Lisa-Marie hung up the phone as well.
"Tom, Mom and Joe are coming out to see us and guess what they got for us?" She grinned at me.
"I haven't a clue." I answered. "Are you going to explain all that's happened to Andrea?"
"Oh yeah, but Mom says if she wants, she can go live with them. Since you and I are both going to be gone from home, she can help a bit during the spring rush. They can give her board and room, plus a bit of money to buy things, or a regular wage while she can still work regular hours. What do you think of that?"
"I think you should talk to Andrea about it." I nodded, realising that the idea made sense.
"Well, your Dad has already arranged for someone to help out during seeding, but this would make things even easier."
"Yeah, I guess it would." I nodded. "But it's still up to Andrea, so you need to talk to her, okay?"
"Oh sure. Now, have you any idea why Mom and Joe are bringing us?"
"No." I smiled. "But it must be good for you to be so excited."
"I was telling Mom last Sunday about how we threw out Silas' old bed and were sleeping on one of the other ones. So they bought us a new bed, queen size, with sheets and pillows and everything."
"That is nice, a gift we can really use." I laughed at her excitement. "Now go talk to Andrea, please. Tell her that I think her dad wants to apologise. Oh and tell her that if she doesn't want to go home to her family or to go to work for Joe and Pam, the Granger sisters have said she could live there."
"Okay, okay, but give me a kiss first." She demanded.
After a quick kiss and hug, she stepped back, grinning at me saucily.
"See, I told you last night that it would all work out." She crowed, then ran off upstairs.
I just shook my head and finally went to get my tools, then started to open up the old lath and plaster wall in the box room, first making sure that I'd hung an old blanket over the door to keep dust out of the house. I worked away at exposing the existing plumbing in the wall until Lisa-Marie came to call me for lunch.
After I washed up and we were all eating, I asked Andrea what she thought of all the options she now had.
"Well, after the way Dad acted, I really don't want to go back home, but then I don't want to leave him angry either. I guess I want to talk to him and Mom, but I think I want my own independence." She sighed softly. "It's funny, but as I was laying upstairs in a strange bed last night some of the things you guys said to me yesterday sank in. Then I had an extra thought, all my own. Getting pregnant and then breaking up with Fred isn't the worst thing that could have happened to me. Marrying Fred and then finding out what a creep he is would have been a lot worse."
I couldn't help chuckling and giving her a thumbs up sign. I liked the way she'd put that. Even Lisa-Marie nodded in agreement.
"A week ago, being alone and pregnant would have scared the heck out of me, but I realised last night and today that I'm not really alone. Last night I still had my brother and my friends for support and if I don't lose my temper with him, I think I can even keep Dad's support, so I'm not really as alone and unwanted as I felt I was yesterday."
"You sound like a different person." I said quietly.
"Hey, yesterday I was terrified." She snapped. "Then you guys shocked me about six ways from Sunday, but you were still so darn nice to me that I didn't know if I was coming or going. I even shocked myself a couple of times. I mean, looking in at you guys making love was so stupid and I really do apologise for that, then taking off my clothes, so you could see me nude?" She broke into a giggle. "Damn, that was weird."
"It didn't kill you though, did it." Lisa-Marie grinned. "Actually that probably wasn't something I'd want anyone outside of the three of us to know about. It was probably a very stupid idea."
I just grinned.
"Look at him, looking like a Cheshire cat." Lisa-Marie snorted.
"Hey, I got to see two beautiful women on display, why wouldn't I grin."
"See, told you it was a stupid idea." She laughed and grabbed Andrea's hand. "If I ever suggest anything like that again, tell me to smarten up, okay?"
Andrea just giggled, then forced herself to stop.
"Actually having him look at me and seeing in his eyes that I was desirable was darn good for my ego. I think even that was something I needed then. Actually, it was when he came back into the bedroom later and we were laying on the bed that . . ." She blushed as she paused for a few seconds. ". . . well, that's when I was really jealous of you. I mean, I'd seen you two guys before, in bed, making love and then he came looking for you because he missed you. When Fred and I had sex, that's all it was, just wham - bam sex, done in five minutes and it didn't matter to him if we cuddled or not. I want a guy who's going to give me what you two have found with each other."
"You'll find someone." Lisa-Marie stated and I nodded.
"Not around here, I won't. Not after Fred." Andrea sighed. "The thing is, I don't want to just run off either. So since I don't want to go home and I certainly don't want to live with the two weird ladies, I was wondering if I could still stay here in your house for a week or two?"
"Are you saying that you don't want to go work for Pam and Joe?" I asked.
"Umm, no, I'm not sure about that. I mean, I think I could do that, but I want to think about it first. Do you think they'd care if I took a little time to make up my mind? I mean, I don't even know what they're like."
"Well, I can tell you about that." Lisa-Marie laughed. "I take after my mother an awful lot, sometimes too much, if you know what I mean. We argue a lot. And I've never heard of two brothers who are more alike than Joe and Tom, except for their age and experience that is. For you, it would be like living with older versions of us."
"Oh my, that would be almost creepy." Andrea laughed. "Creepy in a nice way though."
Both Lisa-Marie and I broke into laughter at that, and I'll be honest, I was back at work on that stupid wall before I stopped chuckling about the idea.
Actually I'd hardly gotten back to work on that stupid wall when Pam and Joe arrived which meant that Lisa-Marie called me again. Of course Joe wanted to see what I was up to, then he and I had to go outside and look around the farmyard since he hadn't been to the farm for years. That suited me fine because I wanted the chance to talk to him alone.
We were leaning over the pole fence to the barn yard when he turned and looked at me.
"So, this girl, Andrea, what do you think?"
"Right now, that's it. She's a girl, but she's becoming a women in a hell of a hurry right now. She's a couple of years younger than Lisa-Marie by the calendar and a decade younger if you judge by her personality. Give her a year or two though, and she'll be caught up."
"Oh, I sort of guessed that, but then, Lisa-Marie always has been old for her age. You knew Andrea from before didn't you, when you worked here for Uncle Silas."
"A bit, but not well." I shrugged. "Right now she's one scared little kitten and Lisa-Marie is rescuing a stray, you know how she is."
"Just like her mother, always looking to help the helpless." Joe laughed softly. "Talking about someone old for his years, you're doing pretty well yourself right now."
"Huh, not much I'm not. Lisa-Marie is leading me around by the nose."
"Like her mother has me for over twelve years." He snorted. "Although I do put one over on her once or twice. Did you hear? I'm going to be a daddy."
"Congratulations, but you timed that badly, three or four years ago and you'd have had an in-home babysitter."
He laughed aloud at that, then sighed softly.
"Thinking about babies, this gal in the house, what do you think her future is going to be? If she comes to work for us, what can we expect?"
"Jeez, how am I going to put this?" I said, then thought for a moment and grinned. "Well, why don't I make a comparison as if she was a race horse? If she went back and married the asshole she was with or if she stayed at home and put up with her Dad until she met someone else, I'd bet her to show. If she stayed here on the farm with Lisa-Marie and me, she might place, but coming to work for you and living with you and Pam, I think she'll be a winner."
"You've got a lot of faith in Pam and I." He snorted.
"Ah, but you've got Mom and Dad just down the road." I laughed.
"Yeah, that does make a difference." He laughed. "How does it feel to be out here fifty miles from home and on your own?"
"Isolated and scary as hell." I admitted. "But it's a good kind of scary, especially since I've going to have Lisa-Marie at my side. I'm not sure I could even tackle it otherwise."
"That's the attitude to have." He said loudly and dropped an arm across my shoulder. "Now on that note, lets go get that new bed of yours inside. My wife wants to make sure your wife has a decent workplace to make her some grandchildren."
I had a good chuckle about the idea of Pam wanting Lisa-Marie to have a decent workplace to make babies, but then I thought about it a bit.
Lisa-Marie and I, making babies that would be grandchildren for Pam and Joe? Somehow that was a wonderful thought that was scary at the same time. The wonderful part was that Lisa-Marie would be the kid's mother, the scary part was that I'd be their father.
Was I really ready for that?