{"id":12702,"date":"2021-02-24T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12702"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:42:24","slug":"the-love-affair-ch-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12702","title":{"rendered":"The Love Affair: Ch.4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A quiet little tapping sounded on the door and Christine lifted her head, her eyes shining as bright as stars with anticipation.
\u201cHello, Jose,\u201d she said as she opened the door and grinned like a silly schoolgirl. He had put on some weight during the year, but she didn\u2019t mind. He was beautiful. She could hardly wait to get her hands on him.
He stepped in and grabbed her. \u201cChristine, my darling. How much I\u2019ve needed you.\u201d He bent and kissed her mouth. From the corner of her eye she watched Bryan drop his empty bottle and reach for a handful of chips. She put her nose to Jose\u2019s neck and sniffed deeply while her hands rubbed his spine. He smelled like he had ridden on the back of the wind\u2014adventure, romance, woods. She loved that smell more than any of the colognes Bryan wore.
\u201cI\u2019ve needed you too, Jose. I\u2019m so glad you\u2019re here.\u201d She shut the door behind him. \u201cSo. Tell me what have you been up to?\u201d She rubbed the front of his jacket. She was anxious to find what he had hidden under that cover.
\u201cOh, just the same old stuff. I\u2019ve flown to the moon and back, captured an evil spy ring, thereby saving an entire world from annihilation, rescued princesses and puppies, sword fought with evil kings, you know.\u201d He shrugged with a playful look in his eyes. \u201cYou know my life is nothing without you, my sweetest fan.\u201d
She looked in his face again, searching for that teasing light. Instead she found deep emotion. \u201cWell . . .\u201d Her words shriveled up and melted away as her hands caressed the front of his colorful jacket.
Christine\u2019s eyes darted to Bryan, who sat on the edge of the couch with a bowl of chips on the coffee table under him and the remote control in his hand. Then she turned back to Jose who nodded with a gentle subtleness that spoke volumes to her. I couldn\u2019t wait for your hands to touch me again, his nod told her. I need your attention forever. Any waiting at all is too long for our little trysts.
Christine felt heat rise to her cheeks. Her eyes darted away from Jose\u2019s and she pulled him further into the room. \u201cLet\u2019s sit down before we disturb the coach here.\u201d She smiled and waved her hand toward her husband.
\u201cOh, no, we don\u2019t want to disturb the coach.\u201d He echoed playfully.
As they settled on the sofa, Christine folded her feet under her dress and sat in her little corner. Jose slowly drifted to the cushion between Christine and Bryan. As soon as his backside touched the couch his arm went around her shoulders and drew her closer to him. She could feel the angles of his side and the warmth of his skin and she knew this was where she belonged.
\u201cTell me about your life during this past year,\u201d he said.
Bryan jumped off the couch tossing potato chips all around the room. \u201cGOGOGOGOGO,\u201d he screamed at the runner on the screen. \u201cDON\u2019T STOP TO LOOK AROUND, JUST GO.\u201d
\u201cOh, nothing exciting\u2014just boring old me. I have some new silver strands in my hair, a stronger pair of glasses, a new prescription for my knee and hand pains.\u201d
\u201c\u2019New silver strands of hair.\u2019 I love that. Very poetic. You should write a story about a woman whose silver hairs are worth money.\u201d
\u201cI thought about dyeing them, but I decided I had earned every one of them, so I should show them off.\u201d
\u201cTHAT\u2019S IT! THAT\u2019S IT! THAT\u2019S IT!\u201d Bryan\u2019s shouts at the teams on the tube across from him crescendoed as the players ran down the field.
\u201cI love your silver hairs. They give you an air of serenity. And after everything I\u2019ve seen, I need a little serenity from time to time.\u201d
\u201cOh, Jose. That\u2019s just a nice way of saying I\u2019m boring.\u201d
\u201cOh, far from it. You have that quiet wisdom that comes from leading the kind of life you live\u2014introverted but observant of the world around you. That\u2019s exactly what I crave in a . . . friend. Is that what we are, Christine? Friends?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quiet little tapping sounded on the door and Christine lifted her head, her eyes shining as bright as stars with anticipation.\u201cHello, Jose,\u201d she said as she opened the door and grinned like a silly schoolgirl. He had put on some weight during the year, but she didn\u2019t mind. He was beautiful. She could hardly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-next-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12704,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions\/12704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}