{"id":12705,"date":"2021-02-25T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:42:31","slug":"the-love-affair-ch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12705","title":{"rendered":"The Love Affair: Ch.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cOh, Jose. That\u2019s just a nice way of saying I\u2019m boring.\u201d
\u201cFar 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
\u201cAs long as we\u2019ve known each other, I think we\u2019re more than that. With all the things you\u2019ve brought to my life, I\u2019d say we are more like . . .\u201d she looked over at Bryan who was wiping the potato chip grease on his jeans. \u201cYou bring everything to my life I\u2019ve always wanted and you never fail to do it exactly when I need it most. Like, during all his games. I\u2019m not a person who needs attention all the time like some of my friends, but sometimes I do need a little. And then you show up bringing me danger and adventure, love and romance, all the right things in all the right places. Jose, I wish I had married you.\u201d
\u201cWHAT?\u201d Bryan gasped and a swallow of beer fell out of his mouth onto the front of his shirt. He turned to face them. \u201cDID YOU SEE WHAT THAT BLIND REF DID? PENALTY, THAT\u2019S WHAT HE DID. WHAT A STUPID IDIOT.\u201d He raised his fist and slammed it down on the coffee table in front of him, causing the snack plates to rattle. \u201cARE YOU FREAKIN\u2019 CRAZY? THAT WAS SO OBVIOUS EVEN I COULD SEE IT.\u201d
Jose turned back to Christine, her eyes still on her husband. Jose nuzzled her neck and blew warm air on the spot behind her earlobe. Christine felt goose bumps deliciously pop out on her arms. He had regained her attention.
\u201cSweet Christine. I could never be a husband, you know that. What we have is wonderful just the way it is. The ultimate highlight of my existence is when your eyes look deep into mine and your hands grip me the way you\u2019re gripping me now. I want to be in your head when we\u2019re not together. I want you to think about me and yearn for me all the time.\u201d
\u201cDon\u2019t worry about that. I walk around all the time thinking about you. Sometimes the hardest work I do is keeping my mind focused on what I\u2019m supposed to be doing.\u201d
\u201cNow that\u2019s what I want to hear. My darling, you are my entire world. I couldn\u2019t exist without you,\u201d Jose whispered into her ear. She reached up and moved a lock of his hair from one side of his face to the other.
\u201cTHAT\u2019S IT, THAT\u2019S IT, THAT\u2019S IT,\u201d Bryan yelled. \u201cUNH. TAKE THAT BACK TO YOUR HOMETOWN, YOU STINKING \u2013\u201c
Jose\u2019s cheeks were smooth and his lips were soft. She looked into his eyes where her reflection looked back at her from deep inside. What she saw took her breath away. She looked so youthful and beautiful. Her silver hairs sparkled like silver threads in a gown. Her eyes shown back at her through his eyes with warmth and eagerness. Her smile produced a line on each side of her mouth, not from age, but from happiness. And her skin warmed with excitement.
She read the words his eyes were telling her. Come a little closer, my darling. Her nose nearly touched his face. He quickly closed the space between them and planted a quick kiss on her lips.
\u201cATTA WAY! ATTA WAY! GET HIM GET HIM GET HIM GET HIM,\u201d Bryan yelled. Jose and Christine backed away from each other slightly. \u201cTOUCH DOWN,\u201d Bryan screamed.
\u201cJose, you have a way of making me feel like a beautiful princess. Hold me tight and whisper sweet things to me.\u201d
He leaned his mouth to her ear and whispered. She giggled and snuggled closer to him as if she wanted to climb inside right to his spine.
Being with Jose, she was able to forget Bryan\u2019s neglect, the splatters of beer on the floor around him, and the cookie and chip crumbs thick as piles of sand. She could forget the glob of mustard that had landed on her new dress. She could forget the fact that the real competition was not between the jerseys chasing the ball on the television, but between those jerseys and her. And she could forget the fact that the jerseys would always win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOh, Jose. That\u2019s just a nice way of saying I\u2019m boring.\u201d\u201cFar 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\u201cAs long as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12705","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\/12705","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=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}