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DiscreetOfficeServices.Com Chapters 9--10
Date: 1/26/2024, Categories: Occupations, Author: campusvamp
... head, straining to keep my voice even. "I'm hungry and I need to pee. I'm notmeeting your mother with my stomach growling and my bladder full. Stop at the Coffee Clutch, Stanley." He did and opened the trunk when I asked. With makeup case in hand, I led the way into the building and stopped. I'd brought a lot of gift money with me in my handbag. I handed a hundred to Stan and pointed to the deli section. "I want Camomile tea. No sugar, two lemon slices. Tuna sandwich, toasted with extra mayo and a blueberry muffin. Get whatever you want." As an afterthought, I jerked a thumb at Danny, "Him, too." A satisfying pee, my hair brushed and my makeup touched up, I felt like a new woman. I wolfed down my sandwich. When Stan tried to give me the change, I told him to keep it. "I need to go shopping. If you're going to be chauffeuring me around, you'll need gas money," I explained. A check of my teeth to make certain nothing was stuck between them and a breath mint to negate tuna breath... I felt ready to meet Mom. Handing my makeup case to Danny to put back into the trunk, I declared that it was time to go. ********** In the mornings and evenings as I stood in my kitchen waiting for coffee to be ready or cooking, from time to time I'd see Danny walking on the sidewalk going to or coming from the subway. Though I'd wanted to ask how his Finals were going and take him more food, I'd honored my promise to leave him alone. Because of my promise not to disturb Danny during ...
... his tests, I didn't know much about his family. After giving Danny a few minutes to calm down after he'd stepped over my legs and stalked off in a snit, muttering,'No! No, no, no, no...' after I'd suggested we take the Cosmo Sex Survey, I went and asked him to return so he could tell me what I felt I should know. During the next hour of our train trip, we decided on the details of our 'dating history' and I began learning the details that a girlfriend of six months should know. His older sister, Hannah, twenty-three, was training to be a bank loan officer and was the one marrying Frank. Danny had just turned twenty-two, so he was almost exactly three years older than me. The next sibling was Stan at eighteen. He'd just graduated from high school. Amber was sixteen. A cheerleader and soon to be a Junior in high school, she was the last of the siblings. His dad was a mechanic and his mom had gone back to school for a teaching degree once Amber was in school. Mom now taught elementary school. Everyone worked the farm. Hay and corn were grown for feed for the pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens. Local crafters bought the raw wool from the sheep. Milk, meat, and eggs were consumed on the farm or were traded/sold. I could remember all of that. It was when he began listing uncles, aunts, and cousins that I got lost. I'm the only child of two parents who'd been only children. I had great uncles and great-aunts that I rarely saw. A huge extended family like Danny was describing ...