”Alice looked back at the cabin. The place was about a hundred feet long facing the lake with lots of glass doors and windows. The two-story log str...ucture had a wide deck across the front with Adirondack chairs on it under the porch eaves. Many of the bedroom windows on the second level also faced the lake. Two chimneys poked through the roof. The main focus of the house was a ‘Great Room’ at the core of the camp with an interior balcony where the second-floor hallway could look down into the. Heck, it was gonna be September in a couple of days; I’d have bet money that without the radio she’d have had no idea how many days she’d been here.Then I grabbed my bag, locked up carefully, set a few markers, and drove off to the city and the Armory. It was good to see the guys again, but I kept quiet and let them do all the talking. They were mostly so engrossed in telling the rest of us what they’d been doing that no-one actually asked me how Aggie and Kasey were keeping. I kept stumm. I. ’ Still laughing, ‘Next time, tell your heart to leave me at home.’ ‘Very funny… I’m serious, I still love you,’ she firmly stated. With a deep breath…, ‘Do you remember the first night we spent together here on the rock?’ ‘Of course,’ she said. ‘How could I forget one of the most memorable nights of my life?’ ‘Remember how you pulled it off, by lying to your parents?’ Giggling, she replied, ‘Yeah, I wanted to spend the night with you. I’m glad I did. I will never forget that night.’ ‘Did you. I lifted her son up and played with him. We slowly moved to the kitchen and chatted when uncle said he’d be leaving for the town now. I sipped the tea and asked about her life.I went to change upstairs and when I came back, she was unloading the washed clothes from the washing machine into a bucket. When she bent, I could see her firm melons inside her top. She called me to help her hang the clothes upstairs. Just then her son started crying and she said it was his nap time. She sat on a chair.
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