Preface:
This story is a follow on to the original story, KEN,
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COUSIN" CONNIE & EX-WIFE BRANDI. The reader can find the original story on this website by doing a search for it. The original story should answer any questions that may arise in the readers mind when they read this story. The author hopes that the readers enjoy both parts of the story.
The Story:
Brandi my ex-wife, my "cousin" Connie and I were sitting at the kitchen table after supper with a glass of wine and discussing what our immediate plans were going to be. Connie had extended her two week stay with me, actually now us. She told Brandi and me, "I've been here now and visited with you for more weeks than I had intended and I need to think about returning to my home very soon, Ken and Brandi."
Previously, Connie had accepted my invitation to relocate out here with me and move into our home with us. Brandi and I were living apart at the time because of her decision to get a divorce. Then about one week into Connie's visit, my ex-wife Brandi called me and asked if I would make good on my long standing unconditional offer to take her back to live with me at any time.
My offer was for her to return to our home at any time to live with me again after the divorce that she had wanted and had obtained. When Brandi had told me she wanted the divorce I felt like she had ripped my heart out. Even though I told her I would not stand in her way and I would not contest the divorce if that was what she really wanted to do. However, she decided to go through with the divorce and she left our home anyway.
When Brandi returned I had told her of my offer to Connie and that Connie had accepted. Brandi told me, "I understand and I still want to come back home and live with you, Ken. I have realized my big mistake in leaving you, our Boys and our home in the first place." I was really happy to have my beloved wife come back to live in our home with us.
The night that Brandi returned, she and Connie had a long talk and they came to an agreement. Their agreement was that they could both live in my, now our home, again without any problems and they could share my love and affections for them. However, Connie still had to return to her home back in our old hometown and prepare to move out here to live with us permanently. Connie had told me she really loved the mountain area that we lived in and wanted to live here with me permanently.
Connie said to me and Brandi, "I really need to head back home but, I am not looking forward to that long drive back to my home alone, Ken."
"I understand your concern, Connie, and there is another concern that you need to keep in mind. It is getting late in the year, the days have already gotten cooler and much shorter. The daily temperatures have already begun to drop and the snow and really cold weather will be on us before very long. So you really need to start out and return before the heavy snow flies since the driving gets really tough on these mountain roads with ice and snow on them.
Driving on snow in the flat lands is bad enough but it gets even worse here in the intermountain areas. Driving on snow and ice especially in the northern intermountain areas is even more treacherous where the snow and cold weather comes earlier than further south as you well know. Y'all very rarely see snow fall down there at all."
Then Connie continued, "I wish I had someone to go with me and do part of the driving for me and be a companion with me during the trip." I knew what she was angling at as she was looking at Brandi. Connie knew that I could not go with her as I had used up all of my vacation for the year. Further, I would not have any more vacation available until after the first of the New Year well after the really cold weather and the heavy snow had arrived.
Then I told them, "You know that I cannot go with you since I have to work and I have used up all of my vacation for the year. I also think that this would be an excellent opportunity for you and Brandi to get to know each other better. You two could improve your interpersonal bond if Brandi went with you, Connie. Brandi could get to see parts of the country that she has never been to and seen before."
Then I offered them this proposal, "Maybe Brandi would like to go with you and see a part of the country that she has never seen before. I'm sure she would love to meet your Girls while you two are there. Connie you can introduce her to your Girls so that she can get to know them, too. In addition to showing Brandi your home, Connie, you could show Brandi where you and I were born and raised and where we went to school."
"And you can show her the two little houses that we lived in when we were just little kids until we both left to go to college. Then Brandi could make the drive back here with you when you're ready to come back. You have all the time that you need to get there and back and you can take all the time you want while you are there, too."
I turned and looked at Brandi and asked, "Would you want to go along with Connie and make the drive with her and switch off driving with her, Honey?"
Brandi replied, "Sure, I'd love to go with her and see the flat lands and where you two were born and raised. Besides that, I'd love to have a chance to meet Connie's Girls, too. But, Ken what do you plan to do while we're gone?"
"Hey, I am sure I'm going to miss having you both gone for however long you are going to be away. But, you know I made out by myself for well over a year before the both of you came back into my life again and into this home again with me. Not to mention that I have to work, as well, and that will, as you know, will take up a large part of my time."
Connie turned to Brandi and said, "I would really love to have you go with me if you would want to, Brandi. I would love to introduce you to my Girls when we get there and show you around as well. It would be fun to show you around the campus where Ken and I went to college, also."