A week later, I was sick as a shipwrecked monkey. It is a taboo subject to talk about women's menstruation, but believe me, everyone I have lived with in my life knew when I was on the rag. That morning I had terrible cramps and I lied in bed, reading a magazine. Lou came up to my room to see how I was. He knocked on my door.
"Come in," I said.
Lou walked in and my face lit up. "Hi, I'm happy to see you."
He walked to me and gave me a hug. "You too, Baby. I hear you're not feeling so hot," he said, sitting on the side of my bed. All I could do was stare into those baby blues.
"Hmm?" I asked, unfocused. "Oh no, no I'm not."
In a fatherly gesture, he felt my forehead. "Wow, Sweetheart, you have a fever."
"Glad you took my temperature that way and not the other way," I joked.
His eyebrows raised, he laughed. "That's kinky, wouldn't mind that." He paused. "I have to go out today, Baby. I have an interview at 10 o'clock, but I'll probably be back in the early afternoon or so. Can I get you anything while I'm out?"
"No, no it's okay, Lou."
"Hope you feel better, Baby," he said, hugging me again.
"Good luck on your interview," I told him.
He thanked me and we shared a very sweet kiss. He looked into my eyes. I could see he cared for me. Leaving my room, I blew him a kiss and he did the same.
When Lou came home that afternoon, my parents were out working, and Lou had bought me some vanilla ice cream along with the news that the interview had gone very well. I was ecstatic for him! It was a very sweet afternoon, probably one of the happiest I felt. I felt in love. He lied in bed beside me and I held the bowl of ice cream while we each had our spoons and scooped out some now and then while we watched "Judge Judy" on the television in my room.
I smiled when I looked over and found him sleeping. He looked so cute and so handsome lying there, so helpless, totally surrendering to his fatigue. I got up and took his shoes off and undid the first button on his shirt.
In my nightgown, I crawled back to my side of the bed and lied down, trying to nap, too, but it did not come to me so easily. I felt as if I were in love. Happily in love. Since a week before, when we first had sex, we fucked as much as we could, but it was tender moments like this that dug into my heart more.
It wasn't long after that day that I felt better, physically, and Lou also felt better - he found out he had been hired. I was enthusiastic for him and so were my parents. This was the beginning of the next part of his life and I hoped I could be a part of it, though I didn't tell him this. Many nights lately had kept me awake. My heartbeat was not steady; it skipped like that of a person in love. This I also didn't tell him. In his bedroom below mine, I wondered if he was thinking the same thing.
Lou had gotten a job at an auto-factory and I continued my modeling jobs. I felt more apart from him then I wanted to. A master at his craft, Lou adjusted well to his new job and new co-workers and he soon began apartment-hunting. And he soon found one. He was going to be moving 60 miles away (closer to his work.) It was June 17th and he was to move in his new place at July 1st. Our time was running out fast.
I knew I was being childish and selfish, thinking of him as mine, but I didn't want him to move away from me. I think I got more emotional over him than I ever had over my husband. We shared some excruciating moments in the household, sharing glances but never able to touch to my parents knowledge. One night over dinner, we caught one another staring at each other. I wanted him.
One Saturday, Lou had the day off, but I was heading out to the beach for one of my modeling gigs. I invited him to come along with me. Out of my parents sight, we ran out of the house, him smacking my behind as we left through the door. We were laughing like two little children.
The photographer, Stephen, was someone I had worked with before. I was dressed in a conservative two-piece swimsuit which gripped my round bottom well and accentuated my breasts and legs.
Behind the camera was Lou, cheering me on in my beach antics, particularly the sexy ones where I lounged in the sand, my head tilted back, my breasts jutting out. I posed as I was told, and, on a break, one of the photographer's assistants, Benny, took control of the camera and I began to express all the sexuality I was feeling. I blew kisses to the camera and then ran to Lou and pulled him in front of the camera with me.