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Bridges 16

Chapter 16

I don’t really remember much of the trip out of Alberta and back through the mountains and home to Bridgeview. Brandon drove while I slept snuggled up against him. We got into it over Steve’s bigoted girlfriend, or well now ex-girlfriend, it was one of those turf kinda brawls like you might see in the movies. I knew that Bobby and Steve were living in a nice town, and were religious but this was that you walk with god, our god or we’ll break your legs kinda town.

Yeah Calgary, Edmonton and the bigger towns might be more tolerable but this was lynch mob territory. Once we got out of there I relaxed enough to sleep. I’m surprised that we didn’t get more hurt. I’m surprised I’m good with this, the fighting tonight. But y’know the difference is, I was there helping, taking a stand. The whole thing with Blayne wasn’t about me, or even Cass. No, she threw a fit because she wasn’t treated like the princess she thinks she is. We gave back as good as she gave us at the party and she couldn’t handle it.

The whole thing, all of this was because Steve broke up with her. That he corrected her behavior and that he dared do any of it.

I’m actually not that worried about them doing anything. Ryan did something that put those town cops in check. Brandon promised he’d bring much more down on them if they didn’t stay away. No, they’ll save face by making some story up, blaming It on Steve for leading Blayne astray, she’ll lie and say things about Steve that aren’t true and all that stuff they do to keep feeling superior. It’s a good thing Bobby and Jenny are coming with us.

I wake up when I feel Brandon’s lips on mine. “Hey, we’re home.” he says with a smile. Part of me really doesn’t want to pull myself off of him but I do. It’s bright out and I’m a little stiff but it’s really nice out. The sun’s shining but there’s those big fluffy snowflakes falling. I take a deep breath of air as I get out of the truck. I can’t help the smile that forms as I see the horses out running free in the fields with the snow falling and them playing and the forest in the background of the fields.

Eli and Chris, Ryan, Bobby and Steve are talking and we kind of come over to the barn, or rather the converted barn/garage that I got to uhm…see last night. Eli’s boys come out to help unload. I look at the others and their bruises and stuff. “We have to get you guys down to the hospital.”

Steve looks at me. His eyes are a bit too shiny. “I’m alright, It’s not that bad.”

“Yes it is, you stopped breathing idiot. I’m not taking no for an answer.”

He looks like he’s going to argue and play the I’m a man, I can take it card. “Hey, I’ve had worse.” I can’t help but to roll my eyes at that.

“Steven, Look I’m not being a Mary-Sue about this. I’m a combat nurse, a field medic and you might be okay but you might not. We have to take Lacey in for X-rays and more than likely a cast so you might as well come and get checked out too.”

“But…”

“No buts, you’re a proper gentleman aren’t you?”

“Yeah?”

“Then don’t argue with a lady.”

“Yes Maam.” He ducks his head.

“He’s got a nice butt.” Lacey interjected with a smirk. The smirk had to hurt, she put herself between us and crazy Blayne and she got beat of wildly with a tire wrench. That’s a friend. I can’t help but to smile and hug her lightly. “You’re nuts you know that right?”
Lacey’s response was to stick out her tongue and roll her eyes wildly. I can’t help but to laugh.

I look over at Cass. “You too miss, I want someone to take a look at your hands.”

She smiles and passes me one of the coffee’s that Rebecca is passing around. I take it gratefully. It’s my Tim Horton’s…(Good sigh.) I’ll always love this stuff more than any other because they send their coffee to everyplace that Canadian troops are stationed. They even set up a staffed kiosk at the base on Kandahar. All volunteer staff but being so far from home, it’s something that goes straight to your heart on those homesick days.

“Yeah sure honey, I think I cracked something in my right.” I give her a kiss. “We’ll take your truck it’s got the extended cab?” Cass nodded. “Sure.” She’s moving a little stiffly too but get’s Lacey and Steve back in the truck. I go over to Brandon. “I’ll call if anything comes up, are we going to need anything in town?” He nods then gives the second some thought. “Maybe, pick up some things for Jenny, she doesn’t have anything.” I nod looking over to where she’s watching the boys unloading the stuff and talking to Rebecca but doing that kind of hurt inside, scared holding herself as she sipped her coffee.

Yeah, I’m more than pissed at her family, but more than proud to know this girl. There’s a lot of people who talk about the stuff they say they believe in. It’s something else to see it. Especially over something that big. “I’ll make sure she’s taken care of.” I lean over and give him a long sweet deep kiss and pass him my empty coffee cup with a smile. “Later Hon.”

The hospital has standing orders to report any violent crime related wounds and the RCMP showed up to take our statements. Cass talks to them off to the side but I do catch one of them saying “This won’t look too good on your suspension Cass.”

I missed the rest because I went into outpatients with Lacey. I look at her after we’re out of x-ray and in the cast room. Her arm was broken in both bones along her forearm. “Did you know that Cass was on suspension?”

“Yeah, she caught some shit when she stood up for you despite the whole conflict of interest bit when you lost it.”

“Dammit, why didn’t she say anything?”

“Sam, she wasn’t going to put you through anymore stress and grief or guilt than you were already going through.”

“But that’ll put a black mark on her career, that’s in her file now.” I’m kind of getting really upset about this. I’m no I’ve messed up her life.

“Sam…Sam…Samantha!, Stop it.” Lacey had to raise her voice to get my attention. I look up at her and can’t stop the tears that fall down my cheeks. Damned hormones.

“I’m messing her up Lace, I’m..” I’m cut off by Cass pulling me over to her and her kissing me. She pushes me into the chair in the room and kisses me deeply.

“Sam, You’re not screwing anything up. I’d have done the exact same damned thing for anyone else that was important to me that I thought that needed me like that. The fact I’d already fallen in love with you didn’t make it like it was such a stretch of my usual character.”

“But, you’re hurting your career.”

“I became a RCMP officer because of my beliefs Sam, if I didn’t follow what my heart tells me is right then I would still be defending scumbags in my old job.”

“You still should have told me.”

“And I would have but you really weren’t in a good place you know. Besides you’d just have done to me what you did with Brandon and refused to see me to spare me from getting close to you.”

I can’t help but lower my head and let a few tears fall.

“She’s got you there Sam.” Lacey added in. “You push people away, and you isolated yourself. Hell you’ve been home how long and it’s taken you this long to get back out into the world? You hide and you shouldn’t. This is your hometown. You shouldn’t have had to live as a hermit since coming home. There’s people here who love you, who loved your folks and don’t give a damned about the whole boy to girl thing.”

Cass kisses me again wiping away my tears. “It’d have hurt a lot if you had cut me out of your life.” I look into that beautiful face of hers and those big blue eyes of hers and just fall…. I kiss her back this time and we break it up smiling as Lacey throws several fake coughing fits.

I feel better, a lot better. There’s a big difference between being a guy and being a girl on an emotional level. Or there is for me. Just talking about it, getting it out and some tears takes so much pressure off of me. The mood swings might drive you crazy or seem like it but I never had this release before, I’ll trade the hormonal crazy for this lightness in my heart.

We get out of there and get Steve who got stitches and has a light concussion. Cass’s got a few bruises including some bone bruises on her knuckles, it’ll hurt and she’s going to ache but she’ll be okay. We head to The Salvation Army thrift store and get a bunch of stuff second hand for Jenny and stop in at Sears and get her some nightclothes and some gift cards. It’s hard to get things like underwear and make up when you don’t know what someone likes or what sized they take so we get her some gift cards and somehow it turned into a bit of a shopping trip for us too.

Cass pulls me into one of the changing rooms and at one point while trying on dresses we’re undressing. Then kissing, playing with each others breasts and more kissing. I suckle on her beautiful nipples and slide a hand down to her sex she’s so wet, and I rub lightly letting her sensitive folds slip into the creases of my fingers. I pull her head down to my breasts to stifle her moans and she takes one of my nipples into her talented mouth. I feel her clit begin to harden and make herself known. I rub, rub, rub and cup her mound, catching her love nub between my middle and ring fingers and use the crease to rub her to an orgasm and I squeeze my cupped hand over her mound and shake it back and forth just a bit but kinda hard. My palm hitting her mound over and over and her love nub trapped between my fingers is getting pulled a little bit up and down rapidly like she’s getting stroked off.

Cass stiffens and cried out humping my fingers and her fingers tighten into my body, and she plants a passionate kiss. On me squashing her DD’s into my breasts as she shudders through a powerful orgasm. The mouth on mouth, lipstick on lipstick, her flush of blood to her skin and her moaning into my mouth as we kiss lifts me up in this incredible way. There’s this feeling from making Cass feel like this that runs through me that isn’t male pride but something more glorious and intimate.

We kiss awhile longer as she comes down from her orgasmic high and she slides down and strokes my Jane Austin before taking me into her mouth. I’m not all that big anymore and she takes all of me into my mouth while she does these amazing swirls with her tongue she takes a condom? from her purse and slips it over her middle two fingers the slips them inside of me and she fingers me as she sucks me to only stopping to look up at me to ask. “Touch, yourself Sam, I wanna see you play with your breasts, please baby?” Oh, god I’ve never had a partner ask that before. This is so uncharted territory, and making love in the changing room, like I’m a kid in love instead of a thirty two year old. I get lost in the thrill and joy of it until I have a bucking leg buckling come of my own.

Cass slides up my body and we share afterglow kisses as she takes a few handy wipes and makes sure I’m cleaned up. A few spritzes of perfume and we’re out of there giggling and kissing and doing those little relationship touches. Lacey is smiling at us and joins in and talking about sexy and us but also about how hot she finds Steve. It’s a mess of girl talk as we buy our stuff and meet Steve out at the truck. We get a few stares from various people in Sears and the parking lot and stuff. There’s some that look like they hate us and some like we’re standing up for something? I’ve had some really hard experiences with those people who are so called LGBT members and supporters, went through that with the ex. They can forget it. I’m not getting involved with their racket, I’ve found out it’s really not that respected to be T in the LGBT equation.

Yeah they’re talking and even pointing a bit. I’m not anonymous not in a small city/town of twenty thousand people, and neither is Cass. There’s already a few whispers about us, like her being a lesbian but also about me being not a real woman according to them, and me being with Cass and that we‘re all a bunch of freaks. I look over at one of the groups kind of doing the gawking but not trying to get caught at doing it and kiss Cass again then give the best looking of the men in the little group this long slow look over and lick my lips like he’s yummy. He blushes and stares, I even think he’s a bit turned on. His wife or woman that’s with him turns on him and pitches a fit. We get to the truck and Cass is giggling at the whole thing. She kisses me and smiles. “You’re awesome Sam, I hope you know that.” I can’t help but blush.

We get back home after stopping for coffee and driving with the windows down for part of the drive back. It’s close to lunchtime by the time we get to Brandon’s place. Rebecca and Jenny are on the deck talking and we join them and give the things we got for Jenny to her.

You’d have thought that we gave her a million dollars in those handful of bags. Jenny hugged us and cried and went on how there was so much there and how beautiful it was and that she wasn’t really allowed to have this kind of stuff. She even bawled when Steve had bought her some real art supplies, and hugged him until he got embarrassed an left saying. “Ah should find the guys an see what ah kin do ta help out.” Lacey left with him but only as far as inside the house and they kissed for awhile. Rebecca poured us tea and shared out a few quilts. Cass and I sat in one of these big wicker chairs together and I wrapped the quilt around us and sipped somekind of native tea blend from the mug that Cass held and I rested my head on her shoulder. Rebecca asked Jenny. “Jenny? What do you mean that you weren’t really allowed to have things like this.”

Jenny got deeper into her quilt and sipped at her tea and wiped her eyes a little with the back of her hand. “I wasn’t allowed ta wear stuff like jeans and pants and stuff like that, none of us girls were unless we was to be working in the barns an such. They said it was vanity to have a girl wear stuff like that and make-up and all.”

I look at her, hugging Cass just because I can. “So they told you what to wear and how to dress and to think.?”

“Not thinking, not really but Y’hafta respect the bible and all and respect yer parents and all plus the church, Jesus died fer us and Father Simon gave up a normal life ta guide his flock. But what it says in the bible’s a lot different to me and what I’ve heard preached on. But then I’m a girl an we ain’t gonna get it right on account of Eve.”

I think there was a collective female. “Huh?”

Cass leans forward a little. I pull her back, she looks at me. I look right into her eyes sending her this mental calm down. Her nostrils flare but she takes a breath and sighs. I take the tea cup and after my own sip give her some too. I love drinking out of the same mug.

Lacey picked up the thread though. “What does Eve got to do with this?”

Jenny looks at us a bit scared and shamefaced. “We was told that women are cursed by God not to be as good as men on account of Eve being a whore and a liar. She got us kicked out of paradise and we were bad people on account of being women folk acordin to the bible.”

There’s a group of mutterings about that and I’m included. “I didn’t bleed over hell’s half acre and leave friends dead for this bullshit.” Yeah I got a few looks. I look at them back even Cass. “Hey, I’m allowed to be pissed about this. I fought for MY country and I never signed on for people like Jenny’s family and community to spread lies and poison and bullshit.” Cass kisses me, Lacey say’s “Damned right.” Rebecca’s rubbing Jenny’s shoulder because she’s crying again. I lean over and rub her knee. “I’m sorry Jenny, It’s just something that gets to me, it’s nothing that you’ve done it’s just what you’ve been through and had to live through kind of get to me. And the others too if you haven’t noticed.”

In the end we all end up hugging and laughing and Rebecca getting out her laptop and we gathered around and looked at clothes and make-up and stuff online just like we were a bunch of teenaged girls. It’s something I missed out on all my life but Jenny too, there’s a lot for me to think about when I’m actually ahead of the femme learning curve than a GG.

We kill time doing that until the guys are back doing the chores and stuff. Chuck makes all of us a really late breakfast. It’s nothing I’m used to but really good. Fried bread dough with different stuff to put on them, fried sliced potatoes and mushrooms and tomatoes? He cooks up really great eggs both scrambled and poached along with bacon and slabs of ham and deer steak with some nice biscuits to go with it all. I eat like Brandon actually, I go for the fried tomatoes and deer steak and a few mushrooms and put a poached egg on top of it and breaking the runny egg.

It’s all really good and hits our communal lack of sleep like a ton of bricks. We gather up our things and I tell the girls that they can stay at my house. Jenny looks relieved and Lacey’s all. “But, but…someone has to look after Steve.”

I pull her over to me away from the guys.

“Look you and Steve had a really intense night. I get you’re into him and wanna crawl into the sack with him but you don’t wanna do this right now.”

“Oh, like you took your time with Brandon?”

“That’s a whole heck of a lot of different and yes I took my time with him I waited thirty two years to find a guy like him. Steve just got away from Blayne he’s gonna have that hit him at some point then he’ll just find a rebound girl and Lacey you don’t want to be a rebound girl right?”

She sighs. “Okay right.”

Cass is getting her jacket on and getting her key’s I go to her next. “Come on over and stay, I don’t want you driving with so little sleep and a fight ontop of that.” I kiss her a few times in a row. She rests her forehead against mine. “Okay, I’ll stay you can stop twisting that rubber arm of mine.” I kiss her twice more and she kisses me a few times back and it takes a few minutes for the rest of the world to come back into focus.

We do our hugs and say goodnight ever though it’s just past noon to the guys. We offer to stay to help with the dishes but are told Non by Chuck and I hug them all and thank them all for showing up. I kiss Brandon who kisses me back lightly. “I..” I was going to say something but he just kisses me lightly again. “I know Sam, I’m not going anywhere so go you your girl there and show her some TLC for her aches and pains.” I smile at him, “You sure?”

“Yeah we’re all beat here too.”

We head over to my place and I settle Lacey on the couch. I really need to clear the years of stuff my parents have in the guest room. Jenny I get settled into my old bedroom and she hugs me.

“Y’all’ve been more than great Samantha, it’s just…I don’t think I could live with Bobby yet and I’ve never even stayed alone before.”

“It’s no problem Jenny, but are you going to be alright living with someone like me?”

“Oh, that’s not really a problem Sammy, I kind of forget you are born a girl like me until y’all really mention it.”

“Really?, But I’m not…I don’t got the right curves and my shoulders are too big.”

Jenny laughs and giggles covering her mouth with her hands. “Oh Sammy, trust me. Ah grew up wit girls that made your gay friends Matt and Jason look like ballerinas there’s all kinds of girls. Ah think yer beautiful.” We hug and I wipe away a few good tears and so does she after she saw these tears and teared up herself and hugged me again.

I smile at her. “You can stay here as long as you want. Jen, you stood up for your beliefs more than a lot of people I’ve met and stood up for me and the people I love and care about. My dad’ve said that makes you family….and...I’ve always wanted a sister.”

Of course that set us off happy tired girl crying for awhile. Cass comes and gets me just wearing one of my dad’s old dress shirts and she looks so…She takes my hand and kissed Jenny on the cheek and wished her sweet dreams. I run the both of us a bath and change the bed again and slip into a bath with her that’s got lot’s of Epsom salts in it and we don’t make love but there’s a lot of wet, kissing, touching, fondling and washing each other. We dry off in front of the hot water registers and kiss a bit in the sunshine naked and using a tube of muscle pain and bruise cream on our bruises as we dance naked with Chantal Kreviazuk crooning out “Feels like home.” out of my stereo, I don’t own the CD so it must be Cass’s. I like have her stuff here. We slip into bed naked and we just kiss and touch and cuddle and explore each other until we’re too tired to keep it up and fall asleep in each others arms.

***
We wake up about two AM hearing Jenny crying and we go in a group to comfort her. There’s not a lot that can be said really other than tell her she’s a great girl. That we’re proud of her and that we love her. Cass makes all of us Chai tea and we sit up and talk and we take care of each other. It’s about four and the four of us end up in my bed all cuddled up together and letting her know she’s loved. It’s like there’s this connection forming between all of us. Four totally different women bonding together like family.

I like the feeling in the house. It’s like I can almost feel it soaking in here after it being such a lonely place for so long.

***
We get up around lunch and I’m itching for my routine so I’m up first. I put on a pot of coffee and whiz up a muffin mix and a smoothie and eat a caltrate chew thing and take my meds and hormones and an Tylenol for my knee and get into my running stuff and take my pack and head out.

It’s really perfect for running just a little crisp and clear but warm too. Winter’s in British Columbia are kind of mild down south but I’m up more in the middle of the province so there’s a bit of snow down. Just a few inches. It makes everything really pretty. I go up my hill outside of town and then back just taking in the energy and the calm and the air. I’m not sure I could live anywhere else. There’s this smell of the woods and the hint of the pacific in the wind.

I just run, I let everything fade away until it’s that air, the bounce of my breasts and ponytail and my feet hitting the road. I push it up the hill and build up a good sweat and let that sweat not just take out the toxins out of my body but to take the negative stuff in my heart with it. It’s one of the reasons that I run and other die hard runners do it. I know it’s the same thing for cyclists out there I‘ve been told by friends who‘re addicted to biking. There’s something very meditative and therapeutic in leaving the bullshit in your life out there on the road.

I stop for my cool down and walk it off, stretch, to some calisthenics and drink some water, eat a granola bar. Then take off again running I head down hill and pass my place and wave at Cass who’s shoveling the bit of snow off my steps and my walk. I can’t help but smile at that.

I get to smile again as some of Brandon’s horses see me and try to run with me along the fence. I even laugh and run harder vainly trying to race them. I win because they run out of field and I keep going but slow it down to my normal pace all the way down to the four way stop the run back home. They’re waiting for me to race, I put on some speed and give in my best and both them and I have fun with it.

I jog into Brandon’s and follow them and see him in the real barn feeding the birds and rabbits. He gives me a look but waves. I wave back and yell. “Cooling down!” I run the fence line then back them keeping with me the entire time. I’ve never really had much to do with them but I can see how you could get horse crazy. They are beautiful animals.

I wave to the guys on my way back and I give Brandon another smile and a wave before slowing down once I get home. Cass is smiling and just in sweats and a tee shirt waiting to greet me. I walk up to kiss her. I think I like these run-fit shoes, they kind of make you girl walk whether you want to or not. I can feel the burn in my glutes after my run. I’m all sweaty and gross and Cass is kissing me. “Mmm, I love the way you smell.”

“You’re crazy, I smell like the horses.”

“Hey, I’m a mountie remember, I like horses.”

“Yeah, I ca see that. The others up yet?”

“Not yet” She raises and eyebrow. “Shower?”

We hit the shower together with Cass, peeling me out of my clothes and my hands are all over her as I’m still all fired up from my run. It’s soapy and sensual and pinning each other to the shower stall wall. Cass’s found my toy and used it on me after I introduced her to Jane again inside of her…and wow…Cass held onto the safety bars in the shower and wrapped her legs around me as we made love. I got really turned on by her upper body strength and the way that did things for her breasts.

We made it down to the kitchen having woken Lacey and Jenny up. Lacey looks like hell with the bruises and stuff plus she really isn’t a bouncy just getting up person. She has three Tylenol and two cups of coffee before mumble shuffling outside. We offer her breakfast but she mumble grumbles something as she goes outside to the porch swing with her purse to smoke.

Jenny is all bright eyed and bushy tailed and very giggly about hearing me and Cass. She’s also really hyper as before we found out that her parents wouldn’t let her have coffee before. We drink coffee and eat my muffins (Just vanilla out of a box.) and some toast.

We start going through the stuff we need to do with making lists of stuff I want to get for the house, asking Jenny about any allergies and stuff she might have and might need. Cass does the laundry as I do that and Jenny does the dishes. Lacey cleans up the living room and sets up a station in the kitchen with all of my cosmetics and stuff. Okay, she really knows her stuff as we just get done up a bit so we can go shopping. I call Brandon to ask him if he needs anything in town and he says no but for all of us to come over tonight for supper because Chris and Chuck and Eli and his family are leaving tomorrow night after a big Sunday dinner. “Hey, how about you guys come over here for supper and we’ll give the chef a night off and we’ll just have a good time, watch movies or something.”

Brandon say’s. “Sound’s good but leave dessert I think Chuck’s already got it done.”

“Okay, I’ll see you guys around seven?”

“Sound’s good, we’ll see you there.”

I tell the girls and Jenny is all excited and bouncy. Was I ever that bouncy when I was twenty? Well I was a guy then…Wow…I actually kind of forgot that I haven’t always been me, like this all my life. That really sets the mood for the rest of the afternoon. We take Cass’s truck and Lacey drive her car needing to check in at her salon and to get changed but says she’ll meet us there at the mall/galleria whatever they want to call it.

***
We all meet in the mall’s center court and we go shopping. Jenny is just like a teenager and It catches on. Even Rebecca shows up wanting to get away from the boys for awhile and her daughter Amy is with her too.

We go from shop to shop really mostly looking except for Lacey who is considerably well off compare to the rest of us. It’s fun, it’s a lot of fun actually. I’m not the girly-girl type but there’s this comraderie about going out and just having fun with a group of girls. It’s a lot of trying things on and window shopping and bargain hunting but it’s fun and the time just goes by fast. I buy some more of that body shaping exercise wear and actually a bunch of fabric. I can sew halfway decent with a machine and I want to make a few things in my style for the house. I even get a few things for Christmas as presents and for the house.

Cass and I end up going grocery shopping together. I buy some baking supplies because Jenny wanted it and she says she bakes. I stock up on that and eggs and butter and get a whole bunch of stuff for pasta and salads. I buy a couple of panettone breads because a friend in the forces had his family send him some and it makes this great French toast. I get some raisin bread and bagels and a whole bunch of stuff. Not too much meat because I want to use the stuff in the deep freezers. Cass buys things too. A majik bullet blender set, and an ice cream maker along with a panini press.

But we really get some good stuff for tonight. I’m making pizza’s tonight. So Cass buys a pizza stone for the oven and we buy really good stuff to got ontop of our pizzas. These really good Spanish canned tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, fresh tomatoes, herbs, veggies, hot peppers and sweet peppers and three kinds of mushrooms and really good salumi and other meats and cheeses to go on it. To go with it we pick up some stuff to do some snacks while we wait on the pizza’s.

Roasted jarred peppers and a bunch of olives, small bite sized smokey sausages and I get stuff for my hummus dip and spiced toasted chickpeas along with some pita and some lavash breads and I get stuff to make Za,atar (which I love on a lot of stuff.) Moutabel which is a great eggplant dip. What can I say, You get over there and more than the sand gets into you. There’s a lot of things I love about there as much as I hate it.

Huh, maybe when I left part of me over there I brought some of me home with me?

My one other big stops are at Dante’s it’s the best pizza place in town and I stop there to get a tray of fifteen proofed pizza doughs and the a stop at the beer and wine store to get a couple of cases of beers and a mixed case of wines. Rebecca goes in on us with the booze. We get a bunch of movies at the local video rental place and head home.

It’s a lot of fun getting ready for the guys to come over. We uncork a couple of bottles and chill the beers and the wines that should be chilled. We talk and cook, make the snacks and the finger foods and bake the breads off so that the pizza stone is seasoned and listen to tunes and it’s really great.

The pizza’s we make are vegetarian with slices of baby eggplant and zucchini and preserved lemons sliced thin along with an orange on a mandolin with fresh herbs and mushrooms.

There’s a mushroom pizza we make with a sauce like the sausage gravy you’d put on biscuits and gravy but along with the sausage there’s a pound of ground lamb spread out over the pizza and fresh mozza on top.

There’s a classic pepperoni and cheese and another with chorizo and a really good salumi and caramelized onion pizza with shredded pastrami and some sliced fine roasted fennel.

Then there’s Cass’s special with tomatoes and sun dried tomatoes and fresh basil with long sliced strips of capicola, prosciutto, mortadella and seranno ham with a fine dice of cooked onions and roasted sweet red peppers and a fine shaving of romano and parmesan cheeses.

Yeah there was a lot of pizza’s an beer and wine and talking and laughing as we watched movies all dressed down an relaxing in my living room stuffing our faces with food and Chuck’s desserts of crá¨me-Brule’s and molten chocolate cakes as we watched stuff like Godzilla, Iron man, Across the Universe…(We all sang trying to emulate the movie.) and two classics Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

We just were so great tonight. I found myself in between Cass and Brandon with me leaning against him. His hands just idly touching me. And Cass snuggled into me and taking my arms and wrapping them around me.

Stuffed, happy and more content than ever I fall asleep with my two loves.

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The last of the chapter...

Andrea Lena's picture

...it's sensual and yet it goes so far beyond anything sexual or even romantic. Sam is safe...kept warm and protected between two people that love her, regardless of circumstance or station in life. She's truly blessed, because both love her enough, I believe that either would step aside if and when Sam is brought to a choice between them. Sacrifice and deference with no thought for their own need, giving their all to her. What a wonderful story. Thank you.


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Andrea Lena

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

You always make me hungry!

It's so nice to see everyone so happy, if a bit bumped and bruised. Jenny makes a great sister, and I hope she stays around for a long while. I'm sure things are going to go upside down in the near future (or maybe not-you make a great chapter out of little conflict), but the NOW is very nice.

Wren

Great, Happy Chapter

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Bailey,

All that food, and I'm trying to lose weight. I love your descriptions. They are so vivid.

Portia

Portia

Another Gem Bailey

I liked the part where Sam can feel the house change to a home with her friends?

Pizzas were fantastic, I had a couple of slices when no one was looking!

Thanks

LoL
Rita

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)

LoL
Rita

family

"We wake up about two AM hearing Jenny crying and we go in a group to comfort her. There’s not a lot that can be said really other than tell her she’s a great girl. That we’re proud of her and that we love her. Cass makes all of us Chai tea and we sit up and talk and we take care of each other. It’s about four and the four of us end up in my bed all cuddled up together and letting her know she’s loved. It’s like there’s this connection forming between all of us. Four totally different women bonding together like family."

And all of them need that family. Poor Jenny though, its going to take a while for her to feel good.

"Treat everyone you meet as though they had a sign on them that said "Fragile, under construction"

dorothycolleen

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I'm moving to Bridgeview

You've created this atmosphere; this whole world that I want to live in... be a part of.
I'm not sure which character I'd want to be or if I'd want to be myself,
but whoever I am, I want these people in my life.


The girl in me... She's always there
and usually can't make up her mind.

It'd be an alright place to live.

You wouldn't have to be anyone but yourself Lora, I'm sure you'd make a perfect character just as you are.
Thanks for writing and taking the time to read this.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.

Bailey Summers