1. Max and Rosie Pt. 2


    Date: 7/6/2016, Categories: Love Stories, Author: Sisyphus, Rating: 18, Source: LushStories

    “Well, I’m here and have been for over a year.” “I know.” “Funny how things happen. Sometimes I think it’s destiny, but then I think things like this just happen.” She took a sip of coffee. “There's no plan. No destiny.” Max nodded. “Who could have known that Rosie would get Alzheimer’s and I would need someone to take care of her and you would show up?” “Life happens.” “Right, life happens…sometimes it’s horrible and sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s both. You never know.” Max shrugged his shoulders. Robin picked up her mug and lifted it to Max as if offering a toast and he picked up his and tapped them together. “To luck,” Robin said. “I’ll drink to that.” Max took a sip and lowered his mug to the table then sat back in his chair. He looked at Robin then sighed. “Robin, I have to confess something.” “What?” “This is hard for me to say.” “What? Tell me.” “I'm very fond of you.” He wanted to say more but couldn't He knew he was falling in love with her and wanted to embrace her, kiss her, feel her body responding to his desire, but that was out of the question. How can I? Why can't I? I don't know what to do. Robin smiled and looked down into her coffee. She gripped her mug with both hands then lifted it to her lips and sipped. “I'm fond of you too. You're pretty amazing. You really are.” Max wanted to take Robin's hand and hold it but didn't. Robin finished her coffee, stood up and went to the back door. Max knew she probably wanted to change the topic and shift the ...
    conversation. He did, too. “I would like to plant some vegetables out there...a small garden. What do you think?” “Really. That's interesting.” “We had a big garden at Rainbow's End. My mom and dad grew all of our food and my sister Lark and I helped. Everyone there gardened and we shared the fruit from the orchard.” “Sounds beautiful.” “I've missed gardening. I wonder if I'll ever go back there. All the houses are off the grid and everyone tries to live as self-sufficiently as possible. Our parents are all around your age, getting older and I know they would like us to keep it going.” Max got up and stood next to Robin. He looked out at the backyard and saw the two peach trees Rosie and he had planted fifteen years earlier. The pink blossoms would be bursting to life soon and he remembered how the sight thrilled Rosie. He remembered filling up baskets with peaches and bringing them into the house then proudly looking at them sitting on the counter. “How many people lived at Rainbow's End?” he asked, shaking away that memory. “I don't know how many are there now, but, when I was growing up, there were three other families and we each had an acre of land and shared the orchard and common land and worked together on projects. We had a barn for the goats, but we all had a flock of chickens. My goat's name was Ruby. Molly still lives there with her family in the house she grew up in. Her parents, John and Mildred, started it when they gave this woman, Jenny an acre. She was their ...
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