NovelEnglishWho's Your Daddy? EP6
| knew | wouldn't hear from them for a while, that only tcould ever bring about a rapprochement, but even
so | waited hopelessly all during the fall and winter and spring. | wrote them letters, weekly, long letters,
explanations, observations, advice... love letters to my daughters... but | never heard back.
"They're not staying out here this summer professor, only going to be here for the fourth of july," Mrs. Kramer
toldas she counted out the change for my groceries on a late June day the next year.
"Who's that Ellen?" | asked, fearing the answer | knew was coming.
"Your neighbors, those nice Butler girls."
"Oh, how come?" | managed to reply.
"Studies or something or other. That's what Old John said to Millie anyway. Apparently the Missus will be here any
day though," she finished
She was walking slowly up the beach, and as | watched from the sofa on the balcony, was surprised when she
turned in towards the house, something she hadn't done in sseventeen years. She looked up as she crossed
the lawn, and with her eyes locked on mime, waved the fingers of her left hand and mouthed, "Hi."
"Hi to you," | called back.
"Can | cup?" Seeing my nod she crossed the paand disappeared from my view as she entered the house.
"I always liked sitting up here Jimmy," were her first words when she emerged onto the balcony and sat down on
the sofa, her long legs tucked under her.
"It's been awhile."
"Well..."
"I missed you," | told her.
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too...," she said with regret.
We sat on the old sofa for hours that evening, talking quietly as the sun went down in a blazing ball of fire in
front of us. We just talked of the past, those few summers we'd shared.
"I don't want to talk about the girls tonight," she finally said, at last bringing up the topic that had hung over our
whole conversation.
"Okay."
"Can we swim now?" she asked, a sly girlish tone in her voice.
"I don't have my suit on," | laughed.
neither," she grinned.
We swam and laughed and splashed and kissed as we frolicked naked in the surf, and for a few minutes we were
transported back twenty years, in love again. We didn't make love that night, but knew we could, knew that the
smagic still existed between us.
"I'm going hto Sweden for the summer," she toldas | walked her home, my arm draped around her
shoulder.
"What? You and hubby? The girls?"
"No, just me." "But...,"
"The family, the girls, all the cousins, all the Butler aunts and uncles, they'll all be here for the July 4th weekend.
Then I'm gone. On the seventh. Alone!"
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It was late in the afternoon on the fifth, the day after the parade and during the annual Butler family party, that |
walked up the beach and through the sea grass, refreshed from a swim, that | saw the two of them, sitting
quietly on the steps leading up to my yard in their party dresses, watchingsomberly as | approached.
"Still swimming naked, eh professor," Isobel muttered grumpily.
| simply sat down between them and
put a wet arm around each of them.
They both leaned héiheatls against
i Butbiten minutes none of us
spoke, until Samantha finally rose
and said, "We have to get back Izzy."
"Hey," | called when they were twenty feet away, "will you write me?"
Neither turned but I'm sure | heard a mumbled, "maybe" as they turned onto the beach.
| flew to Stockholm on the seventh; Mrs. Brigitte Butler only laughed when she foundsitting in the next seat
to her on the plane...
| foresee a future now, a future that
involves my two daug hers, autre
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But | also see the four of us entwined, sweaty, naked, making love ...
I wonder, can the two dreams coexist?
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