"A story?" Lee grinned up at him, his teeth an unnaturally bleached white and pristine. "I don't know any stories, Hans." He signed. "Hans....." He stared up at the man's chin for a moment before sighing. "What kind of story?"
Lee let his head drop on to Hans's lap and he sighed up at him.His long lanky arms were folded across his chest. " No. It's too late to go anywhere right now. We're not going out.. not even to go across the street..." He turned his attention back to the television. "Besides," Lee yawned. "You...
"Then you should just go to bed...." Lee's muffled voice came from the living room, not too far away, a pair of legs were draped over the sides of the sofa, pantsed in dark brown corduroy and with feet in thick cotton socks. His body obscured with a light flickering from a television screen...
Cassandra growled as they walked from the house, raising a hand to strike Nate across his ear. "Subtlety, Nate! Subtlety! You've no sense- You were staring at that child like a vulture and now that woman is already terrified of us. I should have went alone."
"What the fuck are you talking...
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"Much obliged." Cassandra offered her hand to Nixie once more.
"What? We're leaving?" Nate looked between his wife and Nixie. "But we only just-"
"We don't want to impose, Nate, dear. She's a busy woman and it's best we get out of her hair." She lowered her hand and grabbed Nate's arm...
"How about we go for coffee sometime? Get away for a moment, just us girls?"
There was a muffled sound of the toilet flushing and Nate emerged, his lips in a tight smile, as he nodded at Nixie."Thank you!"
Cassandra held out a card with her number to Nixie. "When you have time..."
"It must be hard.... working as a single mother... You don't get much of a break do you?"
Nate stood in the child's bedroom, his eyes scanning the windows in her room, absorbing each crack in the wall. He went over and lifted a small sock , and chuckled as he inhaled its scent. He stuffed the...
"I work as an editor for the magazine... Charm? Have you heard of it? It's mostly fashion. Not quite as prestigious as Vogue or Glamour. Nate's father owns a sawmill, however, up in Texas. What's your line of work?"
Cassandra saw her eye the child and grinned at Nixie, locking her gaze into her eyes, her smile all pearly white teeth and gums. "Sorry about Nate.... He's...- He can be rather gruff." She brushed her hair behind her ears. "Not very tactful, but he's a good man." She looked up at the walls...
When Nixie returned, Cassandra was glaring at Nate, however Nate was keeping an eye intent on Chloe. She looked up and her face returned back to her original mein, the smile taking place and she reached up for the coffee. "Thank you!"
Nate stood up with a grunt. "Where's the bathroom, miss?"
"None for me thanks. I can't stand the stuff, myself." Nate put a hand up to her.
"Black for me, thank you... Although." She looked back at Chloe and raised and raised a sharp angular eyebrow. "We may be leaving fairly soon. "
"Oh! Oh my!" She put her hand to her mouth and she mover her other hand from behind Nate and gripped on to his sleeve. " We're so... so sorry. I'm sorry we didn't mean- My sincerest condolences..."
Nate's smile stayed unwavered, until Cassandra squeezed his arm, his lips pursed and he lowered...
She sat down next to Nate and crossed her legs. "Oh, no but we're..." She glanced up at Nate and they shared a smile. "We've been trying."
"Big part of the reason that we moved here is to potentially start a family...." Nate looked back over to the kid. "So where's her father? At work?"...
Cassandra delicately waggled her little fingers at the little girl, and Nate grumbled something into her ear. She moved her gaze to Nixie. "Oh just a few weeks ago, it took us some time to really settle down."
"You have a nice place here, Miss." Nate went over and sat down on one of the lounge...
"If it isn't too much of a bother.... Of course. " Without waiting further answers she maneuvered past Nixie without so much as brushing against her. The man behind her followed, but paused directly in front of Nixie, grin still plastered to his face. "My name's Cassandra," Came the woman's...