Note: You can change font size, font face, and turn on dark mode by clicking the "A" icon tab in the Story Info Box.
You can temporarily switch back to a Classic Literotica® experience during our ongoing public Beta testing. Please consider leaving feedback on issues you experience or suggest improvements.
Click here
"Give it time. It's hard when the kids are that young."
"I know. I don't think it's just a matter of time, though." He fixed me with his gaze. "It means the world to Carol that you're here, now. She feels like she's won the lottery. We're just sorry about the reason for it. But look at you. You're out here consoling me. It was supposed to be the other way around."
"Well. Sometimes helping helps. We've all got to help each other, don't we? Life is hard enough."
"You said it."
We'd come to the end of the bourbon and he'd smoked his cigar down to a stub, so we went back inside to talk to mom.
***
The next day, they took me out into the front range, up into Estes National Park, and we hiked around in the mountains, all the way around Bear Lake, at ten thousand feet above sea level. I got winded easily, remembering Pete's admonition to go to the gym. The light had a quality and clarity to it that I'd never seen before, and I'd never realized that a sky could be so blue. I ate wild-caught salmon that made every fish I'd tasted before in my life seem like soggy cardboard in comparison. There were streams and trees and deer and happy people in the tiny town where we'd stopped and bought souvenirs. We drove past the Stanley Hotel, the resort where "The Shining" was filmed. It was the best day I'd had since Valentines' Day, snowed in with the kids, back when we were still a family. Three weeks ago. A thousand years ago.
I'd meant to open my laptop that evening, to read more divorce advice and work on my letter to Linda and the one to Doctor Manette, but I didn't. I'd stayed up talking to Mom and Bob. Probably better that way.
Breakfast was more pancakes and eggs and bacon than I'd ever had in one sitting, and it extended well past brunch. They took me back to the airport with mutual promises that we'd do more of this, and I was on my way... home?
God, did I even have a home anymore?
***
The story continues with February Sucks: Same Old Me 3
- COMMENTS
dgfergie4 days agoHave to agree a bit wordy. So far it's been almost like a marriage manual or a cheaters hand book on how not to cheat. Not sure I agree about the age thing about some being forty in their teens and some women 15 at age 30 or so. But this is our author's and I guess this is how he wrote it. I am actually learning something about relationships reading all these LW stories. I guess I only got as far as the last story quite some time ago, so I hope th enext part is a bit more interesting. 4 stars and onward to the next chapter.
Anonymous6 days agoTooooooo wordy. Too much preaching. It would have been a better story if reduced to half, at least.
Anonymous14 days agoOmg. Skipped half so far. Just skim reading now. Good effort in writing over the top in the dialogue.
Pinto93125 days agoWay to much ridiculous psycho babble distracting from an interesting version of the story.
fritz51about 1 month agoSo far it seems to me Jim is responding as one would expect, maybe with even more bravado than normal.
If in future chapters he turns around and reconciles with this slut I'll be grossly disappointed. Score pending.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoIt is not surprising that the female of the species needs or seeks the attention of the male of the species. We as Homo sapiens are infect a species of animal. So, the part of our mating ritual is that the female of the species would show her plumage for lack of a better explanation. Thus, Linda attracts many males given how attractive she is. It may sound silly, but it's actually how it happens in all animal species. Just Saying.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoI hope that his wife being a chronic cheater is true. Cause I do not buy the secret slut switch. I think that's just psycho babble. The difference between eighteen and thirty one has gotta mean something.
If a 30-year-old woman can't control herself, has no brain, she's just an animal. I don't believe that. Maybe you're just giving her an excuse to make the story more interesting. I really like this ending!
patillie3 months agoNice continuation, not quite up to Chapt 1 emotiveness, but very good. I am seeing signs of a foundation being layed for reconciliation, and that would be just wrong for a narcisist like LInda
Anonymous3 months agoI really didn’t like the part where they tried to explain Linda’s behaviour. What it was boiled down to is that she was horny and it was the heat of the moment. That bullshit doesn’t explain anything. She isn’t a robot and there is no such thing as a slut switch. She is an adult with a brain and she made a choice. She definitely isn’t ’owed’ any compassion.
Anonymous3 months agoI truly appreciated his reconnecting with his mom and the beginnings of getting to know Bob (seems like a developed soul) this is a good development off of the "February Sucks" story framework.
AllNigher3 months agoNice but straight to encroach in victim blaming a little don't buy into her being 31 but emotionally a teenager. You know cause and effect, you have two kids...
Better than the original but still irritating that reconciliation of any sort other than being cordial for the kids is still on the table...
chess19723 months agoCan't help laughing when everyone in his life is some sort of philosopher. Still a good story though.
