It Was a Cold and Dreary Night

"you are just a mean old slave driver. But you are MY master, I am your love slave. I will obey." I moved the couch and put the table near the fire. The room was pretty comfortable now. Shirley rummaged through the cupboards and the refrigerator and offered to cook dinner. I agreed to that. I had to find out if she could cook. She put some hamburger meat in a frying pan and started cooking it. She found green peppers and some onions And chopped them up. She added them with the meat and found a Corning wear casserole and crumbled some Fritos over the bottom. She added Taco seasoning to the meat and stirred it for a minute then put it in a layer in the casserole dish. She opened a can of Tamales and made a layer of them in the dish. She poured a can of mushroom soup over every thing. Sprinkled on more Fritos, sprinkled cheese over the whole thing and put it in the oven.

"Wow, you used up a lot of stuff for that one dinner."

"Yes, dear Sean, I did, but we should get at least two meals out of it. You will see. It will be good. Now, can you show me how to boil some water for coffee?"

"Honey, I have a feeling that there is nothing about a kitchen I can show you. You really know what you are doing."

She ran to me and kissed me, "I hope I please you dear Sean, I really want to more than anything."

"Well, sit on my lap and kiss me some more, I love that."

Dinner was excellent. She said it would have been better if she had chopped tomatoes and lettuce to put over it. I thought it was terrific just as it was. Very tasty. I had seconds.

I helped her clean up after dinner. Over half the casserole was left. We put it in the refrigerator so it wouldn't freeze. We sat in front of the fire and held each other. We kissed a lot and caressed each other through our clothes. Finally I heaped the ashes over the coals in the fireplace and banked the fire for the night. We undressed and she put on a long Flannel gown and I wore flannel PJs. We snuggled together under a bunch of blankets. It was very, very nice. I hugged her back and we slept like spoons. I loved the feel of her touching me. Later I got up to pee and she said, "Don't leave me." in her sleep. She snuggled back against me when I got back in bed. She was so damned sweet even in her sleep. I lay and thought about what I was going to have to do to keep her for ever. I really needed to talk to her and get her input. This had to be a joint venture for it to work. I reviewed our day. What a day, the best day of my life. I must have drifted off to sleep.

In the morning I told her what I had been thinking during the night. She smiled and said she agreed about the joint venture. She said she had to stay and take care of her father. I told her I would have it no other way. We could work something out. Money was not a problem. I had a rather large inheritance and we could live quite well off of the interest for now. I scraped the frost off of one of the windows but couldn't see any thing. Light seemed to be quite bright filtering through the snow. I tried to open the window. It was stuck but finally moved enough for me to take a broom and push some of it away from in front of the window. We saw a lot of snow but no more was falling. We could see all the other cabins. None seemed to have smoke coming from the chimneys. We were the only fools who had stayed.

I closed the window and softly said a prayer of thanks for having stayed and met my sweet Shirley. I looked up and saw her crying. She threw her arms around me and said she had said the same prayer many times last night and this morning.

I said I thought we should eat something, have some coffee and then put on our outdoor clothes and work on trying to get the door open. I told her I was afraid if the weather warmed much and the snow melted, then froze again later we would have a hard time getting out for several days. Right now the snow was powdery and we might be able to move it. From what we had seen from the window some areas didn't seem to have as much snow.

I tried the phone and it was still working. I called the local sheriff's office non-emergency number and asked the condition of the local roads. I told them our situation and they said there was a snow plow clearing roads in our area. They thought that if we got out we should be able go where ever we wanted.

We had our breakfast and we both pushed on the door with no luck. I decided to crawl out the window and try to move some snow away from the door. It was a tough go because the damned windows didn't want to open enough. We finally found one that I could squeeze through. I pushed my way to the front of the cabin and found a drift of snow against it. I found a shovel in the shed and had the door open in no time. Shirley was glad to see me. We explored hand in hand. Her car was buried completely with drifted snow. My pick up truck was mostly clear. We made our plans and started packing. In a couple of hours we were ready to go. We left her car where it was. We would come back for it when we could. We wanted to get Shirley to her Dad. My four wheel drive truck plowed right through the snow to the cleared road. We were on our way. I stopped at the Sheriff's office and thanked them for their help and asked them to look out for Shirley's car. We were making good time now. My cell phone worked fine when we neared civilization and she called and talked to her father and told him we would be there in a couple of hours. He told her to forget about the deer liver. We didn't.

We stopped by her home and I carried everything in. We took a wonderful hot shower together and washed each other. I loved washing her long golden hair. She scrubbed on me until I shined I guess. I put on jeans and a long sleeved shirt. I had a cord jacket with patch elbows. She walked out in a black leather outfit that was absolutely stunning. It fit perfectly. She wore high heeled boots. I loved the way she looked and told her so. She was beautiful.

We heated up some thin slices of the deer liver and put them in a covered plastic dish and wrapped it in newspaper to keep it warm. I helped her in her overcoat and we went to see him. I could tell he had been a large handsome man. It saddened me to see him as he now was. She hugged and kissed him and then introduced me to him. I shook his hand and told him I promised with all my heart to look after his daughter. He smiled at me and said he would hold me to my word. He loved the liver. His eyes sparkled as we told him about the hunt and the storm. He really savored the liver and ate every bit Shirley brought him. He said it gave him strength. He sure looked better. She said we would bring him some the next day.

We talked to his doctor, and were told it was only a matter of days he had to live. I held her while she cried for a few minutes. We went back to her house and I told her that I meant to keep my word to her father if she would let me.

"What do you mean, if I let you?"

"Well, now that you are home safe and all, I thought you might change your mind about how you feel about me. I don't want to hold you to something you said in the heat of passion."

"Do you mean that you have changed your mind?"

"Hell, No, Never!"

"That is just the way I feel. So shut up and kiss me like only you can."

"What about your boyfriend?"

"He knows we are through. I told him to get lost when he wouldn't go hunting with me. What a wimp, what did I ever see in him. I guess it was because I have known him forever."

"I have so much to learn about you. I need to know everything about you. What you like and don't like. You have to talk to me when we make love so I can learn your favorite places and how you like them loved."

"Sean, you are so very sweet, no one ever wanted to know those things before. We have to teach each other. Let's fix that leftover casserole and start working on learning about each other as soon as we can."

"Sounds good to me."