TDC - THE DUSTYBEAR CHRONICLES - CH 74 MAKING SENSE, Part 3

TDC-THE DUSTYBEAR CHRONICLES 

BEAR TAKES A CHANCE...

BOOK TWO

74

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A clap of thunder woke me up with a start...

"Shhh...Baby. S'ok."

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I laid in Rico's tender arms.. 

and shook without being

totally sure why.

His voice was soft...

almost pleading, in my ear.

whispery.

"Shh...Baby. S'ok Honey. 

I'm right heah, Babybear.

Shhhh."

I looked around...

almost unsure of where I was. 

It wasn't the living area where we had been 

 last night, but a VERY small bedroom 

next to it as it turns out with the

bathroom being in-between.

NOT the most comfy of beds...trust me,

 but I sure as HECK was NOT 

going to complain.

HELL OF A LOT BETTAH THAN THAT BATCAVE, God knows.

I snuggled into Rico.

"Yeh...you ok..Babybear....

You Ok, Baby..."

BUT...

WERE WE?

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ANOTHER.... clap of thunder...

and I almost came out of my skin.

FULLY AWAKE this time...

The clouds that I had seen yesterday afternoon...had evidently

held off until now...

but NOW..we were getting a BLOCKBUSTER of a storm...

"You want some coffee..Honey?"

I nodded...

and after a kiss on the cheek...Rico slipped off the bed..

and disappeared through the door...

and...as I had watched his long lanky frame...

walking across the room...I was SO glad he was here...

I could hear him paddling around in the kitchen...

making 'kitchen noises'..

on top of the fact the floors creaked..

and when he came back...

he had two big mugs of STEAMING coffee...

one in each hand..

He handed me one...

I took it in both hands...

and just held it in front of my face..

letting the steam waft up .....

felt and smelled SO good..

Finally I moved it up to my lips..

"Careful Bear...ith HOT"

I nodded...

and took a tentative sip...

HMMM...

I grinned over the mug...

and he grinned back..

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Breakfast in bed...

Rico and I...

nice....ODD...but nice...

or at least COFFEE in bed...

I didn't imagine that he had been able to muster

bacon and eggs in the sparse larder...BUT...

coffee wath nice...

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We sat...

with one of Rico's arms around me....

drinking our coffee...quietly...

he periodically kissing the top of my head..

or my cheek...

or my ear...

as the storm lashed out overhead..

I had immediately wondered if the roof was sound on this old

bucket of bolts...

BUT...seemed to be...thank God...

"NO LEAKS"

"YEH....I noticed Bear....what's the odds"

"Luck...ith holding"

"YEH"

and quiet again...

My head still hurt...

and Rico seemed to sense that...

Rico seemed to sense a LOT of things....

about ... me...

and always had...I guess...

although I didn't think that at the time...

but he had...

gotten in tune....

for WE HAD... 

REALLY

MERGED......

quite some time ago...

but I didn't know that now...

NOR did I know...

that EVERYONE AROUND US had noticed...

YEP..

I didn't know that Jake had told Kenny that....

I didn't know that Kip had REALLY noticed...

and the silly twit was ROOTING...for Rico and I...

That Ofelia and Rose and Billy Ray....had taken note...

That both Jerm and Jason..AND Tess and Frankie D...

had noted..that we were fast becoming more like 

THEM..than most people....

DEEPLY BONDED...

go figure....

and that J R and Johnny...

Brian and Greg...

grr...

we had a LOT of people PULLING for us...

CAUSE...THEY KNEW>..one thing that I REALLY didn't...

and that was....

that CHARLIE knew..TOO...

YEP...

and although I NEVER would have admitted it...

EVEN IF...I had...maybe...FELT it....long since...

IT IS...that...Rico....and I....just HAVE....SUMFIN...

that even Charlie and I didn't....

almost virtually indescribable...

unseen...and yet SEEN...

maybe unseen by US...or at least ME...

but seen by others...

and as GOOD as Charlie and I were...

right from the start..

and as in love as at least I thought we were...

and felt...

and make NO mistake...I DID...and DO...and always will...

love Charlie....

but even though....

GRR...

so hard..

but....well...I love Charlie....

I LOVE Rico...

There..maybe that's it...

the ONLY WAY I know how to describe it...

and once you got "I LOVE YOU"

as opposed to I love you...

You know the difference...

I didn't yet....

BUT...

I WOULD...come to understand that...

but that would be down the road a ways...

WE had a LOT more in-between...

BUT...

IT WOULD BE 'WE'...

NOT...he AND I...

or even just he OR I...

but it was TRULY 'WE' that would go through this...

TO THE BITTER END...

WHATEVER THAT END WAS GONNA BE...

and neither of us KNEW...NOBODY DID...

BUT...Rico would NEVER waver....

and neither would I...

and I suppose THAT in and of itself...

is love of a sort...

BEING there...THROUGH THE WORST OF TIMES...

not just the fun stuffies....

TRULY PARTNERS....OUT of bed as well as IN...

and Rico...

now THAT boi KNOWS...HOW TO DIG IN HIS HEELS...

and STICK....through the mud...and mire...

and he is doing that...

and I DO know that much...

and at some level...

I.......

KNOW...

I guessy....

But for the most part...

Bear wath the LAST to know...

grrr...

what ELSE ith new...

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We had drunk our coffee...

and then gotten up...done our baffroomy thing...

best we could anyway...

no shavers..

no deodorant..

no nuffin..but some bars of soap..

EEK..NO LAVENDER BODYWASH?

What kind of Resort thingy ITH thith...

GRR..

and now...

we were back out in the Living Room...LOL...

or what passed for one...

with it's rough-hewn paneling...

a pretty beat-up couchy thing...

couple of REALLY ODD end tables...

an overstuffed chair...

a coffee table..obviously hand-made...

The floors were hardwood...Pine I think...

except for the bafroom and the kitchen of course..

There was a good sized dining room table..and 8 chairs...

in an eating AREA between the side door and the kitchen...

The Kitchen..was about the ONLY thing in this dump

that was REALLY pretty good...

Obviously..this is where the guys who worked here ate...

probably needed a good kitchen...

and, maybe had to sleep here sometimes...

but obviously not often...only two little bedrooms...

and ONE bathroom...

but that was a pretty modern affair like the kitchen...

with a HUGE shower..

hmm...wondah about dat...lol...

cause you could wash an ARMY in there...

and who knows...maybe they did...lol...

THE STORM..showed NO signs of abating..

which kind of conked out our plans for EXPLORING the area...

trying to find a highway..or a house..or sumfin...

so STUCK HEAH we were...

and for how long..WHO KNEW...

I stood..with my coffee...in one of the two windows...

looking out at the rain...coming down in sheets...

and wondered...

HOW...had we come to this...mah hoodlum and I...

HOW?

and .. so...I decided I needed to ask...

and wondered...

DID I REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

I pondered that for a bit...

while Rico...stood behind me..

holding me tightly...

kissing mah neck..

and mah hair..

and mah ears..

and ...hehe..

from time to time...

in-between sips of his delicious coffee..

"ONE THING we got LOTS OF..Bear...

CANS AND CANS"

'WHOO HOO...

WE BE AWAKE FOR YEARS"

"BEARRRRRRR...."

HEHEHE..

"BUT..think of all the FUN we can have"

"BEARRRRR"

HEHEHE..

I stood quietly..

he behind me...

looking out at the rain....

the TORRENT...

GRIMACING..each time a CLAP of thunder sounded...

and EACH TIME...

Rico would tighten his grip on me...

trying I guess to shield me....

from.......

What would we do now?

I wondered...

"Rico?"

"YEH..Baby>?"

"Rico...Tell me...please..."

"What?"

"How did we get here?"

He let out a sigh..

"C'mere...Bear..."

and he led me back over to the couch...

getting me on his lap...sideways...

holding me..

"Bear....you sure you want to know?"

NO..I WASN'T SURE...

but...

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"Bear...just relax..ok?...

The rain...gonna keep us bound...for a bit..

and we got food..and a roof over our heads..

and....we ok..ok?..

Don't worry....don't worry bout NUFFIN ..

for right now...Baby...

Nuffin we can do right now anyway"

DRAT..

AH HATES when that boi is right...

but...

he was...

AGAIN...

that much I knew...

and so we just sat...

snuggled...

and I think I dozed on and off...

maybe he did too..don't know...

and the day wore on...

and we sat..

TOTALLY UNAWARE...of the manhunt going on...

FOR US...

FOR US...

and Chance..

and...

NICKY....

and.........

Dotty........

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BOOK TWO

"DIME A DANCE...THE PLAN"

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