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A weakness of mine is my tendency to develop myopia when engaging in certain aspects. Reading is probably the biggest. Couple that with a naturally panicky disposition and a heart attack before I was able to legally drink means I turn my phone off when I start reading.As such, when the shrill chime of my phone went off, it nearly gave me another heart attack from shock. I swore at the nothingness and answered it, without bothering to look at the caller ID.?What?? I spat into the receiver. I heard strange gasping noises on the other side.?Leon, can I come over?? It was Ray, (short for Rachel, but don?t call her that) my girlfriend.Obviously taken aback and slightly embarrassed by my aggressive disposition on answering the phone, I stammered a moment. ?Of course Ray, always you know that.??Thanks, and do you have anything to drink???I can by the time you get here, what?s your craving???Anything.??Yeah no problem, see you in a few minutes.? I hurried to a nearby liquor store and picked up something. I was more than half tempted to grab something I knew she would hate, since she did say ?anything? but I thought better of it. Something felt off, so I grabbed something.Picking up the drinks took longer than I anticipated, so I was only waiting for Ray maybe five minutes. I heard keys jangle outside my apartment door and went up to open it but she beat me to it. Ray looked distraught to say the least. Somebody who didn?t know her well might not have noticed, but the slump of her shoulders, way her head hung slightly. I sighed, and brought her in for a hug, ?Come here,? I said.I felt her slightly tremble against my shoulder, and a thousand thoughts raced in my head, too quickly for me to actually parse most of them for rationality or plausibility. I silenced the storm in my head, and acknowledged that the best thing in this case was to wait for her to broach the subject weighing on her.I broke the hug and walked over to the refrigerator, opening it and grabbing two cans of local beer, and tossed her one. She caught it and thanked me, moving over to my couch. For a moment I wasn?t sure where to sit. I didn?t have a way to face her, and sitting next to her felt a little wrong. Ray could probably see the wheels spinning in my head,?Just sit next to me, not complicated.?I nodded and sat next to her. She cracked open the beer and I followed suit, slipping the beer into a koozie.?I?m glad you grabbed this as opposed to one of your more,? she paused looking for the right word, ?colorful alcohol choices.??I was tempted to get something like cinnamon whiskey, but then I remembered I would be paying for it, and that felt like throwing money down the drain. Also, they didn?t have Infinite Hatred IPA so no dice there.?She laughed, ?Again, I appreciated it.? She took a long sip from the drink before speaking again. ?Aren?t you going to ask me what?s wrong??I shook my head, ?No, I figured you would talk when you wanted to. No sense in forcing anything. People talk when they want to talk or have Escort Anadolu yakası (http://anadoluyakasi.t2bro.net/) something to say. They don?t talk if they don?t want to or have nothing to say. When and if you wanted to talk, I?d be here, but again, no sense in forcing it.?She sighed, ?I lost my job today,? she finally said.?Jesus fuck-mothering Christ,? I swore and gulped down a hefty amount of beer before returning to the refrigerator to grab two more. I cracked the first one and took another large swallow. ?What the hell happened?? I was shocked.?Well, it wasn?t just me. The whole department got the axe. Somebody upstairs said we weren?t necessary.?Ray worked in some kind of marketing department. I never understood the work myself, but at the same time will concede that if you tasked an engineer (my profession) to market a product that we might be working on, it wouldn?t sell to anyone who wasn?t an engineer. ?Fuck,? I swore shaking my head. ?Didn?t your company reach record profits? Something like that???I suppose those record profits game from axing other departments, either that or those record profits fed a nasty cocaine addiction, and now thanks to that addiction, the CEO or whoever-the-fuck needs to make more money, for more cocaine, prostitutes and illegitimate children.??Well, as likely a reason as any,? I tossed her the other can, she thanked me for it. ?I mean, fuck. I-fuck,? it took me a few moments to gather my thoughts. ?I guess, what?s next? Whatever you choose, there?s a statistically high probability I?ll support it, but not everything.?That elicited a chuckle, ?So what won?t you support???Suicide for one, also prostitution, drug use, that kind of thing,? I shrugged.?Do I really strike you as the type of person who would go for that over a fucking job???No, but I felt like I needed to clear. People say shit like ?I?ll support anything you choose? never consider the possibility of insanity. So, what are you thinking? Also, if you are thinking setting up a crowd-funding scheme for editing romantic movies where the lead actor and actress combo have no chemistry to replace one of the actors with a chunk of wood and muting all the dialogue is a good idea which I will support, hell I?d even shell out for the editing software. Also, if you wanted to make film parodies where all the characters are puppets, except for one person who was the star of the original movie, that also sounds like a good idea.??Where do you come up with these ideas???My head, same place all my other ideas come from,? I snarked, ?So, what?s next???Hell if I know,? Ray opened the next can; ?First, I think I just want to get away from the world for a bit, clear my head you know. Sometimes I can?t think with the city air.??I can make that happen,? I said matter of factly. ?If you want to get away from the city and the world for a bit, I can make it happen. We can go this weekend; I?d just need to make a five minute phone call.??What?? Ray was a little shocked. ?I mean, yes of Kurtköy escort (http://kurtkoy.t2bro.net/) course please do, but how.?I winked, ?Let me handle that. Mind if I make that phone call???Please do,? curiosity in her voice. I made the phone call and cleared everything up.?And we?re golden. We leave Friday. Pack for warmth and comfort, as well as some entertainment. No internet, piss poor cell reception and no cable either. ??How?? Ray was still a bit shocked.?Y?know how some people have a vacation house or time share or something in a region outside the middle of nowhere? Well, my folks have something like that, except it?s a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I got the okay to use it this weekend.??Fantastic!? Ray beamed, ?I?ll run over to my place tomorrow to pack, it cool if I let myself in and pack entertainment and stuff? Also food? And booze? How are we taking care of that??I shrugged, ?of course, I mean, I?ll be working tomorrow and Friday, but you?re 100% welcome to hang out. We can get groceries and stuff tomorrow; I?ve had a bit too much to go drive to the grocery tonight.?*I was barely there at work, struggling to concentrate. Going to the middle of nowhere with my girlfriend seemed like a great weekend, and my mind was already in that icy cabin in the middle of nowhere.It felt good to sleep in the same bed as her, we didn?t live together at this time, our work locations were too prohibitive for one of us to move in with the other at the moment, but I dared to hope that the silver lining might be us moving in together.Eventually, Friday arrived. I opened the door to my apartment and Ray practically tackled me, giving me a kiss on the cheek.?Ready???Easy! Let me change out of my work clothes, and down some coffee. You might not have to drive three hours, but I do. Did you burn CD?s? Also, what did you pack for entertainment? I?m not watching Evil Dead 2 again, swear to God I regret showing you that one.??But we?re going to a cabin in the woods! We need a horror movie that is thematically relevant. Also Evil Dead 2 is awesome.??Idiot teenagers murdered in a cabin in the woods is the plot to literally every fucking horror movie ever. Some of which we haven?t seen sixty fucking times.?She blew a raspberry at me, ?Fine, it?s the backpack.?I walked over to the backpack and fished out the movie, and saw there were a dozen other ones crammed in. I smiled and looked over to my movie shelf, and guessed what had been grabbed. I also fished out an old video game, ?Really this? Why this???Because I?ve been practicing, you won?t win with on hand behind your back this time.?I groaned.*The drive took a good four hours, but I didn?t mind. Ray had burned a fair twelve hours of music, she?s pretty much how I found out about all music, it was just something I didn?t know much about. The drive should have only taken about three hours, but a snowfall made the trip take longer. Eventually, we made arrived at the cabin.?You?re not menstruating right now are you?? Maltepe escort bayan (http://maltepe.t2bro.net/) I asked as we walked from the driveway towards the front door, snow cracking under our feet.?Why-??There?s a lot of bears in the woods,? I gestured to a rock, ?One likes to hang out on that rock pretty frequently, and I don?t want your menstrual blood prompting a bear attack.? That got me a snowball across the face, which I certainly earned. I could hear her giggling, ?You?re so dead,? I announced charging at her for a tackle. Her eyes went wide, but she broke into a smile after impact, when she realized that quite deliberately, I had contorted mid-tackle so that I would be landing on my back with her on top of me. The split second of her smile made the impact on the cold hard ground worth it. ?What?? I asked, emphasizing fake innocence.She climbed off me, ?Unlock the door so we can get the gear inside, and you weren?t kidding, this really is the middle of nowhere. I have exactly zero bars of cell service here.?I obliged, unlocking the door and carrying the overwhelming majority of the bags into the cabin, where it was absolutely freezing.As much as it pains me to admit it, that night I was so exhausted from work and driving that Ray?s best attempts at getting me going did absolutely nothing for me. Instead of sex, we ended up watching a handful of movies and sleeping in each other?s arms, sharing warmth against the cold wintery air.I woke up with the sunrise, stood up and looked out the window, untangling myself from Ray?s arms. It was snowing again, and as beautiful as the sight of snow gently falling was, I was not looking forward to shoveling out the car, and hoping that the temperature would warm up so I wouldn?t have to. Also if it did warm up, hopefully it wouldn?t cool back down, because then ice.?G?morning,? Ray slurred, ?how long have you been awake???Not long, just looking at the snow, it?s very pretty, but I doubt I?ll feel that way tomorrow when I have to shovel it.??We could always try to wait it out,? she argued.?I?ll wait until you?ve had some coffee in you before I explain why that?s a horrible idea, and if you hold to after being sufficiently caffeinated you will be digging out the entire area with your bare hands and no gloves.??You?re no fun,? Ray climbed out of bed and immediately pulled on a sweater, ?It's fucking freezing,? I was already wearing a sweater.?Snow does that. The water for the shower won?t be heated for at least two hours. I vote bathe in the evening. That way at least we?ll be ducking under blankets quickly afterwards, so we?re less likely to have the water freeze on our skin.??Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.? I made coffee and put a bit of powdered ginger in my mug before filling it with coffee. Ray never understood why I did that, and to be fair, I didn?t quite understand it either. She took a sniff of the coffee and made a face I don?t quite have the words for.?Please tell me there?s sugar or milk or something?? She practically begged.?I think there?s sugar. I make it too strong again?? Ray nodded. I started searching cabinets for sugar, hoping my parents left some. Fortunately for Ray, they did, she scooped a heavy amount into her mug.?Cheers, to the middle of fucking nowhere, clean air and clear minds.?I tapped my mug against hers, ?Cheers,? and took a sip.