Yay! So my seminar presentation and symposium are finally over! Now all I have left are 3 reports, 1 paper, 2 exams that count for nothing. Yipee.(insert finger twirl with overloaded sarcasm)
A/N: So I was going to post this as a one-shot in its entirity in My Collection but I thought it'd be fun to go through the week the same way our favorite couple do so I will be posting a chapter a day through Friday. Now these are short chapters but I think its kind of fun this way. This is already completed so there'll be no procrastinating or year long waits.
As today is Sunday, I am posting the introduction.
Lenny and Carl, and Wayland Smithers belong to the Simpsons (I'm just borrowing their names) and I have nothing against Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauces-I actually like and used them. I'm using my creative license for the rib cooking method—it is a variation of how someone I know did them but I'm taking liberties since I can't remember everything.
new scene same day
-Kenshin's thoughts- on Wednesday
-an action, like sniffing or nudging-
Kenshin and Kaoru:
Met at a hockey game three years ago. She squirted him with ketchup as she was trying to shake some out onto her hot dog. After much perverted banter and chasing, on Kenshin's part, Kaoru hesitantly but happily gave Kenshin her phone number. They dated for several months before Kaoru would agree to a full time, exclusive relationship. Kenshin, on the other hand had been ready for marriage at that point. Still he wanted to be with her so he waited, calling her his fiancé even though it wasn't quite official, but she never cared to argue over it. Now, finally after three years of being together, Kaoru had at least agreed to move in together, though it wasn't without some tense conversations, and more intense make-up sex.
It is three months after their cohabitation arrangement in which Kenshin gave up his penthouse suite on the ritzy upper right side to move into Kaoru's spacious but modest loft on the lower left side. She was not ready or willing to let go of her home that was only two blocks away from the ice rink she grew up training at. If Kenshin wanted to live together then he was going to have to make the move. He settled himself in rather quickly even as she struggled to adjust to another presence. It wasn't that there was no love between them but Kaoru found that their idea of relationship partnerships and married life was much different. It was a slow realization and she didn't expect to solve the issue without compromise but this realization came to full light one particular week.
The sooner Kenshin came to recognize that there were just some things that would always be part of her lifestyle and personality, the sooner they could work on the issues Kaoru could foresee. While she was willing to help him out and be home with him, she was not going to allow it to be expected that she would be Miss Suzie Q Homemaker Happy Housewife.
A/N: Originally I had it in my head to have a narrator like a 50's radio show. A good reference would be Looney Toon's House of Tomorrow, or Disney's Goofy's How To's. It works for some of it but not all so I decided to forget it. That's why some things may sound strange as you read.
Now on to the rest of the week!