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I should give you notice that I am setting this chapter right before Rick, Evie, and Alex leave for Egypt. :) Just to enhance my own story.
Thank-you to Buffelyn who was right as far as this story went. It was because it was rated R that this one didn't show. She is so smart isn't she folks? Take a bow Buffelyn, because you so rule! As it turns out the only real problem was Full of Grace which is fixed and I can go back to just being myself. :)
Chapter 1
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Monday:
Normal. I know normal. Our life is NOT normal. I have yet to find one thing about it that can be considered normal. First, how did we meet? Let me remind my husband that we met because I promised 25% of treasure found to get him cut from a noose. We then proceeded to bring a 3,000 year old mummy back to life and had to defeat him while facing not only his dead girlfriend, but a nasty little fellow named Beni. Is that normal? No I do not believe so.
He says people fall in love because they were in danger together all the time. That may be but I do not believe they were in danger because the 3,000 year old mummy was going to use them to raise his aforementioned dead girlfriend. Nor did they have the ten plagues of Egypt hanging over their head either. Now that I think about it is very good no one knew that we were the cause of that....
Back to the point at hand. So no I do not believe we are normal nor lead a normal life. I would also remind him that we are going on another dig next week, but he keeps chalking it up to occupational hazard so there is no point in beating a dead horse. Even though we are going because I've been having these vivid dreams of ancient Egypt. I love my husband, there is no doubt about that, but sometimes he incredibly stubborn and mule-headed. He can also be a pain in the ass.
So let us just take a journey into today shall we? Good. I'll admit that just about every husband and wife has met the other's ex. Nothing odd about that. However, when it is MY ex, it isn't normal. You see I only have two. Yes two. I think the word Rick used was picky. I am very picky. Always have been. But that isn't the point. The point is my old flame, or my ex-fiancé as Rick found out showed up today.
Now normally Rick and I don't fight that much. Quit laughing. We don't fight. We might bicker and have little spats, but that is because we are opposite of one another. That is only normal. No Rick and I had an all out war. I know Rick can be jealous, but I never knew that he was THAT jealous. Okay, so I probably would have thrown a bigger hissy fit than he did if I had been introduced to his ex-fiancé.
I'm off track. So what isn't so normal about this? Well as it turns out this ex-fiancé of mine happens to want to go on this trip to Egypt with me. Oh how does he know about it? Well it seems that he has been following my career for nearly nine years now. Ever since I was allowed into the Benbridge Scholars. Okay, so I thought that was odd, but I've known him for so long that I just brushed it aside. Anyway he was asking me what I was doing next and I told him. Fine, but then just as he was asking me if he could go with guess who showed up. Oh that is right. My husband. Luckily we were leaving the restaurant or there could have been a scene. I introduced them. "Rick this is Calvin, Cal, Clinton. Cal this is my husband Rick O' Connell." They looked at one another. Just like two dogs sniffing each other.
I will give you this one shameful secret. All though I normally do not like men fighting especially over me as if I were a piece of meat, I do somewhat enjoy it when my husband gets jealous. Because then he sizes up the other guy, knows he can take him, wraps his arms around me, to which I feel safe and can do anything I want. I know there is a smile on my face that betrays how I feel about this male display of territory, but that is okay. Because the main thing is Rick can't see it. If he did than he would be more prone to having such outbursts and I really couldn't stand it then.
So we said our good-byes to Cal and went home. It was quiet the whole way there. We put Alex to bed and then once we got in our room, which thankfully is a ways from our son's, we had it out. Just a recap of what was said:
Rick: So who was he?
Me: An old friend?
Rick: An old friend huh? And did we use to date this old friend?
Me: How do you know that?
Rick: Jonathan was talking about him once.
Me: Oh and when did you ask Jonathan about my past? Why didn't you ask me?
Rick: How come we've been married for nine years and you never once told me about him? I had to tell you about my past...
Me: I did too. I said that before I moved to Cairo I was engaged. I told you it didn't work out.
Rick: Why?
Me: Why what?
Rick: Why didn't it work out?
Me: I don't really want to discuss this.
Rick: Oh you are going to discuss this I want to know why. I deserve to know I am your husband!
~ I was angry by this point. How dare he! I did tell him about Cal. But I was so ashamed of why we broke up that I never did want to discuss it. It just hurt too bad. But then I remembered that my husband loves me and was what Cal could never be. So I told him. I didn't want to have sex with Cal.
Then he laughed which was inexcusable. I screamed at him for laughing, which of course made him laugh harder. I was starting to get worked up and almost stormed out when he caught me, "I'm glad that you didn't want to have sex with him." his voice full of mirth. I looked up at him, "And why is that?" "Because your mine." I gave him a coy smile. "Care to prove it?"
Now was that a normal day? No I do not believe so. Nothing about it. Not even my reason for wanting to break up with Cal. There was more to it than that, which I later told my husband about, but honestly, we are not normal.
~Signed Evelyn Carnahan O' Connell
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Next is Rick's account of what happened on Monday. Now today actually sounded normal to me, but then again are our heros really normal? Hmmm.
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