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Chapter 3: For All We Know

Hours and a lot of kisses later we were lying in bed together. Me on my stomach watching TV, the blanket was barley covering my butt.

Seth, totally exhausted, had fallen asleep a while ago.

I couldn't help but smile. He looked like a baby. Filled and happy. Even his snoring sounded exhausted. The last few hours had been stressful, I had to admit that.

Even if it was adultery, which was nothing I was proud of, I don't think there was a position we didn't do it in. And what I was even less proud of, was that I enjoyed it completely and didn't spend a second thinking about Zach. Then he somehow made his way back into my mind.

While being wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't notice Seth had woken up. With a fast move he was next to me starting to place small kisses on my neck and shoulders.

I sighed under the touch of his lips.

"I thought you were sleeping!"

"Not so tired anymore!", his lips found mine for a passionated kiss.

Yawning he laid down on his stomach next to me: "What cha watching?"

"City of Angels. Not really one of my favorite movies... but there's nothing better on right now..."

"Summer I have a question." I looked at him expecting.

"Isn't this kind of awkward? I mean we are in your marital bed... with your wedding picture up on the wall... You gotta admit that's kind of weird, on the other hand the rooms of your kids would have been way more weird. Not to mention your husbands office... although the kitchen table--"

I cut him off with a kiss: "You're rambling again..."

Without another word he kissed me back, while his hands tenderly were caressing my back all the way down to my bottom.

When I couldn't stand it anymore I turned on my back and pulled him into another kiss.

After that his lips were wandering down through the valley between my breasts. Between my legs he stopped, starting to caress the inside of my thighs.

I was winding in his arms.

"That's emotional torture...", I told him through gritted teeth.

A million lightings were flashing through my body. When he stopped I look at him in a mixture of anger and worry: "Who allowed you to stop?"

"No more rubbers!", he held up the empty box.

"You have got to be kidding me!"

"Well... you have some here, right? An emergency reserve?"

"What kind of emergency are you talking about? I've been married for almost ten years, Seth."

We laid back into the pillows, frustrated, staring to the ceiling.

"Maybe I'll find some downstairs...", I got up and put on my robe. I winked at him. "Don't run away, okay?"

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Thirty seven minutes of destroying the bathroom later, I reentered the bedroom, with a glorying smile on my lips and three condoms in my hands.

Seth still lay in the bed browsing through a sketch block. My sketch block.

"What are you doing!" Angrily I wrested it from him.

"Did you draw these?"

"That's none of your business! Why were your looking through my stuff?"

"Did you even realize how long you were away?" He pointed at the block again. "So are you a designer or something?"

Biting my lip I sat down on the edge of the bed: "Fashion is my passion--"

"Look at you... a night with me and your rhyming, already."

I gave him a glare. "Sorry. Please finish."

"I majored fashion in college. I always wanted to be a designer but then... well I met Zach. I got pregnant and married. He didn't want me to work and let our kids be raised by a nanny... and... I guess it's alright the way it is..."

"Who are you trying to convince, Summer? Me or yourself."

I looked onto the floor.

"I put those dreams on ice a long time ago." I couldn't help my face got a little bit sad.

He put his hand on my waist pulled me closer, my head rested on his shoulder.

"Well you know what they say: The old dreams were good dreams. They didn't work out. But I'm glad I had them."

"Very poetic, Summer!"

"Well believe it or not but I'm more than just good looking."

"I knew that the moment I saw you."

I sunk in his teddy bear eyes. "God Cohen. What are you doing to me?"

"What I am doing to you?"

"Yeah! Yeah! I was --- I am, happily married! But since you showed up... I just don't know what I want anymore... When I'm with you it's like I don't even know myself anymore. But at the same time I'm more myself then I've ever been before..."

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
Let's take a lifetime to say
"I knew you well"
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know.

I buried my face in his chest, tears started to form inside my eyes. When I tried to kiss him he backed out.

"How about we just sleep for now?"

I silently nodded and cuddled up against him. After a while I fell into a dreamless sleep.

TBC

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