Second day Second Chapter

Chapter 25

I missed cell phones.

I looked through window expecting to see both of them arrive, because it was about an hour after sunset, it was very dark, and the cold was terrible. Each second that went by one could see icicles forming on the ceiling of our house. I opened the door and hit them with the broom until they broke, I didn't want them to be like daggers hanging from the entrance of my home. I bit my lip and the little saliva that wet it froze in a second. I ran towards the well, I took three buckets of water and covered it with a wooden board which we used for two purposes to prevent children could look out and fell down, and to avoid as far as possible that the water froze. I went home, stirred up the fire and began to heat the water so that when they returned they could have a hot bath if they needed it. When I saw them come in, an hour later, I panicked at their sight.

"¡But you didn't catch a thing!" I scolded them, their hands were empty and completely frozen. Eric wore very short beard and mustache, but with frost. And to Leif his tears had chilled at the corners of the eyes "Poor thing. Of course, you could have waited for these experiments. And to the top you don't bring anything, not even a pigeon."

"We went all the way along the river side" Leif said through shivering by the fire. I rubbed his arms, trying to warm him.

"Perfect, just perfect you could become seriously ill"

"Tomorrow we have to go back" the boy said.

"What? No way."

"We spent the day laying traps and snares" Eric said "Tomorrow we have to go to pick up those that are empty and the animals that have fallen into the traps."

"Well, you're on your own."

"¡Not! I want to go."

"Look at your lips they are blue! I will prepare a hot bath for you, then you ate dinner and go to bed and rest. We'll talk about this, you and me" I told Eric, who winked at me.

"Father taught me how to use the bow" Leif told Erik.

"¡Woow! I want to go."

"¡NO WAY!" I yelled from behind the curtain, as I poured the hot water in the basin where we bathed. I heard the middle Northman son protest and grumble while Leif told him he almost hit a rabbit with an arrow and how he had crossed a poisonous mushroom that was in the trunk of a tree, throwing a knife from at least five yards.

Eric take his bath after Leif, who said he that was so tired that he was nearly not hungry, but when I put them two heaped bowls of chicken and rabbit with warm bread and boiled egg they ate as if they wouldn't eat anything anymore.

"You should go to bed, Leif" Eric ordered "we have to go at early morning again."

"Eric, please..."

"We cannot lose the traps, Sookie, and we need the furs."

"Well, I'll go with you and help you."

"¡No!" Leif protested.

"Don't yell, son" Eric scolded him, "I appreciate your help, but Leif will come with me" I was about to protest when he lifted his hand telling me not to interrupt him "Leif will be the man of his house one day and he'll have a family to take care of, feed, clothe and protect. He has to learn to hunt in winter and how, when and where to place the traps to get good furs."

"And cannot he learn it later? At least when it's not so cold. ¡Look at Blizzard!"

"Precisely" he said.

"Can I go?" Erik asked.

"You're still young, but I will teach you later" he pinched his cheek. He rarely lavished affection on his two sons "Your grandfather taught your Uncle Leif and me" he told Leif "the same places and the same things that you learned today. And someday, you will also learn, Erik. And with half luck than I've had been" he said reaching out and grabbing my hand "you will have a woman at home who worries and cares the half Sookie does about us" Okay, I smiled. Cursed smarmy "What did you do today? Have ye done well?" he asked. Erik started to complain about how much he had grown bored and beautiful Audr showed him how beautiful she made the letter a. I reminded Leif, that he'll also have to learn and although he sought support for his father, he didn't find it there, because Eric was more than agree with me that children learn Latin, as he had learned from his mother.

He also, was very interested in mathematics that I knew and encouraged his children to learn together the strange things that I knew.

After dinner, Erik was playing with his father for a while to hnefatalf (Viking Chess) while Audr encouraged them and I scrubbed with hot water the pots after dinner.

Before going to sleep, I prepared very hot milk for all of us and dip a piece of cake in it.

"To bed everyone" I said.

"Can I sleep with you, Sookie?" Audr asked with the sweetest voice that was able to put. I looked at Eric, who ordered the things I would need the next day, because I wanted to be with him and did not know what to say.

"Can we?" Erik asked.

"Today you will sleep in your bed, that's why you have them" His father answered them.

"Na, but I want to sleep with her" The young Erik said.

"That make two of us" Eric the father said "You have to get used, because Sookie and I want to sleep alone, children" Leif gave a cry of joy, Audr huffed and Erik looked at us with a raised eyebrow. The middle son muttered something about "keep her to yourself" and I held my smile. Leif, however, was delighted. He pushed his brother and took Audr's hand, urging them to go to their beds. I put the two little ones to sleep between protests, with Leif making sure they won't go upstairs to disturb his father and me. He went to bed after giving me a kiss and fell on his bed like a tree that just fell.

Eric and I climbed into our bed, stripped off and we got under the skin. I hugged him and began to caress and kiss me.

"Eric... Eric..."

"What?"

"What do you mean with what? What are you doing?"

"I'm making love to you" I repressed a cry of outrage.

"Here?"

"And where else?"

"Now?"

"Do you want me to wake you up in the middle of the night?"

"I do not mean that, we cannot do it with the kids downstairs."

"Do you want to throw them to the street with this snow storm?

"Do not play the fool anymore! They could hear us. ¡Or see us!"

"So what?"

"How "so what?"?"

"It is normal that they hear and see. It would be worse to let them get cold outsideI clicked my tongue and I hit his hand when he tried to reach my crotch with his hand

"Oh, God! It's indecent. It's not right! What are you thinking?"

"I think what I think and that's why I am like I am" he said and took my hand to his penis so I knew everything he was imagining. I slipped from his grasp and he sighed impatiently "What is the problem?"

"Lower your voice. Because of the children... the children..." Eric leaned over me, covered us with the furs and began to romp under them.

I didn't enjoy it and Eric ended up getting angry because I was more concerned to shut him up and drown out my moans that in enjoying it. When I managed to get lost in the pleasure of his thrusts and enjoy, in a second I was aware that my children may be listening and I came so ashamed and blush again so I lost all the libido. Eric turned away when he finished and I felt horrible hearing things I thought. I hugged him and kissed his shoulder, trying to make him see that in no way had stopped liking and that it would never happen.

I woke up at dawn, the same as he.

"Go back to sleep," he said.

"I want that you to go well breakfasted. I'll make a piping hot porridge."

"As you wish" he said. He got up, got dressed and went to prepare the horse. I went out a few seconds later, toward the barn. The wind was cold and worse, very strong, so strong that I had to lean to keep from falling on my ass.

Eric was covering the horse with an old woolen fabric, so that the animal doesn't get cold.

"It will be a terrible day, Eric, do not leave."

"I told you I have to go pick up the traps and the animals."

"But I think that with the ice that is falling they cannot rot!"

"But other animals could destroy them. No discussion. But if you want, Leif can stay."

"No way! You will not leave you alone in this weather. I'll go with you."

"For frak's sake!" he bellowed.

"I won't leave you alone" I stated "And I don't want you to go like this" I approached him and fingered his shoulders, strong as a longshoreman.

"Like this, how?" he asked as I kissed his shoulders.

"Pissed off."

"I'm not angry. Annoyed... maybe" I lifted his robe and put my hands under it, stroking his chest "Here, there are no children."

"No there are not."

"Although the animals will see and hear us."

"I think the goats will be able to bear it" He slammed me into the wooden wall and in minutes we enjoyed everything that we hadn't been the night before.

And I chant as I milked a little milk and Eric finished loading the horse. I went house ready to prepare breakfast for my two men, but before I snatched a few kisses, hickeys, laughs, cuddles and fondling from Eric.

"Hurry up, Leif, that we are late" Eric yelled after eating breakfast. I looked frowning because it seemed wrong to blame his son for his delay. The light of dawn illuminated the horizon.

"Cover yourselves well. Leif, cover your head" I said as his father helped him to ride the horse.

"Get inside the home before you freeze."

"Be very careful."

"Yes!"

"And do not come back too late!" I shouted. They must have been less than twenty meters away and I didn't see them anymore because of the snow storm.