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The last two concerts passed without incident. Each time I set up a Meet and Greet I had held my breath. Looking for a dead girl’s name on the list can be taxing on the brain. Why had her name appeared on the list at that one concert? Who had called the radio station pretending to be Merri? See, too many unanswered questions made my head pound. It seemed my head and stomach were still unhappy. I truly didn’t feel well but I hid it from Gerard. I didn’t want him to worry. At least I thought I had hid it. My husband was right. He could read my emotions.
“I want you to see a doctor.”
I looked over at him. We were in the taxi that was talking us to Donna’s. The tour for now was over and we had two weeks off.
“I’m fine.”
He shook his head, “I know you don’t feel good.”
“Did I say I don’t feel good?”
He reached over and took my hand. “You don’t have to say it. I can tell. You aren’t your normal random self.”
I smiled, “My normal random self?”
“Yeah, you’ve been quiet the last couple of days.”
“No, I haven’t.”
He sighed, “Laura, please. I can tell. I just decided to let it go until we got back home. I’m worried about you.”
I scooted over and he put his arm around me. “I’m glad we have two weeks off. I want to get an apartment. I just want us to be normal people.”
He laughed, “Honey, I don’t think you and I can ever be normal people.”
“You know what I mean. I just want us to have our own place. I want us to eat popcorn in bed and watch movies. I want to have dinner together then wash the dishes.” I paused, “I just want normal.”
He kissed my forehead. “I’ll try to give you as normal as possible.”
“I wish we could find an apartment today.” I said with a sigh.
He smiled, “Would you be mad if we already had an apartment?”
“Do we?” I asked excitedly.
“Remember our wedding night when we talked about coming back and you said that maybe we could get an apartment by Mikey and Alicia?”
“Yeah”
“We have an apartment near them. Now all we have to do is buy some furniture.”
This news made me feel better than I had in days. “We have our own place? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I wanted to surprise you.” He answered.
“So when are we going there?”
He laughed, “I promised Mom we would stop by.”
I knew I was acting like an excited kid but I couldn’t help it. “And then?”
“And then we go home, Laura.”
“Home.” I repeated with a smile on my face. “Our home.”

We only stayed at Donna’s for about an hour. It was a nice short visit. The subject of the house only came up once. Donna asked why we weren’t going to live there. Gerard handled the question. He told her that he and I wanted a place of our own. A new start with no past memories. I hugged the stuffing out of him when he said that. Now as we drove to our apartment I was feeling even more excited. “So this is our car to keep?”
He laughed, ‘Yeah, as much as I paid for it we better get to keep it.”
“When did you do all this?”
“You mean the apartment and the car? Brian took care of it for me. I just told him to have the car delivered to Mom’s cause I knew we’d have to stop there when we got back.”
“You’re sneaky.” I said happily.
“Sneaky in a good way I hope. I just wanted things to be right for you. I knew you wanted us to have our own place.”
“Is it what you want too?” I asked softly.
“I want to be wherever you are.” He answered before kissing my hand, which he held tightly.

I loved our apartment. Gerard and I got the keys from the manager and practically ran up the three flights of stairs. No waiting for the elevator for us. We did a complete walk through then returned to the living room. “I love it.” I said hugging him tightly.
“Me too. Feel like picking out some furniture? We could get some stuff ordered today and hopefully have it delivered tomorrow.”
“Sure.” I said still looking around and in my mind imagining how it would look furnished.
“Then we’ll have some dinner and check into a hotel.”
“Check into a hotel?” I looked at him as if he’d lost his mind.
‘Well in case you haven’t noticed we don’t even have a bed.”
“So what? We’ll sleep on the floor. Come on, it’ll be fun.”
He laughed, “You want to stay here tonight, for real?”
“For real. We can buy some pillows and blankets. We can buy a TV. Tonight we can have a slumber party.”
He shook his head, “You amaze me.”
“You excite me.” I said pressing my body to his. “Don’t you think my plan sounds fun?”
His hand began to caress my back. “Yeah, it sounds pretty fucking good.”
I kissed him. “Well then, lets go. We have stuff to buy.” We started for the door. “Oh and popcorn. You know the kind you make on the stove. We can’t forget that.”
“Anything you want Laura is yours.” He said as we walked out.

Hours later we returned to our home. We had purchased bedding, some stuff for the kitchen, a television (only a small one for now) and oh, yeah, groceries not forgetting the popcorn. As we made our third trip from the car carrying all our stuff I suddenly started to feel wrong. There was really no other way to describe the feeling. I just felt wrong. Gerard noticed when I sat down on the floor.
“What’s wrong?” He asked setting down the bags he was carrying.
“Nothing I’m just tired.” I took several deep breaths.
“Okay you’re gonna go to see a doctor tomorrow. I’m not taking no for an answer.”
“I’m just tired.”
He sat down next to me. “Laura, please? It will make me feel better if you get checked out.”
I laughed, “Checked out? What kind of a doctor do you think I’m gonna see?” I tried to lighten the mood.
He shook his head, “It won’t work. I’m not gonna change my mind. Tomorrow morning I’ll call my doctor and make you an appointment.”
I rolled my eyes. “You are being dramatic.”
He pulled me over on to his lap. “Thought you knew I was full of drama.”
I smiled, “Yeah, you are.”
He hugged me tightly. “Here is the plan. Over in that bag are the towels. Go take a nice long bath. I’ll finish carrying in the stuff. Then I’ll make us dinner.”
Had to admit his plan sounded good. “I can help you finish carrying in the bags.”
He pushed me off his lap and stood. “Nope, into the bath with you.” He walked over and grabbed a towel. “Our suitcases were delivered while we were gone. The manager let them in.” He pointed and I was surprised I hadn’t seen the bags when we first got back. “Relax, take a nice long bath. You’re gonna need you’re strength.”
As he put out his hand to help me up I asked, “I’m gonna need my strength?”
“Yeah, for tonight. You don’t think I’m not gonna make love to you the first night in our new place, do you?”
I smiled, “Good point, I need to gather all my strength.”

I sank down into the tub filled with hot soapy water and sighed. This felt heavenly. I wasn’t sure why I had felt bad before but the feeling had passed. I leaned back and closed my eyes feeling a bit guilty that Gerard was still working and I was relaxing. I had almost drifted off to sleep when the bathroom door opened.
“Hello” I smiled.
“Enjoying the bath?” He asked. I noticed he was carrying several candles. As I watched he sat them down the on the rim of the tub and lit each one. “These are aromatherapy candles.” He explained, “They’ll help you relax.”
“Where did you get those?”
He grinned, “I’m sneaky, remember? Now relax.”
“Looking at you is having the opposite affect. I’m thinking how much I wish you were in this tub with me.”
He smiled, “I’m still setting up house.”
“Can’t it wait?” I purred.
“Stop tempting me woman.” I saw his eyes travel down to my breasts, which were just above the water level. I reached up and ran my hands over them trying to make it appear it was an innocent gesture. The fire I saw in his eyes sent a chill down my spine.
“Cold?” He asked.
“Sort of.” I said softly. “Wanna warm me up?”
He groaned, “What about dinner?”
“It could wait you know.” I sat up a bit in the tub so that my breasts were completely visible above the bubbles. He kneeled down at the side of the tub and submerged his hands. I watched as he slowly let his hand travel through the water until the gently brushed up against my breasts. My eyes closed as he began caressing. He did this for several moments then abruptly stopped.
My eyes shot open. He was standing. “Getting in?” I asked hopefully.
He shook his head, “Nope, got things to do.”
“Excuse me? You just made me breathless and you’re gonna leave?”
“Yep.”
I glared, “Yep?”
“Honey, you do that to me all the time.” He grabbed my towel and dried off his hands.
“Do not.”
“Oh yeah, you do. Sometimes at the Meet and Greets all I do is look over at you across the room and I get so hard I can’t concentrate on signing my name. Good thing I only sign with a “G”.”
Man, did I like to hear I had that effect on him. “But I don’t mean to do that. You meant to do what you just did to me.”
He leaned over the tub. “Tell me. What did I just do to you?”
“Made me fucking hot. Made me want you.” I said in a husky voice.
He smiled, “Good. Keep that thought. I want our first night in our new home to be special.” He turned and walked out of the bathroom.
I sunk back under the hot water and closed my eyes. It was gonna be special. No doubt about that. I was gonna make sure he was in pain with need. The thought made me smile. Yeah, it made me even hotter.