A Weekend in June

It was a weekend afternoon and my wife and I were heading to her lover's place. This was her second outing with Charles. Her first time had happened at a hotel room some weeks ago, which was usually how we love to keep things as far from the kids as possible. That night had cemented their relationship in ways even I had been surprised about. Juliet was often shy unless her buttons got really pushed. You can't imagine the amount of talking and persuading I had to do to get her to be with Charles. Charles, too, was as patient with her as I never thought he would. Since their first date she wouldn't quit talking about him. She, too, has been looking forward to this weekend break as did I.

As I drove I kept glancing at her to see how she's doing. She was tapping her fingers on her thigh and singing along to the R