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Weekly Contest #265
(The only note is that there's a brief mention of sex. Hope you enjoy the story!) This will be the first time I meet my family. My husband will be so thrilled to see me. He'll take me up in his arms and kiss me, those are the kind of gestures he likes to do. When Violet told me this, her bottom lip drew tight in an expression I recognized in myself as disgust. It's one of John's love languages, she told me. Why does he always do that, then, if you don't like it, Violet? Her brown eyes, brown just the same as mine, bored into me with a blan...
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