Unexpected Confidences
todo:
- what is yuma wearing? make her a little more flirty
Out Ash's office window, the downtown scene was filled with women, cars, litter, and even a few trees, but they did little to distract him. His mind was instead consumed with his conversation with Luna from the night before.
She had told him she wanted to be a lawyer, and of course he wanted to support her being whatever she wanted to be. But could he? As a man, he already had very little financial influence, with Regan, and now Luna managing his finances. Knowing the money he brought in was important made him happy. The idea of Luna making five or ten times his salary, the idea of his job becoming financially irrelevant, bothered him somewhere deep inside. Yet aside from this, it sounded great. They'd have more money to spend on their house, car, vacations, clothes, whatever they wanted. Why was he so against it?
He wasn't even close to an answer when his huge office door swung open. It was Yuma, his boss, dropping by unannounced. "Hello Mr. Trotter, how is your daily assignment going?" He stumbled for an answer as her ascended stride quickly crossed the room. She sat in the normal sized chair aside his tiny sized desk. "Don't bother answering, I can see you haven't made any progress. You're usually one of my quickest writers. What's going on this morning?"
"It's nothing, it's just a conversation my wife and I had last night. It's still on my mind. I'll get to the segment copy right away." Ash really preferred to meet his boss in her office, where he could be up higher. At the moment, her knees were about head-height, the rest of her towering over and peering down at him from above. Without warning, she leaned down, snatched him off his office chair, and sat him on her lap.
"No, no. You're wife just ascended. Family comes first. Do you need the day off?" Ash shook his head, he certainly did not. "Maybe there is something I can help with? I was my husband's first wife, about ten years ago, and remember it like it was yesterday. The first couple days all we did was chase each-other around the house having...fun." Her pause suggested she meant something else. Most likely 'sex'. Ash and Luna had had some fun, but certainly not for two days straight. "Then we went out in public together, which new experience for us both. Then we hit a rocky couple days, the typical male ego crash. Ohh! That must be it! That's it, isn't it?
Ash wanted to say 'no, it was nothing like that', but the truth is, it was. Yuma looked down with sensitive eyes, "Ash, she loves you. In fact, I promise she loves you more now than before she ascended." Yuma paused, and Ash was about to speak up when she continued, "For us it started with bathing. The first couple days he liked our baths. However, he quickly became upset he couldn't equally participate. Then it interfered with everything. Cooking. Driving. Shopping. Work. even Sex."
She considered for a moment. He was already used to a Guardian. He and Luna had been close for years, and married for months. She'd be going through some big changes, especially as an induced ascendant. Suddenly it was obvious. "It's because she's smarter isn't it? What did she do? Show you she can recite the encyclopedia? Learn a foreign language? learn to paint?"
"She passed the BAR."