Page 57 of Together in Harmony
“Get out!” shouts Hugo.
The door closes again, the room is quiet for a beat.
There is a small choking sound from behind me. Lennox turns quickly, “Don’t cry, babe.”
We all turn and crouch down to be at her level. She looks up at us, still covered in cum, and lets out a peel of laughter. “Was that really the Fedex guy?”
She can’t stop giggling.
Fuck, I love this girl.
HARMONY
Our days fall into a pattern. I still spend the night at the cabin, can’t abandon Einstein completely, and every morning I fill in spreadsheets. Einstein now goes outdoors. I've attached a GPS tracker to his collar.
I *think* he’s happier?
Anyway, Einstein and I have family time, Then I walk over to the main house, have lunch with the boys.
Lunch is followed by studio time. Which in turn is followed by playtime and dinner. Then one of the boys walks me home.
Both play time and studio time are going great.
In the studio department, Clara has agreed to record Mayfly, dueting with Lennox. Harry, their manager, loved the idea, and has worked out a contract with her agent.
Harry had also liked the idea of more duets on the album.
“Carlie Canterberry,” he’d declared on a video conference.
Ugh.I know Carlie Canterberry. She’s dating my brother. They got together when I was seventeen. Screech was twenty-one. She’d join in with the bullying.
Messing with me was Carlie and Screech’s idea of a date night. I couldn’t imagine she’d grown nicer in the last few years.
“No fucking way,” said Hugo, much to my relief. “She is always trying to grope me. And she has a huge ego. She’s a no.”
Harry, thankfully, went back to the drawing board.
Between us, seven songs are just about ready to record. There are two more still being wrestled with.
“Harry is coming up for an in-person visit soon,” says Hugo, as we stroll through the meadow hand in hand. “He’s going to stay for a couple of days, check in on progress. We'll be recording soon.”
Hugo stops walking and pulls me towards him.
“The album will be all finished by the end of the month. That makes me think about our future. This isn’t a summer romance, you know that don’t you, Harmony?”
His beautiful face shadows.
Holding me close he murmurs into my hair. “This is a forever romance, my darling.”
I breathe in the scent of him. The moon is full, spreading silvery beams across the landscape. He steps back, holding me at arms length.
“I love you, Harmony. I am completely in love with you. Whatever we have to do to make this work, to make this forever… we will do it.”
My heart swells and flips in my chest. I have not brought up the future, just been trying to live in the here and now. In the silence of the night, I banish the worries and insecurities that try to set in.
I have faith in the men I love.
“I love you too, Hugo.”
