Waking in the morning Cassandra dressed in her bathing attire, she might want to go swimming while she was at the house after all. A wry glance at her husband, she descended the staircase and wandered out to the car, leaving the babies care this morning, to their father. Shaking her head, to clear her thoughts for the drive, she got in and slowly pulled out of the lot.
Hearing the car leave, Don arose, took a sniff of himself and panicked. How could he be so stupid as to walk into the house with the scent of another woman, and the distinct aroma of lovemaking about him. Telling himself Cassandra did not notice anything, he showered quickly and then went to tend the children.
Pulling into the driveway in Pleasant Valley South Cassandra was elated over how the house had turned out, it far exceeded her imaginations' vision of it.
Walking through the house, her all too sensitive nose detected the smells of fresh paint, wood shavings and carpet adhesive. Planning her first few meager purchases, to prepare for the move and enable them to live in the empty shell she pulled out her cell, and called the furniture shop to arrange for their delivery. Imagining what they would look like in place, her mind played a trick on her and inserted an image of Don in the ocean, just like that scene from the original "A Star is Born".
She soon found herself alone on the beach as she waited delivery, and after a quick dip, sat down and lost herself to the view.
So lost was she to her internal reverie, that when the delivery crew finished placing the furnishings, the one nudged the other and said he would not want to be her husband right now. Leaving then without even disturbing her for a signature. Sitting there as dusk approached, the chill from the seaspray could do little to break her mood.
Finally, with a wry grin at herself she imagined how she must look sitting there, the seat beside her empty...
"I don't want to go through life alone like that." Standing she said aloud, "post partum or no, I can see I am going to have to work if I want to keep him, leaving is the easy way out." With that, she sealed her doom and walked to the car and the drive over to Pleasantview to finish packing. Arriving at the old house, she walked in to find that her babies had grown, it seemed that the house was ready none to soon. She gave each a hug, and then spared a shy one for their father, which he received feeling very relieved and lucky.
Bundling the kids up then, they made their way downstairs to await the movers and their trip to Pleasant Valley South. Their waiting home was ready to greet them.
