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That Elephant is Smaller Today
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2025-04-26 06:18:14
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Whispers of the Heart His Reaction
While getting dressed, Nate mentioned being thirsty so I had him sitting down at the kitchen table drinking some orange juice before he brushed his teeth. I walked back down the hallway to the bathroom while he was sitting there swinging his little legs. I wanted to get my teeth brushed and check my appearance again before leaving the house.I brushed, flossed and swished mouthwash before dabbing my mouth with the bath towel I had draped over the shower rod. I was feeling that I could be getting closer to my first kiss and I wanted to make sure I was ready for that and the only thing I could think of that could ever ruin a first kiss, especially if it were from Owen would be if I had questionable breath when I received it. I had already thought to throw a pack of minty chewing gum in my bag last night, you know, just in case.As I stood looking in the mirror one last time, I undid the first button but still wasn’t satisfied. Undoing the second button looked better but when I took that
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-26Whispers of the Heart Prologue
PROLOGUEMy hands trembled as I searched for the phone. I knew it had to be around here somewhere. She was never without it, always within reach, waiting for that next call. The call that would lead to either the next big hit or the means to an end. My hands felt blindly, frantically through the sheets. Not finding what I needed, in desperation, I ripped them from the bed. I breathed a sign of relief as I heard, no felt a thud on the floor next to me.I was temporarily deaf. The pounding of my heart fueled the high amounts of adrenaline running through my veins, creating a dull roar in my head, an endless pulsing wave rolling back and forth, blocking out all other sounds around me. My heart beat was strong, albeit a little too loud and unnecessarily quick at the moment.I scooped the phone off of the floor, my knees buckling as I flipped it over in my hands. Pain ricocheted through my legs as I hit the hardwood on impact, all strength leaving me as I collapsed to the ground. The scree
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart It's Okay to Be Scared
I felt his little hand tighten in mine and his feet started to drag, scuffing along the pavement, as the school loomed ahead in the distance, looking too big to even me. To his little eyes, I’m sure it was gigantic and threatening. I stopped and crouched down to his level, those beautiful chocolate brown eyes staring back at me.“Do you think they will like me?” He asked me for the hundredth time in the last few weeks.“I am positive they will love you, little man. What’s not to love? You are smart and funny and the most handsome little guy I have ever seen.”“You have to say that. You’re my sister.”“Listen, have I ever lied to you?”He cocked his little head, thinking hard. I could see the gears turning, him trying his best to come up with a time I had ever wronged him. If I let this continue, we would be here awhile and he would be late because I had always and would always put him first and he knew it. He was just staling.I stood up again, looked down at him and gave his little h
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart Wendy
We didn’t have any problems until Wendy moved in last year. Phil had not dated since that night he brought us home. In fact, I never saw him with a woman at all until Wendy suddenly showed up in our lives and moved in, seemingly overnight. Phil had played his part, telling her that I was his step daughter but the truth was, it was a difficult story to sell. He hadn’t seemed happy about her being there but being a nice guy and passive, he didn’t stop her either.Phillip is only ten years older than I am. He was six years younger than my mom when they dated briefly and she became pregnant with Nate. He is a very attractive man, looking younger than he is so most would assume when looking at us that we are a couple and that Nate is our child. That little boy is a perfect combination of Phil’s sandy blond hair and sharp cheekbones and my mom’s chocolate brown eyes and button nose. Both traits that I inherited from her, too.Janet was only sixteen when she had me and until she started doin
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart The Night It All Changed
FLASHBACKShe had fixed him a fancy dinner one night when she knew I wasn’t working. She knew would be home to care for Nate and she could flaunt whatever it was she was attempting to accomplish in front of me. She was strolling around the kitchen in stilettos and barely there red lingerie with a matching see through kimono robe, while she cooked, when I had brought Nate back from the park. She had the wine poured and flowing freely already by the sway of her hips, all waiting for when Phil came in from work. I had quickly made Nate a PB&J and had taken him out of there, retreating to his room the moment I saw how she was dressed and what her intentions were.After I had him fast asleep for the night, I ventured out carefully and, not hearing anyone in the living room or kitchen, I had backtracked to make myself some food. I was starving since Wendy’s presence and attire had prevented me having the chance to get anything to eat at all for myself.I had barely set down and had taken on
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart Aftermath
I haven’t seen Wendy since that night, not even around town, and Phil and I have never talked about it but things have not been the same between us. I now know that he sees me differently, sees me as a woman. I don't know when this started. I have never caught him looking at me with the looks you would expect from someone attracted to another person.Not that I have anything to go off of other than remembering the looks on the faces of those men as they watched her. That was a piss poor comparison, at best. Primal lust and physical attraction are supposed to look differently, aren't they? That's how it's portrayed in the movies and in the romance novels, my only sources for sex education. I would have noticed if he had been looking at me differently, right? From what I can recall, he barely looked at me at all. Or did he and I was too busy taking care of Nate to pay attention. Did he start seeing me as an object of desire and I was just too naive to notice?Like I said, Phil is an at
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart The Comfortable Arrangement
As much as I would have liked to have stalled or ran away altogether, I knew I couldn’t. I didn’t know exactly how this conversation was going to go but I, at least, owed Phil enough to have it. He had taken me in and let me live with them when he knew he didn’t have to. I could have easily been tossed into the system, ending up in a foster home somewhere halfway across the country but I didn’t. I know part of it was him feeling that he owed me for taking care of Nate when he wasn’t around and another equal part not knowing how to take care of Nate and be a father himself. For the time, it just worked out for all of us. I took care of Nate and the house, worked when I could and either gave him money to help with bills or bought groceries and necessities for the house.Neither of us ever thought to question the arrangement until it was forced upon us. I grew up. I was no longer the scrawny, awkward fourteen year old girl he took guardianship of that tragic night. He saved me and I, in
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Whispers of the Heart Barb's Advice
I had confided in her months ago about what had happened that night that Wendy attacked me. She had said the moment that Wendy moved in that she would not last. That she had known that woman all her life and that she was the desperate type. Not only that, she told me straight up that Wendy hated me so much because she was jealous. Jealous of how beautiful I was, her words not mine, and jealous that I already had Phil wrapped around my finger.I had scoffed at this, refusing to see it or believe it until that night. I confessed to Barb that I just didn’t know what to do just a couple weeks ago. On a particularly slow evening with not a customer in sight, we sat down as Barb lit up a cigarette between those ruby red lips and after taking a couple long draws, she told me exactly what she thought on the matter. Barb suggested that I give Phil a chance, if he ever was brave enough to make the move and straight up tell me how he felt. She had drummed her fingers on the wood of the table as
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08
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Whispers of the Heart His Reaction
While getting dressed, Nate mentioned being thirsty so I had him sitting down at the kitchen table drinking some orange juice before he brushed his teeth. I walked back down the hallway to the bathroom while he was sitting there swinging his little legs. I wanted to get my teeth brushed and check my appearance again before leaving the house.I brushed, flossed and swished mouthwash before dabbing my mouth with the bath towel I had draped over the shower rod. I was feeling that I could be getting closer to my first kiss and I wanted to make sure I was ready for that and the only thing I could think of that could ever ruin a first kiss, especially if it were from Owen would be if I had questionable breath when I received it. I had already thought to throw a pack of minty chewing gum in my bag last night, you know, just in case.As I stood looking in the mirror one last time, I undid the first button but still wasn’t satisfied. Undoing the second button looked better but when I took that
Whispers of the Heart That Elephant is Smaller Today
As I opened my door again, I could already smell coffee brewing. When I entered the kitchen, Phil was getting up to rinse his plate and cup. Sherry wasn’t anywhere to be seen so I knew she had left, probably to go to her own house for a shower and change of clothes before school.“You’ve already ate?” I asked him, already knowing the answer.“Yeah, I just fried a couple pieces of bologna with a couple scrambled eggs and toast. I’m gonna head in early since I left early yesterday.”“Okay, I will pack your lunch pail. It’ll just take a minute.”“No need. I am going to get lunch out with the guys today.”“Oh, okay. What about this afternoon? Me wanting to stay after class for the Yearbook Committee?”“Yeah, go ahead and stay. I will take my usual early day today since I am making up this morning for yesterday. Do you need me to pick you up?”“No, I’m catching a ride. All four of us involved with the history project due Friday are going to meet at the diner to work out all the details bef
Whispers of the Heart After the Shock
“Aurora! Oh my God! What are you doing here?”“What am I doing here? I live here! What are you doing here?”“You’re his son’s sister, aren’t you?”“If you are talking about Phil and I’m assuming you are since you are walking barefoot down the hallway and didn’t spend the night with me, then yes! I am his son’s sister.”“Oh, sorry. He mentioned his son having an older sister that also lived with him but he never really mentioned how old you were but then again, I just realized I didn’t ask. When he said his son was four, I just assumed you would be like ten!”“You never answered my question! What are you doing sneaking through the house in the wee hours of the morning?”She looked down and shuffled her feet, unable to look me in the eye when Phil suddenly came down the hall, wearing just his jeans.“What does it look like, Aurora? She spent the night with me.” He came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her in an intimate embrace.I know I had to have a look of surprise on my fac
Whispers of the Heart Big Surprise
He grinned as he answered with a wink. “Neither am I. Don’t get me wrong. I plan to go to college but my dreams are different than theirs. I want a good steady job that allows me to have more time with my family. I want several kids and the house with the big back yard. Barbecues on the weekends. Coaching my sons teams along the way.”I couldn’t help but smile wider as he talked about it. At least it sounded like he had his plans and that they could possibly include me down the road. I wasn’t so naive to think that Owen being the first crush I had ever had that he would be my happily ever after but it does happen. At least, I would stop stressing so much about our social differences. It sounded like the life he had lived would have been very lonely if it hadn’t been for his Nonna. I felt it was her raising him that shaped how he feels about family and having one.“Aurora, my parents have high expectations of me. I do my best to try to honor them but I decided last year that I could onl
Whispers of the Heart Focused
“I’m being careful. If he wants to play games, I can play. I do agree, though. I’m glad he is showing me this side of him now.”“So, you told me how you ended up with Phil in the first place but I didn’t think until afterwards to ask you where your dad is?” He must have saw me cringe because he quickly followed up with, “You don’t have to answer that. I was just wondering.”“No, it’s okay. It is bound to come up at some point so I might as well tell you everything. Then, you can decide right now if you want to run for the hills.”“Aurora, I will not run.”“Yeah, we’ll see.”I opened up and told him everything. From not knowing who my dad was to what led to my mother’s death and the call to Phil in the first place. Owen just listened, asking a question here and there but I never saw any judgment or looks of disgust on his face.“So, that’s me. Ready to run now?”He gave me a smile but this one was more subdued. The kind of smile you give to someone when you feel sorry for them.“No, I’m
Whispers of the Heart A Hint of Color
“Sit back down! I am not finished talking to you!”My teeth rattled from the sudden impact of my butt being slammed onto the chair as Phil grabbed my arm and yanked me down. It took a few seconds for my brain to catch up to what happened but when it did, all thoughts of being diplomatic flew out the window as I jerked my arm away, shooting daggers at him. He hadn’t hurt me but the audacity would not be ignored.“What is your damn problem, Phil!? I was getting a bottle of water!”He slammed his hand down on the table and pointed his finger at me. “Don’t cuss me, Aurora! You will respect me in my own house!”“News flash! Respect is earned and right now, I am having a hard time respecting you! What is going on right now? You’re blowing up at me and I don’t have the first idea why?”“Why? You wanna know why? Maybe because the woman I am wanting is letting strange men bring her home!”“That wasn’t a strange man, Phil! That was a classmate.”“That wasn’t just a classmate, Aurora. That was O
Whispers of the Heart Evening Routine
I ran the water for Nate’s bath while he picked out the toys he wanted tonight, dropping them one by one in the water. I smiled as I looked around at all of the drawings on the ceramic surface of the tub and the tiled walls.I had bought him bath crayons and bath paints that he loved to use. He would use them to draw and play while I scrubbed his hair. I usually snapped a picture of his ‘gallery’ each week before I cleaned the tub and erased the surface, ready as his next canvas. Tonight, he was sinking boats, though. He blasted each ship with cannons, making the blast and shot sounds as dramatically as he could muster until all of his boats were ‘sunk’.I made him lean his head back to rinse the shampoo out of his hair. Once I had it rinsed out, I wiped his face with the washcloth I had just given him to keep the extra water out of his eyes. He handed it back to me and I dunked it in the water and added body wash and lathered it up and handed it to him as I helped him stand up. He qui
Whispers of the Heart Dinner Distractions
“Nate has that blank wall in his bedroom. What if we get one of those cork boards to hang up in there. I can hang his art work and schoolwork on it, create like a display that I change every couple weeks or something. What do you think about that?”“If that’s what you want.”“Yeah, it is. I would like that and I think he would, too. Can we get one ordered or possibly stop by the office supply store and see how much one would cost.”“We will stop and get one maybe sometime this weekend.”I clapped my hands together, playing up the excitement and my gratitude. “Thank you! What can I help you with?”“You have that package of ground beef in there. I didn’t know if you were planning tacos, burgers or what but I figured baked potatoes would go with either.”“I had planned taco salads so the baked potatoes will work well. That way we can use the cheese and sour cream for both.”As Phil left the sink area with the potatoes to prep them for the microwave, I stepped in and washed my hands. I ope
Whispers of the Heart His Quiet Rage
I wanted to look back, wave, something as Owen pulled out of the driveway and drove away but I didn’t dare. There was a dangerous, quiet rage radiating off of Phil. One I had never even knew he could possess. Until I could have that very important conversation with Phil, I had to be careful how I played this. With him coming home early, seemingly for no other reason than to see who I was with, this just went from playing a game of checkers to a game of chess.Phil knew my weakness. The little boy that he was currently hugging to his side. I remember asking him what happened if I didn’t want to start a relationship with him and he’d said that we would worry about that when and if the time came. When he said it, it never bothered me because I was still willing to give the feelings a chance to blossom and grow. Now, it worried me. The anxiety of the unknown and the differences I had now seen in Phil over the last day being the deciding factors.As I locked eyes with Phil, I planted the b
