Pretend This didn't Happen

-65 degrees celcius

"OK, my love, we have a big day tomorrow," Gary embraced his wife in a tight hug and looked deep into her eyes. "We should get some good sleep" Gary explained "tomorrow is the next day of the rest of our lives." Gary smiled "you're so beautiful," Gary told Andrea "let's go to bed babe" before leading her off to the master bedroom. Snuggling in together the couple drifted into dream.

The sun came up and the cock crowed three times, Gary turned off the alarm, got out of bed and went into the kitchen to find Andrea robed in pink sitting at the kitchen table silently drinking her morning coffee. "Good morning my love," Gary said all bright eyed and enthusiastic for the day ahead "I love our alarm clock." Noticing Andrea's stillness "Is everything OK? Did you sleep alright?"

"Yes," Andrea replied "only dreams" Gary could tell she'd been crying and didn't so press the issue. Gary poured himself a coffee and sat at the table to drink it. "It's strange but still so great" Andrea broke the morning silence. "Here I was stuck watching over myself in cage when a blinding white light enveloped the entire room like an explosion had just taken place." Andrea cleared her throat before taking another drink of her coffee "Afterwards the other guards in the surrounding cell block had all fallen around me and were lying on the floor surrounding the cage I was in also laying motionless although the cage door was open and as I approached myself I sat up in the cage and seeing the cage door open stood to my feet but couldn't run, I couldn't move at all." Andrea took another drink of her coffee "and then I turned and walked to freedom but couldn't see myself anymore. Strange like I said, there was more but that was the point where I woke up." Andrea shook her head back and forth and passed Gary her empty cup "you're closer" she smiled.

Gary poured another two cups of coffee after swallowing the remnants of his first. Having emptied the coffee pot, Gary then delivered Andrea's before looking out the window to see that the ground had been covered in snow. "Dammit," Gary closed the blinds "I guess we won't be setting up the greenhouse until next spring." Gary returned to his seat at the table "Ah" Gary took a drink of his coffee.

"You're taking this rather well," Andrea took a sip of her coffee "I would think with all things considered you would be less tolerant."

Gary chuckled "with all things considered?" Gary laughed "I was given no other option than to tolerate certain situations." Gary explained "If I hadn't learned to tolerate certain situations I would have never made it to this side of the fence again." An empty seriousness came over his face "there is still certain situations I will not tolerate though but the weather is one I have no control over" Gary took another drink of his coffee. "It is more or less only my personal code of conduct," Gary swallowed the remnants of his coffee before putting his cup back on the coaster and explaining "it is based on a moral guideline."

"Well" Andrea spoke after finishing her cup of coffee "I love your moral guideline." Andrea admitted "at times I have not understood what the hell I was or you were putting us through but it is based on love and tolerance and that will see us through." Andrea explained "I feel very comforted in the fact that I am certain the same you will not tolerate is no different from what I will neither." 

Gary took an apple from the refridgerator and bit into it after rinsing the fruit. "Getting my metabolism started and then I have some snow to remove it appears." Halfway through eating the apple the snow plow was removing the snow from his driveway "bonus." Gary finished eating the apple. "Still, I need to go out and remove the snow from the walkway" Gary told Andrea, asking "and then how about we go into the back yard and make some snow angels?" 

Gary dressed in his outdoor attire, while outside the weights and and training supplies arrived and Gary directed them to be taken inside of John's home. John answered the door in his robe, letting the delivery men inside. Gary continued clearing the sidewalk infront of his home, as he was about to go inside the Greenhouse showed up. The delivery men did not seem phased at all by the snow, telling Gary that they've set many of these models up in the snow and advising that they are winter ready for year round production even in tempratures of -65 degrees celcius if nessecary. Gary showed the men where to set it up before going inside to relax and collect his thoughts.