Chapter 4

What a day, I mean what a DAY! Belly rubs, warm food, sex, snuggling, kissing, hugging. Oh what fun.

It was now six PM on this fine winters day in Maine. It had snowed four feet and now it just flurried. It looked like someone was pouring powered sugar out side, but it didn't smell like sugar though. It smelt of pine and raw cold. The trees had a good coating of snow and ice. All the birch trees were bent over as if they were bowing down to some unseen god or if they were part of a play and this was the end. Birch trees are very weak and most new englanders hate them. and find them a nuisance to deal with. If you had the power got out, you could blame it on one of two things; a driver hit a patch of ice and knocked out a telephone pole, or a birch tree had just gave way under the immense weight of the snow and ice that would be gathered on it's branches.

After a cuddling session, with Rex keeping her warm while the house cooled off due to the lack of heat, she got up and did her business. It was now dark out...but then again it had been dark out since four-thirty. She went into the kitchen hoping to find a flashlight under the sink. No luck. "Where the hell is it?" she asked herself. Still looking around and fumbling through drawers and cabinets she finally found one. A big one. She turned it one and it shined on a big shadowy figure about six foot two. She screamed and grabbed a empty water bottle and chucked it at it. It made a "bonk" noise as it struck Rex in the head right between the eye's. He let out a cry of pain and then proceeded to rub his throbbing head. It was already sore from their adventure in the bed room and now he'd been hit again. Almost in the same spot. Lucky it was lower then the one previously.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry." Penny said while running over to him, careful not to step on anything or knock something over, even though their kitchen is very clean and with no kids there's nothing to step on. She reached him and wrapped her arms around his body and hugged him tight. He placed his arms around her and hugged back. She stepped back and planted a kiss on his face and rested her head against his chest, her arms still around him.

"It's fine. I'll just say I fell down the stairs or something. I won't say how you beat me in the head with a water bottle and how you cracked me in the head with yours." He said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"Oh wow...I should consider myself lucky then."

"Yeah, I won't press charges." They both chuckled and hugged each other tighter then before.

"I'm hungry." Rex said. And right on cue his stomach let out a large rumble that Penny could feel even though her hand was on his chest, the area where his neck meets his pecks.

"I had no idea. She said. "I think I felt your heart beat speed up. Did you get scared hearing that belly of yours growl so loudly?" She teased him.

"Haha. No I'm not scared. Are you scared?"

"Why would I be scared? Your not scary. Your a klutz."

"I suppose I am a klutz. I'm a hungry klutz. What do we have? Papa bear is hungry."