Afternoon.
Cameron, Janice, Merrily, Clyde-B, Marie...thanks for the kind words and thanks for the memories you've given, too.
While reading the fanfics, have often thought about OMT, and what made him bitter and do those things to his only son and only child at such a young age. And though about why OMT and Mrs. OMT got married. So, decided that maybe at one point she fell in love with him, whether he did with her as much I don't know. Anyway, they did "court" a little bit, and an easy date was to go to the County Fair. Then they heard the music, and she looked at him, and he asked her to dance. Also, wanted to contrast the relationships [in my AU mind] between what OMT and Mrs. OMT after ten or fifteen years of marriage and for ever after, as against what Jack and Ennis had after spending their life apart/together, and what that first dance meant to Jack and Ennis.
Also, felt like this was the appropriate moment. You know how weddings and wedding receptions can affect one!
Speaking of which...and I'm getting better at it...140 or so words this time, not counting the lyrics...
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Childress, Texas, June 1989 [Part 2]
Holding each other easily, arms around each other's waist, cheek to cheek, they swayed gently to the musical breeze that caressed them. He wondered how those words had ever passed his lips, but now wished he had asked years before. Knew it wouldn't take so long to ask again.
He vaguely realized when one song ended and another began, though they themselves didn't miss a beat.
I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight.
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night.
The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade.
The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming.
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and sing you a Moonlight Serenade.
Let us stray till break of day
in love's valley of dreams.
Just you and I, a summer sky,
a heavenly breeze kissing the trees.
So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night.
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight,
a love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.Nothing better than holding your man in your arms in a moonlit garden, swaying to a love song played by an unseen orchestra. Was having such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of that moon.
"Ahem, Dad, Pop?, Sorry to interrupt."
With a brief look into each other's eyes making promises of things to come, but without letting go of each other, they reluctantly turned towards the unexpected guests who had entered their private ballroom.