"No, it's a little uncomfortable, that's all."
I thought momentarily of the various possibilities and then dismissed it. The day was too lovely to spoil with a clinical discussion.
"Something you ate, no doubt." I smiled at her and lowered my mouth to touch her full red lips gently, once again.
She pushed me away. "That's enough. This place is too public."
I studied the bold contour of her nose and concluded that it was too large for true beauty ... the French influence, no doubt, in her Louisiana heritage. Her attractiveness was in her expressions more than in physical structure, I decided, but the mouth was perfect, no doubt about that, and her grey eyes as clear as a mountain pool filtered through limestone. I snuggled close to her, contentedly, and was beginning to doze in the fresh warmth of the springtime air when I felt her body tighten. I opened my eyes and rested on one elbow, watching her.
"What is it baby, the pain again?"
"Yes, it's crampy now ... something like a bad period," she twisted a little.
"Is it that time of the month again?"
"It could be. I've been having odd periods, very slight flow. I thought I might possibly be pregnant. It's been that way since I seduced you in December."
"That wasn't seduction, baby. That was merely anticipating the inevitable."