Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Norris was still buzzing, "Man, Owen's a good boy."

Taking a sip of his water, he smacked his lips and added, "Really..."

Roseanne couldn't help but laugh, "Dad, you're looking at him like he's your high school crush or something."

"Nonsense! Your mom's the only crush for me!"

Roseanne just rolled her eyes. Full to the brim!

After a tiring day hiking up the local trails yesterday, Norris and Madge decided to have a laid-back day at home.

Roseanne was all for it.

Refreshed, the family of three ventured out the next day.

Their main agenda was visiting the historical museum downtown.

Roseanne had booked the tickets a week in advance.

Madge even had a photoshoot in vintage attire.

"Ma'am, you've got such an aura, like you've stepped right out of the past,

joined in the

dislikes a compliment, after

the photographer's word, the

Norris slept alone while Roseanne snuggled

her like when she was a

scent of her mom,

emails as usual and found a response from a biology journal she had submitted to, asking her to fill in some missing references. She had checked

Mom, I'll head to the library for a bit. Should be

go

had taken a sudden

the sun was blazing, and the next, the skies

said, "Looks like a storm's brewing. Anne didn't take an umbrella. Should we drop one off at the library for her? It's not

to leave when they

lights flickered on, showing

"Owen, back early today?"

and Madge had run into Owen frequently over the

Mr. And Mrs.