Treacherous Love in Space: A Martian Odyssey

"But the water is great!" I said, "It's perfect for swimming and kayaking!"

"I know, but there are just so many bugs!"

I sighed. My wife had never liked camping, which was why she'd agreed to our getaways as long as it was somewhere indoors. We'd done several trips to hotels, but she'd complained about being bored and staying in one place for too long. That's why when I saw a vacation home for rent on the lake, I jumped at the chance. Granted, we had to go to the local market for supplies, but we'd have our own dock and a yard to roam around in! She hadn't seen it yet, which was probably why she hadn't shown any excitement over my idea.

"Look, how about this? Next weekend, we'll stay here on Friday night and see if you like it better. You can swim or kayak whenever you want."

"I don't want to be all sweaty before dinner."

"We'll leave early enough that you won't have time to get sweaty."

She sighed. "Fine. But if I don't like it, then I'm not doing it again."

The next weekend came quickly. After picking up the supplies we would need for the trip on Thursday morning, we loaded them in the car and headed out early on Friday morning. It took us a couple hours to get from our home in Boston to where we were going. As soon as we arrived, Evelyn walked around outside for a few minutes before letting me take her inside to show her what the house looked like inside. We'd already planned out our meals via an online food service website so all we had left was making sure that the food was still good and that there wasn't anything else we needed to buy at the market for Saturday morning breakfast at home before getting in the car again to head over to wherever we were going for dinner. When she saw how nice everything was inside though, she asked if we could stay there instead of at some restaurant or other.

"You mean just tonight?" I asked.

"Yeah...I mean...this is nice right?"

We cleaned up a little bit while waiting for our food order - Kebabs and salad - but mostly spent our time relaxing by the water and talking about how nice it would be if we could live there permanently. It didn't take long before Evelyn had changed into her bathing suit and gotten into the water with me while waiting for dinner. It wasn't until around 5:30 that our doorbell rang with our order arriving at 6:00 sharp. After putting up our things and eating dinner along with half of what would be tomorrow's breakfast (we'd used an online lunch service during workdays), Evelyn got back into her suit and asked if I wanted to go swimming again while she finished packing up what was left of dinner without having to worry about bugs getting in on her plate or something like that.

It wasn't hard keeping my eyes off of her while she was in the water because I knew that if I did stare at her ass or tits too much she would get upset at me for staring at them inappropriately even though we were both adults who were married with no kids around. Instead of staring though, I opted instead to lay on my stomach with my face just barely above water level so that I could hear her talk more easily but also see what was going on around her without worrying about getting splashed accidentally by her feet or something like that as she frolicked around apparently completely unaware that some of those bugs from earlier might be floating nearby even now thanks to the strong wind currents in this area of Lake Massachusetts thanks to its proximity to open ocean waters nearby which meant even those bugs which had landed onto Kayaks or Swim Suits or whatever early today could easily float around here now because they don't drown like flies do when they fall into water instead they just float along until they die naturally two days later after laying eggs inside their body which then hatch into tiny versions of their parents who fly away again seeking warmer bodies than what they found here today whose blood is necessary primarily to help them grow big enought o reproduce after feeding on them....or something like that anyway since obviously most of those details were made up by myself except for maybe one or two which I read somewhere once after seeing some sort of bug floating near where Evelyn had been swimming earlier who knows maybe it will bite her making her sick or something...it's worth a shot anyway since this way nobody has to know that I made up most of those details besides maybe me....not Evelyn...not anybody...nobody has to know about this except me alone....except maybe Evelyn too because she doesn't know anything about this yet....I mean...she doesn't know anything about this yet either does she?..maybe not..?..I guess only time will tell anyway because time is always working against us making us age and die eventually unless someone invents immortality first..which is possible given enough investment money..but they won't give me any because they greedy bastards...they always want more money than anyone will ever have..which sucks..because otherwise Evelyn wouldn't die someday either despite how old she gets making me sad because even though she always says stupid things sometimes and never takes care of herself properly despite how much money i pay her weekly each week without fail plus all those vacations every year plus all those presents every year too plus all those other stuff i do for her besides just buying lots of gifts every single year like cooking meals for her almost every day usually leaving no leftovers afterwards because i want her body healthy i love your body very much evelyn please dont ever die okay?..i mean..i guess it'll happen someday eventually but hopefully we can keep trying new things together making more memories together somehow maybe traveling somewhere else this time in particular because maybe then she won't bitch so much when i make more money again especially if i can convince someone else other than my mom/dad/siblings/relatives/whatever else may exist in my family tree that i am actually a good guy despite whatever bad things people say about me being evil sometimes hating women etc etc....maybe then evelyn will stop calling me names sometimes when i ask her nicely if she wants something instead telling me no you're disgusting pig go away etc etc etc.....so yeah im gonna try really hard okay evelyn?..i promise you ill make everything better ok?..i love you very much evelyn plwase dont hate me ok bye bye!