Epilogue-Time Makes You Bolder

                                    

                                          
  2025 Maui
                          
  Lindsey has just come in from his morning swim. He carefully dries his feet off not wanting to draw his wife's ire tracking water through the kitchen. It's about ten o'clock, he goes over and sets the coffee maker to make a fresh pot at noon. That is when his bride generally arises from her slumber. Their simple home sits right on the beach on a secluded point not far from Maluaka. The couple bought this place as a wedding gift to each other as well as a retirement home. Stevie has an art studio that has a large window facing the ocean. She paints, makes jewelry and writes children's books featuring Princess Stephanie in her sanctuary. Lindsey has made a studio in the basement where he still makes his kind of music. His wife occasionally joins him in this endeavor, the two still singing in perfect harmony.
                          
  Both he and his wife have commented how the aches and pains have subsided since taking up living here in paradise year around. Her hips and feet improving while his achy fingers now feel as good as they did when he was young. The fresh air and the warm waters along with the soft sand of the beach is rejuvenating to both mind and body. 
                          
  Lindsey tries sneaking into their bedroom, not wanting to wake her, to change out of his wet swim trunks. As soon as he opens his dresser drawer he hears her say
                          
  "You better not be tracking water in here with your wet feet!"
                          
  Lindsey smiles knowing he has heard this exact thing many times before. Laughing he jumps on the bed and gets under the covers right next to her. His bride shrieks 
                          
  "Lindsey Adams Buckingham you are going to have the entire bed wet!"
                          
  To be even more of a pest, he jumps on top of her. He then begins to kiss her all over her face as she beats him with her tiny fists yelling 
                          
  "Now you have my nightgown soaked, you are such an ass sometimes!"
                          
  Lindsey stops and looks into her big brown pouting eyes and says
                          
  "It's probably a good thing you love me then Angel, I certainly love you!"
                          
  Her eyes soften as she responds 
                          
  "I love you too baby, now why don't you get off me so I can change the bed sheets."
                          
  He grins at her mischievously and says
                          
  "How about I get you off instead?"
                          
  She huffs pretending to be upset
                          
  "After all these years you still think about only one thing!"
                          
  Lindsey deadpans 
                          
  "Well if we have to change the sheets we just as well have a little fun!"
                          
  Stevie does what she can to hide a smile. She can't believe at this age Lindsey still wants her. She has to admit to herself that he is just as handsome to her as he always was. Maybe a quickie wouldn't be the worst way to start their day she decides. Stevie tells him
                          
  "Okay you dirty old man but you have to promise to keep your hands off me the rest of the day!"
                          
  Lindsey replies quickly
                          
  "I make no such promise my lady, you are just too irresistible!"
                          
  Both of them laugh. The laughter stops as the loving starts. The lovemaking is slower now then back when they where young but they both enjoy the feeling behind it better. It's not as intense and needy as their trysts where back in the day. They have all the time in the world to enjoy their enduring love. After the couple are both satisfied they lay together in the afterglow of the love, both thinking about the same thing. How they got to this little piece of paradise.