Charlette shakily declined his offer of accompanying her to the doctor for a check-up.  Paul couldn’t blame her really.  He’d be nervous, too.  Still, she needed to be checked out, the sooner the better, too.  In order to find out, would she be willing to wait and see if her next monthly visitor dropped by on time?  He’d go along with her decision either way.<br/><br/>"I missed you while I was away," she declared, planting a soft kiss on his lips to prove her point.<br/><br/><i>You got that helmet for that soldier, right, Old Man?!  Right?!</i><br/><br/>“I missed you, too,” he stated.  Paul kissed her back, but withheld any chance of tongue action.  “Kinda quiet around here when you were gone.”