Who are you involved with romantically?

Elaine Miller. She's an secondary school English teacher with a daughter who is nearly eighteen now. We met when her car was taken over by an alien lifeform. We wrote to each other for a few months afterwards before we finally met again, and then that was it really.

Is the relationship satisfying?Yes, it is ( Read more... )

Couples Therapy 52.5 (43.4) Discuss something that complicates your relationship
Writers Muses 56.5 Bubble Bath
just_muse_me 13.5.1 A Romantic Date
Oncoming Storms 76.2 Valentine

( Valentine's Day )

Follows Elaine and Sarah's phone call7.30pm saw Harry and Elaine seated at a table for four in Il Tartufo. Harry was nervous and it wasn't helped by the knowledge that Sarah and Elaine had spoken to each other without him present ( Read more... )

It was cold outside, but not bitterly so. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and it was a perfect December day. That didn't stop Harry from being glad he had Elaine to help him along. It wasn't just the pain in his knee - he had a walking stick for that. It was the mixture of relief from being out from under the eyes of her relatives and ( Read more... )

Harry wished his heart wasn't racing quite so much. All he'd done was ring the doorbell of a house he'd been to many times before, but this time there was the possibility that Elaine wouldn't answer. She was screening her calls, he was sure, because she never answered the phone and never called him back no matter how many messages he left on her ( Read more... )

I remember when I went from being sure that I loved Elaine, to being sure that she hated me ( Read more... )

I'm quite happy not to know anything. It's all in the past, what possible bearing can it have on our relationship? I think this is only sensible given that whenever Elaine learns anything about any of my exes she gets jealous. And there's no reason for it - I wouldn't be with her if I was in love with anyone else ( Read more... )

Watch something change and speak on that changeI think it was after New Year that it changed. Before then dinner with Elaine meant precisely that, although we tended to linger over the coffee and we didn't rush on our way back to her house. Neither was she quick to go inside nor I to leave ( Read more... )

After this RPHarry closed the door gingerly. Dinner had been pleasant enough - it always was with Elaine. But it was the looks she had been giving him that suggested she was just waiting for them to be alone before she said something. Which went a long way towards explaining why she insisted they go back to his flat, rather than her house, where ( Read more... )

Take any title from one of the romantic comedies listed here and write a response inspired by it.It was unusual these days that Harry got to see the scene of the crime, so to speak, while whatever alien-related crisis was still going on. Today, his team were on their way back to headquarters when what was clearly an alien spaceship screeched past ( Read more... )