Sometimes Inna liked to take me for a walk around the garden after her afternoon rest.
Sometimes it would take awhile to find her elusive walking stick (the same one Husband uses now!)
Sometimes we would pick grapefruit from the orchard, camellias and roses for the vases.
Sometimes we would venture over to the dairy where Husband and his two farmworkers were finishing up.
Inna would ask Husband to turn one of the milk cans upside down so she could sit down and I would stand awkwardly next to her watching Husband but trying not to.
Sometimes Inna would catch my eye and blink knowingly and my face would flush pink from the neck up.
Sometimes Husband would glance in our direction with obvious irritation because we were in the way.
I would ride my bicycle home trying hard to keep his look of irritation at the forefront of my mind in order to stop my heart from galloping too far ahead
But it didn’t work.
jmgoyder 
Love this story.
I love remembering it but I can only seem to tell it in ‘bits’ like this!
I LOVE love stories!
I’ll try to keep it going then!
Your mother-in-law was really in on the whole thing! She must have loved to see you tortured (in a good way!) inside with the feelings you had for her son.
Oh yeah she knew all right!
Good stories, like a good meal, are best savored slowly…
~ Lynda
That’s good because I am finding it hard to write this story for obvious reasons I guess to do with now compared to then!
I like the line that starts with, “I would ride my bicycle home…” Great imagery!
Yes and it was 15kms!
Like it in the ‘bits’ – the reader gets to really focus and digest it … slowly – just as you did then (and are thinking about it now). Terrific. Ina sounds like one interesting lady. I think she knew from the start that Jules was the one for her boy!
Inna was my hero!
Haha – I suspect his irritation was because he realized Inna was onto you both 🙂
I’m sure you are right!
I love the sentence about Inna blinking at you!
She did that quite a bit – very mischevious!
Just savoring it! Thank you!
Ha!
Young love! Oh the suspense! 🙂
Haha!