The sun was warm and the rows of corn seemingly endless. I glanced to the side at Zora, who was smiling as she watched the butterflies flitting around the weed flowers growing along the roadside ditches to either side of us.
She was happy. I glanced down at our joined hands. I was very happy!
She turned her head to me and I gave her a suggestive look, "Ever have the urge to do it in a cornfield?"
She gave me a look that said 'keep dreaming buddy!' I laughed and continued walking.
I hadn't really been serious, but then on the other hand I wouldn't really turn it down either.
Zora just shook her head with a smile as she read my thoughts and for a moment she feigned like she was bearing the weight of the world to put up with me. "Have you ever seen a corn spider? They are huge and evil looking!" Zora explained, as if to prove her point, as I quietly begged her with my eyes.
I sighed, "Okay corn fields are out, but what about hay fields? I think I see one coming up."
"Snakes not to mention bugs." Zora stated with categorical import.
"Oh come on! Why are you being such a spoilsport? Where's your love for the great outdoors?" I asked cajolingly.
"I appreciate the great outdoors as much as the next person, but the creation of a mattress was an endpoint to the occurrence of having to romp in the hay and be fed upon by both vermin and insect alike."
I shook my head at her in mock reproof. It was so fun to tease her.
"How do you feel about wheat fields? Your hair could never look better than it would with little bits of straw sticking in it." I said charmingly with my best smile in place, only to be shot down once again.
"You're absolutely incorrigible! Couldn't you please just store up all your lovemaking energies for tonight to wear me out on a mattress instead of insisting that we both go cavort with nature like Adam and Eve?" She said heatedly.
I clutched at my heart melodramatically, "We're only a little over a month into our marriage and you've already begun to deny my advances!"
"I don't deny you anything and you know it!" She responded back hotly.
There was hurt in her tone and I quickly realized that my teasing had gone too far. I stopped and so did she. "I'm sorry Zora. I know you don't hold anything back from me. I promise that I will refrain from teasing you about your germaphobia, bug-phobia, spider-phobia, snake-phobia, and apparently also your touching nature phobia."