By the time she got home, she had begun several mental “to do” lists, and was realizing the need for another as she walked through the door to find Ginny turning their new apartment upside down. Standing agape as Ginny ransacked the sofa, she asked, “What’s going on?”
Seeing Rebecca standing there all quizzical, Ginny paused
with a couch cushion in her hand. “I don’t believe it, Becca…” she exhaled and
returned the cushion to the couch, “but I think I left something at Gordon’s…”
Rebecca slipped her purse from her shoulder, placed it on
the back of the couch, as she noted for future reference, and approached Ginny.
“A journal?” she asked, knowing already that it was a journal.
Ginny nodded. “A couple of them, I think.” Now she shook her
head. “I just don’t understand how I could’ve forgotten them. But I swear I can
see them in that big old closet.”
“Me too…” Said Rebecca, “and I’d swear we left that closet
empty!”
The lovers looked at each other.
“Well,” said Ginny, “I’ll go see if I can find them… They’re
in an envelope, I think.”
“Manila,” offered Rebecca.
Ginny chuckled, knowing that Rebecca saw the same manila
envelope, stuffed with composition books that she did. “You’re spooky
sometimes, baby…”
Grinning, Rebecca replied, “That’s why you love me,
Virginia.”
Ginny wrapped Rebecca in an affectionate hug, gripping the
younger woman’s blue-jean clad backside in her hands and smiling. “That,” she replied,
“and your beautiful eyes, your bright smile, your sweet, sweet…”
Rebecca silenced her lover (and what Ginny had intended to
be a lengthy litany of Rebecca’s assets) with the first of many kisses; and so
it was that Ginny was delayed, for several days as it turned out, in the search
for her missing journals.
