My conversation with Danit has borne fruit sooner than I expected. I have just been informed that the seniors will be reviewing my assignments, consulting to see if I may be taken from my earlier charges and assigned new ones in their place.
I took this news with both excitement and grief. While I look forward to having new challenges, and while I am deeply glad that three of my couples are doing so well, I will be very sorry to lose responsibility over these people. Tending to them has been a joy, and I will miss being part of their lives.
Don and Charlotte have completed the move in together, although there was a week or two of tension as the two strong-willed people struggled over the relative layout of the house. Charlotte had her way for the most part, making a few ugly pieces of artwork disappear, but they reached a compromise by leaving Don’s office entirely as he wishes, and he did have a stroke of genius when he prevailed on Jayden to help. Thanks to the young man’s pleading, Don’s prize talking bass[1] remained in its place of honor above the mantel. I have managed to convince Charlotte to laugh rather than cringe at the sight of it, which was quite an undertaking, I assure you.
Jesse and Ramona, having come to a peace between them, are thriving. They have idle conversations about moving in together, even about getting married, but without feeling a need to act on either idea. This takes the pressure off and makes it possible for them both to just exist together. To be with them is very restful.
As for Tammy and Lamarr, they now have a new date for the wedding: June 3. This will give them a bit more time to save up, so that they can take a bit longer of a trip for their honeymoon. Of course they would have chosen not to have the delay, but they are finding happiness where they can, and that is an excellent sign.
My other charges, of course, will still need me for a while. Brooke and Morgan had a very bad argument yesterday, and though they have since made it up, the tension still remains. I am doing all that I can to soothe their doubts and fears, but I will not be able to reassure them completely. Until the separation has happened and they can see that their love for one another does not diminish, they will still have worries.
Myrtle will be meeting Jaquinn’s family next weekend—they are making the trip up especially for the occasion and will be staying three days—and this makes her very nervous. When she is nervous, she gets sharp and impatient, prodding at Jaquinn’s mood and testing him. I am doing my best to keep him calm, to make him understand her thought process, but he, too, has a temper, so it is difficult.
Pamela is stressed and tired from the demands of her work, but at least she has something to look forward to in the trip to London this summer. I will often send her to adjust her plans for the trip when she is most restless; it always improves her mood. She will be leaving on July 1, which with Brooke’s departure will make a busy week for me.
I am not sure what will happen with the review. My seniors could choose to leave me with all of my current charges, particularly if the Choice Web indicates further troubles coming. I think it likely, though, that I will be removed from Tammy and Lamarr as well as Don and Charlotte, and likely Jesse and Ramona too. All couples, after all, must at some point move on alone, free to make their own choices without interference.
And if they are removed from me, what then? Will I only be asked to assist with others’ cases, or will I receive new charges of my own? What will those new charges be like? What new challenges will I have to face?
I can only wait, and leave my fate in my Father’s most capable hands.
[1] This is a false fish of rather an alarming size, mounted on the wall and filled with mechanisms that make it seem to move and speak. I am entirely at a loss as to why Don enjoys it so much.