I have never complained or even considered that my time with Freya is dull. Now, however, I am certain to have an interesting few weeks. Freya was on her way to her second date with Archer this afternoon when she got a phone call. She didn’t recognize the number, so she declined to answer. The same number called back immediately, however, and so she picked it up, if only to know who it was. Whatever she was expecting on the…
Sometimes it is not good to indulge curiosity. Sometimes, however, it is exactly the right thing to do. This morning, as Hannah helped Jack and Lily get ready for their day, she noticed that there was something different about Jack. He seemed to have something in mind, something other than the cases he would be working on that day. “What’s up with you?” she asked him. “What? Nothing.” “Liar,” Hannah retorted. He paused and smiled at her, still in her…
I was not forbidden to do this. I want it known, that despite the reservations of my seniors, it was not forbidden. Zezette expressed curiosity that I was still so fixated on this. Curiosity, not disapproval, for “I want you to heal in your own time, Asa’el. Even so…” Danit spoke to me about it, saying that it made her ‘uneasy’ how much I was looking into the past. She even suggested that it was disrespectful to Shannon. Hatsumi disagreed…
Three weeks now, and Freya has not heard anything from Henry. She was more disappointed about this than I thought she would be—more than she thought, too. She told herself not to expect anything from him, as it was just a summer fling, and they made no promises to one another. But she did like him a great deal, and not just because of the physical attraction they shared. And she and I both thought that he liked her, too.…
Hannah is still having trouble with her schedule. Her supervisor has given way only slightly, arranging for Hannah to have one evening a week free. It is a start, but it is still not quite enough, and Hannah knows that it will be a difficult fight to get more time. She came home this afternoon to find that she wasn’t the only one who had had a rough day. Though Lily usually works on homework in the living room, so…
I’m not quite sure what to say about today. Nothing went quite as I hoped, and yet I think it will all end up better than I could have imagined. It is strange, sometimes, how things fall into place. Kyle and Anna have settled on a favorite meeting place in the evenings—there is a coffee shop almost precisely halfway between Anna’s apartment and the recital hall where Kyle has rehearsals. Since he rehearses in the evenings, they will get together…
At first I was worried, when I heard the turmoil from Freya this afternoon, that something had happened to her. I went to her right away, and it was a relief to find her safe and sound at home—and then I saw what she had seen: Kara sitting on Freya’s front steps with a scowl like a thundercloud. “Hey,” Freya said, closing her car door. “Hey,” Kara answered. Somehow she made it sound like a challenge. Freya went up the…
Today, instead of lunch, Lewis asked Sarah if she would meet him after dinner. She was puzzled, but of course she agreed. There was a certain air of mystery and excitement in him, which intrigued her. It was no surprise to me that Lewis was excited. He has been planning this for several days, and it has been so good to see him look forward to something so eagerly. It has put a brightness in his soul that was a…
“Work” as the humans see it is a strange concept. They keep it separate from themselves, for one thing—with most of them, “work” is a place apart from their homes, and the activities that they do there are restricted to that place. For another thing, they frequently do not enjoy the work that they have volunteered to do—they do it only to have the money that is necessary for survival. Most interesting, at least in my opinion, are the relationships…
It’s an important event when one meets the parents of one’s partner. Or any of their family, really. When you want to be a part of someone’s life, it is vital to make a good impression on those who are already in their life. And so these meetings are fraught with tension, or so I would expect. In Allen and Megan’s case, however, it went quite well. Like Megan, her mother and stepfather are a very easy-going, lighthearted pair, and…