It has been a hard few weeks for Gabrielle. She and Nick speak but rarely, and only then about what is necessary—Gabrielle getting her things out of Nick’s apartment or relaying the progress of the divorce proceedings. He is finally resigned to the divorce, and while it still grieves him, I think he will soon come to the same conclusion as Gabrielle: that this is the best for the both of them. It is sad, however, that their friendship will…
I am so fortunate to be working with so many new beginnings. Allen and Megan are off to a good start, as are Freya and Elliott. Hannah and Jack have known one another for some time now, but in a way they are only just beginning now. And now I may add one more beginning, for this afternoon, Anna had a date. Well, perhaps I should not call it a date. Anna was trying not to think of it this…
Many of you have been asking how Sabasa and I have been doing since our reconciliation. The answer is that everything is going very well. Allen and Megan have become good friends—he is now a regular customer at her bakery, and she will often come to his house after he gets home and stay for several hours. There is an ease between them now, a comfort that makes for an excellent beginning to a relationship. So why has this relationship…
This afternoon, Hannah found her father at work in his office. He glanced up as she came in, and his pen paused for only a moment. I could see, however, what Hannah couldn’t—the rush of surprise that rolled through him, and just behind it, a small shudder of relief. He did not like the way they left things, and in the time they have not been speaking, he missed her. His pride, however, would not let him admit that, and…
It was a good day today. I went with Hannah to Jack’s house for the first time since Lily has moved in—he invited her to join them for dinner. While he claimed that the invitation was Lily’s idea, the girl was not the only one waiting at the door when Hannah came up. “Hi, Dr. Valdez!” Lily said, pushing open the screen. “My Uncle Jack said that you were coming to visit us.” “I just had to come and see…
Two things happened of interest today. First, Elliott and Freya met up for lunch, the first time they have come together without any pretense of business between them. Freya’s laptop did make it to the top of Elliott’s list, and he returned it to her personally last week, at which point they spent more than an hour talking, to the point that Freya’s boss had to stop in and remind her about a meeting. Freya considered the mild reprimand well…
I should have known better, really. I have learned in these past months that when Brid tells me one of our charges is not ready for something, she is usually right. Still, I can’t help but think that we have managed to salvage the situation—that some good has come out of the storm. Brid will not tell me what she thinks, as she is still angry with me for disregarding her advice, but I think that when she has forgiven…
Well, it is official. Gabrielle and Nick are getting a divorce. She went to get the paperwork yesterday. It is strange for me—I would never have thought that I would help to facilitate a separation like this, let alone one so soon after two people came together. It goes against so much of what I have learned as a Cupid. And yet, I stand by the decision. Already Gabrielle is sleeping better, though she has only Victoria’s lumpy couch for…
I have not written much about Anna these past weeks, because her life has been quiet. She goes to work, to church, and to bible study. Over one weekend she went to visit her parents and came home with a box of books from her mother, who was cleaning out their house. She’s even made good friends with a few girls from bible study, and sometimes she will go out with them for drinks or for coffee. It has been…
Sometimes all it takes is a small push, and events begin to run together, closer and closer and faster and faster. It would be easier if the exciting and troubling moments were more spread out, but that is not the way things are. So here we are! Just as she promised, Gabrielle went back to the apartment to meet Nick yesterday. He was waiting for her, and though he spent much of Saturday switching back and forth from anger to…