The Gathering 01.34 –  Life;
A Day In The

            Kit
walked into Bette‘s house, carrying her bags
slung over her broad shoulders.  She
hated that she was going to be staying here, but it was better than being
alone.  Bette
had already brought by her things from Ivan‘s
house.  She hadn’t wanted Kit
to be alone and she too, was tired of being alone in her house.  She looked around the house, thinking it was
missing something, she didn’t know quite what it was at first glance.

            “Tina.”  Bette said
from behind her and Kit turned and hugged her
baby sister.  Bette
strong Bette who did no wrong had done her own
version of Kit‘s crash and burn.  Bette smiled
at the hug.  She knew how hard Kit
had tried; and she was a fighter and she’d try again until she got it
right.  Bette
believed that she would get it right, someday.

            “But I think I can
learn to live with you.”  Bette
added, kissing Kit‘s cheek.  She felt the tears threatening and turned away
from her older sister. 

            “I am so sorry for
putting you through this, again.”  Kit
said for the 100^th  Bette smiled
at her, knowing how hard this fall must have been for her.  She’d just begun to pick herself up from her
indiscretion with Candace.  It wasn’t the easiest thing to do. time, in the last week.

            “You fell in
love.  I understand that sister
girl.  We all have our falls from grace;
even me.”  Bette
said with a bit of the same attitude that was usually reserved for Kit.  Kit burst out
into a quick laugh.

            “Well then sista;
let’s get my ***** unpacked.”  Kit
said with a flourish of her hand. 

*****

            Marina
sat at the bar, scribbling in her notepad. 
Her random thoughts and feelings about her day, her life and how she was
feeling at that moment.  Her tight hand
writing covered the light green page as she let her thoughts flow from the felt
tipped pen. 

            Sometimes she wrote
about how she felt, but lately she’d been writing about the people around her,
studying people.  Reactions and how they spoke.  It was a wonderful thing to be able to take
something like a blank piece of paper and turn it into something filled with
words.  She smiled to herself, she was in
love with her life, and she hoped beyond hope that there was no clouds in her
sky in the near future.