Velma ponders

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Velma couldn’t understand her friend’s

sharpness.

Susan was darling.

Her baby had invigorated Velma.

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Velma persisted in the relationship.

Velma filled her bag with bread and staples, tossing in a toy for the baby.

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Vesta’s tight spot

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Had Leon and his mother raised Susan?

 

Vesta had stayed in her head

all her life.

 

 

Vesta found refuge in Sherman.

 

 

Silent, no questions, just bodies pressed together.

And purring.

Her throat was tight.  She should find Leon.

Scarlett stumbles in

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Scarlett shrugged as she started their

dinner dishes.

“I just don’t get it”

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Velma brought in the cups.

Scarlett chatted on.

“Being childless is so free.

That baby proves it!  haha.

Why would you get involved?

She really rubs Vesta the wrong way.

Have you noticed?”

Scarlett hung up her apron, reached for cocktail glasses.

Susan is content

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Susan didn’t know

what Velma and Vesta knew.

Yet.

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Susan was content.

 

She liked her living space, her baby was healthy, and she had Velma.

 

Velma was like the mother she didn’t have.

Velma Stunned

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The news was, of course preposterous.

Not just that her friend had a daughter, or that nobody knew about the daughter.

But the daughter was… brown

and

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recently came to town

and

was Susan.

Velma wanted Susan for her own daughter.

Velma was stunned.

Vesta knows

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Vesta woke with a start,

with Leon on her mind.

Was it him?

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Or was it Susan?

And Vesta knew.

It was Susan.

Susan was her daughter.

Scarlett and Sherman

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They settled in now that Scarlett’s project in New York was finished.

They had tea at 3 every day.

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Sometimes in the evenings they would dance.

Susan breaks a sweat

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Time to move again!

Susan’s dancer body was under there somewhere,

she was sure.

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What the future held

for her and the baby,

who knew?

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But first

she’d stroll the baby

then come back and read aloud…

it would be good for both of them.

Velma wants harmony

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Stitch.

“I think you two would like each other”

Stitch.

“if you spent more time together.”

Stitch.

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Vesta doubted it, and her face said so.

Stitch.

Velma’s perfect collar felt tight.

Stitch.

She didn’t usually press.

Stitch.

But she wanted everyone to get along.

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Prick.

She stared into her cup,

quilt tossed aside.

Vesta Ruminates

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Really.

After all these years.

Why were those memories on a loop?

Leon.

That hot summer; she was so big.

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One kiss.

One blessed kiss.

 

 

Then she was gone.

Vesta went to college.

 

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And what happened to the baby?

Did she want to know?