Woman to Woman?

Liz has more to share about the fateful day she and Anthony mayB-sorta got engaged:

April,

Ha! My turn's not over yet. Take THAT, Mike! I've been telling this since the end of February. By the end of this week, it'll have been more than four weeks of me telling this. Yay, me!

So when I heard that Anthony and Frenchy were ending their talk, I ran to the kitchen so Anthony wouldn't figure out I'd been snooping. I pretended to be about to wash my mug, so Anthony would be thinking how domestic-like and "making a home" I am.

Feeling my face looking especially Mike-ish, I asked him, "Is Françoise upset?" And Anthony answered, "A little. She's not quite sure what to make of our conversation." I put a hand to my breastbone and got that look Mom taught us to have when we do that, and asked him, "Did you tell her that I don't want to take the place of her mother?" Since Easter is coming up, I was kind of afraid Anthony might have said something like, "If you don't call Elizabeth 'Mommy,' the Easter Bunny will suicide himself." And while that might sound like a good parenting technique, our school psychologist tells me that kind of thing is "damaging."

Anyway, Anthony told me, "Yes. She knows you're a good friend, Liz. I think she's afraid that if we get married, she'll lose one of us." I wasn't sure which "us" he meant. "Us" as in ME and Anthony, or "us" as in "Thérèse and Anthony." Because I kind of think she doesn't really think of herself as having the "ME and Anthony" kind of "us," and besides, how would us marrying mean "losing" one of that "us"? But I wasn't going to ask Anthony all that. Instead, since I saw that Frenchy had trailed out of her bedroom, I bent down, put a hand on one of her shoulders, and asked her, "Francie....could we have a chat? Woman to woman?" And Frenchy said, "OK." I was holding her hand, and as we went into her room, she asked me, "Would you like some tea?" I had to smile because at least she learned somehow that you need hot beverages to have a real conversation. Well, unless you are having one in a car. Then you have the "moving vehicle" exception. But that's not important right now.

No, what's important is that IT'S MONDAY AGAIN AND STILL MY TURN! YEEEHAW! YAY, YAY, YAY! Stay tuned, April and maybe I'll share what happened in the woman-to-woman "chat" I had with Frenchy.

Liz

OMG, Liz, U musta totally gotten the newest Patterson manual on stretching out yr stories. U have managed to advance yr story almost none. Anyway, ppl, prolly more of this tomorrow.

Apes