Grad student Andrea is mostly self-assured and quite open to whatever the world might bring her way. She's sensible, but she's got a quiet belief in the supernatural and a daytime interest in studying history, and finds herself surprised to be falling head over heels for the older woman she just met. Liz is thrilled to have made a new best friend. Overjoyed with how well they click, how well her son likes Andrea, how much fun they have together, and how easily she can open up, Liz finally considers it might be more. Blissfully in love, Liz relishes in how all this makes her feel, and how it's almost made her forget that high school boyfriend she's been grieving over for a couple decades. But maybe things are too good to be true? A family dinner brings up questions for Liz. Questions that prove difficult to answer, and possible answers that defy logic and reason.

Eternally Yours

The fall semester fully under way, Andrea felt almost resentful of her classes and schoolwork because of how much time they took away from Liz. After a week or two of barely seeing each other, Liz invited her over for dinner and said, “Bring your homework. We may both need to study, but we learned early on that we could study together!” Soon, Andrea was spending at least three to four evenings a week as Liz’s place. She helped with dinner and cleanup, joined in with bedtime stories, and then both women would spread their school books across the table for study time. They’d fallen into a routine together, and Andrea loved it, but was currently quite distracted by it. All these changes since we met, and here I am again, with her studying across the table from me and completely oblivious to the fact I’m far too distracted to do my own work.


“I love you.” She’d been thinking it, and then just had to say it.


Liz looked up quickly, then let a slow smile cross her face. “I love you, too.”


Chapter 15