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

“She’s…doing all right.” She could see in his eyes that he was lying for her. Any good friend would, of course, but it left her with mixed feelings. She didn’t want Liz to hurt. Andrea would be happiest, of course, if it could be being with her that would take away the reason Liz hurt, but it seemed like that was the unlikeliest solution. “She, uh, told me about…”


Chapter 19