The Gathering 01.67 – The Gathering ReDux – Pt. 15

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            Jenny and Lara were talking about cooking.  Lara was describing how to make a crme brulee, and what sort of wine to serve with it.  Jenny listened with rapt attention; Lara spoke about food as if it were alive and she loved it with the every fiber of her very being.

            “Sometimes simple food is the best food, creamy, sweet, salty or crunchy.  It’s all the way it tastes on your palate.  How something taste one way on the front of your tongue and another on the back of it, the texture of it against your lips…”  Jenny smiled at how she spoke about the food. 

            “You talk about it like it’s your lover.”  Lara giggled; putting her hand on Jenny‘s bare leg and Jenny smiled at the sweet touch.

            “It sort of is.”  They both laughed, Marina watched the exchange with a bit of envy, but not much.  She knew that Jenny would always find her way back to her.  They had that close of a connection; at least that is what Marina felt.

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            “Who do you keep looking at?”  Sam said, looking up and seeing that it was Bette and Tina, and Shane looked away.

            “Oh, oh, which one are ya lustin’ for?”  Sam said in an easy southern accent.  Shane scoffed and waved off the comment.

            “Bette….?”  Ventured Sam and Shane looked at her and gritted her teeth.  She shrugged and said nothing.  “The more you don’t say, the more you do, Grasshopper.  Bette slept with Jayden, I’ll venture a guess that you were in the room too?”  Shane laughed, forgetting to look at Bette for a moment.  Sam smiled at the stud of the boulevard and felt her beeper go off at her hip.

            “I was right, good for Jayden.  Oh you are shitting me…”   She grabbed the pager and looked at the number, she grunted saying she had to find a phone.  Instantly Shane had her cell phone out and Sam dialed the number with a grin on her face.

            “Is Gus ok?”  Was the first thing out of Sam‘s mouth and Brian scoffed.