Angie opened her arms to the girl and scooped her up in them, sitting her down on her lap.  “Hey squirt, what are you doing here?  Where Mommy?”

Just then Angie heard the exasperated sounds of her wife as she came yelling through the trees.  “Bailey, you get back here young lady.”

Looking at her daughter, Angie motioned to towards the sounds of her wife and asked the child “Did you take off on Mommy again?”

Laughing, Bailey answered in the affirmative as she nodded her head up and down.

“She’s gonna be mad at you, because you know you are not supposed to run off like that.”

“I know Mama, but I knew that you would be sitting down here at the lake, and I just wanted to see you.  I missed you.”

Smiling at her daughter, Angie called up towards the trees “She’s ok Lyndsay, she’s down here at the lake with me.”

As Lyndsay appeared through the trees, she had a very stern look on her face.  “Young lady, how many times have I told you that you can’t just take off on me like that, I had no idea where you were.”

Looking at each other, Angie and Bailey both looked back toward Lyndsay and started to laugh.  This was not helping either of them win any points with her as she did not see the humour in the situation at all.

“This is not funny Ang, she has got to learn to listen to me.”

Looking at Bailey, Angie said “I think you are in trouble squirt.”

Clearly not impressed, Lyndsay replied “She’s not the only one.”  When Lyndsay had arrived home the previous day and found the note Angie had left for her she had initially been furious.  Quickly she had made arrangements to cover for herself at work the next day, and packed some clothes for both herself and Bailey.  The next morning she had made the drive out to the lake to find her wife, knowing that something was up.  When something was bothering Angie, she always headed to the lake to figure things out, so Lyndsay had given her one night alone, then naturally followed, just like she always did.