“What are you doing here all by yourself?  I came home yesterday to find your note saying you were heading to the lake house for a couple of days, please don’t worry, I’ll call you later to explain.”

Knowing that this sudden unexplained trip would be hard to explain to her wife, Angie just smiled at her and replied “Sorry, I know I should have talked to you, it’s just that I…..” and she trailed off not finishing her sentence.

Lyndsay looked at her wife, and knowing her like she did, she knew there was another reason behind this sudden trip, but she was not sure just what it might be.  As her gaze at Angelica softened, she smiled at her wife and just shook her head.  “You know, I don’t know if I will ever fully understand you, or what goes on in that pretty little head of yours.”

“You know me better than you think.”

“Perhaps.”  Lyndsay replied as she walked over and sat down beside Angie on the bench. 

Angie leaned over and gave her a soft kiss on the lips.  “Thanks for coming, I’m glad you’re here.”

Bailey climbed down from Angie’s lap and headed toward the lake shore.

Angie called after her daughter “Bailey you remember not too close to the shore line ok?”

“Yes Mama….I remember” came the quick response.

Lyndsay stared at her wife and shook her head.  “You know I will always follow you, where ever you go, I just wish you had talked to me instead of disappearing like this.”

“Yes, I do know that.  I think somehow I knew you would follow me here.”

“I would have come with you if you had asked?  Damn it Ang, after all of these years, I thought you knew that.”

Turning to where their daughter stood, Angie softly let out a sigh.  “She’s getting so big.”

Knowing that Angie had purposely changed the subject, Lyndsay just sat there wondering if she truly ever would understand this complicated wife of hers.  As they watched their daughter picking up stones along the shoreline and tossing them into the water, Angie was transported back in time to a day she had done the same thing.  The day Bette had first explained the symbolic meaning of the ripples on the water.  As tears started to fall down her cheeks, Angie leaned back into her wife’s arms.