10
L.J. and Jay meet again
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to be blown
Grateful Dead: "Ripples"
The morning sun awakens the couple and Jay is quick to get out of bed and into the kitchen where he prepares two cups of tea for them.
Coming into the bedroom he notices that the bed is empty. He listens for a sound from her and then spots it from the bathroom. she is having a shower. "How neat", he thinks... "She is still here and yesterday was for real!"
He puts the tea cups on the bed tables and waits for Pearly...
She is singing in the shower now, he can hear.
Smiling he sips his tea and his thoughts are going far away to a future with Pearly.
He can barely conceive what has happened since their meeting with Earl, only yesterday.
Here she comes, with his Koftan on. "Ah; you look brilliant, almost like an Arabian lady from 1001 nights. Just a tiny bit too blond, though", he says.
She sits down beside him and takes her cup of tea. So they just sit there; sipping and smiling in between; they just can't help themselves from doing it...
The tea finished and Pearly turns to Jay and says: "I need to go up to my studio and pack things now and I will be back this afternoon, maybe a little late; I have to pay the last rent and it's not easy finding the landlord".
"Take your time Pearl, but do come back!" He smiles at her as she does at him. She goes to dress, while he goes into the office to find some data on the next client.
Pearly soon joins him and after a couple of kisses and more hugs, she leaves. It seems difficult, but as she says; "what needs to be done, must be done. I'll see you, my love!
Big smile from her as she says that...
Off she goes and Jay is walking around in his red office; "she said she liked the colors in this room, didn't she? Or has she commented on it at all? Can't remember"...
He walks over to the red armchair and sits down, looking out at the dark blue Mediterranean Sea and the peninsula across the bay and the Theodoros Island with all the Kri-Kri sheep. This special and rear sheep can only be found on Crete and this little island is now a preservation area for them. No tourists or anyone who haven't got the stamped allowance from the Mayor's Office can go ashore there.
He sees this and himself sitting in the chair contemplating the last two days' events.
Where is L.J. now? He sure would like to have his view of what is happening.
"You are expanded now, Jay!" a well-known voice says. Do you know what that means?"
Jay looks up as if to see the boy in front of him, but he is not of matter; he is a spirit, or what?
"That's right, Jay, you can only see me as a spirit."
"Hello, L.J.; does that mean that you are an angel now?"
"Hmm, I don't have an answer to that, Jay. I would have to be your very private angel then, wouldn't I? I cannot enter any other human, you know; and if it is so, you are an angel too, don't you think? I mean, as I am a part of you"...
Jay contemplates this and has no answer to it himself. "I have to think about your statements, L.J. and maybe I can find an answer; for myself, at least."
"But would it be the right answer, you believe?"
"As far as I understand; it will be, but I might need to go deeper and deeper with these questions. I imagine there are many, many layers here!"
"Ah! You are perfectly right, Jay! I’m happy to hear that. Angels do exist, but not in the imaginary shapes humans want to see them."
"Yes I know, we are still under the influence of priests and false prophets, I believe."
"I am amazed by the way you talk today. You haven't been talking to me like that before. Is it the affair with this lovely woman you were spending the night with?"
"No, it's my own realization that helps me to bend my neck and be humble, but to be humble I have to be strong. You are helping me to really see what I have to do in my life and in this world. I still have a long way to go, L.J."
"It depends on you. I can now feel that you take me in as a part of your life again, my friend; and that makes us one, for a while. That you are able to realize this makes it easier for you, of course."
“Have you got anything to tell me on what I need to do further on?"
"Walk in your own tracks, Jay; you have a lot of experience to build on. I will watch over you and come back when it's needed to see if it's working out for you, if not I will pop up before you know it!" Then he laughs our laughter! Jay feels happy with the situation!!
L.J., are you still there?
No word from the little angel.
As before, Jay feels satisfied anyway, because every conversation he has with him gives him so much to think upon and it may take days before Jay sees what L.J. is telling him...
So he sits still in his ruby red arm chair and watches the view outside; contemplating today's exchange of views...
He is thinking of his two friends that he has involved in his confusion and his everyday life with all these calamities going on.
Is it right for him to do this; shouldn't he find his own way through his own mess?
He knows that he would stay with his friends if they had trouble in their lives. "Everybody needs the comfort of friends, colleagues and family now and then", he said out in the room...
"A little guilt has to show up too", he ensured himself.
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