The Love We Make 2: It's 1992 and the world is bewildered by recent headlines.
"His Royal Badness Prince is now MARRIED with a SON, and the boy is already 3 YEARS OLD! Was he really hiding the kid this whole time? Or is this sudden marriage hid...
Since the secret was out, Letty sounded like she was ready to end the night. "Thanks for coming over, and for listening. I appreciate it." But Huey wasn't giving up so easily. He suggested they watch a movie in the living room and they both moved there, way out of my ear's reach.
Back in her bedroom, I went in her closet looking for nothing in particular. As I thought of my next move—sleep, leave or spy—the load roar of the MGM lion could be heard from downstairs. The image of her sitting on the couch glued to his side with his arm around her, so close that one turn towards each other and their lips would touch, sickened my stomach. It was then I realized I needed to leave.
Looking now for pen and paper, I jumped from her stuffed closet of clothes and shoes to her dresser again to the nightstand. The bottom drawer is where I finally found some notebooks. She had a bunch of them, little pocket ones that said things like "Faith Over Fear". They were all empty. So I grabbed the one that said "It Won't Be Easy But TRUST It'll Be Worth It."
Digging under miscellaneous instruction manuals for all the gadgets in her house, I found a purple pen. But I also found a palm-sized box. It was black and tied shut with yellow ribbon.
Crossing my legs as I sat on the floor, I studied the perfect bow at eye-level, slowly twisting and tilting to mentally snapshot the art of it. Then carefully, I unraveled the ribbon to see what it was guarding.
A Post-it was stuck on the inside of the lid.
Missing you already. My eyes are as blue as his.
The gift was a yellow-marble guitar pick that read ACE.
Running my thumb over the three purple letters, happiness tugged the corners of my mouth 'til my smile couldn't get any bigger. The design resembled my Gett Off single cover. I wondered if that was done on purpose. And being that she was so crafty, I also wondered if she engraved the pick herself. Or maybe she ordered it and only crafted the hole in the top center to make it into a pendant. The beaded chain it was attached to was 14K gold.
Holding it up, I flipped the pick to see it had more engraving on the back.
02.19.92
Not a second was needed to understand its significance. It was the day I met my son.
It blew my mind that Letty held onto that. I told her so much that night on the phone that I didn't even remember saying when, but I must've. I just remember her "really" reaction, shocked to learn just the year before Ace didn't exist in my world.
After deciding not to steal it, I tied the ribbon back to perfection and put the box where I found it. Then with different emotions, I wrote her that note to leave behind on her pillow.
I hear the chords but I don't know the words.
This feels like our beginning but I don't know the ending.
All I know is...
The butterflies r heading north.
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