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It was a decent ride.
“That’s too on the nose,” Paige said when Rhea gestured to the solar-powered Ferris wheel. “Isn’t that where we first held hands? On accident?”
“Yeah, duh. Also, it wasn’t an accident.”
“Oh?” Even though Paige claimed she didn’t want to ride the Ferris wheel, they still got in line. “Are you telling me you played it smooth when we were on here for the first time?”
“I was capable of some smooth operation.” Rhea squeezed her wife’s hand as they awkwardly stood behind another couple who couldn’t stop making out for two seconds. “Not that smooth, though.” She jerked her shoulder toward the guy in a tank top. His girlfriend had almost completely fused with his limbs. Paige was almost impressed.
“Here I thought I was the one who made the first move.”
“You did when you asked me out.”
“I askedyouout?”
“Do you have amnesia? We started hanging out in the main quad because we were in the same comparative literature class.”
“Uh-huh. Whose idea was that?”
“The professor’s? He was the one who assigned us to work on a short presentation comparing George Elliot to Sinclair Lewis.”
“Good ol’Silas Marnervs.Main Street.Only one central town figure could come out on top as the speaking representative of their age. Anyway, the prof may have assigned us together for that one project, but it was my idea to meet up at the library to work on it. And it was my idea that we go outside to get some sun in the quad.”
“Yeah?”
“If we had stayed in the library, we would have finished and gone our separate ways. But since we were in the quad, we got to lie down and talk about more than whoever we studied in that class. I still remember you going on about Nathaniel Hawthorne like he was the coolest freakin’ dude to ever pick up a pen.”
“He’s still cool…”
“I readBleak Housebecause of you.”
“That’s Dickens…”
“Huh? Then what did I read?”
“You might be thinking ofThe Blithedale Romance.”
“Is that the one about the cult?”
“Close enough.”
“You’ve caught me. I only flipped through it because I wanted to know what a girl as smart as you was reading. Until then, I had only really read what I had been assigned. My favorite book was stillSuperfudgeat that point.”
“You’re blowing my mind right now.” It was their turn to pay for their tickets. Once they were shown to the next basket opening for business, Rhea quickly finished her thought. “I thought I made the first move when I ‘accidentally’ held your hand on this thing. You’re telling me you orchestrated us even going out on that date?”
“I don’t know if I would sayorchestrated.” They got on, Paige naturally leaning against her wife as the door closed. Things were finally quiet around them again. “But I decided I liked you by the end of our first work session. Because I didn’t want you to go the way of the other girls I dated, I played it slow. Decided to be more coquettish when wemutuallydecided to come to the Pier for a date.”
They ascended into the air. Rhea grumbled, “I totally held your hand first, though.”
“Look at us.” Paige wrapped her arms around Rhea’s torso. “Married for eleventy years.”
“If you can’t remember the actual number, it’s okay. We all get old.”
“Hey, now, just because I’m a couple months older than you…”
Rhea kissed the top of her wife’s head. “Thanks for being such a great study partner.”
“We’ve been studying a lot of things these past several years, huh?”
