“Oh, yeah. Then collected arrests are the next natural step.”
“Naturally.”
“Naturally.”
“You know who else is buried in here?” she asked.
“Who?”
“Abelard and Heloise.”
“Seriously?”
“Don’t make fun, Tom.”
“What? I’m not. I’m seriously not. You know of Abelard and Heloise?”
“Uh, yeah, I-I’m a bit of a history buff, if you couldn’t already tell.”
“January, it’s like you were made for me,” I told her. I realized what I’d said way late in the moment and the silence was palpable. The cemetery trip was proving to be way more discerning an occasion then I ever thought possible. It seemed that light was being shed even as we walked through the dark night. I shook it away. “You know what they say about history,” I said, pretending I hadn’t made things awkward or revealingly uncomfortable for myself.
“It’s doomed to repeat itself?”
“I hope not,” I said, shivering at the thought of Abelard’s fate.
“You’re thinking about Abelard, aren’t you?
“Exactly.”
“Let’s change the subject then.”
Chapter Nine
When the Levee Breaks
Thomas
“Have you ever been to Rome?” January asked me the next morning as she exited her room.
I had to swallow before answering or she would have realized she’d tied my tongue. She was wearing a dress. Zap. A short one. Zap, Zap. And as dark blue as her eyes, making me want to keel over at her feet.
“Never,” I told her as I grabbed her bag from her. “January?” I asked her, walking a bit ahead.
“Yes, dear?” I smiled to myself, refusing to look at her.
“You look lovely today.”
“Thank you,” she said, an answering smile hidden on her face as well. I could hear it. “So, who’s in Rome?”
“A South African band named The Great Remember. I’ve been wanting to see them for some time now. I got wind of them through a mutual friend of Jason’s and mine.”
“Cool. What’s their sound?”
“Kind of a cross between folk and rock. Chicks will dig ’em. They use a lot of unusual instruments in their recordings as well as live, a lot of acoustic stuff, a lot of sweet sounding melodies. For some reason they favor G major.”
“That’s my favorite key.”
“You may like them then. I haven’t seen them live yet though, looking forward to it.”