Loyalty Day
Sunday, May 1, 2005
It was Sunday morning, the first day of May – Loyalty Day. And as Collette sat drinking a glass of cranberry juice at 5:57am, an email appeared in her account, sent December 31st, 6:00pm, 1969. Most peculiar – there was no sender name attached. How it appeared in her Moss folder, she was clueless. It had never even been in her Inbox to begin with.
It was bizarre to think that, after a full three months, Diana would finally be coming home again that Saturday. It would be so good to have her back again, even though she would surely be busy with her internship, catching up with her many friends, and everything else Diana was always up to. And by the time she returned in early August, who knew, but she might have a new baby brother at home.
Collette felt like a folklore sort of day – gathering all the old tales, myths, and legends, from Rumpelstiltskin to the Vikings and Mulan, and reading them on a rainy afternoon. Then she might paint some of them out. But what she really wanted, was to find “Scholar at the Window”, (by Rembrandt) and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (by Vermeer), and hang them on the wall.