"Have you seen those fountains?"
I look up at her from where I am layed out. My head resting on a soft and cushy armrest.
Which fountains are you talking abooout?! Sheesh. I have seen many fountains in my life. Ancient ones, crappy ones... little teeny ones in doctors offices..." My voice trails off and I look up at the ceiling. "Specifity please."
Is that even a word?" She questions, biting at her lip and looking at me.
"I have no idea.It just fit."
I sigh and sit up "WHICH fountains are you meaning."
She looks startled. "OH!" and she sits forward in her flowered wingback chair. "The ones in the dentist offices..."
"Well...okay..Yes i know those fountains. Would you like one? Because Im broke."
She laughs and sits back again in her chair. When she laughs she looks younger, as Im sure everyone must.
A small fountain that sits upon a tabletop?
"It is like a heart."
She seems proud of herself. "Mmmhmmm" I murmer thinking about brownies.
"The liquid inside is always replenished...why is that?" she questions....Like Im 5.
"Weeeeeel that would be because there is a tube ya see and the tube sucks the liquid to the top once it reaches the bottom. I am only 65 percent certain of that since I have never seen a fountain close up."
"Laureen." She states.
"What." I stare. And then I add "I forget why you are supposed to be wise...just now. I forgot it, with all the talk of tabletop fountains."
She sighs at me. "You heart will always replenish. It will always fill again with love for others."
My eyebrow goes up. "Like a tabletop fountain?"
"Precicely." she beams
"So my heart has a tube that sucks up love at the bottom and squirts it back to the top then?"
I lean forward, prop my chin in my palms and look at her. "Are you saying that my heart sucks?"
She changes the subject instead of answering my very serious question.
"When did you laugh last?"
I squirmed "I dunno."
"You know."
"Last night I laughed. Hard and snorty. It was the first time in weeks I am sure..... "
"Good. Why did you laugh."
I smiled "Because...it was simply too hard not too."
