She woke to the sound of her pet birds calling. A slow smile began to form, "Alright, alright! I'm awake babies give me a minute." She pushed herself into a sitting position and looked out her bedroom door to see her Blue and Gold Macaws watching her. "Good morning Rhett and Scarlett." A low chorus of good mornings could be heard.
Wrapping her peach silk robe about her, she walked into the livingroom, to the cage in which the birds resided. The young woman opened the door and let her pets out to play.
Continuing to the kitchen to make her coffee, she hummed a tuneless song. Gazing out of the kitchen window she watched her many other birds flutter about the aviary. She smiled and opened the window before pouring her coffee and wandering out to get the paper on the front porch.
"Morning Tom. How's the job?" The lady asked her elderly neighbor.
"Not too shabby, just the usual problems with the local teens," Her neighbor responded with a chuckle.
Laughing with him, Arianna shook her head. Tom had been her neighbor for years and was currently the janitor at the local highschool. "Tom when are you going to learn what retirement is?"
"Never Ari my dear. If I retired then I'd be doing nothing. We still on for tonight?" A glint in his eyes told her that he was up to something, but she didn't heed the warning.
"Yep, unless I get caught up with some hot guy later."
"Don't you go doin' that now woman. Men 'round here don't know the first thing about how to treat a woman like you."
Ari smiled warmly at her neighbor. Every week Tom and her had dinner and watched what ever movie was rented. Tonight was steak and a horror movie. Swallowing the saliva that had built up she grinned, "You're right. What more could I possibly want when I have you?" They both laughed, knowing that the 30 years between them nothing would ever come of thier 'Date' nights.
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