"Evelyn, no!" Ninny cried inwardly. "Why do you have only two days?"

Happily, her dearest woman wasn't in the same room, so Ninny could calm herself and try her best to hide her pain.

Evelyn was in the kitchen, but soon she Ninny. "I'll have more than two weeks at Whistle Stop," she mentioned carelessly.

The woman was happy to hear it, but she wanted to know how it was possible. She was going to flirt a little to cover her excitement.

"Come here, love, I have something for you."

"What can it be?"

"Not more than we had last night," she chuckled and drawn Evelyn to herself. "Mmm, how about a hot kiss?"

"On the lips?"

"Do you have any other ideas? If yes, we need to go to bedroom, and you'll know what true love is except care, and spending almost all time together. Do you remember last night? Oh, you were magnificent. I wonder if you want it every day until the end of your staying here."

"Can it be a secret?"

"A secret, from me? Why? I hope you remember how you did something to me to make me feel blissful? Don't you want to see my special smile every day like last night when you did it finally? You have 16 days, yes?"

"Probably, I do. Besides, I have nobody to wait me at home, even friends. I have few friends, but they have husbands and children."

"Here's a person who is very glad to see you."

"Do you know how I can thank that person?" Evelyn pretended she understood nothing.

"Close your eyes."

Ninny stood behind Evelyn. She put her hands at Evelyn's stomach and started caressing.

"Mmm, you're doing a very good job."

"Love, you underestimate me," Ninny commented and put her hands over Evelyn's breasts. Despite the woman was dressed in a T-shirt, she was turned on at once.

"Can we go to bed now?"

"Why do you want to go all the way to another room? Don't you see this comfortable couch, my dearest Miss Couch?"

"Yes, but . . ." Evelyn was stopped by Ninny's seductive voice.

"I know why you decided to stay here. You can't get enough of us. You don't want our blissful time to be over." Despite her intentions to sound seductively, the woman tried not crying. What if Evelyn says something that would make Ninny almost crying?

Happiness can appear out of nowhere, without even a smallest reason. No matter how strongly a person wants to be happy, wishing isn't enough. Happiness can come, but it can go away easily. Evelyn had her happiness, and she wanted to keep it for their sake, for both of them, at least until the end of her vacation.

"If there was a machine producing happiness, I know at least one person who doesn't need it." Evelyn was speaking, looking at Ninny.

"Who is the person?" The woman wanted to know.

"You wanted to kiss me. If you still want it, I'll tell you everything later."

This later didn't come even after five minutes.

"Evelyn, I can't any more. I want you right now."

The situation was perfect, and the woman knew what to do. "I think you want to know who the happy person is."

Ninny and Evelyn were free for a little more than two weeks. Evelyn wanted them to enjoy every minute of it.

XXX

"Love, why are you smiling?" Evelyn was looking at her dearest person an hour later. They went to bedroom finally.

"You gave me a reason." Ninny replied. "We've spent enough time in bed. Of course, neither of us was sleeping."

"You are the happy person, and I hope you'll stay this way forever."

"How can you be so sure?" The woman thought. "You changed my life. I know, I should not take it (you in my life) for granted, but I don't want our life to be different." However, she said, "I don't know about the future, but I am. I really am right now."

XXX

Few days passed. Ninny knew Evelyn liked Whistle Stop, but she wanted to give her more than just spending time in a very small town.

"Do you like Birmingham?" The woman asked after breakfast.

"I don't know," Evelyn admitted.

"You've never been there?" It was first that came to Ninny's mind.

"Yes," the woman shrugged.

"In this case, we should go if you don't object."

"You can convince me to go anywhere."

Ninny looked at the clock and pondered a little. "Next train to Birmingham leaves at 10:25 A.M. We have almost an hour."

"What if we're late?" Evelyn hesitated.

"We should stop talking now and do everything quickly."

Extrovert Ninny became the boss or even mother*, and introvert Evelyn needed nothing more than be ready on time.

XXX

Of course, they didn't miss the train.

Diversity is wonderful, but Ninny and Evelyn had the proof that their relationship is more than just desire to spend time together. Being together was naturally for them. They didn't want to give any hint to people around, so the women pretended they're not as close as they were really.

"Evelyn, please, you're in Birmingham, but not at a wax museum." Ninny lowered her voice and added, "Stop staring at me."

"I do what I want, but I don't let people around think about you-know-what." The woman told when they were going along a very quiet street. Most of people were at work. "Besides, when there are people around I do nothing like that."

"Yes, but Birmingham is so beautiful. The city doesn't have such clean air as Whistle Stop, but once in a while it worth to see something very modern."

They didn't only look around, Evelyn mostly. The women were shopping, and also had lunch at a café in the middle of the day.

"Ninny, look, there's vinyl record store across the street."

Whatever Ninny suggested, Evelyn accepted every time. However, she had never seen the woman being so happy about something that was her own interest. Ninny liked listen to music, but she preferred radio.

"Of course, we'll go."

She didn't think about particular song or singer. She wanted to find something interesting. Songs in foreign languages wasn't problem as long as there was little booklet with original version and English translation.

Surprisingly, Ninny bought a few records—the songs were her favourite. She could listen to them many times from now on.

Evelyn, however, found something precious. One of the records she bought had a song Todo pasará, María*. She had never listened to the song, but even if she did, it had lyrics in Spanish. Happily, English translation made her realise that she found a real gem. The song was almost written for and about them, her as "I" and Ninny as María.

This record was a secret until Evelyn had to return home to start working.

"What was the best in our trip?" Ninny asked when they were at home in the evening.

Evelyn didn't mention the song, but her reply was the second best part. "You."

"Darling, please. You see me every day."

"Being with you there, if you want to hear this. Really, if I were alone, I wouldn't know at all where to go."

"The city had changed since I had been there last time, but I still remember something."

"Thank you for this present." She really thought about the trip this way.

It was not a present, but Ninny didn't want to spend time for pointless comment. She knew what to do to merit these words.

"We'll have dinner now, and then we'll go to bed. You know what I mean, yes?"

"Something like this?" Evelyn asked, and kissed Ninny on the lips passionately.

"Yes, and not only this. If I weren't hungry, I would gladly skip dinner."

*In the book, some people thought Ninny in the photo was Evelyn's mother. It happened accidentally in this fic, but I'm very glad.

**probably AU to the year of the song (1975).