Deborah's Song

Chapter 62
Friday, five minutes before noontime, Deborah called.
Simmy answered the phone, "Hello!"
"Hi, what ya doin' this afternoon?"
"Well, I was thinking of going to some thrift stores to look for more books for the movie set library."
"Really? You were really planning to go out?" Deborah couldn't believe her luck. An afternoon out, with Simmy, scrounging through history was her most favorite thing to do.
"Do you want to join me?" Simmy tossed her hook.
"You betcha!" Deborah slung the response into a street language 'I'm down with that' cool talk.
"Okay, my little urban dictionary lingo princess, I'll pick you up at 12:30?"
"12:40, the kids are off to school at that time," Deborah responded.
At 12:45, Simmy pulled up to Deborah's in the Hummer. As Deborah jumped into in she asked, "Where are we going?"
"We could go to the two stores I took you to last time or, hmm, I know, I could take you to that other thrift store... you know the one I was telling you about? The one that sells stuff to buy Bibles for missions."
"Let's go to that one," Deborah responded. She loved trying the new thing.
Half an hour later they arrived, across town, at the Dutch Anabaptist thrift store.
Simmy and Deborah walked the perimeter of the store and looked at all the 'stuff;' and 'stuff' there was, loads of it.
At the glass candle holder shelf, Simmy, with an interior designers' eye for treasure, snatched a clear glass candle holder off the shelf.
Deborah exclaimed, "That's exactly like my candle holders, on my coffee table."
Simmy responded, "It's really nice," but didn't give it up.
Deborah wandered, like a child in a new candy store, looking at the treasures. Simmy entered the bookstore. There was a remembrance stamped on her soul from when she had been here last year. She sensed the memory and looked for the treasure. There was a song book section, quite a good one, hymnals, even a Spanish one.
She looked at the book shelves, searching... "Aha, 'Emma,' there you are." Perfect for the 1950's scenes they were currently filming.
Happily, Simmy went to check the fabric section. She found this lovely piece of 'suiting' that would look great as a throw for her winter decorating scheme.
Half an hour later, Deborah was getting antsy so Simmy asked, "Would you like to go to the German donut shop?"
"Yep," it was going to be a street lingo day.
They paid and got back in the Hummer after a heavily accented Dutch lady exclaimed about the glass candle holder and gave Simmy a sideways hug. She was one of the volunteers.
As Deborah got back in the Hummer, Simmy pulled the glass candlestick holder out of her bag and got in the drivers' seat. With one graceful movement she put it into Deborahs' lap and started the engine.
Blustering objections and then a simple 'thank you' made the sun shine brighter.
"What was that saying you said earlier?" Simmy asked.
"I'm pickin' up what you're layin' down," Deborah quipped with urban dictionary prowess.
"Would you like to come in for tea?" Deborah invited. I'll play you that song that just made me cry, at the 2010 Olympics. K.D. Lang sang 'Hallelujah' written by Leonard Cohen."
The laptop speakers weren't cooperating on the Olympic Youtube so she found the 2005 Juno performance...
The first lines were about David...
Simmy said, "He seems to be talking about King David and his affair with Bathsheba. Oh, but that reference is Samson and Delilah."
Simmy retold the David and Bathsheba story as she remembered it.