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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning."

-Maya Angelou

A Word Between Us

Prompt #5

Luggage

Word Count: 564

"Lizzie, are you sure this is all that you brought?" Her boyfriend of two years asked incredulously, his eyes round in surprise.

Her blue eyes darted towards her purse and the small duffle bag in her right hand. She glanced up at him and looked at his luggage. She stifled a giggle when she noticed two large suitcases beside him, as well as a laptop case hanging from his right shoulder. In his left hand were both of their tickets.

She shrugged as she mentioned, "We are going to my house. I am pretty sure I can live off a duffle bag."

Darcy grinned at her before placing his two pieces of luggage onto the cart and leaned down to take her duffle bag to place it on top. He started pushing the cart, with Lizzie walking beside him.

He started again, his tone slightly hesitant, "It's just that - I'm not used to a woman who packs so little." Glancing at her expression, he hastily continued, "Even if we are going to your parents' home."

He continued as they finally made it to the line to be passed through Customs, "Gigi definitely brings more than a duffle bag everywhere we go."

Lizzie laughed at this, for she knew exactly how much Gigi prepared and packed for a trip – any trip. Be it, going home to San Francisco or going to Los Angeles to stay with her brother – she would always bring at least three large suitcases filled with whatever she could really find.

"I know," Lizzie said, as she smiled at him.

Darcy smiled back at her, but furrowed his eyebrows slightly. He added, however, "Caroline actually brings at least twice the amount of luggage as Gigi, whenever we go on trips."

Lizzie glanced at his face and saw that he looked nonchalant, considering what exactly he had confessed to her. She glared at him, as she said rather forcedly, her anger tightly constrained, "And how many times exactly did you go on trips with her?"

Darcy shrugged as they pushed the cart a little bit forward. He stopped and glanced at her, taken aback by her flushed facial expression. He mentioned hesitantly, "I don't know; too many to count. Why?"

He felt worried when she wouldn't speak, as she turned away abruptly. Darcy frowned and was about to ask if she wasn't feeling well, when he stopped himself from asking. He realized why exactly his girlfriend was acting in such a way. He chuckled, as he muttered, "Wow."

He asked her louder, "Are you jealous, Elizabeth Bennet?"

Lizzie spun her head around and looked at him in surprise. Her face instantly reddened with embarrassment as she tried to cover up her jealousy with stuttering words. Darcy laughed as he leaned forward to press his lips against her forehead. He pulled away as he tilted up her chin with his index finger. He searched her face and smiled widely, "Those trips were always with Bing. Why would you think that I would even contemplate on going with a vacation with her alone?"

Lizzie looked chagrined and had the decency to look ashamed by her anger and jealousy. She was about to speak when he shook his head. He pressed his forehead against hers and whispered, "I wouldn't mind, though, if I got to travel everywhere and anywhere in this world with just you."

Always exploring and unleashing,

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