I Was Shopping for Dinner… Then I Caught a Falling Box Above the Beautiful Store Clerk

“Me too.”

We did not turn the conversation into an exchange of every difficult thing that had made us who we were. We had only known each other a few weeks. There was room to be honest without demanding the entire history at once.

Instead, she touched my arm.

“Food?”

“Desperately.”

At the café, we found a table near the window. Sabrina ordered a sandwich and iced tea. I ordered a wrap and coffee, mostly because pottery had exhausted parts of my concentration I had not known existed.

She watched