We call Nora first.
Rhys's idea, which tells me everything about who he is, choosing his sister before anyone strategic or impressive, just the person who will feel it most and deserves to hear it first.
She picks up on the second ring and before either of us speaks she says, "Something happened. I can hear it."
"We are engaged," Rhys says.
The sound Nora makes is not crying exactly. It is the sound of someone who has been hoping for something specific for a long time and has just found out it happened and their body does not know what to do with the relief.
"Oh thank God. Oh thank actual God. Joel owes me forty pounds."
"You bet on us?" Rhys asks.
"Obviously," she says. "Joel said six months minimum before you sorted yourself out. I said eight weeks." A pause. "It h
