“HELEN, THE DINNER WAS delicious,” Anna says as we sit in the living room for dessert.
“Yeah, Mom,” Gladys says. “Best food I’ve had in a while.”
“I’m stuffed,” Nate says.
“I’m not surprised, Bae,” Gladys says to him, “considering how much you ate at the community dinner.”
“I have a high metabolism,” he says, “you know that about me.”
“So,” Anna says, looking at me with her arms crossed, “are you going to tell us this big secret you’ve been keeping?”
Helen and I look at each other as Bill says, “What secret?”
“I don’t know, but both of them have been dying to tell us something all through dinner. I’ve gotten very good at reading you two, you know?”
“We need to practice our poker faces, Tom,” Helen says.
“You have a secret?” Nate asks.
“Oooh, what is it? Have you two eloped? Is th
