Chapter 5: Hal and Reggie: Back to Today
After Chris and Trey had left on their honeymoon, Reggie and Hal shook hands and Hal said, “That went well, didn’t it? But I wish it could have been us.”
“Well, why not?” Reggie said, smiling, holding onto Hal’s hand.
Hal looked down at their two old hands, knobby knuckles, age spots. No rings. “We’re kind of old, Reggie. We had our time.”
“Maybe this is our time, dear friend. The past was the past. The way it was, the way we had to be.” Together they walked across the sand to where some boulders lay in front of a hedge of Naupaka bushes and sat down, careful of the unaccustomed good clothes that they wore.
“Well we did what we could,” Hal replied, “not what we wanted, but what we were able to, or rather, had to, do.” They put their arms around
