Matthew looked at her animated face, too animated if you asked him, as if she was trying to force things to be normal by talking about normal things. She was well dressed anyway, a teal blue silk blouse on a black well-tailored skirt. She paired it with brown strappy heels. The vacation had been good to her. Her complexion looked more rosy and she seemed to be in perfect health. But anyways, he still had bad news to break to her.
“Julianna”, his voice was low initially such that Julianna didn't hear but continued to nervously chatter away. So he cleared his throat and repeated himself, a bit louder this time. “Julianna”.
Her eyes finally refocused on his face. The tone with which he had called her name was strange in itself and Julianna peered closely at him, “Is everything okay? You loo
