Asher is hosting poker night at his place tonight. Pretty much everyone in our friend group is gathered here, either at the two poker tables that have been set up in the living room for tonight’s festivities, or at the bar stools lining the kitchen island.
Sara and a couple of the girls—Bailey and Aubree—are in the kitchen talking. Becca is sitting on Owen’s lap at one of the poker tables, and Elise is in the kitchen stirring something in a mixing bowl while she tells a story that has the other girls cracking up laughing.
A catering service has delivered various appetizers that are warming in aluminum chafing trays, and coolers of ice-cold beer are filled to the brim. But I’m not interested in spicy chicken wings or chilled beverages right now—mostly because I haven’t been able to pull m
