Twenty-Six
Sean
“Can I get you anything else?”
I looked up briefly and shook my head at the waitress, then put my head back down and went back to the article I was reading.
It was my lunch break and I was eating alone at a burger place by my new office.
The food was good, but I was beginning to feel like the town leper. I’d eaten by myself every day since I’d started. I thought about going back to my apartment every day and eating lunch there, but that seemed even more depressing than eating alone at a restaurant.
The first few days I’d looked at my phone while eating, then I’d tried bringing a book, but I’d started picking up a paper on the way and reading that. I’d found I missed holding an actual paper in my hands, rather than reading digitally.
There were a lot of things that I
