Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage
I told him about the terrible vacation story Lucas had shared with me once, his family's disastrous week at a rain soaked coastal town when he was twelve, how he had told it with such vivid, self deprecating humor that I had laughed until my sides ached despite everything weighing on me that particular evening.
I described the way he had acted out each disaster of that vacation, his father's collapsed tent, the seagull that had stolen an entire picnic lunch directly from his hands, his own dramatic, twelve year old outrage at the unfairness of it all, and Jonathan laughed properly for the first time since the funeral, a real, unguarded sound that startled us both slightly with how unfamiliar
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