Bared To You
I replied, forcing a smile that felt brittle, like it might snap clean off my face.
“It’s Sunday,” he said simply, as though that was reason enough. “I never see you on Sundays.”
“Right.” I muttered, nodding. It was an unspoken tradition for as long as I could remember—we never hung out on Sundays. No reason. We just… didn’t.
“I thought I might check on your sister, Benny,” I said, the words awkward in my mouth. “Didn’t you say she wasn’t feeling well?”
“That was two weeks ago,” he said with a confused frown. “She’s fine now.”