His First Lady
“It’s too dangerous.”
The man doesn’t laugh. He just looks at me more closely, narrowing his eyes ever-so-slightly.
“I’m lucky my ankle didn’t break,” I say. My first joke didn’t make him laugh, so I double down. “I probably already have osteoporosis.”
“You don’t look any older than me,” he says, frowning slightly.
“How old are you?”
“25.”
A laugh bubbles out from my chest.
As I’m laughing, Cynthia makes her way over to me. “There you are! And – ah! You are here too.” She smiles, first to me, then to my unlikely savior.