The Dress He Bought Three Days Early
It will sit in a shoebox on the top shelf of a closet.
It will sit in a cloud account with fourteen days left on it.
It will sit in a folder somebody thought they deleted.
And sometimes it sits under two inches of lace and a shade of foundation that doesn’t quite match, waiting for one person to be willing to reach out and move it — in front of everybody, knowing exactly how it will look if she is wrong.
Sophie came back down the path.
“We’re going Sunday too, right?”