More On… II 55B

And so after lunch, and babying never mentioned again, they window shopped some more and actually shopped. Where Sawyer finally gave in to his urge to get Laura something. Declaring to himself that this time it won’t take him months before he gives it to her. Reminded of Hannah. Even though he had bought two or three things for Laura already since they started dating. And then they went swimming.

He was enjoying himself. Noelle hadn’t vouched for how the day would turn out but it is actually really good he came out with them. Very not bad at all. And as they walked and laughed back towards school, neither one having very much money for a long cab drive, Otto saw children no older than eight or nine, two of them running around someone he assumed was their father while a third pulled on a woman talking to another woman and pointing at the others. Instantly thinking they were a family. He wasn’t wrong.