The Couple Across the Street

by Anita Waller

She’d never looked at another man – oh, who was she kidding, she lusted after David Beckham, tattoos and all

But at some point we have to live again. He’s never coming back; he’ll live on in my

heart and I’ll carry on thinking about him every day of my life.

He was listening to Post Malone singing ‘Congratulations’, raucously singing along with it, trying to keep his thoughts away from what would happen in the next half hour when he hopefully would be meeting Nanette Lawton for the first time in several years.