You First

by J.C. Lillis

“I wish I could afford to take you someplace nice.” “This is someplace nice.” “It’s nice because it’s tradition.” “That’s the best kind of nice.”

“I wish we could go back to the beginning. Do it all again.” “Yeah, so do I.” He traces a circle around my belly button. “Like, we could be better this time around. We could enjoy the best times more while we were in them. And we could avoid the bad times, because looking back, they were such a waste.”