Squinting against more camera flashes, I spot Joana’s car on the curb. Nearby, Oscar is talking heatedly in his phone, and once he sees me, his lips stop moving. The world stills. Bet this wasn’t on his Bingo card. Watch Donnelly get arrested for his family. If there was a time my friends thought I’d go to jail, it’d be for pissing outside after a night at the bars. It’d be for streaking on a college campus. It’d be for defending one of them at a club and getting in a fucking brawl. It’d never be for my family.
