First Date

by Sue Watson

I go on ahead, and turn to see him discreetly pick up my used coffee spoon and napkin, and push them into his trouser pocket.

This would have freaked me out and he would have never seem me after that.

A psychologist I worked with once told me that within a group of people, a family unit always emerges. However long they’ve known each other, people subconsciously take on familial roles,

I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life with someone who didn’t give me anything. I felt I deserved more.