Acts of Service

by Lillian Fishman

And you like to feel superior to her, don’t you? Don’t you feel safe somehow, because you’re more beautiful than her?

woah okay there.

with the look of bashful gratitude that happy people use when their happiness is deserved.

But wasn’t that the nature of all love? Gratitude, for how we had been made to feel?

Why do you always thank Nathan? I asked. Why do you always say, Thank you, thank you, thank you? What else can I say? she said. Aren’t you grateful?

alrighty!