“The dance,” she repeats. Then her face lights up. “The George Washington High School Annual Football Awards Ceremony?!” “That’d be the one,” I say. “Oh my God!” she exclaims. “But you?” I feel my jaw clench a little. “Really, Mom? ‘You?’” She rolls her eyes at me. “Ugh, Charlie, that’s not what I meant,” she says. “I’m just surprised.”
