The Anything Friend

by Michela DiMarco

CHAPTER 10

  “One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones other people will never know about.” Anne Tyler

 

  Elizabeth was thankful her parents had a late reservation. She was almost worried they were never going to leave. Finally, at seven-thirty, they piled into the car to drop Colby off once again at Uncle Jeff’s house before headed out to dinner and a late concert downtown at a park. She put on a purple Duke University hooded sweatshirt and black yoga pants and headed out the back door.

  Jack was already waiting in the backyard with a blanket set out on the grass. He had two pillows on the blanket and two more blankets in his hands. Elizabeth smiled. She had boyfriends before. Not anyone significant enough to say she really cared about any of them, but this was one of the sweetest things any boy had ever done for her and she hadn’t even figured what it was all about, yet.

  “Are you a dreamer?” he called out as she walked towards him.

  “Sure, dreams make life tolerable.”

  “You got that from the movie Rudy,” he laughed. “And, here I didn’t think you knew anything about football.”