
01 · DRAGGED TO THE PARTY
Lanterns strung between the palms, somebody's speaker doing its best, a bay going black and silver behind all of it. Wade wasn't looking for anybody either. He'd come with a friend and stayed because the night was warm and leaving felt like effort.

02 · UNDER THE BOUGAINVILLEA
It was nearly midnight when they ended up on the same side of the same flowering wall, both of them out of the noise for a minute. Neither one of them remembers who spoke first. Both of them remember the other one laughing.

03 · THE MOON OVER THE WATER
By the time the moon cleared the water they'd walked to the end of the dock and run out of reasons to go back. Nobody said the word forever. They just both quit checking the time.