Ever After by William Wharton

Author:William Wharton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

The next morning we play tennis at seven. Rosemary beats me six-four. She plays like a demon. Her usually weak service is a bullet, or at least it seems like one to me. Then we take our bike ride, all the way to Spring Lake and back, then to the end of Asbury and back: that’s better than ten miles. We don’t talk much.

We’re wearing our bathing-suits under our tennis outfits, so as soon as we return, we jump into the ocean. The lifeguards are just setting up the stands. Dave, Bobbie’s husband, spots us and comes over. Bobbie was one of the ones who was with us that terrible evening.

We can tell this is going to be painful for him, too. He offers his condolences. There are tears in this big man’s eyes. He’s six-three and must weigh 220 pounds. We try to console him. We dry off, get onto our bicycles and return home. I go up to change. I peek into Robert’s room. He’s asleep. I’m not going to wake him. I wonder if he ever thinks about how much like death sleeping is. Maybe then he wouldn’t sleep so much, or maybe that’s why he does.

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