Where did you get that ring

amused. “When your mother wants something tonight, tomorrow becomes illegal.”

“I’ll go,” I said.

But my father was already reaching for his keys.

“You’ve been driving us all week. Rest. We’ll be back in forty minutes.”

Forty minutes.

That was how long I believed I still had parents.

They left in my father’s black Lincoln. I stood in the doorway and watched continue reading …