"I'm..." I don't know what to say. I barely know him and yet I feel compelled to tell him everything. "My parents told me something unsettling tonight."
He's standing right next to me now. He picks up both glasses.
"Should we sit down?"
I nod and follow him to the sofa. He hands me my drink and puts an arm around my shoulder, pulling me close. It's a very intimate gesture, considering we are just two people who had a one night's stand last night.
"Tell me what happened."
"I found out tonight that just before that photograph was taken my sister had a child."
If he's shocked, he hides it well.
"That must have been very shocking for you," he says kindly as he rubs soothing circles on my arm.
"The baby was adopted... I have a niece, and I never knew it. She never told me. My siste
