Julie was quiet as she sat in the car, looking up at the endless blue sky. The same sky she and her mother used to look at when she was a child. Julie sighed deeply and thought how things could be different if her mother was still alive. She was nudged out of her thoughts by Thompson’s arms wrapping around her and she relaxed in his familiar touch.
“You know, when I was a child, I would ask my father to come with me to this park. But every time, he just refused with all kinds of excuses. I’m busy with this…I’m busy with that. And look at him now, he’s so eager to meet me at this park but not for the same reason I wanted as a little girl,” Julie trailed off while looking around the park.
Thompson frowned but did not speak, he simply held his wife’s small hands in his. Julie squeezed back
