Lucky
A very short short fiction
I dated sisters when we were all in high school. Susan, my classmate, during our freshman year and Meredith, one year younger, when she was a sophomore. I remained friends with each of them after the breakups. All three of us had other more serious romances during high school.
Surprisingly, when we were both seniors, Susan asked me to the prom. I said yes. I later learned that she and Meredith had flipped a coin to see who’d approach me. Susan had correctly called heads. It was a good prom. We danced. We snuck sips from the whiskey bottle the prom king had hidden in his tuxedo. Susan and I didn’t even kiss. After the dance, we sat in a 24-hour pancake house and talked until dawn. When I drove her home, we saw Meredith weeping on the front porch.
I’ve been married for forty-three years to the woman who lost that coin toss.
Whoa! Plot twist! And a good one. May you celebrate many more years of marriage in great happiness.
A perfect little story that reads like a complete novel. I loved it, Sherman.