the two who left the dinner table

and so they walked and walked out in the cold and she cursed herself for forgetting a jacket but she knew it was too late and they couldn't go back - going back would mean giving up on everything. and so they talked and talked and talked and when he wasn't looking she scrawled secret messages into the frosted car windows, things like "i'm sorry" and "i'm too sad for you" and "if god is watching, the least we can do is be entertaining".