ᴇɴᴄʜᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ | ᴄᴏɴʀᴀᴅ ғɪsʜᴇʀ [1]

Lᴏᴠᴇ Lᴏsᴛ (4)

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"I had this weird thought today." Liz says as she closes the door behind her. She walked down the steps towards the trash can

"Yeah ? I love weird thoughts." Conrad says

"I was thinking if my dad had cheated on my mom, she probably wouldn't have even cared. Is that harsh ?" She says as she uses her shoulder to hold her phone when tossing the bag in the trash can

"No. But do you really think Megan wouldn't have a reaction ?"

"I mean, kinda. Like, nothing about my dad ever excited her. You know ? They were, like, never
romantic around each other."

"And you want to see your parents being romantic ?"

"Maybe." She chuckles as she sits on the steps, "I mean, I just can't imagine marrying someone who didn't give me fireworks. You know, like, like electric jolts every time I saw them." She smiles

"Were you surprised when you found out your parents were getting divorced ?"

"Uh, yes and no. I mean," She shrugs, "I always thought divorce meant fighting, you know ? Which they did, but more so when they were already done." She could hear Conrad hum in acknowledgement through the phone.

"I mean, they were cold for a little while, but, um... now everything's kind of back to normal. Or as normal as this family could be."

"In a weird way, that must almost be a little harder to understand."

"Exactly." She laughs. "Ooh, well..."

"What ?"

"I don't know. Just never said any of this to anyone before."

"Me either."

It's silent for awhile as Liz looks around the neighborhood. "Hey, can I ask you something ?"

"Anything."

"Um, how's-how's Jere ? Is he, is he doing okay ?"

"Um, yeah, yeah, he seems good. Why ?"

"I don't know, we haven't really talked since summer ended, and, uh, I was gonna text him, but didn't know if he would write back."

"Yeah, no, I mean, he's probably just busy with senior year stuff."

"Right, right, right." She trails off, "I learned something kinda cool."

"Tell me." He smiles

"Did you know that Venus is an evening star for 263 days out of the year ? And then it disappears
from the sky for 50 days before returning as a morning star for another 263 days." She says as she looks up at the sky