A Morning After

Donna and Josh, post-Shutdown, 100 words.


She didn't expect it to happen the night of the post-shutdown party. After a few drinks, they had shared a cab, and he walked her up to her apartment... and didn't leave.

But as she woke up and looked over the empty bed, he obviously did later.

She wouldn't cry. She expected this would happen if this ever happened.

But then he came in, bearing two mugs of coffee, beaming at her.

"I'll go see Leo... afterwards. Tell him about us. There is an us, right?"

She wrapped her arms around him, spilling coffee on her bed. She didn't mind.