Notes of Apology
Noel Laflin
11-16-18
I had the
money for dinner, but on his dare we left without paying. Dine and Dash - I had never even heard the term before, let alone found the nerve to do so until that night.
On the way
home we staged a phony fight in a convenience market and stole two bottles of cheap wine in the chaos.
And somehow, we got away with that too.
And somehow, we got away with that too.
In teenage
fashion, we later drank the wine.
And that is
when he stole a kiss from me.
I had never
been kissed by another boy before but did not mind the theft. Consequently, I returned
it with newfound passion.
With dawn
came the task of driving my fellow thief from my home to his.
There was no
mention of the kiss.
But it was all I could think of.
Later that week, I stopped by the restaurant we’d stiffed and slipped a ten dollar bill on the counter with a note of apology.
I left four dollars near the register of a neighborhood
convenience market. There was another apology note attached as
well.
The stolen kiss was eventually discussed and then sloughed off by the other as a drunken episode that would
never be revisited.
And although I
was sorry about several things in regard to my behavior that night, and tried to make amends, the return of his kiss
was never one of them.
But here would
never be a note of apology on that issue.
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