Aurelia, aren't you going to have something to eat? The food had been provided earlier in the day. I was told by my mother that I had ignored whatever she was carrying and that she had left the house, "maybe waiting for a call from her boyfriend."

"Perhaps it won't be you, Linda, the next time."

In response to my uncles' suggestion that we all laugh, I did so as well. I'm not sure why I was there earlier and just glanced at my phone while doing nothing; I also wasn't sure whether or not to call Theodore. After a while, my uncles were still laughing at me, so I...