As I stood in the lights of my car, I saw the tire tracks leading behind those bushes, just where she said she’d be. I turned off my car lights and began to trek through the grass flattened tracks. I saw her sitting on the back seat just like she had been earlier that afternoon.

“Hey. It’s me, Brian, from this afternoon.”

I was just beginning to see her a little better as my eyes adjusted to the darkness when the moon came out from behind a cloud. I could see that instead of the bikini she’d worn earlier today she had a blanket wrapped around her.

“You look cold,”...