Melomiri

The Bunny Headband He Refused to Wear

Language: en

At the arcade, I stepped back to buy tokens, glancing at my phone. When I looked up, Logan and Natalie were gone. Balancing two water bottles and their jackets, I pushed through the crowd. I stopped before a nearby photo booth. The curtain hung slightly open. As the flash popped, I saw them clearly. Logan wore pink bunny ears, leaning into Natalie as they shaped a heart with their hands. They looked like stars in a teen romance film. Five minutes earlier, I’d offered him those same ears. He’d brushed me off, annoyed. Childish, he’d said. Only idiots wear that stuff. It wasn’t the headband…

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