She moved easily from person to person, smiling and happily chatting with each one, remembering every victory and hard time they had been through. Those she spoke with often wore smiles of their own afterwards, and many a man’s eye tracked her path across the room.
“It’s hard to believe she’s the same woman, isn’t it?” smiled one of my friends as we patiently waited with our food on the table, “A couple of weeks ago she would have put her head down and bulled through the crowd. But now look at her! Little Miss Social Butterfly!” Many in our group nodded in agreement and turned to regard our friend, just now barely arriving at our table.
“So sorry for the wait!” she huffed, face flushed, “Loads of catching up to do, really didn’t expect it,”
“What changed, Eli?” asked one of our friends as he began wolfing down his burger, blurting out his words between bites, “I mean, I’m not complaining, but man! You really are a different person!” Elizabeth smiled abashedly at the question, looking down at her food and chuckling to herself. She gave me a knowing glance before carrying on with the conversation, leaving me time to reminisce.