*Note: I write stories for my wife. This is one of them!*
We finally met the Browns at the pool. That wasn’t their last name, the Browns. We didn’t even know their first names, never did learn what they were, which made it even more surreal reflecting back on everything that happened during that long weekend in Mexico. We had taken to calling them the Browns after seeing them in matching swimsuits, her in a brown two-piece, and he in long brown trunks with a yellow stripe down the side.
“Do you think they did that on purpose?” you asked when we noticed them on the first day we arrived at the resort. We were sitting on a swinging bench amongst the trees waiting for our room to be ready as they headed towards the sound of waves crashing against the beach.
“Probably,” I said, taking a sip of my drink. “I bet they’re on their honeymoon.” They seemed too old to be on their honeymoon though. They appeared to be our age, mid-to-late thirties, both with bodies suggesting they were busy parents back home, wherever that was. She was a little taller than you, a little more curvy, with sandy blonde hair tucked into a ponytail. He was shorter than me, but not by much, and heavier. Not fat, just thick, with shaggy black hair wetly tucked under a Red Sox baseball cap and a short beard to match.