Delilah and Mato insisted that Ophelia come over for dinner. It had been a couple of days since the incident and she supposed she couldn’t reasonably put it off any longer. Besides, it’s not as though they had expressed any real concerns. But this was new for her. She’d never even talked to her parents about a potential romantic interest, let alone involved them enough in that, until recently, uneventful area of her life.

But now she had a boyfriend. What a weird thought. ...