I Joined My Dead Sister's Curling Team, and Her Widower Joined Me novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Head Table
The banquet hall above the curling club held eighty-six people and a long head table with a white cloth.
I sat at it.
Dale had moved the place cards himself on Friday afternoon, while the church ladies were in the kitchen counting pie plates.
The family of the late Annika Thorsrud sat left of the podium.
I sat there in a green dress that was a size larger than it had been in October.
Gunnar sat on my right and Dale on my left.
Nils sat across the corner with his tie knotted badly.
Leif sat at the end, white-faced and quiet, and for once he was not telling jokes.
Under the tablecloth, Dale's hand lay on my thigh.
It was heavy and warm and perfectly still.
Gunnar's foot pressed against my ankle, and Nils had reached over and taken the hem of my sleeve between two fingers.
I felt held up from four sides.
My mother came in at six.
She wore the black coat and the pearl brooch she had worn to the funeral.
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