51 Stories in 51 Weeks: Week Sixteen

i do love a good root beer

She fiddles with the root beer cap.

You going to toss that cap?, he says.

Maybe I’ll keep it, she responds.

A token of our love, he teases.

Sure, why not.

She looks at him; thinking.

He looks at her; smiling.

She tosses the cap into the garbage and walks away.