Sorry,” Lisa says, leading the way out of the stands. “I’m sure tomorrow night or next weekend we’ll be doing something!” He is,” Chaeyoung agrees, her eyes gentle. She pulls at the threads on her scarf as a thoughtful expression comes over her face. “Sometimes I wish we could shut down all the roads in Baton Rogue,” she says, “so there would be no cars, no traffic, and everyone could just walk around beneath the trees, and the dogs could run and play wherever they like.” Thanks for the nice surprise, y’all,” Jungkook says, looking between Lisa and Felix as he stands up. “You know I love family meals.” End the speech by invoking prayers for the football players’ herpes outbreak; proclaim your faith that their discomfort will not prevent them from winning

Your mom would yell at you for sitting like that,” Lisa says, tapping her foot against Chaeyoung’s. Joanie would have hit you harder,” Wally says, hiking his eyebrows high above the rims of his glasses. On Saturday mornings Lisa and Chaeyoung take Chaeyoung’s handsome Terrier mixed dog, Hank, to the dog park on Dalrymple Drive. They sit on the circular bench that wraps around the tree in the center of the park and watch Hank gambol around the park with the other dogs.Jin, are you seriously standing on our dad’s flowers?” Lisa says as she crosses the driveway, balancing the cake box awkwardly under her arm. “Don’t you know better by now?” They finish their cake slices—Jungkook finishing Lisa’s and Chaeyoung’s second pieces for them—and sit around the table for another hour, long after Lisa and Jisoo’s parents have gone up to bed, just talking and making fun of each other, and asking Jin to do impressions of their teachers, and asking Chaeyoung to tell her story about the time she walked into Mrs Kwog’s office to find her talking aloud to the curtains, and indulging Jungkook with his questions about how the St. Mary’s crowd reacted to the game tonight (“A couple of old women started speaking in tongues every time you got the ball, Jin says; It’s true,” Jisoo says, “I sold them a nacho with your face imprinted on it”). Felix pushes discarded sprinkles around his plate while he listens to the conversation, and Jisoo leans her head against Jin’s shoulder and starts to doze off, and Lisa stands the plastic Baby Jesus on the table and dances him over to Chaeyoung’s plate until Chaeyoung, her eyes swinging sideways to meet Lisa’s, tugs him out of Lisa’s hand. Before we start, Baker says, and at her words, the gym falls quiet again, Father Simon is going to lead us in prayer.

Shut up. You are disgusting. Bye y’all,” Jisoo says, and then she grabs Jin’s hand and pulls him toward the senior parking lot. Isn’t that what you said?” Sana presses. “So you could take care of student council stuff at the end of the day?”

Chaeyoung’s eyes brighten just before the boys run in and wrap her in a hug. “Deal!” She says, grinning at Lisa over Jungkook’s shoulder. The woman raises her eyebrows even higher, and Felix moves the car into gear, bursting with laughter as soon as they’ve pulled away. Chaeyoung leans down and hugs Lisa from behind while the others talk and gather trash. “Thanks,” she says quietly into Lisa’s ear.