Margaret didn’t return Rick’s calls after the backseat incident. Schnapps was involved, and a painful collision between his knee and the metal clasp of a seatbelt. She was polite when they ran into each other weeks later, then never saw each other again…
Margaret remembered it sometimes. There was no fancy term for what happened when they were in college, not publicly anyway.
Rick was on set, thinking about Margaret for the first time in years, prop fishing pole in hand.
Weeks later, Margaret’s favorite game show ended, and there was Rick on an infomercial hawking medication for erectile dysfunction.