Visible out the kitchen window,
late afternoon sun was ceding to dusk on the yellow-white empty beach. The years since she first met Griff McGuire at a Berkeley Marina bar and today's victory in his first game as Huygens Tech's Head Football Coach were in Caydance’s memory punctuated by the mid-October evening last year when Griff proposed.
Along the beach, dune grass was shadowed in fading daylight, while white-laced waves of midnight blue water rolled gently ashore. Dinner had been mostly prepped before the game. Afterwards they would walk on the beach and look at the night sky stars.
Griff joined her at the beach house window. In his hands were two glasses of the French Champagne that her brother had gifted him with a note:
"Drink this whether or not you win.”