“Here they come!”

“No, don’t let him sit here!”

“I have a plan…”

“Hmmmm…you guys, there’s no reason, ” she told us.

“Get a chair, we’ll make room.”

She crams inbetween a couple of us while he’s left sitting behind our tightly enclosed circle of twelve people at our table made for eight. 

We all look at each other and smile.

“Mission accomplished.”