Things I don't say

You always leave the last bit of coffee in the pot, about a third of a cup, and you've done it for fourteen years. I used to think it was a bad habit. Then I realised you leave it for me.

I don't think you know I noticed. We're not really people who say things. We say did you pay the electric and is that noise the fridge. Your hands look like your mother's now and I'd like to be here when they get even older.

Anyway. I drank the coffee. It was cold. It's always cold. I wouldn't change anything.