Pick One. Then Pick Another.

He said pick one like it cost nothing, and she looked at the case and did not pick one, and kept not picking one until the glass fogged where she was breathing on it. Six months is not a long time. It is twenty-six Saturdays, and they did not miss a single one of them.

כל שלב ברצף

1. The first Saturday. “Pick one.” He said it like it cost nothing. She looked at the case and did not pick one, and kept not picking one.
2. Twenty-six Saturdays. “You always get the custard now,” he said, and she said “you always buy it” into the open box instead of at him.

The table came later. The table was the part she noticed.