Decameron Project Day 2: Happily Ever After

Write about people who suffer through misfortunes and arrive at a happy ending. 

One day you will again dance in a crowd of people, sweaty and laughing and feeling the surge up from the balls of your feet as the beat swings down and you fling back your head, whooping and lifting your arms and

One day you will again lean forward in a crowded restaurant to smell the food you ordered, trying to hear words that are being muffled by a group beside you, who are laughing drunkenly and too loudly, as yellow light spills onto the street outside and

One day you will again rise from kneeling, shoulder to shoulder with strangers on the ancient flagstones, and turn to them hand out, with shy sincerity, feeling it as you say peace be with you .. and also with you, and

One day you will again lean against a kitchen countertop, giddy and smiling, and sip wine as someone opens another bottle and a houseparty converges and moves around you, and watch the others, and think fondly of when you were younger as they flirt and talk and

One day you will again lie on the grass in a park as the night rises up from the ground, damp, sweet-smelling, hearing the sounds from the tennis courts and scooters going past, and the birds coming in to roost in the pale light sky of an midsummer night and

One day you will again gather in crowds, either deliberately or accidentally, and feel the fellowship of your bodies, unspoken, peacefully or joyfully together, again, as one day we will, again, together, one day.