Aoibheann O'Flynn

The Will

His sister had picked us up from Milton Keynes station. Their lack of similarity was disarming in the way that it sometimes is with siblings. She was recently engaged which seemed unimaginably grown-up to me. Their parents had helped them buy a new-build at the corner of an estate which we stopped at on the way to the family home. We could hear the local traffic go by as we sat in their garden, where the only grass growing was through the grooves of the patio. We sat politely side-by-side and I wondered if this was why people hated meeting their partner’s family.