They were oblivious to the eyerolls. Deaf to the tutting. Blind to the hands around mouths, trapping the whispers made about them.
Because yes, their energy was filling the space around them, threatening to engulf everyone else. Yes they were laughing too loudly, sharing inside jokes that would make no sense without impossibly long explanations.
They were so rarely all together at once, so rarely simultaneously free of responsibility. So when it happened, if only for an hour on a late summer evening, they existed loudly, stomachs aching with joy, remembering what made them friends in the first place.
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