New Beginning

Kari

Kari spent the next two hours in idle chat with Sicily, the topic of their families, their upbringing, and the sharing of a few dreams came up. An hour outside of Bar Harbor they hit traffic, but the scenery around them shifted drastically. Kari rolled down her window, her eyes scanning the beautiful villages and stretches of bare trees with small white buds on them.

"This is beautiful. It almost looks like a picture of the country," Kari murmured.

Sicily breathed in loudly and let the air out in a long sigh. "Can you smell the water? The ocean is close and the saltiness of it makes me hungry."

Kari turned to look at her. "Oh no. We didn't have lunch, did we?"

Sicily held up an empty bag of Cheetos. "Not sure about you, but I had the lunch of champions."

Kari laughed and stretched, rolling up the window and looking out the front of the car as the sun sat heavy on the far side of the sky. "Do you think we're setting ourselves up for failure by wanting this place to be everything w