THE LUNA'S INITIATION

AURORA

We had argued with Adrian to walk the distance to the one place we had agreed to visit, to make the outing just more than a tour, but that was one thing we couldn’t convince him to do. I couldn’t convince him to do.

To my surprise, he had many cars in the packhouse of his. So many latest models in black and grey. Selling one could change a poor man’s destiny. There was one in particular that was tiger-orange, just like his eyes, but he said he had never ridden it. He just wanted it to keep being pretty.

‘Unfortunately, we can’t say the same about you.’

I was astonished that those dirty words came out of her mouth. ‘That’s so inappropriate!’

‘Tell me, Arie, is anything you’ve ever done appropriate?!’

I sighed, slowing my breathing down so my chest would stop pumping like an inflating and deflating balloon. ‘You can’t spoil tonight for me, Ev, so shut up.’

His ‘pretty’ orange vehicle was a racecar with tiger stripes