Parallel Desire (2014)
“She'd volunteered to do the driving because it made the time pass faster on the long journey home.
For hours and hours they'd been rattling across Texas, through oil fields and open range, until she thought the empty terrain would never end. Especially with Jake slumped against the window, not sleeping, but hardly living, either.
She gave his arm a poke. "What? You're not going to talk to me? I know you're awake over there." "Just watching this lovely scenery go by." He sat up straight ...in the seat, stretching his arms overhead. "The varied terrain, the unparalleled beauty that is northern Texas." "You're just acting assy because I wouldn't stop at that bar." "I wanted Tex-Mex." "You wanted a beer." She turned to smile at him, but it wasn't an expression he returned. She figured he was in a funk because he dreaded returning to camp, dreaded the possibility of seeing Hope again, and mostly dreaded having to face the facts of his existence here in this time.MoreLess
For hours and hours they'd been rattling across Texas, through oil fields and open range, until she thought the empty terrain would never end. Especially with Jake slumped against the window, not sleeping, but hardly living, either.
She gave his arm a poke. "What? You're not going to talk to me? I know you're awake over there." "Just watching this lovely scenery go by." He sat up straight ...in the seat, stretching his arms overhead. "The varied terrain, the unparalleled beauty that is northern Texas." "You're just acting assy because I wouldn't stop at that bar." "I wanted Tex-Mex." "You wanted a beer." She turned to smile at him, but it wasn't an expression he returned. She figured he was in a funk because he dreaded returning to camp, dreaded the possibility of seeing Hope again, and mostly dreaded having to face the facts of his existence here in this time.MoreLess
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