Moving on

Summer was gaining its place in the province of San Francisco, she cringed curling her hand on the window, the only good thing about the summer was that there was some colour on the yard plants again.

Ronnie packed her bags,

Her mom was anticipating her attendance to some lame get together at Neptune's and as usual, it was a sea themed party.

She brushed her hair out of her temple to see if the disgusting zit was gone, it deflated to an ugly purple, to her dissatisfaction. Covering her hair back in disgust.

She wore a dress, as long as it was a dress in front of her and fibbed about going then changed as her colleague was kind enough to let her then she decided to jog to the bridge.

Ignoring the flashy tuxes and faces, school was over, that was it. But you know, a lot of people still liked to feel young despite stepping into the nightmarish stage of early maturity.

She exhaled and swung over the bars to sit down, there was no excitement but that cat she used to see scurrying around greeted her, out of her disinterest, she gave it one long scrub and took out her pencil to draw anything that piqued her attention and drew nothing.

The cat alarmed her at the fins and tails that emerged from the sea and upward sprays, she lurched forward at the whales migrating, this was better than any nauseating sea party. She took a video instead. The cat was useful after all, she awarded it with a sardine she left over.

The view was frightening and glorious at the same time with her leg hanging down and all. She stiffened when someone shook her screaming, forcing her to hold on for her dear life. She growled at Caiden laughing and holding on to his stomach.

He got one well-deserved bite from the cat and it ran away. He sat down to meet her furious gaze at the old abandoned bridge and she looked down at the better view.

"Is this where you go when you forfeit practice?_whoa"

They watched the migration, till they were distant, some calves were still behind with their enormous mother to guard them.

He made that rumbling noise between his lips when the disruption was over looking behind him at the mob swimming onward.

"What're you doing in this kind of place anyway, it's suicide," He said preoccupied with kicking a pebble on the tracks.

Ronnie stuck out her tongue and he caught her laughing when she covered her mouth in between her hands.

She signed "home"

"Oh yeah" He mused and she snuffed annoyed. Where did he think they were going to before?

He halted at the starlights, city lights and the reflection on the water.

"Come look," He said, she went back to gaze at the lustrous place, she hadn't waited long enough to see it or she may have overlooked them.

At the point of forgetting, he tapped her back.

Ronnie looked up and swivelled her bag on and started to walk, they walked together or he walked with her, she didn't know which it was.

He talked mostly, he was the only one talking because the walk back to the neighbourhood was slow.

Pam turned when she knocked on the doorframe and walked inside in her dress.

"How was your night out?"

She nodded smiling and went upstairs with the bag in her skirt and her shoes still on running up the rest of the blocks...

And that was the last time she saw Caiden, his family left for Tahiti.

She gave one long groan at his truck moving past their street.

Watching them move out evoked many a poignant memory of yesternight. She crawled back to bed and laid there covering her eyes with her arm.

"Ronnie!"

Pam checked on her, she was getting good at climbing the steps quickly too but not quickly enough to spread the word.

"Ronnie...do you need some time alone?"

She asked when Ronnie didn't answer then touched her chest and sighed when she took off her earphones.

She was glad she didn't get that because she would have a hard time to agree on, to be alone or to be with someone who would evoke more loneliness.