Highway Time
by: Jennifer Jenkinson
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The Led Zepplin CD ended and Evan reached for the other case on the seat beside him. He held it out towards the girl and she looked at him with a question in her eyes.
"Put that on will ya." he said with a grin. She glanced at the CD and smiled shyly. She fumbled a bit with the CD player but managed to get Evan's CD in. The sounds of Treble Charger filled the car. Though he was still watching the road, he smiled as he noticed that she was tapping her feet in time to the music.
"You like?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said softly, another one-word answer.
"Cool." he replied. "They're pretty good, they rock, ya know? By the way, I'm Evan."
She glanced briefly at him and lapsed into silence, her eyes again falling to study the papers and magazines between them. When a few moments went by without a word from her, Evan tried again.
"I'm Evan." he repeated softly, "What's your name, kid?"
Her fingers brushed the magazine cover nervously before she finally spoke, "I'm Sky," she answered, "and I'm not a kid."
He gripped the steering wheel a little tighter as the big car negotiated an especially tight turn with a dizzying drop off on his left, but all the same he'd noticed her fingers had passed over a headline which read The Sky is Crying - SRV Gone Ten Years as she had found a voice to introduce herself. He smiled to himself.
"Okay Sky, pleased to meet you." he told her. "So what takes you to Vancouver?"
"You do." she said, with a sarcastic tone.
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