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The car effortlessly slips between the sheets of rain that have been falling for days now, a constant gray film emerging from the January sky. Warm and disconnected, Kate stares at the streets as they gleam against the drab facades shutting up shop for the evening. Everything seems colorless and bleak to her as if she is travelling through an old worn movie. The passers-by speeding up comically, as the car swishes past them, their lines distorted through the haze. She sinks further down into the seat, her nerves fluttering, grateful for the cushioning warmth from the heater protecting her from the hanging chill outside in the settling dusk. The streetlights begin to flicker into life smearing across the bleary windscreen. She flexes her feet and glances sideways at the driver. He smiles tightly knowing she has been looking. "This rain is so depressing huh?" he says. Managing a weak smile, Kate senses a twitch of embarrassment in her stomach. He's trying to inject some life into the car as the tense silence between them has amplified over the last ten miles, but it doesn't work. Tendrils of apprehension are flourishing in her stomach, they've crept up inside her, strangling her voice ever since last week. The image of his face hovering over a delicate wineglass, shadowed in candlelight, and the crushed box sitting on the linen tablecloth repeats in her memory. She bats the image away and concentrates on the windshield wipers' steady movement. "You're quiet,” he says once again. A matter of fact statement, his tone flat and his eyes focused on the road. Staring at her hands pale in the gloom, and then at his capable hands resting on the wheel, she nods her head mutely. Her mind is fretting over the impending conversation at the end of the journey. They've left behind the city now and are driving up out of the valley.
Approximate Word count = 1219
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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