Loving Him For 30 Days
They stayed until the woman behind the counter started wiping things down and the signal was obvious.
Walking back to the car, Eli tipped his head back and looked at the sky.
“Stars,” he said.
“Yes,” Lucien said.
“Like a lot of stars.”
“This is what happens when there’s no city,” Lucien said.
“I know what causes stars, Lucien,” Eli said. “I’m just…” he kept looking up, “…noting them.”
Lucien looked up too, at the sky he’d grown up under and stopped seeing the way you stopped seeing things that had always been there, and through Eli’s eyes it was enormous again.
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