Cherry

Written 54-M28 [2023-07-19], Edited 54-M28 [2023-07-19]

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The cherry-flavoured cola didn’t make me feel any better. And no, I would not prefer vanilla. The cola had a lot of fizz, but it was missing a little something.

“Seriously? Akash is just ditching us?” asked Cindy.

“I guess his plans changed,” I replied. I took a sip of artificial fruit flavouring and burped out some carbon dioxide. This stuff was just so sweet, I could only have a sip at a time.

If only there was something I could just gulp down without feeling like a five year old, I thought. But I knew where that path led.

“But he told us yesterday that he’d drive us back home!” said Cindy. “Any explanation for his change of heart?”

“He got a hundred dollars in tax credit or something? I don’t know,” I said.

I looked down from the window to the city below. The steep inclines and tiny streets of Quebec City had been heaven to walk through, and hellish to drive through.

“I guess I’m going to have to drive back then,” said Cindy, “There’s nothing we can do other than try and change his mind.”

My suspended driver’s license was not of much help here.

Notes

This was written in 15 minutes during a Joy of Writing meetup.