This Given Sky Page 6
Beat, Thel screams that she hates both of them.
Beat, they’re wearing orange jumpsuits that cost everything.
Beat, it’s 1984 and they’re nineteen, cruising Main Street to Springsteen.
Beat, Jake turns away from that silver warplane landing at noontime Shelby’s airport to take Thel’s hand and they go live in Hawaii with Sara, happy and safe.
Beat, he has a son and Steve is happier with a lanky blond schoolteacher who knows he’s smarter than she’ll ever be.
Beat, they all stay close to each other.
And beat, Jake knows that what he sees out the windshield, that moonlit gravel road to wherever, no matter what the truths of physics may be, all he’s got is the night of this given sky.
THE END
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