Just Like a Musical by Veen Milena

Author:Veen, Milena [Veen, Milena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-12-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“To the bright and shining sun,” Joshua said as we stepped into the morning. He was wearing a Daniel Johnston T-shirt and washed out jeans, and I couldn’t help but think to myself how he was the handsomest boy on the planet. Ever. And with the greatest taste in music. Ever.

We didn’t change our plan. Flagstaff was our next destination, and the night was supposed to be spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We packed our backpacks and by nine, we were out at Interstate 17. I looked around to see the Star Wars bunch or the fortune teller, but they were nowhere to be found. The whole place looked so different in the daylight – tame and somber. It must have been one of those places that only lived under the cover of the night.

A cardinal-red pickup slowed down. The driver was a thirty-something guy with spectacles and bitten nails.

“I’m going to Flagstaff for a job interview,” he said, moving his notebook from the passenger seat so one of us could sit beside him. I kindly handed over that honor to Joshua; the partial isolation of the back seat was more appealing to me. We only slept about three hours and I really didn’t feel like talking with strangers, no matter how nice they seemed. The bare landscape was sliding before my eyes and I didn’t even hear the conversation between those two in the front seats, until Clinton – that was the driver’s name – said, “Is there something in your eye?”

“Oh, no, not again,” I thought to myself. I wasn’t ready for another Rodriguez scene that early in the morning.

“It’s just the muscle in my eyelid, I guess,” Joshua answered. “I have these tics… it can be annoying sometimes.”

“He also clears his throat monstrously, and he yells ‘moron’ every now and then, and sometimes, but just sometimes, he pulls his left ear like he’s going to rip it off,” I said. “So don’t take it personally if it happens.”

I sank into the comfort of the back seat again.

“Thank you for making it clear, Ruby,” Joshua said.

“You’re welcome, my dear friend.”

We arrived in Flagstaff around half past noon. It was green and it smelled like pines. It was just like someplace torn away from the desert. We decided to take a short walk around before continuing our trip. The easiness of our first ride that day made us cheerful and optimistic. And how great Joshua looked under Arizona light! How breathtaking was the smile he gave me when the big fat cat jumped from the garbage container and scared me! And when he quoted William Blake with, “Travelers repose and dream among my leaves,” I felt like I was the happiest person in the world. I was so happy that I even called my mother to tell her not to worry and remind her to visit Mrs. Wheeler that afternoon.

“Look how petrified this town looks,” I told Joshua. “Where are all the people?”

“They’re in their little offices, of

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