The circumstances were irrelevant - they were together again and driving through the woods like they loved to do back before the times that they do not think about. He drove a little faster than usual, the trees little more than pointed blurs among the snow-smothered sky, while she was already asleep in her booster seat.
Usually they would both be awake and chattering away like the starlings that swarmed the garden every morning but this ride was different and the silence carried an undertone of finality. Something in them both knew this would be the last time but only one of them knew why.
She had just followed her daddy out to the car like always, even though she was told last week told that he had gone to sleep forever. He came back and that was all that mattered to her, in her mind it made more sense than a never-ending sleep.
He never said where they were going, never said a word at all. He just strapped her into the booster seat and they began to drive away. She was too young to notice the state of the car and how it shouldn't be able to drive while the back half was still engulfed in fire.
The further they drove into the woods, the more at peace he felt. This was how it was meant to go in the first place. He'd wanted them to be together forever, not to be separated by a messy divorce and only see each other on the weekend where he would watch them drift apart until they were little more than strangers.
She woke up as the car sped towards a sharp bend, looking over and seeing her daddy smiling as they flew.
Usually they would both be awake and chattering away like the starlings that swarmed the garden every morning but this ride was different and the silence carried an undertone of finality. Something in them both knew this would be the last time but only one of them knew why.
She had just followed her daddy out to the car like always, even though she was told last week told that he had gone to sleep forever. He came back and that was all that mattered to her, in her mind it made more sense than a never-ending sleep.
He never said where they were going, never said a word at all. He just strapped her into the booster seat and they began to drive away. She was too young to notice the state of the car and how it shouldn't be able to drive while the back half was still engulfed in fire.
The further they drove into the woods, the more at peace he felt. This was how it was meant to go in the first place. He'd wanted them to be together forever, not to be separated by a messy divorce and only see each other on the weekend where he would watch them drift apart until they were little more than strangers.
She woke up as the car sped towards a sharp bend, looking over and seeing her daddy smiling as they flew.
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