@jaxriver
“Hold your breath.”
“Hold your breath.”
Jax was muttering under her breath as she moved along the streets back towards her apartment. Her teeth were slightly clattering, she had forgotten her jacket at work, but she didn’t want to go back there. She was on the road, she wanted to be home. Home was good.
“Hold your breath.”
The more she said it, the more she found some calm. Those words had been etched into her brain, the only thing that remained from before. Something she held onto, even if it gave her no new clues to who she had been.
She yelped when a projectile hit her against her elbow, and turned on her heels, almost making a run for it until she saw it was just a somebody. Just a stranger. She didn’t know what else she was expecting. A ghost maybe? Someone who came to take her back to the lake.
She stared at him, intently. “No,” she said in reply, straightening her back a little, trying to look less like she was shaking. “I was deep in thought, now I lost them,” she notified the person. “What was that second curse you said?”
Reza ran his fingers through his hair, clicking his tongue and waving the woman as he turned back to his bike. The cigarette on his lips was almost put out, so he took a deep drag and let out a plume of smoke before turning his attention towards her. He thought that she would’ve walked away after dismissing the incident, so it was a little surprising to still see her standing by the trash can. Still, Reza supposed it was better than to be left alone with his own thoughts, which was going nowhere. Just running in circles, exhausting all the information that he had gathered so far, which was very little if he was being honest.
“What, you wanna learn how to cuss in Spanish?” Reza arched his brow, his cigarette now poised between his index and middle finger. “I can teach you a few things, but don’t come at me when people start asking you where’d you learn them from.” He felt the need to give disclaimer in case he’d get in trouble for teaching the young kids things that he shouldn’t. He didn’t think that she was underage, but in case she had very protective parents or something. Better to safeguard himself.
