Fair Warning

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She liked his car. It was the first time she had been in an electric. All she could hear was the wind as they cut through the night.

“So quiet,” she said.

Only two words and she had slurred them. The third Cosmo had done something to her tongue.

“It’ll sneak up on you,” the driver said. “That’s for sure.”

He looked over at her and smiled. But she thought he was just checking on her because she had messed up her words.

He then turned and nodded through the windshield.

“We’re here,” he said. “Is there parking?”

“You can park behind my car,” she said. “I have two spaces in the garage but they’re like... one behind the other. Totem, I think it’s called.”

“Tandem?”

“Oh, right, right. Tandem.”

She started to laugh at her mistake, a spiral laugh she couldn’t get out of. The Cosmos again. And the drops from the green pharmacy she took before heading out in the Uber that night.

The man lowered his window and crisp evening air invaded the comfort of the car.

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