A Year in June: Chapter 20

             The night before June left for America she returned the house keys, but Mina insisted that she keep the wings as a souvenir. Mina decided to go to bed soon after. However, when June had finished gathering everything from the living room and went to the bedroom her roommate was still awake.

            Mina cleared her throat as though to start speaking but stopped herself. Eventually she ventured a question, “Did I take my pills yet?”

            “I don’t know” June answered honestly. The question had taken June by surprise; it was a question Mina had never asked before and June was almost tempted to ask her if something was wrong. But she stopped herself. Even if something was wrong there was nothing June could do to help now that she was leaving the next day. “Sorry” she said instead.

            That night June dreamed of a porch awash in moonlight where she said the things she could never say and everything was just perfect. Mina did not sleep at all.

             

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