The Looking Glass Volume 40 | Page 31

frame. Their faces through my windshield seemed shocked at my quick stop. They hopped inside. A woman and a man, both in their twenties, all dressed up.

“Where to?” I ask them.

“Uhh, this address please,” the man said, passing me a paper slip..

“Okay,” I replied back.

I put in their address and realized that these people had money. They lived somewhere nice and it was all the way up in the hills. I started driving and the silence was loud. The couple didn't talk to one another

“How was the food?” I asked.

“Oh it was great,'' the woman said, "I had risotto while he had steak caviar. It was fabulous.”

“I see,” I said, smiling.

I got back to driving. As I turn left to the main road, we get onto a popular street. The passengers look out the window and admire the lights and the stores. It seems like they're tourists. I wouldn’t have known.

“Are you guys new here?”

“Yeah,” the guy said.

“You should come back at night. It looks a whole lot better.”

“Oh really,” The woman said.