Coffee House Stories 5

by sloanranger

Prompt: 'She Searched the Sky For Signs'

There was no sign at the crossing.

Insensibly, I look up at the stars, glad for a change I'd bought the Chevy ragtop.

"Mark, what the heck are you doing?" Laurie says.

"Looking for signs," I answer and pull over to park on the berm of the road.

"Signs," she says. "What kind of signs?"

"Stop signs."

"Stop signs?"

"Yea, stop signs."

"Oh," she says and gets out of the car.

So I get out too and there we were, me looking at her while she searched the sky for signs.

"Well, I don't see any," she says.

"You don't, huh?" I grin, but I give the night sky another glance.

She gets back in the car and I follow.

"Well, what do we do now?" She says.

"I'm not sure," and I lean over. "Okay, if I kiss you, Laurie?"

"I dunno," she says. "You see any stop signs?"