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“You like it?” Luke asked, staring at rin on his face
“I love it,” I replied enthusiastically I was surprised at s toward a motorcycle I had never taken notice to one before, but then again I had never fallen for a motorcycle man either
“Wait ‘till you ride it,” Luke said, s he loved His whole dee in the presence of this beautifulme a helmet that looked like it was custom made just for me “I hate ‘em but it’s the law”
I silently thanked the great state of Mississippi for enforcing such a law and put my helmet on as Luke pushed the bike out the door
“That lid never looked so good,” Luke said grabbing his own hele chrome tool box that I just noticed was there
“Lid?” I asked, cooing to have to purchase a o for dummies book in the near future
“Ready?” he asked, takingme out the door
“As I’ll ever be,” I replied nervously My breath started to quicken and I realized that I had really not thought this whole h
“Hey,” Luke said wrapping his arm around my waist “You’ll love it Don’t be nervous, I won’t let anything happen” He grabbedme a kiss that erased every doubt I had He cli the vibrations to carry through the concrete and all the way up hover and settling on the back seat It was avemy hands on Luke’s shoulders, not real sure where to put them
“You don’t have to hold on so tight babe, you’re not going anywhere,” Luke yelled, turning tohio “Just move with the bike, it will co to relax The vibrations were so intense I could alh my pants Luke pulled the bike onto the dirt road The bike suddenly leaned to the left then right and my automatic reaction was to bail off the side, but I realized that it was over before I could react andto helpto lie I was scared shitless
By the ti to make it Luke must have felt hway Instead, he pulled the bike over and got off He ca out an iPod with ear buds
“Here, this will help cal a playlist and handing me the ear buds I put theh the s hway
I closedthe lyrics take me away When I opened theh my hair and the music inI lifted ers I felt like I could ride forever The iPod shuffled to the next song which just so happened to be one of ht back memories of one of my best childhood friends, Kandice Just like so many others, life had taken her from me way too soon Kandice loved music She was such a free spirit and I envied her ability to be so carefree A hippie at heart, she was able to quote any song froh my tears at theat the top of our lungs We replayed the song over and over until we knew every word
Listening to the Black Crowes sing “Josephine” changed me in that moment Life had dealt me a shitty hand, but I had an ace in the hole He was race and in this moment, I had finally realized it