He smiles at her as he watches her take her photos, watching the world outside begin to slowly move. Jack’s hand found her leg and he touched her, since her hands were busy with the camera he had gotten her.
“Mmhm. We have a stream running through the land. Large trees that Aloysius tried to teach me to climb but I was too scared. Bonnie’s garden is out there too, but seeing how it’s between winter and spring I’m not sure what kind of state it’ll be in… maybe a bit overgrown but it’s still home.” he explains gently.
And they can visit Gail. But she doesn’t know that.
Katelynn tried to envision it, putting her camera down since the bus was moving too much for her to take a proper picture, going through the camera’s album to delete the horrible ones.
“Garden like vegetables or just flowers?” she wondered, having tried to picture everything. Oh how she wanted to try to climb those trees. “Oh and maybe we can try to climb those trees now and see how you do now that you’re older and braver?”
She reached a hand out to rest over the one on her leg, smiling at him.
“Both. We had our own garden for vegetables, our own fruit trees… l-like I said. Hippies.” Jack had to smile as he leaned into her, resting his temple against hers, shutting his eyes for a moment. “We rarely had to leave our land for anything. W-when… when we got sick we of course went to the nearest hospital…” but then he was touching too closely to the incident with Gail, or when he would break his bones, and that wasn’t good.
“But that’s about it. And maybe… maybe if you climb with me?”
Jack Maple 