Aurora Magazine 2018

Things Left Unsaid

N Y C T A S I A F I T T O N The railroad tracks traveled straight ahead, disappear- ing in the distance. On either side lay a pair of small hills. The grass was lush, young, and the bright green color could almost hurt the eyes. The young couple, a man hardly older than twenty and his girlfriend, who seemed to have barely hit adulthood, walked down the tracks in the cool spring breeze. “Where are we going,” the girl asked. She slipped her hands in her pockets, her shoulders rising into a shrug. She avoided looking at him and her long brown hair fell to ob- scure her face. “I don’t know. I was just going to walk down here to see what I find,” her companion replied. “Why don’t we just go down to the river? It’s closer than wherever we’re going.” “What makes you say that? You don’t know where I’m going.” The girl sighed, exasperated. “Never mind, then.” She turned toward him, a puzzled expression on her face, still avoiding his eyes. “So, what did you do last night? I tried call- ing you but you never answered.” “Nothing.” “What do you mean, ‘nothing’” she asked. “I mean, I didn’t do anything last night. My phone was off.” The girl turned away from him, a frown growing on

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