Thunder rumbled a distinct purr in the distance, and the heavy smell of rain snuffed a corner of the sun before it emerged again.
"Promise I won't be scared?" Charlotte implored around the grind of her heel into the dying summer grass. Her white sneakers flashed a blinding reflective blue over the spindly yellow like pulsating alien landing lights coaxing it to grow.
"Would *I* lead you into something scary?" Tom protested, patting his girlfriend's meaty cocoa-hued forearm.
Her mouth opened.
"...err don't answer that," he interrupted.
The sun withered over Evan, (pronounced Ee-von), Iowa's garden park, forfeiting its characteristic gold to the sky. -Breathtaking gold, the color of a baby Jesus halo resting on the puffy softness of blanket white clouds or hot popcorn in a red basket. Still higher, the blue of His Father's eyes flitted over the stoic face of the crumbling Sunnyville Rehabilitation Home and watched as chubby fingers nudged a spiral of silvery-blonde bangs from his girlfriend's eyes. Blonde. Red. Brown. Black. Red. Blonde. Black. The girl had more colors than the panoramic exhibits themselves.