Aura tried the air-conditioner again. Only hot air poured from the vents, competing with the warm air already flowing into the car from the open windows. She glared at her mum. “If you had pulled into the mechanics at the last town instead of telling me ‘bubble it’ we might not be melting right now.”
Hazel smiled serenely. “It was trying to rain. We didn’t need the air-con.” She glanced at Aura. “I keep telling you if you’d join me in putting our problems in a bubble and releasing them into the universe, they’d solve themselves.”
Aura sighed heavily. She should know by now that nothing would convince her mum that whatever current strange fad she was following wouldn’t work. As always, it’d be left to her to deal with the practicalities. “We could have at least stopped and asked for direc
