Natale, Richard - The Rushes [Avidbook, MM, Contemporary, Romantic Comedy/Drama, New/Young Adult] Chapter Five
In autumn, the countryside outside Florence hummed with the insistent chirp of cicadas. When the sun shone, the air was warm. Once it retreated behind a cloud, however, the weather turned briefly crisp. Jamie was glad he’d remembered to bring along a sweatshirt in his backpack. He’d removed it and put it back on several times during his hike. A minor annoyance on an otherwise ideal day.
He was about an hour outside Siena heading toward the hilltop town of San Gimignano, whose silent medieval towers pierced the blue horizon, his mind free floating as it did when he was alone and untethered. It occurred to him that he’d rarely thought of Owen over the past eight months, which
