21
Juniper
Things going her way made Juniper nervous. Call it conditioning. Luck never broke her way and life never gave her lemons, it tried to crush her under huge freaking boulders. So when the plan to reach the pick-up location actually worked, she worried.
Cross the border? Why had she even been worried? Exchanging US dollars for Canadian? A breeze. The drive to Calgary? Totally relaxing. Then on to Edmonton, Fort Nelson, and finally Watson Lake? The most beautiful scenery Juniper had ever seen in her life. The mountains appeared as a purple smudge against the horizon, growing larger until they crowded out the sky. If she hadn’t been planning on leaving the planet soon, she’d come back for a nice long vacation.
The only thing throwing shade on her optimism was the cranky teenager
