Arrival Gate

Mira yawned as she waited with Walter, outside the gate of the airport in Phoenix.

"Who are we waiting for again?" she asked. Her eyes were glassy. She'd got hooked on weed since their exodus to Arizona -- anything to forget about how it had gone down with Douglas.

"You'll see," Walter said testily. Maybe this would get her out of her doldrums.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived. The beautiful Alisa, and the older Sam. Mira's glassy eyes blinked away, as she hugged her sister tightly.

"Alisa is going to be going to school here to get her graduate degree," Walter explained. "And Sam ... well, Sam wants to have some fun."