car would be out of balance for a moment and shake, one side to the next. It was almost poor driving, but it certainly had an effect. But when he took those corners, in such an extreme manner, the car was sometimes hard to gather control again, but he always did manage to pull it back into balance. Ethan remembered doing this with one of his local younger cousins when he was younger and his cousin commented on the look on Ethan’s face. At the time Ethan was burning around a corner, after he got around it his cousin said, “you have this funny look on your face when you go around corners fast, Ethan.”
Ethan didn’t say anything, but the pace he applied sometimes to get around a bend made him go, fuck within and clearly he pulled a face to go with it.
Christian was waiting on the footpath. As Ethan arrived, he drove towards Christian on the road, but he kept driving, as to pass him. Ethan was looking ahead as if he hadn’t seen Christian, but Christian knew his tricks and didn’t react. Just as Ethan was about 10 feet away from Christian he slammed his brakes on and they locked up. Smoke went up in the air as he came to a halt, Christian opened the door.
“Just testing the brakes man,” Ethan said with a big smile.
“It stinks of tires man, burnt ones,” Christian said waving smoke from his face. Christian jumped in and they drove down the road and headed on their journey to college. It usually took them 20 minutes or so.
They pull ed into the college car park. There were quite a few cars with students coming and going. They jumped out and Ethan scanned around to look at everyone. For a moment he saw a girl that got his attention, she was blond, pouty mouth. He knew immediately he didn’t know her but of course she had triggered the memory of Natasha.
“Y ou okay?” Christian asked.
“Yeah , all good.”
The day wa s young, Ethan could feel the energy and the state of his feelings, the essence of himself. He was feeling high today and wanted to indulge in it. The layers of life, sometimes he had to just sit with it for a moment to understand what he was feeling, to understand whether he was feeling melancholy towards himself, or was it something outside of life, or just the emotional tides of this flowing life. Ethan was feeling so alive and was still feeling that almost high feeling, but the Natasha trigger made him go within for a moment and feel more deeply and come down slightly too. Sometimes all Ethan wanted to do was laugh and have fun but there was a depth within him that made him feel melancholic sometimes. He knew he could be light as a feather, and could love like no other, but there was an edge to him, some sort of Goth edge that rippled within him and made him sometimes want to nearly scream. Truth was Ethan could feel his soul, the emotions of this life, but also many lives before in his highly sensitive body and heart. He was like a magnet to all these deep feelings. To be in a continued deep, flowing, peaceful, bliss was not really possible in this earth plane when you had a heart, a soul, a past, a past life and a human mind. The full moon always amplified Ethan’s emotions. He could always feel it coming, three days to go, two, one day to go, then the full moon. He found himself more emotional on that night, and when he first came to realize this, he looked back on the last few full moons and sure enough his behavior was usually more risky than normal. Usually relating to girls and going back to something that he knew he shouldn’t be doing; that random encounter and those high emotions used to pull him into the direction of that heightened buzz and need. The need to be fulfilled in that emotional and bodily way.
As Ethan and Christian entere d the university’s open grounds, they saw Carl, their other best friend. All three had been best friends since they were children. Carl had blond, fluffy, curly hair, cute as a button really. He was quite skinny and he liked to smoke his