DRABBLE: 17. Safe

17. Safe
(Baby Driver)

His head pounding like the bassline in the rock song on his iPod, Baby spun the wheel. There was a combination of skill, concentration, familiarity, and ease in this. He blazed through three intersections, turned on a dime, and drove into a parking garage.

After the job, he realized his head still pounded. Joseph wouldn’t be able to hear the sirens but also wouldn’t be able to hear Baby sneezing. At home, Baby felt safe. But he also felt run down, miserable.

Crashing, coughing, snuffling, he fell into bed fully clothed, but not before turning his iPod to something soothing.

Quote

"There are all kinds of ways of life in this world. One is not right, one is not wrong. Understanding others, we can accept them. And through acceptance comes a peaceful world."
~Bronislaw Malinowski in Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

Just one of those formative quotes from my youth I'm glad to remember right now :-) I wish I knew if that was an actual quotation of his or just something the script writers came up with, but I can't find anything like it attributed to him in quotation databases. Either way, they're good words. Let's all imagine each other more complexly, like the Vlogbrothers say.