Zique threw the pack of cards on the table, placing the chair he brought in front of Kiara. “Please be a quick learner.”

“I am...” Kiara voiced out. “My middle school teacher said I was the only genius in her class.”

“Lets hope she was right.” He took a seat on the chair, then picked up the cards again. “I’ll shuffle.”

“Okay...”

Like a professional, he shuffled the cards around in his hand and when he deemed himself done, he planted one in front of her then another in front of him and continued to do so until they each had seven cards. “Let’s start with the easiest of them all, even babies can play this one.”

“Which one?”

She was excited, he could hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes. She’d been like this ever since they got back from the run.

They both had stepped up on the porch naked and took turns in the shower, and now as promised, he’d teach her cards.

He thought when they got back she’d want to rest since they had been running for long, but instead she had shyly asked him