The year someone turns 18 they have the opportunity to be injected with a serum that will produce a soulmate mark somewhere on their body. This serum is costly and the procedure to get the injection is not covered by insurance.
A rare illness cropp...
I immediately push the coin away and shake my head at him. "I don't need to make a wish, Taeger. I already have everything I want and more. It seems greedy to wish for something even greater than what we have together right now."
I'm kind of unsurprised that Tae makes a wish himself however. It is so very like him to not miss such an opportunity after all.
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I turn to Jk, and we smile softly at each other before we both turn back to watch Tae again as he closes his eyes tightly and presses his hands together. That's when I realize that Jimin isn't standing with us. I carefully turn around to find him looking mysteriously up at the sky. Jk and Tae notice too and immediately each give me a helping hand to assist me back safely down to the ground. Once I am at Jimin's side I ask him, "What are you looking at?"
He glances at Jk and Tae for a moment before saying. "I was wondering if they would have fireworks again tonight." Something about the way he said it has me wondering if he had planned to say something completely different, but I let it go for the moment at least.
"Do you want to head over to where the cannon is to find out?" We walk through an area I know to be the Upper Barraka Gardens due to the research I had done previous to taking our trip in the offtime I had alone. We pass a smaller fountain and under some arches to get to the area that overlooks where the cannons are lined up and overlooks the water beyond.
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There are a bunch of people wandering around here, and I imagine that it is simply because this area is quite beautiful all on its own. That fact doesn't stop me from turning to a couple, hoping at least one of them might be a local, and satisfying my own curiosity. "Excuse me. I'm so sorry to bother you both. Do you happen to know if they will be letting off fireworks here a bit later?" I add the last bit because it isn't quite dark enough for them to be seen quite yet.
The young couple I ask shake their heads. The young man answers me. "No, they tend to light off fireworks for festi that celebrate religious events. The next one to occur in Valletta won't be until the 16th of July."
"Oh, so there is one in August?" I can't help but ask.
The woman nods. "Yes, on the second there is a festa to celebrate St. Dominic."
