Sabrina McLain:
Today, I woke up.
And I knew it was different.
Something was different today.
Mom, Baylee, and I ate
a silent breakfast.
We all took silent showers.
We got dressed and bundled up.
Silently.
And together we went outside.
The sky was the same color
as the feathers of a dove.
It made me sad.
As we walked along the street,
none of us talking,
tears started to fall.
And once they started,
they didn't stop.
I didn't really know why I was crying.
But I was.
Mom fit her hand in mine.
On my other side,
Baylee interlocked her fingers with mine.
When I looked at them,
they were both crying too.
The three McLain women
walked down an icy street to the
Exxon station.
I remembered getting
a razor here
and using it to cut myself.
I thought of the raised scars
on my arms.
I started to cry even harder.
Once we got to the Exxon station,
Mom looked in the window.
And then she turned us around
and we walked to the florist shop.
And there, Mom bought us
three red tulips
and a little box
of marigolds still in dirt.
And then we left.
And we kept walking.
And on our way,
as we were crying,
we stopped at
another gas station, not an Exxon.
And Mom bought a
butterscotch Krimpet
and
a package of
strawberry jelly beans
and
the weird expensive
chocolate covered coffee beans.
We continued on our way.
It was hard to see
through the tears.
My feet were cold.
The three of us finally arrived at
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Dissipate: Book Two
Short StoryThe sequel to "Unnatural" this book is about Sabrina's life after another death. Sabrina is still writing to Jennah, her dead older sister, and Sabrina has a lot to write about. Her mother's so-called "friend from work" is suddenly her new boyfriend...
