It's Always Sunny in Autumn

Chapter 1: As Summer Fades

 As Summer fades Winter makes its way. The leaves began to show the way to the new season. The naked trees look embarrassed and the snow comes to blanket the grown. But we are in the middle. The snow hasn't come yet. Autumn is a short time. A time spent slowly changing. The Sun is always starting to ignore this time of year.

The lights became bright. Whispers filled the room as flash came from every angle. Blonde hair, blue eyes and a clean look with his hair slicked back.

"What does school mean to you?" the voice asked from behind the camera.

"Learning all I need to know," he said, smiling as cameras flashed around. Brown hair and green eyes took the chair next. Her outfit was well picked out to go with the flash of the camera.

"What does school mean to you?" There was no pause; she was ready.

"Pushing me and my friends forward into life." Black hair with glasses hiding hazel eyes almost tripped taking the seat next. One after another the children took the seat being given the same question over and over. Short hair, long hair, skirts, shorts. All the different colors of clothing and all the different sizes of kids filled the lens of a camera. Long dark brown hair with the bangs cut above the eyes. A simple blue shirt over a white skirt. The stool was moved to make way for her wheels. Her chair was stopped and locked into place. Her head hung low with a face that could break a camera's lens. The whispers stopped. There seemed to be hesitation.

"What does school mean to you?" She lifted her head showing everyone her sad dead face. As the words dropped from her mouth screams filled her head.

School wasn't nice to Autum. Autum was later taken out of school from all the bullying do to her condition. Autum has Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Autum hates her legs so much that she'd rather they not be there. She sits in a wheelchair everyday in the same spot in her living room doing nothing. The light shines in through the trees and through the window every morning. Autum lived in a fairly nice house on a street in the middle of nowhere. This street was so big that all the houses were far apart and behind each house was basically a forest. Every morning Autum is woken up by her housekeeper Beth and helped into her chair. Beth is an older woman who spends her time taking care of Autum and the house. Beth's blonde hair is normally coming down the side in a braid. The blinds were pulled back as the sun peered into the room. Beth pulled back the blanket as Autum hissed.

"I do say you are quite creature-ish today," Beth said, rolling up the blanket to fold it. Beth's job is to maintain the house and take care of Autum. Her job was not always like this. Ever since the death of Autum's mother Beth has done more than what is needed around the house.

Autum rolled over facing Beth with her arms sticking out. Beth sighed as she pulled Autum and sat her down in the wheelchair next to the bed. Beth pushed her all the way to the living room and stopped her in front of the big glass window. This was normal for Autum. This was all the sun she got. Waiting for her food Autum's eyes always dropped to her lap.

After breakfast was when she was home schooled by Beth. Sitting in her chair waiting for her food was normal, but what was not normal was the sound she heard next. A loud roar broke through the walls. Autum looked up as branches dropped from the sky. She stood a bit in her chair only to drop back down as Beth walked back with a plate of pancakes.

"Now don't be fussing today. I don't want you to be mean to the new help." Autum looked through the leaves and branches to see a man holding bolt cutters as he chopped at the tree. "You know I can't do everything around here," Beth said as she turned back to the kitchen to finish dishes.

Autum pulled her head back to see Beth washing away only to jerk her head forward as another branch fell. Autum tried to scoot forward for a better view. Her chair seemed to be stuck in place. Autum leaned down to undo the latch holding her chair in place. Having trouble grabbing the latch Autum jumped right back up as the back door opened. Standing in the doorway was a tall blonde man. His face looked like he fell over in the dirt. His chin was small with big blue eyes under hair that was pushed to the side. He was a normal build. He had on a dirty white shirt under overalls.