I don't Know Yet

Chapter One

As I stand in the "U", I watch as the people around me have no emotion, no hope, it's a shame, what change does to people, and how it breaks you down.

I continue to pass things down the assembly line when my best friend Aries comes around and is looking at me, already knowing my inner thoughts. She asks me
"Is today the day?". When we were kids, elementary school was different. Others would pick on me for having a different mindset from everyone else, I would sit on the edge of Lady Lake and spend most of my time alone until one day, Aries came and sat by me and never once judged me for my own opinions. I looked to her, and I  answered, "You never know." As we grew up, she and I spent most of our time together, and to have someone by my side felt like a dream. My parents were always gone, always at the "U," working and never took the time to notice there was a child in need of their time. They long gone now, dying of a working mind and a broken heart. Aries came around to my side and looked up at me with hope in her eyes and said, "If it's anyone planning on leaving or changing anything, it's gonna be you." We always talked about the things we'd change or make better in our torn down city, and it was a nice but hopeful dream, for me anyway., Aries has more hope in me though, that I'll be the one to make a difference, I may not believe it but the confidence is motivating. I sigh and say, "Let's go", at the end of every day, we go to Lady Lake and share everything about our lives to everything we hope for. As we head out of the factory, Aries is already talking about how she hopes that the blue sky comes back, as I listen to her hopes and dreams. I start to notice everything around us, the way the grass is brown, if there's any growing at all, the windows of homes and buildings with holes or glass to make a window, smog filling the air it's all we breathe, looking around it's a place that just crumble in your finger tips but this place is or was a place of happiness or at least just better than it is now, Only time will tell, as they say., As we start approaching Lady Lake, we notice that the air feels lighter and something feels different, I only know because the way Aries is looking at me she could sense the change too. We may not know what will come, but we're ready. For Anything.