A Place In Time

Chapter Two

   I had my hair up real big beauty queen style, make up on, and my nails painted.  I saw myself in the mirror, I double checked all of the buttons on my dress.  Only two hours left until any of the events started.  I tucked the ends of my bangs behind my ear and walked out onto window balcony.  From up here everything I saw looked enchanted, even the people who looked like colored dots from their coats and scarfs and hats and mittens.  

       "Elle?" I heard Sarah call out.  

       "Yes?" I peaked through the flapping curtains.  

       "Oh, How can you stand out in the cold like that?" She rubbed her hands together, "It is freezing."  

       "Well, It doesn't bother me any." I step back into the room and close the window-door.  

       Sarah and I both shared a look then screamed out of no where.  

"Two more hours!"  

"I know!"  

"Fireworks!"  

"Parties!"  

"Food!"  

"Music!"  

This night was going to be just absolutely amazing!

       "How'd you get your hair to stay up like that?" Sarah asked from the mirror.  

       I looked over to see her struggling, very much actually.  So, I walked over to her and saw the problem almost immediately.  "You only need three hair pins." I told her.  

       She took all of them out, "Can you do it?"  

       "Yeah." I nodded.  

       I brushed her hair out and separated her bangs, top and back.  I pinned up the top part, curled the bangs under and let the back hang.  Just in time to.  As soon as I finished a sharp knock sounded at the door.  

       "It must be Aunt Lavinia." She shrugged.

       We both went to the door and answered it but it wasn't Lavinia.  Two women, one tan skinned with loose curls and the other was fair skinned with soft brown hair, that were each holding something.  The tan girl held a glass jar with pink stripes down the sides and the brunette held an orange, and without speaking they offered them to us.  We took them.   

       "I hope you have kept collection of your gifts?" The tan girl asked.  

       Every Sunday,since I had arrived there, different people have brought things.  A small flashlight, a journal that is hardly legible, a necklace for us each, a gold one with a long center piece that held a princess stone and a platinum one also with a long center piece but beld an Aquamarine stone, and now an orange and a jar.  I don't know what but something compelled me to say "Yes."  

       "You shall need them tonight." The brunette said, "You can only trust one."

"Trust the doctor." The tan girl looked sad and then both they blinked away.  

       Sarah and I shared a startled look and began scrounging around the room for the gifts.  

       We found them eventually.  The light was under Sarah's pillow, the journal was in the nightstand drawer, My long center pieced necklace was on a coat hook and Sarah's short center pieced necklace was in her travel bag.  

       We cleared a place on the floor and lined each gift up, the light, journal, necklaces and added the jar and orange, And sat on either side of the line.