The dull thud of wornout sneakers and fancy mary janes echoed on the beat up pavement, filling the open silence between us.
"What the hell are we doing here..?"
I thought to myself, sneaky glancing at the body walking next to mine. Her name was Sabrina Jaclyn Mathews: the captain of our High School's chess club and the Preachers daughter. Deep brown locks rolled down Her Soft tan shoulders her skin reminded me of the Gingerbread cookies my Mamaw used to bake during Christmas. The thought made me smile. Before I could break the silence myself, she broke it for me her pale green eyes looking towards me as she spoke.
"Do you ever think about leaving this place?"
The numbness in her voice, when she spoke, resonated with something in me, making me slow to a halt, with her in tow. Her white and blue sundress swished in the soft approaching chilly autumn breeze, and I pulled my jacket tighter as I struggled to give her an honest answer.
"Constantly..."
I said, sounding more exhausted than I'd intended. Sabrina's eyes grew a tad, hearing we shared the same thought, as she approached me, taking my beat-up hands, covered in faded bandaids and marker doodles, into her own clean, soft ones. The smell of her perfume this close drew a shudder from me, as I looked at her, surprised that she would willingly hold my hands.
"Then, why haven't you already..?"
Her words sparked something in my mind, as my entire life in this boring town flashed before me. A place where things hardly ever changed, and nobody ever listened to anyone but the preacher or the politician spewing nonsense on TV. My fingers fidgeted anxiously in her hands, which she held tighter to steady me.
"Because I just, don't see myself being anywhere else..."
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The Day Tomorrow Came.
Ficción General"Do you ever think about leaving this place?" "Constantly..." "Why haven't you already?" "because I just, can't imagine myself anywhere else." -------------------- Set in Current day Ohio, We follow the journey of a Young woman trying to figure her...
