Flower Crown

Prologue

I've always loved flowers. The way they bloom during the spring, all their different colored petals, glowing in competition.

I lived in Kansas until I was eighteen years old. Sunflowers used to grow beautifully tall in the spring and summer. After they had fully blossomed, I would cut them off and place them in a crystal vase which would have graced my grandmother's kitchen table. I miss her so much even though she only passed away a few months ago and it still goes through my mind that I knew the whole family blamed me for her passing. I wanted a new life in London. A new education. Imperial college university was my future and is now my life. I applied long before the deadline, but my grandmother only found out when the unexpected letter came through her letterbox, falling on the Cottage doormat. I never received any letters. This was my first one since I was eight years old when my mother wrote to me saying that she was leaving me and that I would never see her again. It broke my heart until months later I got another letter. Right before my Ninth birthday. My mother  had been involved in a car crash and died. I didn't know what had happened. I was too young. I just knew that she had gone and she's not coming back. But now. Its all so clear to me.  Every letter. Every word and every sentence.