"Morning! Are you Harmony?"
The woman chirps
and the scarf on her head
shimmers in the
early summer sun
like the surface of
a huge ocean
soothing
hopeful.
I nod
"Oh, you've grown up so so much.
You were this small,"
she motions with her hands
"when I last saw you."
She laughs
and it's not magical
but it's warm
and it makes me feel
like maybe
it's not that bad
that Father left us
to go on his trip
"You can call me Aunt Eevie
I'll be looking after you
until your father gets back"
She spits out 'father'
like a curse
and I wonder
if, maybe,
it is.
"Please come inside."
I invite her in timidly.
"Thank you, sweetie.
Oh, I haven't introduced you all properly."
She pushes out a tall girl
and a taller boy
from behind her
where they'd been hiding
timidly
like me.
"This is Zaina"
The girl smiles at me a little
I smile back.
"And this is Mihorbi
But he likes being called
Miho."
I look at the boy
with the strange name
and blink uncertainly
"Hello, it's nice to meet you."
I say
"Hi,"
he looks down at his shoes
"you too."
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Savor The Moonlight - Book 1 | ✔
Short Story[completed] Harmony is empty. She doesn't speak out, nor does she do anything that could possibly spark her father and step mother's rage. Besides, isn't it better to stay quiet than to deal with the fall-out caused by expressing h...
