Human & Heart | Short Stories

003; expectations

Challenged by @JarelleAlexander to write a short story with a maximum of 300 words that has to do with summer.

Is summer always a disappointment?

It's not that it isn't fun, summer is always good. Better than being in school for eight gruelling hours a day, that's for sure. But the thing is, every summer we make so many plans of what we're going to do.
This year we'll accomplish this! This year we'll travel to this place! This year we'll do this all the time!

Do we ever do all the things we say we want to do? No, we don't. Summer, my friend is all expectations.

And there, sitting on my bed at four in the morning, those thoughts were all that passed through my brain. The day before that had been the last day of school. Summer vacation had come. We all bounced up and down, counted down the minutes and all that crap, but still there I was just hours later wondering what the heck I was going to do with my life until September came around again.

Before I had the chance to complain or pity myself any more, a light flashed into my window. It was so bright that it practically blinded me. 

I tried to close the curtains. "What the he—"

I screamed when the window smashed against my touch. I screamed louder, and more urgently, when the shards of glass started to float into the light. When I started to float with the glass, I'd already screamed until my hoarse throat couldn't take it anymore. And when I was lifted from my house into what seemed like a small room made of that light, my head ached so much I felt it might just fall off of my neck. I didn't know where I was, but I sure wasn't supposed to be there.

That summer definitely beat all my prior expectations.

Word count: 299. Woooo! I beat the challenge :P