Scarlet filled the sky as the night vanished into fine morning. I was there to watch it. Scarlet. Such a horrible colour to fill the sky of a new day.
The night before was the fall of my parents. We were at home when the horrid colour of scarlet filled the sky and blackness filled the air in the distance. The Bush fire. My parents smelt the suffocating aroma and urgently grabbed my arm and started running. We ran without looking back. Though we had prepared for a fire to happen someday, we didn't expect it to be today. We were running for the safety house a few miles away that my day had organized for this moment. There it was, the burrow underground surrounded by thick layers of steel. Behind us everything was a deathly black including the grass and sky. By now I was crying while my mother used her body as a shield to guard me. The flame was gaining on us no matter how much faster we tried to run. When we finally reached the safety house the flame was right behind us. My parents knew this and pushed me into the house and slammed the door leaving a barrier between the flames, family and me.
There were no remains left of my burned parents. Which meant I couldn't have a proper funeral. With no where to go, I was left in this steel house by myself with a months worth of provisions. So last night I stayed up late crying myself to sleep with no one to comfort me. That is why I now hate the colour Scarlet. Every time I see the colour, it reminds me of the sky when the bush fire occurred.
By now it is day. The sky a pale blue and I stepped outside the shelter in which I was confined to see it in whole instead of through a hole. That is when I heard a "Meow"...
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When the Sun Sets
Roman d'amourLily has been traumatised by her parents death and therefore is left alone on her family's farm along with her gorgeous pussycat. One evening just as the sun finished setting she meets this boy named Will.
