Altered Spectrum

Chapter 3

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   Greetings once again friends long time no write. Life gets busy, sometimes I just wish I could stop time to get some more rest time. I can't wait till summer, at school we're already started a count down in school. Hopefully when summer starts I will have more to write and read peoples stories on here. ^^ If you want to suggest a story you have written I wouldn't mind reading it just inbox me it with the name and brief summary. Anyways here's your long awaited chapter 3 *does sparkly jazz hands*

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   "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine." I sing with the warm familiar words slipping off my tongue like silk as the tepid rays of the sun kiss my back and arms making me feel at ease.

   My heart beats rhythmically with unfaltering content as the sweet spring breeze frolics around me, making me shutter in relaxing bliss. Nothing beats spring time at my grandparents' house, they always had something fun planned for me to do while they worked in the kitchen preparing a delicious lunch for us to enjoy together on their classic white patio.

   Today they said that lunch would be a surprise after I came back from treasure hunting. When I had first arrived they already had a specific area made for me to dig in the garden, along side it laid a little blue plastic trowel wrapped in a dazzling blue bow that sparkled in the sun. Just the sight of the trowel made my light brown eyes sparkle in its presence.

   "You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll always know, dear, how much I love you."

   The song my mom sings to me before bed dances around Nana's small garden, giving it life as I continue to sing and blissfully dig my trowel in the soft but stable earth.

   I look up from the tiny hole that I have dug, where hundreds of ants scurry out frantically, to my Nana smiling at me from the kitchen window sill. Something just doesn't seem right, her smile doesn't seem to be in sync with her light blue-grey eyes. A small droplet of sadness is eminent in her eyes, which glazes the surface of her eyes as she smiles.

   "What's wrong Nana?" I question with worry flushing across my soft young face.

   "Nothing Luny, Nana's fine, continue playing, your singing is beautiful." She continues to smile but the slight sadness that had once glazed her eyes was now gone, as if it never existed.

   With her smile reassuring me once again, I smile back with my mouth wide open and crooked baby teeth showing. "Ok, Nana!"

   "Please don't take my sunshine away." I continue to sing while I turn back around to my hole, grass tickling my knees making me giggle as I reach for my trowel, to dig once again.

   Humming the melody of the song, I keep digging until my trowel hits a solid object in the soil. I set my trowel to the side of me and use my pint-size hands to remove the dirt laying loosely on the unknown object.

   With the dirt pushed a side, no longer distorting the object, I can now clearly see a label that marks the box.

   'Kodak Easyshare'

   What's a Kodak? I think to myself as I lift the miniature white box from the dirt. Tilting my head to the side and arching one of my eyebrows, I examine the strange white box. I flip the box over to find a picture of a camera located in the lower right hand corner of it. Ah! It's a camera!