31-Day Mcsm One Shot Challenge: February Edition

Smiling Broadly

Jesse’s warm finger dipped into the small pond, her eyes staring at her faded reflection. She sighed softly, not feeling quite herself. In fact she hadn’t been herself ever since Axel and Olivia left. It was hard for her to accept the fact that they were….gone. It happened in just a blink of an eye. Jesse wondered if she did something to run them away or did it have nothing to do with her at all.

Jesse’s black hood was over her head, casting a shadow over her pale face. Jesse’s cheeks were rosy and black bags were underneath her eyes. Her eyes gleamed radiantly although fatigue showed in her weary cocoa colored eyes. Jesse leaned backwards, heavily exhaling. Her chest slowly heaved in and out, eyelids heavy with exhaustion. Her long eyelashes fluttered and Jesse shifted slightly, her back against the bark of a thick hollow tree.

Jesse brought her legs up to her chest, tears pricking the corners of her dull eyes. Wiping her eyes with her sleeve Jesse hastily got up to her feet, starting to walk towards the gravel road. She didn’t want the others to start worrying about her. Jesse stuffed her hands in her ebony sweater pockets, a few droplets of water soaking her right pocket.

Jesse felt like she didn’t belong anymore and she couldn’t shake off that feeling. Was their something she was missing or didn’t quite get? The thing that she feared most was coming to haunt her. She despised silence except for every once in a while.

Her foot trudged and she kicked a pebble, the gray stone bounced along the rocky terrain for awhile before it came to a stop. Jesse’s hood fell back as a gust of heavy wind blew. Jesse raked her small fingers through her brunette hair and the humming and chirping of birds may it’s way to her ears.

Jesse fiddled with her fingers, a lump in her throat. Jesse blinked back tears. Why did things have to change? She missed the way things were before. The five of them happy, smiling broadly together. Jesse missed those days already, the constant yearning for her two best friends never ceased. She felt incomplete. After all what was the new order of the stone without everybody. They were breaking apart and slowly turning into the old order of the stone.

It was like cracks were in the order of the stone. What was one without the other? Broken much. Unable to function. The order worked as a team and what were to happen if something bad happened. You can’t exactly go across the ends of the world and back in one day to tell your friends somethings wrong...right?

The vibrant red gates of Beacontown open and Jesse sighs, an invisible mask already beginning to show on her face. Jesse takes a deep breath as a redheaded citizen catches sight of her. As expected they squeal, waving excitedly at Jesse. Jesse smiles broadly and waves back at the fair-skinned citizen.

Jesse began speed walking, still smiling broadly as she walked past several citizens. Jesse hoped they couldn’t see right past her. It didn’t seem like they noticed how tired or sad she looked, so maybe she was doing a good job of concealing herself, but as always she would never be able to slide with Petra and Lukas though.

Jesse’s broad smile grew wider, her cheeks expanding. She waved at a few citizens occasionally high fiving a few, but as Jesse reached the order hall, her broad smile left her face quicker than a flickering light. Inside the order hall Jesse didn’t want to be seen smiling broadly. There was always too many memories knocking at her door when she walked in. Good ones bad ones. The happy ones and the sad ones. Whatever the case may be she just didn’t want to smile anymore unless the five of her friends were happily united again.

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Welcome to my corner of wattpad where I write about depressing thin-

Wait this isn't my bio! *awkwardly clears throat*

Well as you can see I'm tired as always, so ignore me right now👌

Anyways! I'll see you tommorow with the next prompt!