A Twist of Fate- The Morning After
I felt a cold draft and moved closer to the heat emmitting from god knows where. I opened my eyes and stretched out. I looked around and realised I was lying on my couch in the living room.
Glancing up at theclock I did a double take. It was already seven twenty-five, school started in little more than a half an hour. I threw the blanket off me and ran into my room.
I grabbed a dark blue long sleeve shirt with white thread and Bar Boa running across the bottom. I threw the shirt on and left my pants and Chucks on, brushed my hair and teeth, grabbed my bag and darted out the door.
I stumbled off the first few steps and fell into a pile of leaves. I sat for a moment then snapped to attention and continued forward down the block and up Column Hill. It was then that I realized it was Sunday.
I dropped my bag and sat down into the grass. Column Hill was named according to how it stood. On one side stood a town and the lake/pond. On the other was Merli Plains. The Merli stretches over three hundred miles in almost every direction. So in a way, our town ofTerrine was in the middle of nowhere. Hence the name Terrine, "Bowl" in french.
The lavenders that spread randomly across the plain would appear and disappear as the wind blew cold air and masked them with the surrounding grass which easily topped three feet, sometimes taller. I sucked in the scent of the flowers and the wind carried them upward and into town.
With the scent I remembered how my older sister would take me up tis hill and tell me about all the kinds of lavenders. How there were both purples and whites.
My memory was interrupted by a drop of water falling on my head. I looked up just as it started downpouring. It was rare that it ever rained so a downpour worried me. Our town was completely surrounded by hills downpours happened every few years or so. When they did the town worried out of their minds.
I glanced back at the Merli and lied down. I hugged my knees to my chest and closed my eyes, letting the rain run down my hair and wash away the feelings of long dried tears.
