Dragonfly Nightmares

Chapter One: Wonderfully Blissful

Hi, my names Caroline. This is the first Romantic Drama that I will have written. I like Romantic Dramas and my favorite author who writes them would have to be Nicholas Sparks. So this story is probably going to be similar to his books. I hope you enjoy. Please feel free to leave your comments below, follow, and vote. Thanks for reading.

Chapter One: Wonderfully Blissful

There was no way I could let go of all these memories. There was no way I would want to or anyone could change my mind about leaving. This is where I wanted to stay and live and keep the memories alive. I had to stay here, because if I didn't; it would ruin me. My home, the one I grew up in since birth, was the only home I could ever manage to stay tranquil in.

No one understood. Why couldn't they get that this was the place I had to be, with the people who needed me most, and who needed me to stay. My kids would hate if I left them for some other town. Not even a town, a big, giant, crowded, city. I couldn't.

I knew Quin wanted me to go, but I couldn't. Not even for him, even though we had been seeing each other for quite some time now. One year to be exact. Though the thought without him killed me, I would not leave my home for him. He hadn't even proposed yet, so why should I be the one to leave.

I don't want to pack up my house, my memories, my things, my animals, and have to say goodbye to my friends, kids, and family members. And I keep saying kids, but I don't actually have any. I'm a twenty-three year old first grade art teacher at Lancaster Elementary in a small town called Lancaster in Georgia. Those kids are my life. I spend seven hours a day with them and go home to think about them even more.

Anyways I couldn't leave in the middle of a school year. They would have to find a sub, and for that long? I don't think so. Obviously it's better if I just stay here. I'm not very adjustable to change like most people are. As much as I'd like to settle down with Quin I can't, he's moving and I'm not going.

Mama thinks change would be good for me especially far away from here. I think she is very wrong! There's a little something about this place that brings me joy every morning and makes me want to get out of bed every day with a gleaming smile on my face. That something is not all the way in Seattle, Washington. It's right here in Georgia.

Everyone tells me I should just give it a try. After a year if I am still miserable and home sick then I should definitely come back, but I wouldn't want to put myself through a year of misery. And even if I did just love the place, I'd still miss home like crazy and I'm not going through that. So here I, Willa Anne Jones, will happily stay put.

Next weekend will be Quin's going away party. I don't want to show up, but I know that would be selfish of me. He's my boyfriend for Christ sakes. Honestly, I don't think that we will last if he's all the way in Washington. I just don't understand how he would up and leave with or without me after the incredible year of us being together. Guys are like that though, they just do for themselves for a while, but still bring a woman into their lives.

Maybe if I were single it would help me to think clearly again. Then maybe I'd see that everyone's right and I should go with him to Washington, but what for? To stay his girlfriend? I mean I realize he's practically asking me to move in with him, but all the way in another state. It might be different if it were in his home here in Lancaster.

I decide to take a walk around town and to pick up a few groceries. Luckily this town is so small you could practically walk everywhere you needed to go. As for me, I have to ride my bike into town because walking would take way too long. It's a nice cruiser bike with a basket up on the front of the handle bars. Great place to put the things I can't necessarily carry.

I passed Mrs. Hardy who was working in her garden again. She was a skinny, gray headed woman. She loved her garden more than life. She worked in it more than twice in one day. She had the best yard in all of Lancaster. Her husband, Jerry Hardy, was the grocery store owner and like my uncle.