The Field Of Berries

Decisions Made (3)

Alisia slides into her seat at the lunch table, with Clare following closely after her

Alisia: What are we going to do?

Clare: Alie you have a ton going on I'll handle it, besides I couldn't imagine my dad dying and my mother moving on, I'll write a paper on summer activities to do

Alisia: I know my dad disappeared two years ago but it feels like my mom moved on so fast, I've barely been talking to her

Clare: Did the police ever find anything?

Alisia: No, Nothing, he's just gone

Alisia fights to hold her tears back and ends up zoning out, next thing she knows the five minute warning bell for lunch to end goes off snapping her out of her thoughts, she looks up to see that clare is halfway through eating her food, seeing that reminded her that she never ate, she looks down at her plate, if she's honest with herself she didn't want to eat it, now that she knows what she could be eating, she doesn't think she could bare eating this, she wanted to throw up and looking at all the kids around her gulping down the goop in a rush made it worse, she wonders how much healthier actual food would be for them, she decides then that she's going to bring real food back, she just has to cross the forbidden mountains, she's always wondered what is beyond them anyway, maybe her dads over there