Turn Tail

Settling in and visitors

I felt an uneasiness in my heart, whether that was apprehension of moving away from my home or a reaction to my dream or the fact I was a few miles above the ground for the first time in my life and it is terrifying. I began to grip the armrest tightly; my father was somehow asleep next to me! I took a breath and attempted to look outside before promptly shutting the shade and I began to attempt to relax and daydream that I was anywhere, but here.

I closed my eyes and started to think about my dream again. I smiled thinking of my white wolf and it pure snow color. Its soft fur I could bet could even upstand the purest of silk, a ghost of a smile formed on my face.

"You okay, kiddo?" I heard my father whisper softly to me, I felt he hand lay on mine. I pulled mine away quickly but looked at him with a soft strained smile.

"Oh, I'm peachy. Just a few thousand feet above the Earth leaving my home behind." I didn't mean to sound rude, but flying is not agreeing with me at all. I could feel my stomach flip flop and land somewhere in my chest.

"I forgot you've never flown, you've missed out on a lot because of me. I'm going to make that up to you my little Lass. That was nice what the village did for you when we left. I didn't know so many families had moved away." He spoke to me as he laid back into his seat trying to find a comfortable position.

I smiled at the memory of everyone gathering into the center and hugging me as I said my goodbyes. They knew we were moving; my father had claimed empty residence at the town hall the morning after our fight. I think back to everyone's goodbyes; I think I loved Mildred's the most. She'd brought me a wolf necklace as if she had been in my dream with me. Chris, the baker, was a crier and boy did he cry. It was hard to console him and his wife, they'd basically adopted me over the years. Sandy, the florist, braided my wild hair and had given me a few daisies in the mix.

I looked at my father and shrugged before speaking,

"There's at least two families who moved every year since I was ten. The school had to get rid of its teachers since there's so little kids, we'd only had one this year. I didn't mind though, it made it easy to excel because you could always get one-on-one time if you didn't understand anything." I'd been top in my class, but I was also the only in my class. I was graduating this year. There's no telling what year I'd be place in when we got to America.

The town had gotten significantly smaller than it had been a few years ago. I remember as I recalled the 14 families who'd left throughout the years. I hardly remember anyone now, but yes, our village had once been a bustling town. Living in the mountains was hard, it was hard to live and transport goods within the mountains. There were no kids and only one school holding less than a hundred kids through all grades and we'd only had a single teacher.

"I didn't see the McNeal's at the center wasn't he supposed to be city mayor who was gonna bring in all that new tech stuff and visitors?" My father asked in a thought, he had his life in the bottom on a bottle for a while, so I don't blame his to know anything about the village.

"Yes, he was elected, but shortly after we realized the tech he was bringing in was a bunch of Chinese machines he was going to have the towns people make custom trinkets to visitors. Mildred ran him out of town with her shoe when he approached her to work for him." I'd offered an answer to the best of my ability, Mildred had never told me what the machines had really been for, but she'd given me the best answer she could. I was only 10 at the time of the election.

"Well that's unfortunate. I'm going back to sleep sweetie, I'm exhausted honestly" my father was asleep in record timing and that's unfortunate because not shorty after sitting there in his light snoring a loudspeaker came over the plane.