Elemental Wind Force: Beginning Breezes

Chapter 3 - Funeral Day

I hear the howl of the wind that brings the long drear storm on its heavy wings. - William Cullen Bryant

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One week after plane crash

The mood in the Sarvis house hold was somber. Nothing much was being done. Things that were being done were done at a slow, absentminded pace. This was especially true for one Jay Sarvis.

Sure, he might have showered, eaten what little he had, brushed his teeth afterwards and even dried and brushed his hair, but he had yet to get into the clothes Terra had laid out for him when he was in the shower. All he was doing at the moment was sitting beside said clothes, staring blankly at the bedroom wall across from him.

As for Terra, she had already eaten and laid out her clothes while Jay had been in the shower. She was just stepping out of it now herself. Her pace was slow as well, but much faster than her little brother's zombie-like one. Terra knew that they didn't have much more time to laze around the house. They needed to be ready to go when Terry, Kayla and their parents came to pick them up.

'Let's see.... We've both showered and eaten what little food we have been managing to keep down. Terry and Kayla are coming over at 10 with their parents to pick us up to go over to the church on the Reserve. It's 8:30 now. So we have another hour and a half to get ready to go. I just hope I can get Jay moving. Last time I checked, he only had his socks and underwear on.' While Terra was silently going through all of this in her mind, her body was on autopilot.

Terra was literally not paying attention as she toweled out her hair, brushed it, used the handheld hair drier on it and brushed it out again. Even as she went from hair to teeth, she was unaware of her movements. It stay like that as she finished in the bathroom and moved to her bedroom, still wrapped up in the large body towel that she was using to cover herself. That's how badly her thoughts preoccupied her. It wasn't until after she had dried herself off and finished dressing in the black, ankle length skirt and short sleeved blouse she would be wearing today that she snapped out of her thoughts.

"I've really got to quit doing that." She grumbled to herself with a shake of her head as she went to go check on Jay. She sighed when she entered his room. He hadn't moved from that same spot in the last half-hour.

She walked up to him and gently shook his shoulder to get his attention. He did look at her, but his stare was still blank. Green eyes, red from crying, stared into another pair of green eyes, also red from crying.

"Jay, you have to finish getting ready. We have to leave in... 45 minutes." She said quietly, glancing at her watch to check the time. She was shocked that so much time had passed since she had last looked at a clock. She only got a slow, absentminded nod in response from him.

Terra smile sadly and gently squeezed his shoulder before leaving his room to let him finish getting ready.

Jay did finish getting ready, but he was still in that zombie-like state as he did so. When he walked out of his room after messily getting his tie on, just as the others showed up, he was still looking around blankly. Even though he looked at Terra, he didn't notice that she'd grabbed her small, black change purse; the one with the long shoulder strap. He also didn't notice that she'd let their ride in. He slightly noticed when she came over to fix his tie, though. So that was something, at least.

"Hasn't snapped out of it yet, huh?" Terry asked as he saw the state Jay was in. Terra nodded in reply.

"If it wasn't for the fact that I'm the oldest and expected to receive all the well-wishes, sympathies and what not, I'd be like that too. As it is, I'm just barely managing to stay alert." She said with a sigh.