Searching for stars

My father sat me down at nine years old and told me that my mother was going away. Like always I was quiet, I didn't ask the questions that were spinning around in my head, picking up memories and ripping them apart like a hurricane. All I said was ok, I had a million questions but I didn't want to hear the answer to if she was coming back or not.

"Lyla" she said kneeling down to hug me "You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars" she whispered, her hand tangling in my hair as she curled it around.

Those were the last words she spoke to me and I remained quiet trying to sort through the storm in my head, washing away the stars out of the sky.

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When Lyla moves with her father to the town he grew up in, she starts to think of her mother and the many questions she never got to ask.

She's in the search of the one star that fell out of the sky and ends up meeting an unlikely friend who wants to help her find her mother.

AUTHOR NOTE
(I wrote this years ago, unedited. grammar etc)