Pinky Promises

Pinky promises are hard to break when you love someone." Maddie stopped playing with her doll and looked at me. I knew what she was going to say next but I didnt want to. Her blue eyes looked like crystals as she kept her gaze but only for a second.

"Why do you say that?" I asked. She looked down, her smile fading and her eyes turning to a foggy grey.

"Because mommy said so." Here it goes, the moment my sister, a fiver year old, tells me something I havent want to admit. Ever since that ambulance pulled up and carried them away on stretchers.

"And you think she was right?"

A silence fell over us as she dropped her dolls and ignored my question for a second. She stood up and looked at me, a tear dropped from her eye.

"Yeah." She wiped the tear away picking up her dolls. She paused, her eyes turning back to an ocean blue colour and her smile returning to her pale face.

"Yeah, I do."