Fourteen years... it had been fourteen years since her mother passed away. Fourteen long, sad, happy, beautiful, passionate, draining, desperate, agonizing, terrifying years. She was seventeen now and she was almost done with high school. She exhaled a breath as she thought about it and looked up. She watched her own breath dance up into the cold air and meet up with snowflakes that shimmered down to the ground.
She loved the winter time just as much as she liked all of the other times of the year. As long as it got her out of the house, she was happy. Her thumbs stroked the sides of her hot chocolate as she thought about...everything.
She was sitting out in the cold at a METRO bus stop. Her school, the one her mother slaved at work to get the money to afford, had just let out. It was a private school. She was wearing the uniform under her black coat plus a scarf wrapped around her neck and stuffed into the collar of her coat.
The girl drank her hot chocolate and watched the cars drive by. She was wearing stockings that barely concealed the bruise on her leg that she just recently received from falling over in the kitchen. Her cooking was good but it just didn't seem to be ready soon enough.
She loved the winter time just as much as she liked all of the other times of the year. As long as it got her out of the house, she was happy. Her thumbs stroked the sides of her hot chocolate as she thought about...everything.
She was sitting out in the cold at a METRO bus stop. Her school, the one her mother slaved at work to get the money to afford, had just let out. It was a private school. She was wearing the uniform under her black coat plus a scarf wrapped around her neck and stuffed into the collar of her coat.
The girl drank her hot chocolate and watched the cars drive by. She was wearing stockings that barely concealed the bruise on her leg that she just recently received from falling over in the kitchen. Her cooking was good but it just didn't seem to be ready soon enough.