MsBloom
Moonchild
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2020
- Location
- Northern Europe
Julie, or as she sometimes liked to be called, Julian stepped out of her aunt's SUV, grabbed her bags and hauled them into the cottage on the edge of the small town of Greensboro, New Hampshire. She was sixteen and due to issues with her parents, her aunt had decided to take her away from Boston for the summer. It had been an almost four hours long drive with only a single stop for a bathroom break and to stock up on snacks. She felt sweaty and a bit tired but despite this she decided to take a walk in the surroundings while her aunt checked in and sorted out a few minor details with Mrs Woodrow, the owner of the bread and breakfast where they would be sharing a room with two beds and an en suite bathroom.
"I'll be back before dinner," she told her aunt and with her hands deep in her back pockets she strolled down a gravelled path that followed a small stream that seemed to cut through the town.
It was late afternoon and she had no intention of making it a long walk. She just needed to get out of her aunt's sight so she could have a smoke in private. The path followed the stream into a sparsely wooded area and the shade of the trees in combination with the slowly running water cooled down the air to a bearable temperature and soon she found a spot behind a large rock and some bushes where she could have some privacy and not be easily seen from the path.
She was wearing black denim shorts, a green and black plaid shirt over a white tank top and ankle high black Converse. Before lighting a cigarette she first filled her hands with water from the stream and splashed it on her face and then ran her hands through her thick red hair. When she did this she found a perfectly white stone polished perfectly smooth. It was flat and about the size of the palm of her hand. She picked it up and weighed it in her hand before softly pressing it against her cheek. It was cool and wet against her skin. She sat down and fished out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from the large shoulder bag she carried with her everywhere she went. It was where she kept her mp3 player, whatever book she was reading at the time, currently Haruki Murakami's After Dark, a carton of biscuits, a sketch pad and some charcoals and pencils, and of course cigarettes and a lighter.
Leaning back against the rock with the cigarette between her lips she weighed the stone in her hand again and then caressed her face and neck with it. It was still cool and wet and as she sat there running the stone over her skin and smoking she ran the stone over her lips and the sensation was entirely different from the way it felt against her face and neck. She took one last deep drag on the cigarette and tossed the butt into the stream, closed her eyes and brought the stone close to her lips, puckered them and kissed the stone.
"I'll be back before dinner," she told her aunt and with her hands deep in her back pockets she strolled down a gravelled path that followed a small stream that seemed to cut through the town.
It was late afternoon and she had no intention of making it a long walk. She just needed to get out of her aunt's sight so she could have a smoke in private. The path followed the stream into a sparsely wooded area and the shade of the trees in combination with the slowly running water cooled down the air to a bearable temperature and soon she found a spot behind a large rock and some bushes where she could have some privacy and not be easily seen from the path.
She was wearing black denim shorts, a green and black plaid shirt over a white tank top and ankle high black Converse. Before lighting a cigarette she first filled her hands with water from the stream and splashed it on her face and then ran her hands through her thick red hair. When she did this she found a perfectly white stone polished perfectly smooth. It was flat and about the size of the palm of her hand. She picked it up and weighed it in her hand before softly pressing it against her cheek. It was cool and wet against her skin. She sat down and fished out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from the large shoulder bag she carried with her everywhere she went. It was where she kept her mp3 player, whatever book she was reading at the time, currently Haruki Murakami's After Dark, a carton of biscuits, a sketch pad and some charcoals and pencils, and of course cigarettes and a lighter.
Leaning back against the rock with the cigarette between her lips she weighed the stone in her hand again and then caressed her face and neck with it. It was still cool and wet and as she sat there running the stone over her skin and smoking she ran the stone over her lips and the sensation was entirely different from the way it felt against her face and neck. She took one last deep drag on the cigarette and tossed the butt into the stream, closed her eyes and brought the stone close to her lips, puckered them and kissed the stone.