She was waiting for him and she couldn´t breathe in her mind something was wrong, her heart was beating fast. Finally she saw it in the news: “Two cars had crushed in the highway and some people had died”. For a moment her heart stopped, her body wasn´t reacting and she started crying, crying like she never cried before. Charlie had died in that car accident. The only man she knew how to love was gone. He had lied to her cause he used to say that she would always be there for her but he had lied because he wasn´t there now.
That day Emma was suppose to tell him that they were going to have a baby, a little miniature of their love. In the morning they had a fight because Emma was sick his not so hygienic habits and he didn’t even say goodbye to her. If Emma only knew she would have done things differently.
After having Charlie Junior she moved t another state because she wanted to build a new life, far from home, from people that knew her that made her reminded.
In the beginning she was excited she thought that she would have a new and better life with her son just the two of them, but life has unsounded mysteries that guided her to James.
James wasn´t stunningly handsome, he was an everyday man. Tall but not giant, elegant but not skinny and just too nice to be available.
One day when she finally had the courage to speak to him she said “Hi, my name is Emma, I´m new in town. Can you tell me where the grocery is?
That just little phrase caught his attention. He looked back and there was Emma. A little woman with dark hair, big brown eyes and a killing smile.
He didn´t answer, he just pointed the finger. Emma didn´t like and she thought he was rude but James wasn’t rude. He just couldn´t speak because he was amazed with her. He was embarrassed.
For weeks the didn´t speak until the day that James brought her flowers, pink, yellow and orange. It was a rainbow of flowers and that day they talked for hours about her life, his house, her son and about his little daughter.
And no they didn´t fall in love (yet) but this isn´t a love story. This is a story about loss, growth, finding the place where you belong and for Emma and Charlie Junior was that little green house.
There´s no place like home, don´t you agree?
Fernanda N.º 35095
Your describtion of
ReplyDelete-Emmas feelings at the beginning,
-this tall and elegant James,
-the coulorfull flowers, ...
let me emagine a lot of parts in your story!
I like the End of your story! It was really surprising.
You wrote a good story,a tragic and also sweet story.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading it, we get to picture it in our minds, so you did some great descriptions.
I just found some errors with verb tenses but overall I's well organised and that's a good open end.