The last few nights, she had a recurring ream about never getting home. It always started with a nightmare airport experience - a freak blizzard, and epidemic, a terrorist plot. Somehow, she always got from A to B, but by the time she got to New York, or Los Angeles, or wherever the hell she was, she was wandering around trying to remember where exactly she lived and - this building looked close, but the shutters were the wrong color. Or she'd get in the taxi and when the driver asked for the address, she'd try and scrape it off the tip of her tongue, but it never came out of her mouth.
See it wasn't really about getting back home. It was finding home in the first place.
When she woke up in his apartment, after a night of comatose sleep, she caught a glare from the window that made him look just a bit softer. Just a bit sweeter. That's when she remembered the dream ended safely. In a warm bed. At a family dinner. Or on a couch by the fire with warm arms around her, and she wasn't quite as terrified.
Not to say that he was her home. Because that was ridiculous. But she was learning how to make a home. Right now, he just happened to be a part of it.
That was all that really mattered for now.
See it wasn't really about getting back home. It was finding home in the first place.
When she woke up in his apartment, after a night of comatose sleep, she caught a glare from the window that made him look just a bit softer. Just a bit sweeter. That's when she remembered the dream ended safely. In a warm bed. At a family dinner. Or on a couch by the fire with warm arms around her, and she wasn't quite as terrified.
Not to say that he was her home. Because that was ridiculous. But she was learning how to make a home. Right now, he just happened to be a part of it.
That was all that really mattered for now.
Brittany! This is so solid! I like the voice and your style, especially the image of your character scraping the words off her tongue--it's so visceral and I've never heard that before. I like the whole thing, but my favorite part of this is the ending. I like that the sentences become shorter and I think you leave the ending open enough that you can continue, which you should. Great work! :)
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