Suspended

 She tasted salt and  felt weightless. She could hear the ocean. Two figures stood  in the distance on the shoreline getting smaller by the minute. Her mom and the dog were sitting in the sand on the beach watching her drift away. Her mom tried to call out to her but her voice seemed lost in the waves. The tide was rolling out.

Before the girl knew it she awoke to the smell and noise of morning traffic at rush hour. She slowly got out of bed and caught a glimpse of herself  in the mirror. She did not recognize the person staring back at her. What happened to those carefree days of swimming in the lake?  She thought. She gazed sadly at a  worn family portrait of herself as a child. " It feels like yesterday" She thought, as she brushed the tears away from her eyes. " How time fly's".

She  thought of the green faerie all day as the nice ladies served her toast and hard boiled eggs in the cafeteria. She smiled to herself. It seemed, that as time passed she had forgotten all about her old friends in the forest when her dog died. Aside from her childhood, her growing years seemed a blur for she could hardly remember much these days, but she remembered that day well.

She was 15 years old and it was three days before her birthday.  It was a rainy day much like this one, and she awoke to her mother sobbing in the stairwell. It was then that she knew. "he bled in the operating room" was all her mother said. The girl felt a bitter taste in her mouth. She tried to find the words to say something, anything as hot tears rolled down her cheeks.  She felt a strange urge to comfort her mother the same way her mother did for her when she skinned her knees or was sick with chicken pox. She wanted to tell her everything was going to be alright. The Girl stared at her mother for what seemed like a very long time. She counted  the lines on her mothers forehead, like rings on the surface of a tree . "Worry Lines" her had mother called them. She sensed the vulnerability in her mothers eyes.Kind, yet,  tired. A surge of anger seemed to well up from the pit of her stomach. She felt as if she were to explode. She ran outside into the pouring rain, cursing at the sky and kicking the earth beneath her. She ran until she found herself in the forest. She pressed her fingers along the wet  roots of the trees and began to sob, her tears soaking the earth as rain beat down on her.
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