Hi I decided that that Prologue was really rubbish to be honest. This isn't really much longer but hopefully a lot better. All the same things apply for the only old New Beginnings I'm just starting a fresh and making it better.
Prologue-Nikki's perspective
It's been two years since Harry left and a year since Leo died, finally I'm healing. The wound is slowly closing up, the antibiotics taking affect, soon there will be nothing left but a scar symbolising the memories of another life.
A friend once told me that life is like an uncooked pancake, it's given to you raw in a bowl and you have to make something good out of it. Two years ago my pancake was cooked to perfection, I had everything I wanted in life, I had people loved and respected me, but I didn't jump at the chance and see what was happening right before my eyes and take action. I didn't jump at the chance and switch of the gas and take the pancake out of the pan. I let it fester but unlike wine it didn't get better with age it just burnt and my life began to crumble around me. Now I'm left with nothing but a burnt out pancake and a burnt out life, everything I could have had moved away with Harry or died with Leo.
The only option left is to throw out the pancake, make a new batter and begin again but somehow that all seems so hard. This pancake is special it was made with love, hope and laughter; throwing it way is like throwing away eight years of my life, forgetting anyone and anything that I cared for and anything that happened whilst this pancake was made and that's harder than anything I have ever done before but it has to be done.
This year I must begin my new life, start afresh and make a new batter.