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A/n: This is just kinda an intro. Not that good, but just a kick-off.
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Big, blue eyes gazed out through a gap in the blinds at the rolling ocean before them.
"Audra, honey, open the blinds all the way if you want to look out."
The gap snapped shut, and a slender girl stepped back, shaking her head.
"No, it's okay…I was just…"
"Being a dork?" A boy smiled wryly at the girl from a table.
"Be quiet, Dallas. It is a beautiful night." A woman brushed past the girl, and took hold of a string, pulling it to the right. The blinds rolled up slowly, revealing a large body of water, lined with colorful lights. A ferry glided softly across the water. Or maybe it was just swaying grasses basking in the moonlight.
"Isn't it beautiful, Audra? Nothing but fields." The woman, Naomi, brushed a strand of auburn hair behind her ear.
You just don't see it, the Audra thought, almost angry. I'm the only one in the family who ever has. Ever. It's not grass. It's an ocean. It's a city. She curled a golden lock around her finger, and turned away.
"Do you see ghosts or something?" Dallas asked, ruffling his shaggy hair.
"Shut up, Dal." Audra narrowed her eyes at him. She was actually glad to have them off the window.
Naomi walked away from the window to Audra, giving her shoulders a reassuring squeeze. "Ignore him, sweetie."
Dallas mimicked his mother's words silently as he stuffed a cookie into his mouth, crumbs rolling down his chin.
Audra pulled away from Naomi, and opened the fridge, taking out a bottle of soda. She took a seat next to her brother, and chugged down the liquid.
"So, Audra, how's your social life?"
"Mo-om!"
"Dallas, stop teasing your sister." Their mother wiped down the counter, a grim look on her face.
So what if I'm shy? At least you guys don't have a curse or something. Audra pulled on a lock, and her eyebrows knitted together.
Since the first time her father held her in front of that window at night, she had always seen all those bright lights reflecting on the ocean.
When she was a toddler she would stand on a chair and look out every night, pointing to the ferry, then a building, talking with perfectly understandable grammar, but all of it being nonsense.
And when she went to elementary school, she would invite friends over to spend the night. She would always point out the window, and by now, hoping they would stare in awe at the lights, but instead they would ask if they could go play in the fields the next morning. Being young, Audra would argue, and insist that it was a ocean and a city by night.
Soon, she was considered insane to her classmates, and even her brother. She worried the whole family, actually.
Audra stared absent-mindedly at her brother, lost in these thoughts.
"Hello, dork being dorkish alert…" Dallas waved his hands in front of his sister's face.
"Stop!" Audra swatted his hands away.
"Ah, ah! No twelve year olds shall hit 14 year olds in this household, young lady!" Dallas took hold of Audra's wrist.
"Buzz off." Audra yanked out of his grip, giving him a raspberry.
The click of a lock was heard, and a two men's booming laughs echoed into the kitchen.
All three of them sighed heavily.
"Well, I'm gone." Dallas left down the hall, taking the plate of cookies with him.
Business partner number 6 this month. How many can one dad have. Audra groaned, quickly turning it into a cough as the two men walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, sweetie!" The taller one with the same eyes as Audra went over to her, and kissed her head.
"Hey, Dad." Audra slid down in her chair.
"West, this is my daughter, Audra, and my wife, Naomi."
The other man took hold of Naomi's hand and shook it quite wildly.
"Nice to meet yah. Weston Weeks, please, call me West."
"Nice to meet you…uh, West." Naomi took her hand away, smiling nervously.
Audra rolled her eyes, and got up, heading for her room. She couldn't help standing and taking a look out the window.
"Nice country you got out there, eh?" West nodded toward the window.
"AUUGH!" Audra flounced and stormed up the stairs to her room. She was extremely embarrassed, feeling the color rush up her neck. Hopefully her dad would find another business partner by tomorrow night. She wouldn't be surprised if he did.
She just was tired of hearing about those fields at night. She knew what they looked like by day…it wasn't that she wanted to see the fields, she just wanted to know about that city. Why she saw it.
If she was cursed in any way. If she was really insane.
She fell onto her bed, and closed her eyes. She just wanted to fall asleep, and see daylight again. Through that window. All the windows that faced outside over the cliff. Including hers, which always had blinds.
I need an answer, she thought, any type of answer to this.
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