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This is a little story that I came up with while listening to the song Through the Dark by KT Tunstall.
It is about a life time of wishes and hope.
Wishes on Eyelashes
It was early April, spring was in the air. Flowers were beginning to bloom and the days were getting warmer and longer. Eight year old Sara Sidle was sitting on the swings in her school yard during recess, watching the world go bye. She could tell something was going to happen that day. She could feel it in the air around her and in her eight year old body and bones. She just didn't know if it was good or bad yet or what it was. But she did know whatever it was, it was going to be big! Powerful! Life changing!
"Sara! Earth to Sara!" cried her best friend in the world Tessa Jones.
At this Sara, came out of her day dream and looked over at Tessa, who had taken the swing next to her.
"Hi Tess," greeted Sara smiling, tucking her long brown hair behind her ear.
Tessa smiled back and then leaned in and brushed her finger right under Sara's left eye.
"What was that for?" asked Sara, clearly taken back at her friend's action.
A grinning Tessa wiggled her finger in front of Sara's face.
"What? What is it?" Sara asked, reaching out and grabbing her friend's wrist, trying to get a better look of what was on her finger.
"It's an eyelash," Tessa replied.
Sara stared down at the long black eyelash on the tip of Tessa's finger and up at her face and back again.
"What am I suppose to do with it?" asked Sara, clueless.
"Make a wish silly!" giggled Tessa.
"Okay," replied Sara.
"But just don't go wishing for anything. You have to wish for something really special. Think hard now!" explained Tessa, now in a very serious eight year old voice.
Sara nodded her head eagerly at her friend.
"Wishes on eyelashes are the most important wishes of all. Sure you can make a wish on your birthday cake or on a shooting star. But wishes on eyelashes are truly the only wishes that ever come true. Everyone knows it!" continued Tessa.
At this Sara closed her eyes real tight and thought hard about what to wish for. After a moment or two had passed Tessa asked, "Do you have your wish yet?"
Sara nodded her head, eyes still closed.
"Okay now, keep your eyes closed and make your wish but only in your head. You can't say it out loud, only to yourself or else it won't come true."
"'Kay," replied Sara as she squeezed her eyes real tight again and made her wish.
'I wish for Mommy and Daddy to stop fighting!' she thought.
Sara then opened her eyes and looked over at Tessa, "Now what?"
"Now you have to blow the eyelash away!"
At this, Sara leaned in and blew on Tessa's finger. The eyelash then went flying into the wind. The wish had now entered the world.
"Can you wish on eyelashes that you pull out yourself?" she asked next.
"No, no," replied Tessa shaking her head. "Only fallen eyelashes."
Just then the school bell rang and the two girls jumped off the swings and went skipping towards the school.
Later that night, Sara's wish came true. Her parents had not fought. It had all stopped; the abuse, the yelling, and the trips to the hospital.
Sara had been sitting at the kitchen table doing her homework when her father had come home, nagging about how the place was a mess and such. Her mother, who had been making dinner, all of a sudden snapped and ran the knife into her husband's abdomen four times.
At that point Sara realized what they meant by be careful what you wish for.
Tessa had been right, wishes on eyelashes did come true…always.
Thanks for reading this very short chapter. I hoped you enjoyed it and will read the next chapter, which will be about another part in Sara's life were she makes a wish.
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