This is a re-write of an old story of mine which was called ''Everything has Changed.'' I do love the old story which I did so I kept it up on here so this is an 'alternate' way the story could have gone.
I hope you enjoy. This first 'chapter' is the Prologue.
''It starts off with a simple look, a sweet smile...''
The sun shone over Philadelphia on a warm spring day. Seventeen year old Rose Hockley stared from the bedroom window of her new residence. Thoughts whirled around her head, thoughts which had never even come to her before but today, they had and they seemed to change her. Gazing off into the far distance, she wondered what hid beyond the smoke stacks of Hockley steel, the stench of constant burning and the sweaty men running around like their insanity had been lost. The hills which sat in the distance, the green pastures which met the sky in a beautiful portrait of colours, what was beyond those hills?
She sighed, resting her chin on the palms of her hands. She watched as the men below worked like ants in the heat to earn money to feed their families and put a roof over their heads while she simply sat dreaming of a life she knew she could never have.
One young man seemed to break away from the rest of the crowd where he was working and stopped what he was doing for a second. Rose watched him intently, she could not make out his face but she knew that he was young. They seemed to share a moment as he too gazed at her, she stood up straight and leant against the window and took her eyes away to gaze back out at the horizon and tried to resist a second look back at him but he still stood in the spot, watching her. She wanted to find him rude, but she couldn't. Instead she smiled the sweetest smile before walking away from the window...but he didn't leave her mind for the rest of the day.