It was just another normal day for her. She'd gotten ready for another normal day at the office. Ready to be ordered around, spoken to like an idiot (just because she didn't have a degree), then home. Only to wake up and do it all over again but she did what she had to, in order to live and in this economy. It was difficult to get a job that paid the bills and left her with some extra cash. It was a vicious cycle. She couldn't get a higher paid job because she didn't have the experience and no one would hire someone her age in a lower paid job. So here she was, stuck in a office job where she wasn't respected (since she didn't know much about it) with no real career prospects.
Two years at college and what she came out with was a fancy computer qualification that meant; she knew how to use a computer, knew the basics of Human Resources and how to do basic accounts. Sure she could have kept studying but when she found out she was pregnant, she thought it best to wait till her child was a little older and then go back to college. Then her boyfriend left her when she left college. Then she lost the child shortly after. Depression hit her hard and now at 29 here she was starting from the bottom, doing the job of someone just coming into their 20's not nearly in their 30's!
Her life was running 10 years behind and there was no way she could ever get back that time.
It was nice day which made a change. The weather lately had been, dreary to say the least. So with a up beat song playing on her phone and the weather finally picking up. Her day was beginning to look good. Till she saw the dark grey clouds coming in from over the ocean. Well that was depressing. It was definitely going to be raining by the time she'd left work this afternoon and she had only put on a light jacket with how nice the weather was looking. The spring in her step had sprung away from her so quickly that she hadn't been bothering to properly concentrate where she was going anymore. She knew the path to work so well by now that she didn't have to properly look where she was walking anymore. She just plodded along, knowing by now that the rest of her day was looking as good as the weather was. This made what happened next all the more confusing.
With her head stuck in her phone listing to the new tracks that she had downloaded at the behest of a friend she never noticed that the turn in the path looked a little different today. In fact it wasn't just a little different. It was the complete opposite to the quiet suburban/industrial buildings that should have lined the pavement to work.
Trees slowly replaced the buildings. Growing taller and wider as she walked on. The smooth pavement was replaced my compacted slate chips. First a few at a time. Spread out over the whole pathway. Then morphing into what made up the pathway completely. The sounds of early morning traffic, if she could hear them over her music, faded away. Till all that could be heard was the quiet early morning sounds of the bird in the trees. What finally made her look up from her phone was when the music track ended and the blue and white flashing lights of a police car caught her attention.
So what do you think. I know where this will be going. It's gonna be starting rather far back. So I know how the next few seasons will play out and how my character will fit in.
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