Hey ! Got inspired again and felt like writing this. Completely OC, wanted to try my hand at it. Wish me luck?
Short first chapter, I know. I'll write more while I'm at school.
Enjoy what I have so far :)
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"Are you okay?" Annie asked. The way she said it, it wasn't just a normal, 'What's up' or 'How's it going'. What she'd really meant was 'Are you going to be okay, after all this?'
I really didn't have an answer.
I half-nodded and she turned her head, her dark wavy hair draped loosely over the side of her face, a curtain covering her expression as she stared into the rippling waters of the fish pond. She sighed and looked up at the sky, the moon creeping out from behind a shimmery cloud, its playful light highlighting her high cheek bones like a gentle silver kiss, picking out the highlights in her hair so it looked as if she was wearing a moonlit tiara.
"I miss him." She whispered. I looked at her. She was so young, yet she had that all-knowing look in her bright eyes. She had been forced to grow up. It wasn't her fault... just things hadn't happened the way we'd all wanted them to. Come to think of it, things never seemed to happen that way. Ever since she was born I knew she'd have to live a life as hard as mine. I didn't want that. I'd tried so hard to change it, to protect her from everything I had to go through and experience. But I realised I couldn't do that to her. I couldn't just shelter her from everything, she had to experience pain and make mistakes and trust the wrong people and listen to people lying and all of those ridiculous things that come bundled together wrapped tight with a bow when you sign up for this little thing called life. And I hated not being able to stop her from going through that.
"I miss him, too, Ann." She looked up at me, and she put her small hand on my clenched fist, fingers intertwining into mine. "I miss him, too."