I finally got off work at about 7:30am in the morning and dawn was just breaking. The sunlight filtered through the clouds creating such breathing beauty that it makes your heart ache to just see it. The sun always reminded me just how I was just a small part of the universe. It kept me humble and it always reminded me that no matter how painful or arduous something was that all things must come to the end. Dusk or dawn will always arrive. No creature mortal or immortal would keep her back and the passage of time will define us all.
I had to shake myself out of a daze. I could have wasted the whole day just looking up and wondering about the universe and my fate.
I had the next few days off and planned to go pack up my stuff and move in Sookie. I was amazed at how the events of the last few days had unfolded. I moved to the country for less excitement and ended up with more. Go figure.
It didn't take me long to pack up what few possessions I had into a few boxes and cram them in my car. Most of my stuff was still in the storage pods. I had jettisoned most of my furniture when I left LA. I just put it out on the curb and it was gone within it hours. Most of it was his anyways and I wanted to get as far away from that train wreck as possible.
Most women spend their whole lives looking for Mr. Right and fill the time with Mr. Right Now. Me I was practical. I was looking for something nice and tame. The nice guy that the girl always ends up with at the end of the movie. Who would have known that there was narcissistic rage boiling under the surface?
It was easy for me to buy into the picture of perfection he painted himself as. I had always thought of my self of as flawed, pretty but not beautiful enough to rely on my looks. So when he pointed out the flaws that I always secretly thought were there I believed him. He was trying to help me improve myself so I thought. Turns out he wasn't the only person he was helping out.
How did I become the girl that gets played for the fool? How did I with all my extra senses end up getting my heart trampled on by the one person I thought would spare me from that fate? Maybe it was time for Mr. Wrong.
I drove with the top down on my mini convertible all the way to Sookie's. I was really looking forward to being able to live with someone who understood who I really was. I had only spent half and hour with her but I knew deep down she knew me.
"Oh Shit!"
I had to make a hard turn right onto Hummingbird Lane. I was so absorbed in my own thoughts I almost missed it. I slowly maneuvered my car along the spotty gravel driveway and pulled in front of the slightly dilapidated white house.
The door to the porch flung open as I stepped out of the car and Sookie bounded down the stairs towards me and flung her arms around me in a sisterly hug.
"Oh my god I am so excited to have living with me. It's been so lonely since Bill went to New Orleans for secret vampire business." I had to chuckle at that
"I'm actually really excited too oddly enough. I haven't had a roommate since college"
She beamed at me and beckoned me towards the house and gave me the grand tour of the house. The room she showed me that was mine must have been her childhood bedroom. It had that air of innocent nostalgia with the flowers and the dollhouse in the corner. This wasn't what I had in mind when I was looking for a place to live. It was better this was a home.