A/N-Thanks so much for the last few reviews! You guys are really helping me love this story again!
Sophia didn't know what to do so she just kept walking, she didn't even have a clear idea of where she was going, she just walked though the tears. But soon she realized that she had walked out-of-town, she realized that she was a ways from the heart of Shelby. She only saw a house now and then. She wondered how long she had walked but then she realized how bad her feet were hurting so she looked around , saw a cement slab that she used as a bench, sat down then took off her shoes. Heels were pretty to walk around town but not for long lengths of town she thought.
She began rubbing them then she looked around at the sights surrounding her. She was mostly surrounded by tall pine trees , bushes and some Buckeye trees...the only reason she knew what a buckeye was is because it's the state tree or else she wouldn't know, trees are not her thing. She gave a sigh and was about to just pick up and walk home when something caught her eye.
It was a fence surrounding a large piece of property and she saw a church in the far off background , an old-fashioned church with a steeple on it. She smiled at the simplicity of it then the closer she got to the fence, the more she realized it was a graveyard. She could see the grave markers of different shapes and sizes, some in crosses , some in square shapes, shapes of Bibles and she said to herself, "Maybe I can find some answers in here."
She thought the dates would tell her something, they wouldn't lie about the dates on a gravestone, would they?
She got up to the gate and looked up at the iron sign hanging over her and she stepped back to get a better look and it said, 'Peaceful Times' cemetary. She noticed that it didn't have a date when the graveyard was made but she shrugged her shoulders and went in. She looked around and she put her shoes back on. She walked around with respect, even tho she didn't know a soul buried there, she had to give respect for those that lived and died; to those that lived a long time on this earth and to those that may have only lived a second in time.
She looked at the names...'Anna Sims'...Barbara Mills buried with husband Glenn...Luke and Brenda Dowden...Brenda Wilson...baby Gary Arabie...a World War one veteran, Madden Blake Alford...'
Something occurred to her, there was not one date on any of them, no birthdate, no date of death...nothing...she even saw a huge tree that was made into a headstone and she ran to it but all it did was say a name 'Karen Langer' and she could tell that it was an old headstone but little good that could do her. She finally saw a fresh grave over in the northern corner of the yard, ran over to it and saw a little grave marker at the end and she bent down but only saw a name, 'Johnny Richards'. She fell on her knees, she was exhausted and beyond crying, but she finally gave out dry sobs. WHAT KIND OF PLACE DID SHE COME TO?
She slowly got up,brushed the leaves off her clothes, looked around then gathered herself together and slowly walked out of the cemetary. She looked up at the sky and realized it was five o'clock. It would be dark soon so she better, wait...why did she have to walk back? She could just keep walking until she got to someplace, someplace that wasn't so...nutty.
So that's what she did, she found a path that led into the woods. She kept walking until the trees enveloped her, she kept walking until she saw colors in the sky but it was still light enough outside to see. She saw a break in the trees then there was a road on the other side and she saw cars passing. She was so ready for water, her throat was parched and she was powerful hungry.
She walked the ten feet to it and started to run into the small opening but she ran into something...unexpected. She fell on the ground, tore the stockings she had on and some leaves and sticks stuck to her skirt but she got up and slowly put her hand trying to find whatever made her fall down. She couldn't see anything but she could feel something. What?
It, it was like a force field that she had only heard and read about in the Star Trek books and movies, she got up on her knees and she felt all over and there was that field all over, she could see the modern cars and trucks passing her on the road and as cry and scream as much as she could, she could not go to them. She finally gave up, sat down and curled up in a ball. She cried for hours. Finally, she got up, she walked around, it was dark and she was tired, so tired so she walked to a little white and green house, she was so tired that she barely was able to walk up the steps to the door, knocked and a woman came to, opened the door and Sophia explained her situation and asked to use the phone. When she went in, she noticed that the house was decorated in 50's fashion like the McCerey's. She called the only people she could.
30 minutes later, the McCerey's showed up in their Ford Thunderbird and Ann McCerey asked, "Honey, what happened?"
Sophia sighed and she said, "I just got to walking around and through town and I just walked so far that I got lost, I'm sorry." Rob, Ann's husband then said, "You have to be careful, you never know what you are going to find in these woods."
Sophia remembers the force field she found, she then said, "I know."
The just keep driving in the middle of the night to the McCerey house.
A/N-What happens next? We'll find out in the TWILIGHT ZONE.
Sand n' Sable
