Chapter 9 reminiscing
I ran. I ran past the camp grounds, in the forest than I passed that. I ran and ran and ran until I couldn't run by one unparticular place that was very dear to me. Grandma and Grandpa's house it's looked the same since I left it that night I had to go to that damned clearing. I walked up the stairs on to the porch then I tried the door it was unlocked. Great. I walked in slowly letting all the good memories unfold before me. My daddy on the piano playing a song that he made for my mother when they first met. I went upstairs and went in to aunt Alice's room and the memories was there to. My aunt Alice in the back of her closet finding little outfits for me to model and my mother and aunt Rose clapping every time I went out with a new outfit on. I went to grandpa's study and remembered how he used to tall me stories of the past and how he met everyone in the family. I went back down stairs completely skipping my father's old room knowing it would be to much than I can handle. I went in to the kitchen remembering when grandma made me a hole bunch of human food because she wanted to try a new recipe and how I had to force it down and smile every time she looked and when she wasn't looking down the sink it went. Thank goodness for my fast running. I went out side to the garage and saw the memory of aunt Rose under the car I think giving it a tune up and every time she asked uncle Emmett for a certain tool he would always bring her the wrong one flash before my eyes. Then I had an idea that would probably be painful but I had to do it. I went to the river by the house and jumped it and ran all the way to my family's cottage. I new it was unlocked because it always is I mean who's going to go rob a old beaten down cottage in the middle of the woods. I walked in and saw my mother's books over the mantle starting with Jane Austen's classics and ending with Withering Heights. I walked up to it and stroked the spines, oh how I loved it when she used to read to me. I walked into my room down the hall my crib still there and everything else was how I left it. Here comes the tough part I walked down the hall to my parent's room I opened the door everything was how they left it to. I walked in to there closet and looked at my dad's half of a wall of cloths and my mother's walls of cloths and couldn't help but giggle a little. I looked up a stopped giggling right when I saw it. It was silky and dark blue it was my mothers rob that I loved
Flash back
I was in my fathers arms when I herd the shower finally shut off 2 seconds later my mother immerged from the bathroom wearing silky dark blue robe. I never seen this before it must have been aunt Alice who got this for her
"She's still not asleep?" my mother said in a soft tone
My father chuckled "iv been trying but she's just as stubborn as you. She wont go to sleep in anyone's arms except yours now"
"well I guess I should go put her to sleep then" she said wile stroking my hair then she looked up in my father's eyes and smiled "ill be back"
"Ill be waiting" he said with a crooked smile
He put me in her arms and right when I felt the nice shiny silk I was home I never felt any thing so soft before and combined with my mothers sent could put me asleep at a heavy metal concert. I feel asleep instantly and dreamed of that nice silky robe.
end flash back
I grabbed the robe and gently took it off the hanger. I pressed the soft fabric in my face it still smelled like my mother. I put it on over my cloths and tried to find something of my father's I didn't find anything in his cloths so I went in the bathroom I'm sure I can find something there I opened the top left draw and saw hairspray, gel, and cologne then I saw it. It was his comb I remember one day I was sitting on the counter watching him comb his hair.
Flash back
He put the comb down so he could get something out of the towel closet behind him. When his back was turned I took the comb and hid it behind my back. He turned around to get the comb and when he found out it wasn't on the counter he looked under the counter and on the side of it. Then he slowly straitened up and gave me a accusing look
"Nessie have you seen my comb?" he asked me
I just shook my head wile smiling
"oh really" he said "then what's behind your back?"
I freed on of my hands from behind my back and put it on his cheek and thought 'nothing and I'm not giving it up with out a fight'
He just smiled and said "oh well see about that" the he stared tickling me. I was dieing laughing I couldn't believe he found my weakness I took the comb from behind my back and slowly and held it up like a white flag
"thank you my little girl" he said wile I was trying to catch my breath from laughing so hard
I put my hand on his cheek and thought 'you may have won the battle but I will win the war' he just laughed along with me.
End flash back
I had tears running down my face when I thought of those happy times when there was no worry and no problems and when everybody was alive. I grabbed the comb and went to go lay on there bed. I pulled the covers over me and I hugged the closest thing I had to my parents a robe and a comb.
I awoke to the sound of someone's voice saying "Nessie, finally I found you"
