Vacation
Chapter 9
As the sun disappeared behind the horizon and the darkness of the night took hold of the sky, a lone figure sat beneath the tree that had been told so many of this persons secrets over the years that if it truly was alive a book would've been published years ago. Alas not though as the lone figure sat and once again became the confidont of this scared child of the earth. We begin to see the real Lindsay Monroe the one who doesn't need to hide behind the mask she had so dutifully erected around herself and heart the moment she came to New York and only in the comfort of her apartment had she had the courage to drop it and let go of the pretense she struggled everyday to uphold, in frontof her coworkers who unknowingly had slowly started to break down those barriers piece by piece everyday, but none more so than a blue eyed detective you made an ass out of her in front of her new boss by telling her to call him 'Sir'.
As time went on for Lindsay the outside world and the became nothing more than a semblance of reality as she chose to it and focus on the memories that plague her dreams and try to find some in her thoughts and be able to put it all behind her and move on to the life she had always wanted.
Looking up to the stars their right in the centre of the sky sat plonked her star which she believed that her friends had become to watch over her and guide her through her life and it's decisions. Staring at the star she started her tale of finding herself again with the help of a cocky boy from Staten Island. "Hey guys. I'm sorry I haven't been around much, but I finally did it like I always said I would. I dug up my roots here in Montana and moved across the country to the one place I was always fascinated with. New York, gosh I wish you were there with me the day I moved. Things have never been the same since you guys left. Although I did get married here back home and had two beautiful children a little girl named Lizzie and her twin brother Todd. Then fate struck again and took my baby boy away from me, I married Austin Spencer by the way, fat lot of good he turned out to be, wrecked my life just when I had finally found peace within myself. He's now spending 15 years in jail for drunk driving and manslaughter." Lindsay said whilst she looked up at her star with the tears sliding unchecked down her cheeks. Shifting her weigth until she was laying down on the soil and facing the stars she had studied so valiently when she was a child trying to find a distraction from the apin she felt and yet now she realised that nothing could ever distract you from the pain of losing your best friends and being the only survivor of such an atrocity.
" I'm so sorry. Here I am living the life tht all of us should have had the chance to live. I wish you could have met Lizzie, you guys would have been her Godmothers, mind you that would have been another reason for you to spoil her rotton. Tonight I told Lizzie that when I go back to New York that she gets to come with me." Sighing Lindsay stopped and just took a moment to remember all the laughs and memories she shared with them.
As the sky got darker and the moon became brigther in the sky, and the stars started to become overshadowed by the light of the glowing circle suspened in the sky. " Lately works been tough,the labs safe got broken into and the Cocaine that was seighed earlier on that day was stolen, then Danny and Adam were taken hostage and tortured and were beaten pretty badly. Danny took my shift so that should have been me in that warehouse, but he decided that he would let me get some more sleep, then he ended up with broken fingers. Bad things just happens to the people who I love I mean look at you guys if you weren't my friends then you would be alive, sometimes I just wish I had died along with you and I wouldn't have to go through the motions of living knowing that you wouldn't get to do half the things that i've done."
"You've probably had enough of me moaning to you so I gonna go in and try to get some sleep. I love you guys, i'm sorry you aren't here to laugh and joke about just like we did everyday back when everything was so much simpler and childlike." Lindsay finished as she got up from the ground in front of the Oak tree and brushed off the dirt and grass of her pants and back, so she could make her way away from the tree into the house and leave it as if she never came to have a chat with some old friends about times gone by.
The retreating figure slowly dragged her feet toward the comfort of her childhood home and into the safety of the familarlity of the house and it's contents. Where as the old Oak tree stood resolute and tall, with a new chapter commited to memory of the life of Lindsay Monroe.
