A dark soul ridden and infested with grief, all this plainly written on her
youthful visage. Twin oculars of a magnificent febrile blue stared vapidly
at the walls ahead, obviously attached from the world encompassing her like
the air encompassed her slight insubstantial body. The sigh that escaped
her reached not even the person standing but half a pace away, it simply
reached the mans ears, and that all that truly mattered.
Her coiled tresses, of a lovely and undening gold reached just past
her slender shoulders, descending down her stiff back in such an unsetling
manner it mad her seem even more so vulnerable. Slender digits bluntly
clung to the books she desperately clung to,Her clammy fingerprints leaving
distinguishable marks. She aknowledged no one, not a single soul, as if her
mind her souly focused on something no one else could comprehend.
A hauzy, almost etherial glow seemed to close upon her, her slight
form even harder to make out through the dim light and the undaunting glow
that seemed to follow her. At last she smiled, her single fault revealed to
all that looked. The faulty teeth seemed to give her an otherwordly aura of
beautiful magnitude, she perfectly knew well what those teeth said to
others.
She snaped her gum, green and of a taste that must have been
watermelon, though her acidic saliva seemed to diminish its once strong
taste. With her hand she idly flicked back her golden locks, her gaze never
straying from her path ahead, she walked like the dead woman they all
expected her to be. She fed there gossip willingly, as she knew her sister
did volitionally. They didn't care anymore, surely they couldn't. They were
already looked upon as if diseased with leprosy, outcasts outside of the
white walls that constrained them at home. Without so much as a question as
to how they felt on the subject of there sisters death they suffered the
stares from mother, daughter, fathers and sons with a bravness that
outweighted even that of the men in Vietnam {Horrible analogy, I know}.
They wandered those clustered halls, they heads held high, there
false cheerfulness eerie for no one expected them to act cheerful or even
at all normal. They expected the Lisbon girls to do what they did, they
just didn't expect them to have suffered so long and only extinguished
there short-lived lives so late. They had gazed at them with knowing
nudges, never once wondering what they felt, how they dreamed, what they
though.
Only a small group of infatuated boys knew them, or at least though
they did. At least what they wished was to souly know what those troubled
individuals wanted, they wanted to know, they wasted there time to try and
find out the never solved puzzle. A puzzle not even the most genius of
minds could solve, for the power and grief of that puzzle could leave one
wounded in such a manner it could unman them with its absolute magnitude in
sorrow.
The tale of the once and only five Lisbon sisters could never be
retold, nor simply said with a curt reply, such a tale is meant to be
retold for its power to cast a weaving spell of fear, love and sorrow over
a person can only be looked at with awe. Now with disgust, not with a mere
respond. No the Tale of the Lisbons is a heartfelt tale of love, betrayl,
darkness, blurred reality, and a confused dreamy mist, as if ones eyes were
being held behind the veil of a small childs hand. They world of the Lisbon
sisters is the world of a dreamer.
