Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 10:31:32 GMT -5
It was the following morning. Zephyr sat in the driver seat her hand on the wheel. There was a vacant cast to her dark eyes. It wasn’t as if she was normally warm and bubbly but there was a stark difference in the Zephyr that sat in the truck looking as if she were made of stone and the Zephyr from yesterday. The events from the day before kept replaying in her mind. Henry was gone…Her Henry. The man who she had been with for the last few months, who had opened his home to her. And then just as suddenly slammed the door shut. She didn’t understand any of it….it was all so sudden…so…wrong.
She had sat in that ally crying even as the rain began to pour. Hunched over her tiny rabbit she cried until there was no way to differentiate between her rain and the tears. She was soaked to the bone, confused and hurt. But eventually the cool fall chill had begun to seep into her bones until she felt numb to her core. It was at that point when she struck out to find Baron. He had left to give them privacy…and she was glad he wasn’t there to see her humiliation….her pain. Her shoulder had been throbbing by the time she located him. The cold rain doing nothing to cool the heat that bubbled beneath her skin. “Were leaving.” She said simply and without preamble. She must have looked like a mad woman. Her dark hair sticking to her face and neck. Her dark eyes dead. Her little white rabbit shivering in her arms.
And that was how they arrived where they were now. Zephyr driving along in silence with Baron in the passenger seat. Lucky in the seat between them happily chewing away on an old lap belt that would never be used again. Her shoulder was infected, it was obvious just by looking at it. But Zephyr couldn’t feel much of anything. She was still numb to the world. Adrift. Lost without her anchor. She had said nothing of what had been said to Baron. She had said nothing at all after telling him they were leaving. She was still unsure herself how it all went to hell so fast. How someone who was supposed to be there for her had apparently only searched her out because he needed closure….Well…he had it.
She wasn’t sure where they were going. But she had turned left when they left town. Taking them away from the water and further inland. She hadn’t been watching the gas level in the truck. But thankfully by the time she started to gurgle and groan the rain had stopped and the first rays of morning were shining across the sky. The truck shut off and ever so slowly rolled to a halt. Zephyr just sat there with her one hand on the wheel. Her injured arm lay limp in her lap. She wasn’t sure what to say….what to do. And so she just sat and listened to her rabbit as she chewed away at a safety feature of the truck.
She had sat in that ally crying even as the rain began to pour. Hunched over her tiny rabbit she cried until there was no way to differentiate between her rain and the tears. She was soaked to the bone, confused and hurt. But eventually the cool fall chill had begun to seep into her bones until she felt numb to her core. It was at that point when she struck out to find Baron. He had left to give them privacy…and she was glad he wasn’t there to see her humiliation….her pain. Her shoulder had been throbbing by the time she located him. The cold rain doing nothing to cool the heat that bubbled beneath her skin. “Were leaving.” She said simply and without preamble. She must have looked like a mad woman. Her dark hair sticking to her face and neck. Her dark eyes dead. Her little white rabbit shivering in her arms.
And that was how they arrived where they were now. Zephyr driving along in silence with Baron in the passenger seat. Lucky in the seat between them happily chewing away on an old lap belt that would never be used again. Her shoulder was infected, it was obvious just by looking at it. But Zephyr couldn’t feel much of anything. She was still numb to the world. Adrift. Lost without her anchor. She had said nothing of what had been said to Baron. She had said nothing at all after telling him they were leaving. She was still unsure herself how it all went to hell so fast. How someone who was supposed to be there for her had apparently only searched her out because he needed closure….Well…he had it.
She wasn’t sure where they were going. But she had turned left when they left town. Taking them away from the water and further inland. She hadn’t been watching the gas level in the truck. But thankfully by the time she started to gurgle and groan the rain had stopped and the first rays of morning were shining across the sky. The truck shut off and ever so slowly rolled to a halt. Zephyr just sat there with her one hand on the wheel. Her injured arm lay limp in her lap. She wasn’t sure what to say….what to do. And so she just sat and listened to her rabbit as she chewed away at a safety feature of the truck.