exmptfromsanity (exmptfromsanity) wrote in qaf_drabbles, @ 2007-10-27 17:16:00 |
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Current music: | Bad Boys II |
Challenge #36: Spooky Words
Title: Canada
Author: Exmptfrom sanity
Timeline: 513
Condom: Ben (I'm sorry, it's wrong to give them to Gus)
The new house is spooky. It’s dark when we get there and the power isn’t working. Mama used some very bad words.
“Mel, it’s almost midnight. Let’s get the kids to bed and figure this out in the morning,” Mommy says.
There are leaves all over the floor from a broken window, and it’s windy so the house makes creaky noises and JR starts screaming.
Mommy says we live in
I hope it’s not too far from
Maybe we can visit Justin tomorrow and he can show me on Daddy’s computer.
Dad and Justin have already landed in
I look out the window, watching the leaves blow across the.
Finally, thank God, Dad’s rental car pulls up against the sidewalk. Justin runs quickly up the front walk.
Then there’s Dad. He catches my face in the window and just smiles.
Ben’s been standing on the porch for over an hour, leaning against the railing, smoking a cigarette.
The last time I was home they had me outside, raking leaves, despite the fact that it was so windy the yard would be covered again by morning.
Now it’s almost midnight and I don’t know what to say to him because it’s spooky to look in his eyes and see how much he wants to scream behind them. But the doctor said that Michael can come home tomorrow, that he’s fine.
I let myself out the door and stand next to him.