Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Confessions Of A Wallflower: Book One (intro snippet)

Chapter One


I will never forget how she looked that day. The sun was shining through her brown long hair, loose by her side, dancing happily in the icy air that strangled this particular morning.
I found it odd she was wearing her prettiest dress in the middle of January. It was a summer dress made from yellow cotton. I had only seen it on special occasions. In a weird way, this is how she was celebrating a special occasion.

As I stood numb to any part of my body, the creaks of the rope noose rubbing against the tree branch infested my ears and the silence surrounding us. Lorraine’s lifeless body dangled somewhat peacefully as I searched for any sign of life. Her once magnetic green eyes that used to face me during staring contests in the fourth grade, now closed; her chipped painted finger nails that will never touch her grandmother’s piano keys; her ability to make me smile when I cannot- gone from the world I have known for the past fourteen years.

Lorraine was a happy person. She was my best friend, and I knew her better than anyone else. Or so I thought.