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Something So Unscripted

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by Natasha Madison


  We haven’t even opened the windows. It is almost like we’re shuttering ourselves inside this temporary safe haven as if we don’t even exist.

  Opening up the screen door, the rusty springs make a loud squeaking noise in the dead of the night. Trying not to make it slam shut, I hold the handle till it shuts softly.

  The sounds outside are quiet. Serene. No car sounds, no horns honking, no rushing, just crickets. I settle into the swing I know my grandfather hung to make sure my grandmother had somewhere she could sit and watch the stars.

  For thirty-seven years, they did it all together until death came and took my grandfather in his sleep. Ten years later, he came and rescued her from the pain of ALS. Her knitting, cooking, cleaning, gardening, baking all came to a halt the minute her hands shook so badly she couldn’t hold not even a fork to feed herself.

  Settling myself into the swing, I fold one foot under me, pushing off with the other one.

  “So many stars, Momma.” My brown-eyed girl looks up, pointing to what looks like a million twinkling lights in the sky.

  The darkness of the sky makes them sparkle like diamonds. Some are small, some are blinking. All are beautiful. It’s peaceful. It’s everything I remember it to be.

  It’s hope, hope for change. Hope for the future. Hope for the end of the nightmare I have been living the last four years. “Look, baby, a shooting star. Make a wish.”

  She closes her eyes, and I see her lips move, but no sound comes out of her mouth. I lean down kissing her forehead, making my own wish.

  I do this for the next thirty minutes, maybe more, pushing myself on that swing with one foot. Once I know she is asleep in my arms, I get back up to go inside.

  The whole time I never realized that the neighbor across the street has been sitting in his living room with the lights off just staring out the window at two broken girls sitting across the street.

  Books By Natasha Madison

  Books By Natasha Madison

  Something Series

  Something So Right

  Amazon

  Something So Perfect

  Amazon

  Something So Irresistible

  Amazon

  Tempt Series

  Tempt The Boss

  Amazon

  Tempt The Playboy

  Amazon

  Tempt The Neighbor – 2018

  Heaven & Hell Series

  Hell and Back

  Amazon

  Pieces of Heaven

  Amazon

  Heaven & Hell Box Set

  Amazon

  True Love Series

  Pefrect Love Story – May 2018

  Amazon

  Unexpected Love Story – June 2018

  Amazon

  Broken Love Story – July 2018

  COMING

  Novellas

  Cheeky

  Until Brandon

  Swoon- June 2018

  Madison Rose Books

  Only His

 

 

 


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