As Simple As It Seems
“I’d already lost Annie. After the Christmas ski trip, she and Heather had become even closer. By Easter the two of them were as intertwined as the milky stems of the dandelions Annie and I had spent hours together weaving into chains. The cherry on top of my fifth-grade year was seeing Chris Cartwright holding hands with Annie out in the parking lot right before the graduation ceremony. My parents and I had just gotten out of the car when my mother gasped and pointed.
“Is that your Annie with t...he Cartwright boy?” she whispered.
But it wasn’t my Annie. Not anymore.
For some mysterious reason that spring the lilac bush in our front yard bloomed late. After the graduation ceremony, as my parents and I climbed out of the car, the air was heavy with the sweet scent of lilac, and the full branches arched out of the bush like rockets shooting off purple sprays of fireworks. My mother held the camera in her hand, the black plastic strap tight around her wrist.
“What do you say we take the photo in front of the lilacs this year, Verbie?MoreLess
“Is that your Annie with t...he Cartwright boy?” she whispered.
But it wasn’t my Annie. Not anymore.
For some mysterious reason that spring the lilac bush in our front yard bloomed late. After the graduation ceremony, as my parents and I climbed out of the car, the air was heavy with the sweet scent of lilac, and the full branches arched out of the bush like rockets shooting off purple sprays of fireworks. My mother held the camera in her hand, the black plastic strap tight around her wrist.
“What do you say we take the photo in front of the lilacs this year, Verbie?MoreLess
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