Falling Towards Light 11-15
11. Red
150 words
I never realized I was falling for Carolyn until my birthday. Snow covered the ground and the better part of the shrubbery outside, but our house was warm and my housemate’s smile made everything seem brighter. Whenever I mustered up my courage to tell her something, she always gave me the same accepting smile and a hug. An honest reaction I haven’t experienced in a while.
She has her own issues, I know that, but being blind seems to have given her strength rather than taking it away. Physically, I know I’m stronger but that doesn’t compare.
And so, when she fastens the black chocker with a cat-bell mounted on its front around my neck, I feel like I finally belong somewhere. And I love.
But her love is not one that stems from a crush, so I have to settle for being a dear friend. Sometimes warmth burns.
12. Orange
110 Words
The sun wakes Kelly up more often then her alarm clock, its early-morning rays making her white walls glow a mixture of orange, red, and pink. Sometimes, she tiptoes down the hall and peeks into Carolyn’s room to make sure everything was okay.
At night, sometimes she comes home and Carolyn had already made supper. The house's lights were not always on; but she could hear Carolyn signing along with the vocalists on her stereo, her smoky voice rising and falling in sync with the recording. Sometimes the scent of food wafted through the windows into the garden, and made her stomach rumble.
Then she knew everything was still okay.
13. Yellow
Words 130
Seeing Carolyn laughing with someone who looked like he had been wearing the same clothes for the past month made her heart freeze for a moment. She dimly heard Carolyn explain that the man stopped her from walking in front of a car, but she could not help staring at the man’s grubby face in disdain. With resignation on his face, he bowed his head and left her alone with her angry housemate.
After hours of putting it off with work, she went to face Carolyn’s wrath. She blamed it on her narrow-minded parents, and though that was true as well; the main reason she put it off so long was because she was too much of an emotional coward to admit she was jealous of their proximity.
14. Green
157 words
Plants were one thing she always understood. They strove towards life, forcing the way out of the dark earth into the sunlight, struggling against roots and the sheer weight of the soil. They fought and fought, and eventually they won or they died. Plants dealt in absolutes: life, death, healthy, absolute, brown or green. They did not show up unexpectedly at your doorstep, they did not flirt with your roommate, they did not commandeer your kitchen and threaten to drag you out into the streets in your underthings if you tried to get out of keeping them company on Saturday.
However, Anita was the most alive person she knew, and that was something she had always admired. Anita was not scared of who she was, she impulsively told anyone she was even remotely interested in what she thought, when she thought it. It drove Kelly crazy.
But honestly, she could not imagine Anita being any other way.
15. Blue
200 words
Of course, sometimes she wished Anita had more common sense than she did. “What were you thinking!? First you bring us to a gay bar, then you try to take advantage of my Carolyn when I have my back turned. And then you lose her when she runs away because she is STRAIGHT and she gets molested and would’ve gotten RAPED if I didn’t find her!”
“Well if you weren’t so bloody proud, you’d get down on your knees and ask that woman to go out with you!” Anita snarled back, watching Kelly help the shivering Carolyn along the street with something akin to longing. “But no… You’re so afraid of losing something that you won’t try to gain anything. She loves you, you idiot.”
“What do you know? You’ve only just met her!”
“Why the hell do you think that the only one she wants to touch her is you?” Anita asked softly, opening the door for them. “Do you think she’d want you to ignore your feelings to the point that you hurt yourself? Grow up Kelly.”
“Just don’t talk to me.” Kelly said roughly, holding onto Carolyn as desperately as the temporarily deafened woman held onto her.
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150 words
I never realized I was falling for Carolyn until my birthday. Snow covered the ground and the better part of the shrubbery outside, but our house was warm and my housemate’s smile made everything seem brighter. Whenever I mustered up my courage to tell her something, she always gave me the same accepting smile and a hug. An honest reaction I haven’t experienced in a while.
She has her own issues, I know that, but being blind seems to have given her strength rather than taking it away. Physically, I know I’m stronger but that doesn’t compare.
And so, when she fastens the black chocker with a cat-bell mounted on its front around my neck, I feel like I finally belong somewhere. And I love.
But her love is not one that stems from a crush, so I have to settle for being a dear friend. Sometimes warmth burns.
12. Orange
110 Words
The sun wakes Kelly up more often then her alarm clock, its early-morning rays making her white walls glow a mixture of orange, red, and pink. Sometimes, she tiptoes down the hall and peeks into Carolyn’s room to make sure everything was okay.
At night, sometimes she comes home and Carolyn had already made supper. The house's lights were not always on; but she could hear Carolyn signing along with the vocalists on her stereo, her smoky voice rising and falling in sync with the recording. Sometimes the scent of food wafted through the windows into the garden, and made her stomach rumble.
Then she knew everything was still okay.
13. Yellow
Words 130
Seeing Carolyn laughing with someone who looked like he had been wearing the same clothes for the past month made her heart freeze for a moment. She dimly heard Carolyn explain that the man stopped her from walking in front of a car, but she could not help staring at the man’s grubby face in disdain. With resignation on his face, he bowed his head and left her alone with her angry housemate.
After hours of putting it off with work, she went to face Carolyn’s wrath. She blamed it on her narrow-minded parents, and though that was true as well; the main reason she put it off so long was because she was too much of an emotional coward to admit she was jealous of their proximity.
14. Green
157 words
Plants were one thing she always understood. They strove towards life, forcing the way out of the dark earth into the sunlight, struggling against roots and the sheer weight of the soil. They fought and fought, and eventually they won or they died. Plants dealt in absolutes: life, death, healthy, absolute, brown or green. They did not show up unexpectedly at your doorstep, they did not flirt with your roommate, they did not commandeer your kitchen and threaten to drag you out into the streets in your underthings if you tried to get out of keeping them company on Saturday.
However, Anita was the most alive person she knew, and that was something she had always admired. Anita was not scared of who she was, she impulsively told anyone she was even remotely interested in what she thought, when she thought it. It drove Kelly crazy.
But honestly, she could not imagine Anita being any other way.
15. Blue
200 words
Of course, sometimes she wished Anita had more common sense than she did. “What were you thinking!? First you bring us to a gay bar, then you try to take advantage of my Carolyn when I have my back turned. And then you lose her when she runs away because she is STRAIGHT and she gets molested and would’ve gotten RAPED if I didn’t find her!”
“Well if you weren’t so bloody proud, you’d get down on your knees and ask that woman to go out with you!” Anita snarled back, watching Kelly help the shivering Carolyn along the street with something akin to longing. “But no… You’re so afraid of losing something that you won’t try to gain anything. She loves you, you idiot.”
“What do you know? You’ve only just met her!”
“Why the hell do you think that the only one she wants to touch her is you?” Anita asked softly, opening the door for them. “Do you think she’d want you to ignore your feelings to the point that you hurt yourself? Grow up Kelly.”
“Just don’t talk to me.” Kelly said roughly, holding onto Carolyn as desperately as the temporarily deafened woman held onto her.
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