Charley Faraday

The Mysterious Package

The Mysterious Package By Charley Faraday The old woman woke up. Through tired and bleary eyes, she looked at the analogue clock that sat on her bedside table. Its hands pointed to read seven-thirty in the morning. "Time to get up.", she said in a quiet voice to herself. Nancy Tingle was an elderly woman of seventy-five years old. She liked to keep her long gray hair done up in a top-bun, just as she had when she was a young secretary at a dentist's office when she was twenty-four. As she did up her hair she thought to herself, "But, oh, that was a long time ago, back when I met Walter." Walter had been hired as the dentist's assistant when they had first met. The moment their eyes met for the first time, they both knew it was love at first sight. One year later, they would become husband and wife. It wasn't until Nancy was seventy-two that her Walter would soon pass away. However, Nancy stayed devoted to her beloved husband even after his passing. She still remembers how he would say her name. "Nancy, I love you…", his words echoed in her mind.