Corttnee Schmidt

A Change in the Forecast

A year after her grandmothers’ death, she woke up to a day of mourning. Her heart was hurt and heavy, she tried to smile for her family, but her numbness overcame all other emotions. As she closed her eyes for along pause from reality, she could feel her grandmas hugs as a tear quietly ran down her cheek. She wondered if she would always feel this way, as if she had done all she could but would constantly fall short of everyone else’s expectations of her.