The Waxy Windowsill & The Dried Up Sponge

Ouch!

As the bright red blood smears all over the pale page from her little black notebook, she had a paper cut. Not knowing that she had bandaids, she grabs a tissue from the other side of her bedroom. Various of posters of her favorite mystery shows, lay flat on her wall like tall trees. Dinner had already passed with her soup getting cold. This soup was prepared by her mother two hours ago, and the broth started to evaporate. The sound of the TV muffled in the background as a trail of her mothers blanket invites her to sit on the couch next to her. Adjusting herself, she slowly turns her head to see her mother fast asleep. She carries her mom to her room and tucks her in. Closing the door behind her, her stomach started to sing in a loud tenor tone. She quickly went to the kitchen to warm up her soup. Sitting down at the dinner table, she brings out her little black notebook and pen. Black ink started to appear with pauses for what to write next. The empty bowl that sits next to her was evidence that she enjoyed her meal.

Sitting upright, she slowly pushes her chair back to notice a crack on the kitchen floor tile. She begins to wonder how did this happen, while stroking her hair back into a ponytail. Her petite foot hovers over the tile. Hesitant to touch, she pauses in mid air to stop time for a moment. Her placement of her foot was uncertain and created a shift within the tile. She looses her balance. After catching her fall, she picked up the cracked tile. She witnesses a four legged creature that was more terrified about her presence that it quickly crawled down into the space where the crack tile was covering. She tries to follow the creature with her eyes to realize that the hole beneath the tile begins to get darker and darker. Unsure where to look, she goes to the edge of the windowsill in the kitchen to witness a candle still lit from her mothers prayers. Seeing a mountain of wax in her view, she grabs the lit candle and continues to follow the path of the dark hole.

In her vision, she sees Benjamin Franklin staring at her with his green and a tint of blue uniform. It was a pyramid of money and within her vision she sees the creature almost at the tip of the pyramid. She paused for a second and started to show her two front teeth with her cheeks moving upwards. She begins to smile. Realizing what she had found, she quickly gets up to wake up her mom in the room. Big brown hazel eyes flutter with shock and unaware of her surroundings. She beings to wake up. She asked her mom to follow her in the kitchen since she had witness something. While walking by the TV that was still on, the credits started to role and Nocturnes by Chopin begins to play.

While in the kitchen, her mother's eyes lit up with joy and begins to dance to the music that is playing on the TV. She begins to laugh and so does she. After laughing some more, her mother looks at her to remind her to wash her bowl before doing anything else. She walks over to the sink to witness a very dried up sponge and a spoonful of soap. Just enough to make the bowl clean and new again. After softening the sponges heart she squeezes it again to lay it out to dry.

While she was finishing up with the dishes , her mother was reading what was in the little black book. Hard to read due to the splotches of red on the page, it began with a list that started with:

1. Make A new Friend

2. Make my mother laugh more

3. Create A pyramid of gold

4. Buy Bandaids

5. Finish Mystery TV Special