9/13/12

Free Writing Prompt - Write for 15 minutes using the following phrase as your first line.

"After the door shuts and the footsteps die..."

After the door shuts and the footsteps die, Marie sat; frozen.  After the footsteps died, the only sound was the swooshing of the ceiling fan. It turned in circles, never slowing down, never ending. Marie sat there, directly in the ray of light from her one small window. The lights reflected off of her face, the tears twinkling as they ran down her cheek. She sat at the end of her twin bed, and was ruffling in the covers through her hands. "How could they?" she repeated her in head. Marie sat there pondering what had just happened. The news her parents had just given her. "Divorce?" She had never thought her parents would separate, she didn't even know they were unhappy. They seemed fine last night at the dinner table. Talking, and even laughing. Nothing was wrong. They seemed like the perfect parents. Marie sat there; frozen, and confused. She sat there trying to find where their marriage went wrong. Where it had fallen, where it had made the turn, where it had died. But she couldn't manage a memory, a thought, or a reason. It had all happened so abruptly, just out of nowhere. How could she face them again. After their betrayl. Would they ever be able to sit around a their table again, talking about school, and laughing together. Everything would be different, everything would change. Nothing would be the same, and nobody would ever feel the same. Everything had now changed.