New Beginnings

NEW BEGINNINGS

Author's Note- This is a story about death and sadness. Look for the emotion of all of the characters.

It was the end of November. The days we getting shorter and the temperatures were dropping. And at the end of the street there were police cars and news vans lined up in a perfect order so that no one could see anything.

It didn’t happen until 10:00 PM when I turned on the channel 2 action news. That was where I heard the reporter say,

“Today at exactly 3:07 PM a little five year old child died from an unknown disease.” After that I shut off the T.V. and thought how that family must have really felt. But as I looked outside the chilling winds must have grabbed onto a kid’s hat and fell on my porch. I stood up and walked outside to pick it up when a young woman came up to me and said that hat was her son’s as I gave it to her. I could see the tears dripping off her face like a broken faucet. She asked if she could come inside. Of course I said yes.

“I’m sorry you have to have me here.” The woman told me as she turned on the television.

“It is no problem ma’am” I replied. But as I looked at her and my T.V. screen I realized that she was the mother of the dead child. I thought of what I could say, but nothing came to mind. So all I said was,

“Sorry”

“About what?” she weeped out.

“Your son” I replied. That was the breaking point for her, she bursted into tears. And like a slap to my face I realized that she missed him dearly. I wanted to comfort her but I didn’t know how to.

“Can I do anything to help” I asked gently. It took her awhile to answer but she finally said,

“You can leave me alone” With that said I felt like telling her to leave, but instead I left the house to go on the porch. I saw no stars or moon that night. Only darkness. I guess it suited for how this day was. Yet I could see the weeping willow trees and my overgrown lawn. Funny, I thought about how I could see the things I almost never see but I couldn’t see the things I see everyday.