Today's Prompt!
Lola closed the front door behind Bryon, and turned to head to her bedroom. Gloria appeared at the edge of the kitchen startling Lola out of her thoughts.
“So, you’re headed out?” she asked.
“I guess I am,” Lola said with a half smile.
“I think this is good.“ Gloria said nodding. “He’s always seemed like a good kid, he was Kyle’s friend and everything. Probably no better person to spend some time with. It might be good for both of you.” Gloria paused. “And…about what we were talking about…” her eyes glistened staring straight into Lola’s.
“I left them on the table,” Lola said. “Maybe you could hold on to them for me.”
Gloria smiled, wiped her eyes, and drew Lola into a firm hug.
“Thank you,” she whispered into her mop of curls. She pulled back and glanced down at Lola’s right hand. “What do you think is in the there?”
“I don’t know,” she shrugged. “Bryon didn’t know either.”
“Are you going to open it?” Gloria asked a tinge of excitement in her voice.
“Uh, yeah, maybe in a minute.” she turned it over. “ Lola” was printed clearly on the front in a sloppy print she didn’t recognize.
Lola stepped into her bedroom, set down the envelope on the dresser, and stared at it. She wasn’t sure what could have come form the department, but she knew she didn’t want to deal with any technical forms. She glanced up at the mirror. Her skin was pale, her freckles faded. Her hair needed to be washed, and her current shirt had a jelly stain right on her protruding belly.
“Well,” she said to herself. “It could be worse. I could be missing teeth too.”
She rummaged through a stack of maternity clothes resting on a chair beside her bed. Her mom had been adding a few new pieces every week, and the mound was beginning to lean.
She finally picked a plan purple t-shirt with rippled stitching on the side, pulled off the tag then slid it over her head. It was a little too big still, but the shade looked nice against her skin. She pulled her messy curls into a ponytail, then headed to the bathroom to splash her face with cold water.
“Hey Lola,” Tommy said sticking his head out his bedroom door, music permeating into the hallway.
“What’s up?” Lola asked, but something caught her attention on Tom’s computer desk. “What’s that?” she said walking past him into his den.
“Oh, uh…that’s just a picture I found…”
A girl stared bored in the distance with three eyes. Her only clothing looked like blotches of ink stretched from her chest to her collar bones, her elbow resting on one of Saturn’s rings. The earth drawn in the distance eclipsing the sun.
“Please don’t tell Mom.” Tommy said shoulder’s slumped.
Lola snickered. “You don’t think she’d approve of a mostly naked alien?”
He looked at the ground and rolled a bouncy ball with the tip of his toe.
“You drew this, didn’t you?” Lola asked astonished.
He peeked up to meet her eyes.
“Wow, Tom, it’s incredible, but I promise I won’t say anything.”
“Thank you,” he mumbled. Lola began to walk away, but he touched her arm. “Hey,” he found his voice again. “Is it true…what Mom found? She didn’t want me to know…but, well, she was so loud when she called Dad…and crying…and well, I couldn’t not hear…but…”
Lola pulled her little brother into a hug.
“No, I don’t think I could…I thought about it though. I mean…who am I to be a mom?” she said.
“But God made her yours.” Tommy said tears coming to his eyes. “No one else would work.”
Thank you so much for reading! I would like to give a special shout out to @byn's daughter @loliboofae for creating such an amazing picture for a prompt! Originally, I didn't even think of Tommy drawing it...or that it even fits for a 13 year old...but the best part of a freewrite is that it takes you on a special journey everytime! Now he's an artist as well as a future movie director!
If you would like to start from the beginning to see a fuller picture, I've linked all the parts below! And thank you to all my readers! @freedompoint, @cecicastor, @dreemsteem, @bennettitalia, @thefarmerswife, @thegreatdayne, @scribblingramma, @whatisnew, @quirky.countess, @angelacs, @canadianrenegade, and @enginewitty!
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