WFW- Sitting on the window sill.

This weeks Words for Wednesday is again hosted by River over at Drifting through life. The purpose of the words is to encourage us to write, a story, a poem, or whatever comes to mind.
If you post an entry on your own blog, drop by Rivers blog at Drifting through life. to let her know so everyone can read it.

This week's words are:
dynamic, longer, woods, mobile, landed, cellar
and/or:
alerted, flying, demeanor, lights, smoothly, filled

And as River says; Let the creativity begin!😎

Sitting on the window sill

She sat on the window sill in a brief moment of indecision and wondered if she could really do this, I mean this wasn't some dynamic diabolical plot against her Father it was just that she didn't want to be here any longer, she was going to be sixteen and a half next week and she figured that was long enough to be stuck at home.

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Todd had his own place up in North Carolina and she had never even been out of Anderson County, he told her about how beautiful it was there, how the stars filled the sky looking so unbelievably close that she would be able to reach out and almost touch them, and how the sound of the waterfall out on the backside of the property would peacefully lull her to sleep every night.

She was supposed to meet him at the end of their gravel road at midnight. Todd's car was too loud for him to drive any closer to the house without being heard. Between the sound of his glass packs and the tires crunching on the gravel, her Dad would certainly be alerted. Todd had already been lectured at the end of her Dad's shotgun when he tried to sneak up to the house late one night to be with her.

Dad had been canning vegetables that she had helped him pick from the garden earlier in the day, the jars were now cool enough to handle and Dad just couldn't leave them sitting on the counter overnight. "Tammy, get in here and help me!" He had shouted around eleven o'clock, "I know you aren't in bed yet, and we need to get these vegetables down in the cellar."

Now two hours later after lugging all those jars down the steps, the lights in Dad's room had finally gone out, and now she was waiting for the sound of his snoring to begin. She dreamed of the grand property and house Todd had told her about, he smoothly said "We can live here forever Tam, Queen of your own castle, you won't have to do anything, you will love it."

The loud rattles of Dads snoring started, and as it settled into an even rhythm, Tammy slid off of the window sill and quietly landed in the dewy wet grass outside, she grabbed her duffle bag from behind the hedges and ran fast as she could down the side of the gravel road.

Todd saw her step onto the blacktop looking all around, he flashed the headlights on his Nova and started the engine "About Damn Time" he muttered to himself, as she threw her duffle into the backseat, she excitedly giggled and said, "Hey Todd, lets do this."

He dropped the shifter into first gear, popped the clutch and now they were flying in the rusty Nova, onto the onramp of I-85 North, Tammy talked excitedly for the next two hours while Todd patiently listened, they were now off of the Interstate and on some narrow two lane road, Tammy had no idea where they were now, it was so dark and she was beginning to get scared.

The closer they got the more Todd's demeanor changed, he was now answering with one word responses, he was starting to get sharp and hateful sounding towards her. Tammy told herself that he was just tired, heck they had been up all night, and now it was almost dawn, they can sleep all day once they get to Todd's house.

Todd turned the wheel sharply to the right, guiding his Nova into a gap between two tree limbs, he slowly followed the narrow drive avoiding the deep ruts washed into the dirt by heavy rains, the road twisted and turned through a dark tunnel that was formed within the hanging tree limbs and kudzu vines. After a long curve in the road they drove out of the darkness, and suddenly everything seemed to open up revealing a beautiful clearing, like a hidden tropical world no one had ever seen.

"Welcome home darling" Todd whispered as he got out of the car, Tammy sat quietly staring at her cell phone; she saw that she had no service. Taking another look through the windshield to confirm that what she really saw was a tiny mobile home sitting buried in the woods.

Todd motioned for her to follow, while he walked toward the dilapidated trailer.

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She just sat there refusing to move as a tear ran down her face; Tammy wished that she were back home sitting on the windowsill.