The WaterFall -1

My heart sang

and my eyes beamed I saw it in the mirror and asked myself who that happy face belonged to. I smiled to myself and kissed my reflection. He was amazing. No, not the mirror but the boy who smiled at me when I was on my way to the market. And I didn't even look great, more like a horse toiling and sweating under the sun while the farmer cracked his whip because the field had to be ploughed before the sun went down.

Gosh, he smiled at me, I jubilated, and dropped blissfully onto my bed. I had never been happier.

With a bang, the bedroom door flew open and against the wall. Like a menacing monster, Father stood in my room. He looked terrifying and I felt every fibre in my body tense.

Didn't I think so, roared the giant of a guy, you are not to be trusted for one bit.

Nothing, I said nothing at all as he abruptly turned and stomped out of my room. How could a good mood change so quickly? An icy hand gripped my heart, shivering I sat on my bed.
Father was talking on the phone, what exactly he was saying I didn't understand. Nauseated with fear I curled myself up in a corner of my room not knowing that I would never see it again. My last memory of it and the parental home is one of screaming all-consuming fear.

Agreed, I heard him say, you will see us tonight.

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Only carrying a small bag, I left the house and village where I had grown up. Under my coat, I had taken my diary not to write in but to destroy.

The sanatorium where my father left me wasn't meant for sick people but a dumping ground for children that parents wanted to get rid of. Nature though looks beautiful, and all I see is luxury. Over the bridge, we rode in the cab that Father ordered when we got off the train.

The waterfall was the bridge, the only way between the lives of everyone I knew and the facility where I was left like a stray cat. I didn't say a word and father, he didn't greet me as he walked out the door after filling out a stack of forms with a thick envelope and a wide grin on his face....

_{The Waterfall - part 2}

Header/Photogrid: Canva
Picture: AI-generated by me - bing.com/create 
Prompts: the waterfall + facility - see @freewritehouse
3-5-2024
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