Waiting by Erin Dennington ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 86 Stella's mind was far away, revisiting some childhood memories. With the hindsight that she now had, she turned over incidents that were seemingly innocent on the surface. Those incidents that she now analyzed were so horrific underneath that she wondered how she had never seen them for what they were. She remembered once such time, when her father was delayed from one of his trips, and how her mother had made a game out of having the children hide in the fields. At the time, it had seemed like a good way to pass the lonely hours. However, now that Stella looked back on it, the frantic urgency on her mother's face was not due to worry over where her children's father was, but rather over whether her children would ever be safe enough. Stella remembered the intense rush she got out of finding the "perfect" hiding space in a hollow of the fields, how her mother had congratulated her. Her mother had told her that she was a very good girl for having remained quiet and hidden, even when her brothers called her name. As a child, Stella had taken the praise to heart and cherished it. That hiding place had been the same place where she had hid months later on the day that the bad men had come and changed everything. Knowing everything that she did now, she felt ashamed of her past and of her heritage. But above all the negative feelings, she felt proud that she had a chance to right the terrible wrong that her father had helped bring about. She knew that she must not fail. 21:19 - 11.30.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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