Chapter 5 - Wandering smile

The day started with a smile..and it will end with a smile..

Melanie looked invisible throughout the streets...dark as a strange shadow between the crouds of people rushing to the jobs..she was changing..a little sparkle of light was growing inside her..but it was going to be slow..slowly to the way she always dreamed..she would find a way..

But she also knew than before she could be peaceful again, she had to kill her demons first, and that was what she was always running from..her darkest fears..and in the beginning and in the end..her past.

She went to the other side of the town, to the park...the same place where she lived many minutes of her young life...

The birds singing..the children playing..the mother's chatting and always worried..Today nothing is the same..the park is all alone, dying as many other places in her soul..garbage was growing beneath the brown leafs..

She was 5 again..hands close together with her mother..

"Ieeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiii" - Melanie shouted...

"Be careful Melanie..don't run too far..." - Melanie's mother replied.

Spinning on the merry go round, she could close her eyes and fly million of miles in the infinity..

She winked and saw the clouds dissapearing in a blur of colors, that filled her mind like a smile, like a special moment of happiness craved in her heart..

Suddendly the darkness revealead a whisper..that was growing..

"Do not leave me..please Melanie do not leave me..nooooo.." - a stranger's voice dissapeared in a scream...

"Miss'es..miss'es..hi...Are you ok..?" - a little girl's voice ruptured the silence..

Melanie was weeping and crumbling apart..and no words would be spoken from her mouth..

" Don't cry..please..don't cry" - the little girl gently cuddled her gry hair.

And between her dark hair a tender smile reappered..again..