It was as though the sound had been turned off. She moved through the room caught in her head. There were colors in her mind's eye swirling red and orange, in the corners of her sight. Looking past them was impossible though the wall before her was clear. She could move.
The bed covers she hastily pulled up to cover the pillows though they remained wrinkled. She had chosen a comfortable cotton dress that gave her large belly plenty of free movement and it hung on the door awaiting her. The boys giggled and burst forth with spitting shooting noises huddled together in their room. She shuffled down the hallway to check on them, but paused at the door.
The coolness of the wood felt lovely against her palms. An internal pulsation began behind her left eye. Her mind focused inward. Closing her eyes, she listened. Though a room away, the water in Walter's shower sounded faint. She heard a flow of liquid in her head. She could just see a rectangular form sneaking before her eyes. Sliding down to sit on the floor, she tried breathing deeply. A burning sensation gripped the back of her neck. In through the nose, blow it out. It wasn't working; her lungs tightened. She panicked. Grabbing the fibers of the carpet, she licked her lips and breathed in once again...no air. Blackness slid in from the edges.
" Are you dressed? We've got to be there in fifteen minutes." He barked through the door. She fell to her side, his question unheard.
No comments:
Post a Comment