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The Rain Never Leave Stains
#WritcoStoryPrompt38
The two girls jumped over the hopscotch they had drawn on the curb with white chalk. It was their favourite game and they would be at it for hours.
We hid in the back of the small closet in our room, holding each other hands while Angry thunder hammered at the night sky. Shadows shift as lightning strobes against the wall, rain spitting and hissing across the roof it's hard fingernails tapping and probing, seeking to find its way in. Every boom caused me to jump, feeding my fear as it batters against the wall of my fake bravery. I was the oldest born a minute earlier than Jade, but mommy always told me it was my job to protect Jade. Jade's tear-soaked the dingy carpet as our mother's screams reverberate off of the white wall. When school was open, we were safe from the beast that only let his presence known behind these walls. Every day when we came home from school mom had a new battle scar that decorated some part of her face or body, she tried her best to cover it up but we were far from stupid. She...
The two girls jumped over the hopscotch they had drawn on the curb with white chalk. It was their favourite game and they would be at it for hours.
We hid in the back of the small closet in our room, holding each other hands while Angry thunder hammered at the night sky. Shadows shift as lightning strobes against the wall, rain spitting and hissing across the roof it's hard fingernails tapping and probing, seeking to find its way in. Every boom caused me to jump, feeding my fear as it batters against the wall of my fake bravery. I was the oldest born a minute earlier than Jade, but mommy always told me it was my job to protect Jade. Jade's tear-soaked the dingy carpet as our mother's screams reverberate off of the white wall. When school was open, we were safe from the beast that only let his presence known behind these walls. Every day when we came home from school mom had a new battle scar that decorated some part of her face or body, she tried her best to cover it up but we were far from stupid. She...
