Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Elephant's Child and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. kiss 2. hope 3. grinned 4. dark 5. shock 

and/or: 

1. high 2. places 3. fiends 4. Friday 5. way

also including Charlotte's colour of the month: new start yellow

Here is my story:

His goodbye had been just a warm hug and a kiss, yet she dared to hope that things could be the way she thought. High on cloud nine, she grinned and walked back into the restaurant where her friends waited. “He wants me to stay, I’m sure of it,” she declared, then experienced a shock when her friends told her about his girlfriend. Tears fell onto the new start yellow tablecloth as she sobbed, “you fiends! I thought you were on my side!”

“We are,” they said, “we are trying to help you through this. You have to understand, he was doing his job as escort, taking you places, showing you the sights, just as he does every summer when tourists such as us come to the mountains. He was friendly and had no idea you thought it meant more.”

“But (gulp) but I was going to change my Friday flight and spend the weekend here to be with him.” They all sympathised but were firm in telling her that holiday crushes were normal, they’d all been through them at one time or another, but realized when they got home again that a crush was all it had been. “you’ll see once you are home again and there will be no need for dark thoughts, just happy memories.”