The end
She wanted one more sun rise before she left. Feel the heat one last time on her face. She watched in awe as the colours started to dance across the still darkened sky. Bright orange with a hue of red, slowly turning to pink. Just beautiful!
The sun rise was always a thing of joy and beauty for her. Her dad has always told her to look forward to it. For it brought a new day with new prospects. She lived by that all her twenty-two years on the earth.
A slight wind teased her dark brown hair and she shivered. Not because of the cold. But for what she was about to do. She knew it was the right time. She could no longer carry on in this world without them and by God she tried to find them! After a year of searching and dead end after dead end. It was finally hitting home; they were gone. She felt broken.
She thought back to just a little over a year ago and how her life was different. Perfect. She closed her eyes and remembered her husband. His dirty blond hair and green eyes that shone when he laughed. His tall frame, athletic from years of sports and his charm. He has that in abundance. That was how he won her over. At fifteen years old he pursued her. By sixteen they were a couple and eighteen newly engaged. They married when they both turned twenty and it was all taken away by the time, she turned twenty-one. One year of marriage. That was all they had. They had so many plans fpr the future; buy their own home, she would finish university and her husband was on track to get a good job as a financial advisor.
Her husband gone and her family. Parents dead and her brother and husband disappeared off the face of the earth. The pain was too much now. There was nowhere else to search. She was alone. She couldn’t carry on. No. This was it. This was her time. This was the last thing in her life she could control and be damned if this was taken from her also.
The sun rise started to lose it burnt orange colour as the sun was rising on a new day in a violent stricken world. She stood up from her sitting position under a tree and slowly walked to the edge of the cliff. She looked down and saw the rocks below shining in the brightening sunlight. She took a deep breath and edged a little more, so her toes were off the edge. She stretched out her arms and looked to the sky.
She let the horrors of the last couple of years; the violence and suffering leave her mind and she focused on her husband’s smile. She imagined her family, waiting for her... “I’m coming home” she smiled as she felt her body lean forward over the cliff edge and she began to fall.
