We Were Girls

By: Victoria Diaz

Two little girls, ages nine and eight are playing in the garden of the big house. It’s an old Victorian house with various bathrooms and bedrooms that the two girls simply do not care about. Their minds are too preoccupied with knowing how many flowers there are in the garden. The two little girls are dancing around the fountain that has a small angel in the centre holding a vessel that has water falling from it. Clara is there with her pink dress and her little sister, Catherine is there with her green dress. They are holding hands and spinning around, life has never been kinder or softer. The two girls fall to the ground and laugh and decide that there are more pink flowers than yellow ones and then the girls go back to the big old house to have tea and talk about how they can’t wait to be old and have their own garden.