Apparently I am choosing to post a condensed story I wrote. :/

Bright Lights

Bright lights sped by as Janie chatted with her parents, then all of a sudden the unthinkable happened.

Screak …Crash…Crunch…Bright lights…Screaming then silence. That’s all Janie wished she remembered about the accident that left her orphaned. She screamed in terror as images long buried reappeared. The blood and glass, the twisted metal, the tarp covered mounds. Then the memories shifted and she saw her ex-boyfriend Aiden hugging her at the funeral, telling her how sorry he was. The scene shifted again, she was at her grandmother’s house staring blankly at her new room.

 Janie woke up shaking and drenched with sweat, she looked around the familiar room that had been hers for the last five years. Now, instead of a beautiful Malibu beach house, she lived in a large rustic farm house in Lancaster Pennsylvania with her Amish grandmother.

Janie hurriedly got out of bed and started dressing in her forest green dress, black apron, and snow white cap. Now a beautiful girl of 19 Janie had fully adopted the Amish way of life, even getting a boyfriend in the process.  Suddenly Janie’s grandmother Rebekah Zook rushed into the room, causing Janie to jump and nearly fall over. “Janie” her grandmother said “I heard from you Aunt Martha that today is the day, Ruben has finished the house and he is coming tonight!” Janie turned to her grandmother with shining eyes “today” she gasped. “Yes” her grandmother said “Ruben is ready, and you must get ready as well.”

Janie spent the rest of the day doing various chores around the farm such as milking, cooking, and cleaning. Finally evening came, and Janie sat in her bedroom waiting for the bright lights that would signify a marriage proposal.  As it neared midnight, Janie let herself think about her old life, she wished her parents could see her now.  She was no longer a rebellious, spoiled teenager she was a kind, caring, hardworking adult.         

Suddenly the bright lights she had been waiting for flooded her room.  Janie opened the door and rushed down the stairs and into the arms of her future standing in the beam of the bright lights…