Everyday at exactly 5 pm, when the sun started to pull from the sky towards the horizon,Suzie would sneak out of her room and head down her gravel driveway. Winston always watched Suzie from his window. Alone he sat in his room across the gravel road. One time he even followed her. She walked down the path to the river bed where a lonesome dead old tree sat in silence. He watched her as she walked into its hollow depths.
For hours she didn't come out. He had sat there and waited for something to happen. Getting tired of waiting for nothing he got up from his resting spot on the ground and turned around and left.
He never knew why she left at 5, maybe it was because of him. He never knew why she went to the tree, and he never knew what was inside. He was too scared to go in there alone. Maybe it was because that's where he had told her, down by the river. But, there was a part of him that didn't want to ruin what Suzie had discovered in there. It was Suzie's secret. Suzie's secret at the tree.
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Suzie's Secret at the Tree - 2018 Wattys (complete)
Short StoryThe world is full of magical wonders. Said wonders can simply be apart of something like nature and it can be in a person. Winston and Suzie both have their eyes on a wonder of their own that the world had birthed. Perhaps they aren't the same but t...
