A elderly lady stands rooted to the spot repeating...."I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away.
Her hair long and dirty covering her eyes and laying down to her waist, standing in the rubble of a once large an looming building that was a school once upon a time.
Repeating forever in her mind, broken never leaving her thoughts "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away....tears came this time as it did now an then when she remembered.
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It had been a normal day as any other, she had prepare for since the day she had herself been a student an then graduated from Collage to the begin the dream of becoming a "Teacher" with her Degrees in hand.
She had bathed an a myriad of normal daily routines before school, remembering to pack a lunch of a couple sandwiches an a water bottle filled with fruit juice she headed on her way to school...But Hunger Didn't Matter Anymore...
The lunch bag no looking less like a bag an more a pile of molding material with smaller pieces of plastic from the baggy originally holding the sandwiches mixed into the pile of moldering material.
Beside it the bottle now filled with a horrible tacky an sticky black liquid, was what remained of the fruit juice. It had went rancid quickly and then molded due to the sugar content and then before it was fully decayed began to turn into vinegar as it soured.
Still her mind repeated always broken, an never leaving her thoughts was "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
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She made it to school on time thought traffic was always bumper to bumper, looking at her watch as she exited her car an walked in the front double doors of the
school she remarked to herself "I made it on time an with a few minutes to spare" smiling to herself...But That Was Then And This Is NOW...
Her wrist was the furthest thing from her thoughts, on it the watch still clings the bands worn from only time an age the watches glass face now cracked an pitted nearly ready to shatter no longer told time an had not for many years.
An yet the battery in the watch had not yet ave away, but in a few years more likely would being to leak an corrode away what was remaining.
Still her mind repeated, "I...waved...... "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
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Placing her lunch an fruit juice in the fridge in " Teacher's Break Lounge" she went to her room an readied the days lesson an from there the day went well as her students walked in an the class began. All in all things where normal an then about mid day she had a visitor for the class dropping by for a "Show and Tell" ay an why not?
Memorial Day would be coming up soon an that would be a nice way to have her "New" Fiancee to be near her an be there for a "School Approved" reason too, blushing thinking about him being near.
She missed him so much lately, as he was "Enlisted" in the Marines an would be one whenever he was Deployed for long stretches of time.
About a few minutes into his talk an presentation the sirens began to sound for a "Air Raid" an the students directed by her an her Husband got under their desks
then getting under her Teacher's Desk with him they took cover.
An then with time raging by minutes felt like hours an then felt like days, then finally tthey called off the warning an everyone breathed more easily, an she stole a kiss when no one was watching.
He finished his presentation an the students thanked him an he greeted her one last time as the students where allowed to go home early due to the activity of the day an the alarm that had one off during class.
With the classroom empty an everyone except him an her gone home for the day as she stayed to send him off for the day they kissed...and then she waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away....
But...He Wont Be Coming Back This Time....
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She had stood in place so long her legs an lower body didnt "Feel" anything anymore an she had become a living statue frozen all but her lips moving faintly barely noticeable unless you where in front of her.
Repeating, "I...waved......I told him and "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
Through chapped an cracked lips even then not feeling even them as she repeated again an again in a whisper what she had been for ages now.
Blind, thought her hair hanged own in front of her eyes an would have made it impossible to have seen anything anyways, long before her hair she had grow to a greater length.. she saw "The Explosion" not long after her Husband to be left her...
The only thing that save her life...going back into the school to get her left-over lunch-bag an what was let of her fruit juice in it's bottle an turning towards the window looking out onto the school-yard where the kids had recess...
...If only
"I...waved......I told him and "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
"I...waved......I told him and "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
"I...waved......I told him and "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
Standing there some 74 years an now herself nearly 100 years old, all things had no meaning. No reason why she miraculously live on an could go on without food or water, no reason she felt like ...warm all over..itchy..
Only Remembering...
"I...waved......I told him and "I waved..and said "Goodbye" an he walked away...
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