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A Short Story

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Ava got to work. The sheets came off the windows, leaving feeble, sheer, white curtains hanging from them. Light burst through the room. She opened the windows so fresh air flooded the room, catching the feather light curtains, blowing around her and suspending her in fresh serenity. A strong familiar scent came in from outside. She inhaled it until it was gone as quickly as it came, opening her eyes in bliss.
Farthest away from the window’s light, against the discolored brick wall, lay one of the largest objects in the room, facing opposite of the windowed wall. Underneath the ragged sheets was a round a Venetian bed with fleur de lis legs, its elegant curvy headboard, the shape of a queen’s high collar, wrapped in white leather and …show more content…

Ava thought about Jason, Kayla, and Zo… maybe, so they would know she was fine, she’d write them the old fashioned way later and laid out paper; to her, it was more personable. They did deserve that.
She heard a fluttering sound, and a small black thing came flying out at her, landing on her shoulder — she was spinning around like she was going to get away from her own body. But she stopped, seeing two large eyes looking back up at her, hanging on for dear life with the look of fright.
“You lost, little thing?” Ava whispered to the baby bat, its mouth gaped open under its scrunched in nose, and the brown-black fur frazzled up around its large ears and down its back.
After some time with her, hydrating her and digging around the yard for worms, Ava didn’t want to part with her, and as she reluctantly tried to get her to fly, it seemed the little bat didn’t want to leave her either. Finally, showing her to the sky, and bouncing Ava hands encouragingly, her wings flapped, and she was off, levitating above.
Ava whistled, feeling proud, but he curved right back down, and landed back onto her shoulder. “I’m sure Dahlila would flip the perfect hair off her head if you stayed. Time to go.” She threw her hands in the air, letting the bat in the sky and went inside, wishing she could go with it in the night.
She sighed, slipping on her flannel to block the chill coming in. While feeling night’s weightlessness lifting strain from her muscles, Ava lit the

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