couple hours free before her next class, she decided to go to the nurse’s office and talk with Stephanie. So, she gathered up a few things, and locked up her other personal items. Walking passed her desk; she grabbed her newly acquired flower, and not so gently pitched it into the garbage can.
“Please let the rest of the day not be so difficult.” Sending up a silent message to whomever was up there, she walked out of the room.
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Trinity was dragging her feet by the time she walked into her front door that evening. What a day she had! First the stuff that went down this morning before school even started, then the stress about the rose situation.
By the time her first period was over, she didn’t want to be around anyone else today. She tried spending an hour in the darkroom to relax a little, but she just couldn’t shake the tension surrounding her.
She always tells her students to let everything go that is bothering them before going into the darkroom, or it will show in their prints by creating mistakes that normally would never have happened. She should have taken her own advice. Now she added to the trash bin, and gave herself a few more over-exposed photos.
The classes were relaxed and carefree but she was not in such a good mood, and the students could tell. In an exercise where there should have been lightness, everyone was tense or bored and couldn’t wait to leave.
After the day was over, she was ready to get into comfy cloths, eat some dinner, and be lazy for the rest of the night. She was contemplating whether she would watch television or finish reading the romance novel she had just started when she walked in her front door. Immediately she kicked off her shoes and dropped all her belongings by the door. She couldn’t believe how much her body ached. Sleep, that’s what she needed, actual sleep.
Once she got changed and ate a light dinner, she opted to watch some television. Snuggling into the corner of her couch, she picked up the remote and started flipping channels, stopping when she saw the weather being reported. She listened as the weatherman predicted the rain to stop within the next few days. Thank heavens!
They then went on to talk about the flooding throughout the city, but before she could change the channel, they were talking about another murder near the art museum. She shook her head and wondered how many that was now. Chicago was by far not the safest city, which was the main reason Nicole and she decided to live outside of it, but it was still weird for so many murders to happen that far East. Is anywhere safe now a day, she thought?
“Ahh!!” Trinity casually glanced over and screamed when she saw her back door slowly opening. The door swung all the way open and Nicole was standing there with her eyes looking like they were about to pop out of her head. She jumped inside and started looking around. “What!?! What is it?”
Hand over her chest, Trinity was trying to catch her breath. “Jeez Nicci, you scared me half to death! Can’t you make a little noise, or announce it’s you?”
“Okay…” Nicci looked confused. “I didn’t mean to scare you, but I’ve never had to before, so I didn’t give it much thought this time.”
“I know, I know. Sorry I snapped; it’s just been an off day.” Trinity put on the face that everything was okay, but inside she was slowly uncurling. She was in real trouble if a lone door opening could do this to her.
“Tell me about it! That’s why I brought wine.” She spoke as she held up a bottle of wine and walked in the kitchen and pulled out two glasses. “I had such a frustrating day, nothing I was doing was going how I wanted, and things weren’t getting done…” Pouring the glasses, she walked back over and handed one to Trinity. “What’s up with you?”
“A lot happened today is all.” She smiled up at her friend, but by the look Nicole gave her, she knew her friend didn’t believe it was that
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