Artichoke (#freewrite day 139)
My contribution to today's #freewrite hosted by @mariannewest is a sequel to yesterday's contribution - and I will try to continue this story with the next prompts and see where it takes me.
If you've missed the first part, just click on this link to get there.
Here's part two:
Tara did her best to tiptoe through the hallway towards the living room. It had been awfully quiet in there for the last ... well, Tara didn't really know time, she thought it must have been hours, maybe even more than 30 minutes or so. 30 minutes had to be a really long time, because when she went to the doctor's a bit ago, they had to wait and at some point her mother jumped up her chair, went firmly to the reception and yelled at the nurse that she had already been waiting for over 30 minutes and that she had other things to do than hanging out in a doctor's waiting room, especially if the doctor would as usual only tell her ... and at that point her mother had stopped yelling, briefly turned around to Tara, and went back to her chair in the waiting room.
So maybe even 30 minutes, Tara thought, since her mother had said something. Although Tara still didn't know what was in that bottle, and she still was curious about this. Why couldn't her mother just answer her questions? It was just like yesterday evening. Tara's mum had been on the phone, yelling into the receiver about something that sounded like artichoke - a word that Tara had just learnt from Ben who lived a few houses away, and his parents had a garden with lots of stuff that grew there. But Tara was pretty sure that her mother didn't really say artichoke on the phone, when she was talking to her dad. After her mother had hung up, Tara had asked her whom she had been talking to. Her mum had just shaken her had, turned her back on Tara, and left the room. The phone rang shortly afterwards, but neither did her mother come back nor did Tara have the courage to pick it up herself. What if it wasn't her granddad? What if it was someone she didn't know?
She was still in the hallway, tiptoeing her way to the living room.
Wow, over my head, doing this in consecutive installations days in a row. It's must read material for me now. Great work, I upvoted you with a minnowbooster upvote due to trying to save my voting power for my fellow curation trailers. Great stuff @storytlling.rocks!
Wow, thank you so so much! I'm trying my best to keep up, though today's prompt was a bit challenging - but I like challenges :) Thanks a lot for your interest and your uplifting words!
Interesting story you have going here. I like the idea of the ongoing stories and have tried this a few times myself. I look forward to seeing what else comes about!
Also, I'm here to deliver today's prompt as well Daily Prompt #140
Thank you! I admit I was in the middle of giving up today (because I saw absolutely no way to put an astronaut into my story), but I came up with something ... I'm really excited to see how far I can get, and I would be thrilled if you would do this again, too!