Chapter 35

Boy loses Girl

Emily flipped through the well worn pages of the book, it had some words underlined, and some commentary written under some lines. She flipped for a while and decided to return the book when a white envelope fell out from the book onto her feet.

Emily stooped down to pick the time-worn envelope, the paper yellowed and brittled with age.

The script on the front was unfamiliar, a looping masculine hand that whispered a past life, but it had her name scribbled in front.

Emily, in calligraphy. Her hand trembled at the sight.

Emily carefully unfolded the envelope to reveal a picture and a carefully folded paper. She stared at a picture, trying to make sense of it. They were three people in the picture. Herself, her mother and a familiar face she assumed to be her father. She knew because her grandmother had his pictures framed all over the store, but still it felt strange seeing her younger self standing next thing to him, holding an elephant teddy bear while her father had