Eleven

Veronica

“Ronnie, calm down. It is going to be fine.” Mari said, her words halting me in my tracks where I had been pacing across the small kitchen the next morning.

“You don’t know that for sure.” I couldn’t resist adding as the worry hung around my head like an encroaching storm on a cloudy day.

“You are right. I don’t,” she stated, giving me a severe frown before she went on in the next breath, “but I do know that you need to stop stressing over every detail and try to accept what Luna has blessed you with.”

Mari was not one to usually call it like she saw it, being shy and introverted with most people unless something sparked the fire that I knew was deep within her. Consequently, if she was being this candid with me, I opted to seriously consider her argument as I took a seat at the table.

Nevertheless, I heard the crunching of heavy boots traipsing up the path towards the front of