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The girl with candle
Home again she walks, the streets full of old and rundown buildings scattered with people's long forgotten lives and dreams. Making her way thought the all too familiar darkness that surrounds her and the eeriness that seems to scream at her from the forgotten lonely houses, she reaches a warehouse. It was a thriving business that she now calls home. Climbing thought the open boarded door she makes her way inside. Closing the door behind her the corridor becomes shrouded in darkness. She barricades herself; desperate to keep the outside world from seeping in. She makes her way thought the dark hallways she has memorized by heart. Coming to a room she sits and lights a candle that is sitting in front of a picture of her parents, the candle light shines on her parents smiling faces. This will be the only light she sees until the rising sun. The soft glow of the candle light illuminates her face as she sleeps.
The next morning she awakes, preparing for another day, but before walking out the door every morning without fail she places a new candle on her parents shrine. That light that burns in hope of a brighter future. Greeted by the sun as she opens the door, she makes her way through the heart of town. Crowds of people rush past her no their way to work, too busy to notice the sadness in her eyes.
She stands in the mist of the city, surrounded by business eagerly hoping to make enough money to keep there business going another day. She places down her guitar case and picks up her guitar, playing as she sings. She is lucky to receive a second thought from the passes by as they throw in there petite lose change as they hurry by. It is just past mid morning as the steady hum of people slow starts to faded. As the day wears on the suns once warm glow slowly starts to bear its teeth. The light of which gives her refuge each morning, can also be a dangerous thing if not handled correctly. Eager to rest from the burning heat she places her guitar away and finds a shady spot to sit.
While counting the lose change that she been given, a smile grows no her face, there amongst the loose change sits the first five dollar note she ever recived. The day draws to a close as she watches the last rays of sun light vanish for another night before returning home to sleep. In her bed as she sleeps she is plagued by nightmares that are created from memories of the past. She is forced to relive her parents murder. They yell for her to run as she does she is hunted by their finale screams. Jewels wakes to see a thin curtain of light seeping thought a crack in the wall coming from the rising sun. The words her mother always use to tell her played on her mind, 'if you never look for the light, the darkness is all you'll ever see.

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