The World's Gone Crazy

Theme #91: Foreign

Word Count: 268

World: Alternate Universe

Genre(s): General

Rating: K

Warning(s): None

The first few days after Audrey left home were the worst.  Her childhood home could not be more different from the countryside town she had settled in.  It was a place she’d always dreamed of finding: quiet, subdued, cheerful townspeople who always answered her when she said Good Morning, and most of all, trees as far as the eye could see.

With all that going for her, Audrey never believed she could become intimidated or scared, but it wasn’t a fantasy anymore, and that was the problem.

She had left her home.

She had left her home.

And now Audrey was in this place that should be making her happy and she was terrified.  It made no sense, because at the same time, she really was happy to be here.  She thought about it every night before bed, when the lack of any sound besides crickets was making her shiver with an irrational fear.  Would she go back home if given the chance?  Would she leave this whole new world and go back to the sense of familiarity she’d left behind?

No.  No she wouldn’t.

No matter what, this was where she wanted to be and this was where she would stay.  She would get through this and learn to really love her new home.  Sure, being alone was frightening, but she’d been through worse!

And so, she pressed on.  She worked towards finding her place in this quiet little town, and it was barely a day later that the young man she often spotted in the grocery store finally introduced himself.

“So you just left home too?”