Prompt #3

I see them all, staring at me, menacingly from beneath their light tanned skin. They yell to put me in the closet, before the teacher returns.

A boy grabs my arm, and pushes me into a closet, the darkened abyss, no sunlight will reach me here. Frightened, I begin to pound on the door, screaming, as the darkness enshrouds me. The room feels so small, the walls begin to bend in over me.

My sight in enveloped in the darkness, I give up on breaking the door, and fall to the ground, crying softly. Tears run down my cheek, staining the cement below me with their salt. I will not see the sun. Suddenly, I see a flash of light from the crack beneath the door, I see....Light, and not from the lamps either, it is the sun, I see sunlight. After all these years on this dreadful planet, I can smell the sweet sunshine yet again. It reminds me of daisies, and of fresh cut grass, back from the days on earth, back in Ohio.

The sunlight begins to go away, slowly. I am quickly engulfed in the shadows, back into the darkness of the rain.

The others come back to me, slowly, they open the door. No one looked at my face, they all stared at their feet, silently, saying nothing. I walked away, and sat down silently in my desk.