WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY - 12-15-2021

 

This week's prompts by Elephant's Child are a selection of phrases relating to love and/or relationships.  You can use some of them, all of them or add your own;

Out of sight out of mind.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Puppy Love.

Love laughs at locksmiths.

Love is blind.

A face that only a mother could love.

THE BUS ON THE HILL by Granny Annie

Susie always stood by the road watching for the school bus. Her parents insisted on driving her to school but she waited for the bus each morning just to catch a glimpse of Dwain. Of course it was only puppy love for these 6^th graders but Susie felt her heart flutter at the sight of him. He always waved to Susie as the bus passed.

The bus had to drive down a bumpy, steep hill road to get to Dwain's house. Susie would watch the bus lights disappear and the reappear as the driver bounced the noisy, loaded vehicle along.

Susie's father knew she had a crush on this boy and he often repeated phrases like “Love laughs at locksmiths” and “Love is blind”. He also told her that Dwain had a face that only a mother could love. Susie knew that was not true because Dwain had the face of movie stars like Elvis or Tarzan.

It was a terrible day when the bus turned down the hill and did not return. Susie panicked. What? Where did it go? Her father told Susie to stay at the house and he ran down the hill to see if the bus had crashed. It had not. The bus had simply disappeared. The community searched and searched but never found any answer for the missing bus and the children riding it.

Susie was now 75 years old and Dwain was never out of sight, out of mind. Their first kiss still burned on her lips. His absence had only made her heart grow stronger over the decades and Susie wished her parents had allowed her to ride that bus.