This week’s FF prompt has the slightly unusual description, of being from “Indira by way of Scott Vanatter“. I’ve no idea what that means, but thanks to both of them – and to the driver of our bus, Rochelle – for setting me going on this particular story. I hope you’ll see where the first line came from … I thought it was kind of cute when I spotted it.
Louisa
My grandmother, never prone to tact, once described Louisa as having “a face like the back of a bus.” But I loved her.
I was seven when I first saw her, intoxicated by the promise of long weeks idle. Louisa became the herald of summer; her annual visits anticipated just as eagerly. September, at thirteen, I found some words to say and she, fifteen and all grown up, responded with a smile, then went away.
The back of a bus, only seen as it leaves you standing, unsure, at the side of the road. Perhaps Granny was right after all.
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