Waiting On Hope by Tia Souders

Author:Tia Souders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: overcoming adversity, women's Fiction, Women's Fiction Themes/Dating & Relationships, Social & Family Issues, family drama, drama, inspirational romance
Publisher: Cherry Valley Publishing
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

SUN SLANTED THROUGH the floor-length windows of Lexie’s new rental home. It was a small ranch, cheery on the outside with pale blue siding and white shutters. Flowers bloomed along the walk, pops of bright color against the muted backdrop of the house.

Nestled amongst a cluster of century homes and the occasional Cape Cod like hers, she was only a couple minutes away from the town square. The location couldn’t have been better.

Though small, the place was hospitable, with an eat-in kitchen, a small living room, and two bedrooms. The house didn’t feel like home, but nowhere did, not even her parent’s house. One thing Lexie had discovered these past months was that nothing or nowhere could possibly feel like home when you didn’t feel at home within yourself. Home meant peace, to be comfortable, feel secure, protected. And Lexie doubted she would ever experience those things again—within herself, this house, or life in general.

Lexie walked into the kitchen, to her refrigerator, and grabbed the pitcher of iced tea. She filled a glass, looking around the room. Boxes were strewn about, some stacked in neat piles, while others were piled on top of furniture. Her whole life sat in stacks, wrapped up and packaged away in thin squares of cardboard.

A part of her wanted to turn away—turn a blind eye to the life she led before, leaving her things packed away, forever collecting dust. Forgetting how things were, how they could be, seemed easier.

Prior to her rape, her life had been carefree. She had a job she loved, an apartment in the city with a great view (which she fought ruthlessly to get), and the best friend a girl could ask for. She had left home with practically nothing and worked ruthlessly for her life. Some things were missing, sure—like love, Elliot—but she had been happy, satisfied for the time being.

Her grip tightened on the cool glass of tea, and once again, she asked herself the one question which plagued her. How could one event, one cruel act, ruin her life so completely?

A piece of her wanted to forget the life she led before, because living day-to-day, knowing what she lost, nearly killed her, but the part that remembered, that needed her to remember, was stronger. In some respects, her old life led to her rape, and a part of her feared that if she moved back into her old apartment in the city, the same thing was destined to happen all over again, as if it were a magnet for the viciousness that had been imposed on her. Nevertheless, at the very least, she desperately wanted the old Lexie back. She wanted to be able to go to a new town, a new city, walking the streets, stopping somewhere unfamiliar for a bite to eat, without fear of the demons which may lie in wait behind each door. She wanted to laugh again, to really laugh, the throaty, gut-wrenching kind of laugh that either left her doubled over, clutching her stomach, or wiping tears away from her eyes.

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