July 19th Creative Writing Prompt/ Writing

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Photo from: Creative Writing Ink (2018). Notebook. [image] Available at: https://www.creativewritingink.co.uk/resources/writing-prompts/ [Accessed 22 Jul. 2018].

Hidden

What will these people mean to me?
Will one of them be the maker of the bunting for my wedding?
Will they water the plants in my garden when we're not home?
Will they rescue me with advice from their past over tea and biscuits?
Will they harbour my darkest secrets, only to release them later on?

I don't know. At this stage its hard to distinguish, from the first appearances of each person, whether or not the place they take in my life will be positive or not.

Currently, my secrets are mine and they are hidden. Beneath the wooden floorboard of the new house- the creakiest panel of them all- is where my notebook now brews, anticipating my next scribble of too big to handle emotions. It waits for me and I imagine it furiously shaking, preparing to burst with anger at storing my world inside for so long. A once beautifully optimistic book now malevolent.

I sometimes imagine someone finding it and what it would mean for others to know. I am always fearful of it being found: impending arguments, sadness, dark clouds; this new home shattered with negative feelings.

I will try and make the most of this place. I will try and keep the overwhelming towered stance of my secrets at bay. 

                                                                          ...................

A summers day a little way down the road. The afternoon sun shines through the unkept window, creating a mist and blur of light.

A letter perched on the end of the bed reads:

"Secrets revealed from long ago,
uncovered and now the world will know"

A single floorboard leans a fraction over the adjacent.