Broken Wings

g from out of earshot. Ruby had called him there. They have been visiting the well

to be so top secret?" Chris asked. He coul

ning the spring music contest," Ruby decl

ocus on the lovely colours of the forest today. He had arrived before Ruby and he had been e

home and asked me to dress up really glamourousl

ry important," Ruby s

ask the other contestants to do the same?" Chri

t. "You know how my instinct is always rig

f the well. "Remember how often we used to throw our

ith your music lessons and I became

through for you?" Ruby asked

lf that I would make the

u do that?” Ruby w

help my dream come true and I don’t do anything which would endan

at I am doing about my dreams conc

s getting late. “We have to go home now bef

out what I said about my chances of winning,” she

as ever found out that we

all these year

we can’t really think that nobody else has discovered th

hen it means that the well is not just a figm

at if what Ruby mentioned was actually something that did exist between the two of them? He wondered. What if they did have s

he and Chris were at the well, discussing he

ith other school friends and they enjoyed each other's company. Yesterday he had met her in the music ro

mean?" she

ke your own decisions. You don't follow the crowd." Le

for a few weeks. He did tic

was waiting for her i

to the movies on Saturday? After lunch in town, of

at he had the good taste to ask her out on a date in town instead of the sch

measure of self-confidence. “Meet me in the school library tomorrow at three o’clock?”

responded and then he made a ha

he situation. It was going to be her first date ever! It w

e eleven. She wondered whether Leroy would be her Prom date, because he was rather distant lately. Ru

s along the lines of her music were coming true. She had won num

there be someone at the well today? Did Chris perhaps dec

he approached the well, she heard a male voice and a fem

y at the edge of the well. He was ki

s going on here?