Little Flicker and the Light of Hope

And so I am back~

But I don't know if my writing skills are >,<

I guess you could call this story a part 2 of another one that I did in another community. Which I will post here shortly :3

The word I chose is spelled within the story. Can you see it?

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Little Flicker and the Light of Hope

Peacefully,

dear little flicker sleeps, though not for long, as dear little flicker's father wakes her.

"Good morning." Her father greeted.

"Morning." Dear little flicker greeted back after a yawn.

Very sleepy still, dear little flicker sat up and stretched sluggishly. All the while, her father watches her with much love and a smile on his face.

"Come. Breakfast is ready." He said, lightly patting dear little flicker's head.

"Okay!" Dear little flicker replied with excitement, knowing full well what their breakfast is. After all, it's always the same each breakfast.

After

finishing her morning routine. Dear little flicker waved goodbye to her father as she heads out to meet her friends, Catty, Puppy, and Sparrow.

They went to the playground to meet with the others. Dear little flicker joyously played, tag, hide and seek, the floor is lava, and charade. They played happily until lunch.

"Let's go eat at your house today!" Catty said to dear little flicker.

Everyone agreed and so, off to dear little flicker's house they go.

Racing

one another to dear little flicker's house, everyone was giggling, everything was happy.

They ate lunch as they told stories to dear little flicker's loving father, they continue their playtime at dear little flicker's backyard.

Oh dear little flicker, how happy must you be? To play with bright fellows, in a world of fantasy?

Awake

little flicker was, sluggishly moving, and cautiously looking. The man left early, it seems.

Just last night, little flicker heard that he would be away for three days, much to little flicker's relief.

She prepares breakfast for herself, plain bread and nothing more. She does her morning routine yet reluctant to go to school, and so she didn't.

"I'll tell teacher that I got sick." She told herself.

Little flicker was all alone. Bored, she immediately become.

She goes to the attic to find something to play with. Little flicker found a bottle with a little man inside it.

For the first, little flicker became bright as the fellows.

Caring

for the bottle, little flicker called him Genie. She would read him bed time stories, talk to him about school, though she missed three days of it.

Little flicker is always bright after meeting Genie.

Happy and excited she became. And so, little flicker forgot to be cautious about that man who sought after her mistakes.

She couldn't come to Genie for a couple of days.

One

day, little flicker brought Genie with her, outside the house, to and outside the school, and finally to her only friend's house.

Her friend took Genie to another room. Little flicker patiently waited in the living room, for Genie's bottle to be opened upon his requests.

After a while, little flicker's friend finally came out, with an opened bottle in hand. Empty, it was.

"Where's Genie?" Little flicker asked.

Little flicker's friend smiled, "Granting your unspoken wish."

"Will he come back?"

"Don't worry," Her friend bent down and patted her shoulders, "He'll always be with you."

Saddened,

little flicker goes home. It has gotten quite late, she fears for that man. Quietly opening the door, little flicker may only hope to sneak toward her room.

But as she slowly closed the door, the light turned on, and that man was standing there, looking directly at little flicker.

Little flicker was shocked, frightened, she wanted to cry.

"I-I'm... I'm s-sorry..." She managed to say.

That man walked over to little flicker, bent down...

Little flicker flinched, readying herself to be hit, but there was no need, as that man, miraculously hugged her.

"I should be the one apologizing to you, Lavender." That man said, in the softest voice, no one imagined hearing from him, "I've been such a terrible father. I'm so sorry, sweetheart."

And, for the first time in years, Lavender cried, not because of pain, but because of happiness. She never imagined, for the day to come, when that man, can become her father.

No. She has always imagined it, but never thought it real.

dear little flicker, oh how much you've grown since the last time I saw you?

Hiding away, running from what is true. Within that small world you've created made of pieces from your broken heart.

But now it is time to say goodbye, until next time, it is.

Oh dear little flicker, how much you've become, from a dim little child, now brighter than the sun.

Oh dear little flicker, how you grew into this light of hope? Only I knew.

Finding the path from the dark, shining your way to his heart.

Even as a little flicker you were, your heart has always been so bright.

Truly it is, his foolishness he does not mind.

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