Before Sometimes she forgot how all this began The memories were a blur of colors she had to reach into the deep dusty corners of her mind and sift through them all The ones of her mother dressed in white and singing old foreign lullabies the ones of her father dangling a red blue and green mobile above her crib the ones of her aunts and uncles and how they had the same brown eyes as her grandmother She remembered the fog The lake The October of 1992 when Winter came early to this middle of nowhere godforsaken town and it wouldn t Stop Raining This is a story about that town And this is a story about their children She did not remember how it began But she did know how it ended One Come on you stupid thing Lea bit her lip and slid her bag off her shoulder The pool gates loomed above her piercing the late afternoon sky Why won t you open It s broken She dropped her hands to her side and whirled around There was a girl standing on the sidewalk She had mousy brown hair streaks of pink running through her scalp and she wore a gray band t shirt
