The Moment

She'd never worn rouge before today. She'd never worn anything so fine and delicate until this moment. A moment she was not entirely sure would ever happen. It was happening.......just then. Wearing a dress her
great-grandmother had worn though with the skirt reworked and hemmed for the current fashion and a posie of wild roses her little brother had picked for her that morning. The petals still with dew on them.

Her suitcase by her side, the train clanking and heaving waiting to board all passengers, Anna's life lay before
her. She was to be a seamstress's apprentice in Paris and the entire prospect of a new life in a new country was daunting yet deeply exciting. It would take the train nearly a week to arrive there. Longer than any journey she'd ever been on as she'd been on none at all.

Light-headed with anticipation and fear, Anna boarded the passenger train and waved good bye to her Mother, Grandmother, Papa and little brother Aleksy.....all wearing proud but stoic faces.

Waving until the train left them a speck in the distance, Anna dreamed quietly of her room in Madame Cottilard's home and the very long journey ahead of her.


                                                                                             CJ Ellis