Short Story - Mending Wall - Grant Eagar

To order my books:

 Angelica: The Princess and the Pig  

Henry and Sophie: A Steampunk Adventure 

Sheila the Vampire: Dancing with the Enemy

Prompt: Mending Wall by Robert Frost. 

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, 

 

The Mending Wall

By Grant Eagar

          Seth sat at his desk in the back of his sixth period math class. He glanced at Rachel, a pretty ginger haired girl, who sat in the opposite corner. She smiled at him. He blushed and quickly averted his eyes then focused on his desk. He closed his eyes and envisioned the wall again. Would it hold? Would Rachel stay on her side? God forbid she should cross over. She was reported to be a savage and terrible beast, a monster of incredible proportions.

He sighed and placed a shaking hand on the wall to see if it was secure. He could sense it crumbling under her terrible barrage of blows; relentless creature that she was. If she broke through all would be lost, or would it? It would end his solitary existence, his comfortable tomb, his season of quiet.

            After another blow from her great spiked tail the wall came tumbling down. The tall, horned creature stepped over the fallen debris and approached him, He stumbled backwards and she pursued him. Would she devour him or simple torture him? Would his death be swift and painless or slow and cruel. He shook with terror and ran. She kept pace with him with her long powerful legs. He glanced back and she grinned at him with her long pointy teeth. "Seth you may run, but I will have you. You will be mine."  

            Just then the late bell rang and Seth looked up from his desk and cautiously glanced about. Rachel adjusted her hair to hide her horns then shyly smiled at him and waved. He forced a smile and took a deep breath of courage then waved in return.