Experiencing Love

          Well, I've been getting much more used to this medicine and the side effects from the Keppra are going away(Huzzah) so I think its working its way all out of my system. I only took 4 anti-naesea and I didn't feel any big naeasa or wooziness. Hopefully this keeps up! Oh, and I when I talked to my Grandma she said she was emailing me comments on my stories. But I wasn't getting them. I learned this was because she was responding to this auto email thing. I don't get any reply through this auto-email so you have to email me directly(llkenne1@asu.edu) if you want to get things through. (PS to Grandma love ya!) Anyway, onto the flash fiction!

Experiencing Love

         A woman who lost all hope for love in her life sat in a park bench with a depressed look in her eyes. As she sat in the bench contemplating her lack of smarts, unlikeable personality and ugly looks a man approached her. The man wore pure white from head to toe. He told her that he knew of her plight and wanted to help. He told her that he could help her feel love. She didn't even think for a moment about why this strange man from nowhere knew about her. She didn't care. She asked how he could do such a thing. He told it her it was simple. The man then handed her a golden bracelet and instructed her to put it on. He explained to her that all she had to do was hold it near someone experiencing love then she would gain that love. He then told her that if she were to ever take off the bracelet that she would lose that love forever and it would go back to where it came. The man vanished when the woman blinked leaving the bracelet behind.

        She put it on eagerly and looked around in park. She saw a couple holding hands on a nearby bench. She passed by the bench with the bracelet. The couple then pulled apart and the woman felt a surge go through her from the bracelet. She felt like she was someone dying of thirst drinking water when she felt the love. But it was only a drop. Though when she looked at the couple she noticed them pulling away from each other then looking at each other with cold looks. She realized that she had taken it. But she didn't care. She went around the park finding more couples and taking their love. She felt so alive. These moments became dreams while the rest of her loveless life started to appear like a lonely nightmare.

       She then passed by a brother and sister and the bracelet and it took their love too. This made her realize that it would take any kind of love, not just the love of couples. She passed by friends too. She toured the park taking the love from every person she could find.

       She ended up at an old married couple sitting together holding their wrinkled hands. When she stole their love it was the most intense of all. But not in the passionate rush that young love was. This love had been refined over decades.

       This love overwhelmed the woman and made her think of all the other love in her body which still welled up inside her. When she looked around the park she saw the depressed look she had only moments ago before she wore bracelet on all the faces of the people she stole the love from. She didn't want all of them to become her. But the love made her feel so great. She gathered all all her strength and pulled off the bracelet. The bracelet vanished and all the love returned to its original owners. She lost it all, every little bit was pulled from her heart with a powerful force though she kept the strength she gained from being able to pull off that bracelet. Using this strength she sought out her own love and she did gain it on her own without any special help.