Blue Wonder

            Everything was blue. Blue Sky, a clear blue ocean nearby, a blue car in the driveway-even the house was blue.

            Maddy Turner rocked back on her heels looking at the house. She ignored the looks of the people passing, the squeals of little children throughout the neighborhood. No, instead she focused on the blue.

            Her mother had loved the color blue, everything had been blue in their house. Well, until the moving guys came to pack it up and ship her off to a foreign small city in Maine.

            “It’s beautiful, there’s blue everywhere. Oh, Mads, you’ll love it,” her mother had told her multiple times.

            Her mother had grown up here, born and raised-she loved the area-

            “Well are you going to stand there or are you gonna come in?” a cold voice asked as Maddy jumped, looking up.

            Standing on the porch an elderly lady had appeared. She had a cold expression on her face.

            “Well?” the lady snapped as Maddy shook her head.

            “A-are you Leslie Chapman?” she asked, the lady’s face turned into an unreadable expression after that.

            “What do you think? Of course I am, you’re standing in my yard! Now c’mon or I’m leaving ya out here,” she said opening the door.

            “I’m coming,” Maddy said grabbing her two blue suitcases and ran across the yard, up the porch, and ending at the lady.

            She took a couple seconds to stare at the lady-her grandmother.

            “She’ll take care of you,” her mother had promised.

The lady’s face turned to a look of sadness just for a second, Maddy had thought it never happened, “Come on. Supper’s almost ready.”

            Maddy glanced around the yard one last time. A sign caught her eye near the end of the yard, it was really hard to miss, ‘Welcome to Blue Wonder,’ it read.

            Not wanting to hear her grandmother call again Maddy ran inside the house letting the door slam shut behind it.

            Everything was far from behind, ‘Wonder.’