It was a small cabin hidden in the mountains. It was rustic with an outhouse and no running water. A place where someone could hide out when the pressure of the fast-paced life becomes to much to bear. To Alexis Montgomery it was the perfect place to recover. A friend happened to own it and had graciously offered it to her as a place where no one would bother to look. It was perfect. It had been a hellish few months. Six months ago everything was different. She married her high school boyfriend when he was home on leave from the Army. They spent one idyllic weekend together before he returned to Afghanistan with his unit. She found out she was pregnant a few weeks later. She was thrilled, this is the life she dreamed of. They talked via Skype as often as they could so bubbly with excitement. Then the unthinkable happened his vehicle hit an IED on a mission and he wasn't coming home. Then with the stress she lost the baby. She felt that God had taken everything away, and she couldn't understand why. It was bad enough to lose the love of her life but their baby too was almost more then she could bear. Her parents and friends tried to help but there was nothing they could do to relieve her pain. So when the cabin was presented as a retreat she accepted she wanted to be left alone for a while to grieve and hopefully regain her life and begin the next chapter of her life though she couldn't imagine what if any life that would be.
Alexis was young and pretty with long brown hair and piercing green eyes that sparkled when she laughed. At 22 she was to young and vibrant to give up. It was late September when she arrived at the cabin, the leaves had started to change, and there was a chill to the evening air. The friend had stocked the cabin with everything she would need for a couple of weeks before she would need to shop for anything. She settled all of her belongings and had started the kettle on the stove for some tea and decided curl up with a good book in the old wooden rocking chair on the porch. She lit a lantern so she would have good light. She never imagined there would be anyone around now that the summer tourists had left. That misconception vanished with the appearance of another woman. She had no-one with her but Alexis feared that maybe she was there with a loud and rambunctious family, all she wanted was peace, not laughing and people having fun. The stranger approached her sitting on her porch and introduced herself as Lacey. She was here alone also at another cabin about a mile away. She said she was a writer who came to her family cabin so she could write in peace. She seemed so friendly and open that Alexis couldn't help but like her instantly. They moved indoors when it started to get chilly and they shared a pot of tea together. Alexis shared why she was here and without really intending to broke down with the whole sad saga to this stranger and afterward she felt slightly lighter. Lacey listened, she was glad to have happened upon Alexis, she had been suffering from writers block and had the strangest feeling she was here for a reason but had no idea what that was until this moment. Two strangers happened to upon each other by fate. Lacey was a Christian woman with a heart of gold. She was only 30 and she always felt she had a gift of compassion. So before her was this lovely young woman who was so hurt and broken. Lacey wasn't sure she would be of any help but she did understand loss, she was also a young widow and maybe the shared knowledge of loss would help both of them.
This is as far as I got with this story maybe I will add to it and finish it. If anyone wants to add to it or alter it in any way feel free.
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