I realized someone standing next to me. Julia was asking me something. I brought myself back to the living world.
"Lynni, hon, you okay?" I looked at her, my mind completely gone.
"Uh-um-yeah." I shook my head, slowly.
"Good," she said, though she still sounded worried to me. I wondered why she had come in for a moment, then looked at the floor. The coffee mug I had been holding was in pieces on the floor. I felt my hands shaking, and I felt tears coming. I choked on them, then let them spill over the rims of my eyes.
I took off running. Out the door, down the road, across the field, and into the wooded area just beyond. I ran until I reached the creek bed that I had explored when I was younger. I dropped on the ground, and cried….