PEACEFUL
Prompt - Peaceful : Write about something peaceful and serene
It took forty seven years of working, but he'd finally realised his dream. Their dream. To get away from the city, to leave behind the rush and hustle and noise and dirt. To breath in unpolluted air, to listen to the birds and the sounds of the sea and the wind. To have peace, that 'away from it all' feeling.
They'd ben talking about it for more than twenty years. When we retire we'll... It had seemed like fantasy to begin with, but as time went by the thoughts achieved some solidity, gained a sense of purpose, became plans. They'd spent hours and hours looking at islands, at properties, discussing which offered them the perfect getaway, the perfect new life. Which communities sounded the most welcoming, which offered best value for their savings, where they could just be left to themselves.
With three years to go they knew where, they'd made visits, they'd looked at places, they'd decided. Still too early to look for their new home, but that didn't top them pouring over property details, debating the pros and cons of east and west coasts, the easiest places to get their shopping, the sights they wanted to be closest to, to be able to take in every week.
And then the accident happened. Only six months before he finally retired Celia was dead, hit by a drunken driver. Flung into a shapeless heap among the bins, her life ended before the perfect stage had begun. He was broken. He remade himself. She wouldn't have wanted it otherwise.
But they'd already identified the house they had wanted. So he went ahead, for her sake, and to be away from the place that had killed her. He sold up, moved away, left that life behind. And created a new one for himself.
A life away, a lifetime away, a new way to exist. He had his books and his music. He had the ever changing sea to start his day. He had walks and views and a world to explore. There were puffins, the funniest of birds, less than a kilometre away. The people in the village, when he went, were friendly enough, distant enough. It was as perfect as they'd pictured.
He was soooo bored.
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