Ella 5: what happened to the fire?

...before she became so perfect.

She used to be a little messy and quite sexy to her him. Not that she was a slob nor that he wanted to be around one, but rather, she was neatly unkept. He always thought of her as a free following beauty, a natural. Even when she was a failure, it was beautiful. She played baseball with the worst of them, but she could talk junk with the best, and then run for cover, while her older sister, Alex, would just stand there almost inviting a fight. But Harold, never saw her sister because he was always chasing after Ella. There was something soft and something strong about her. He never could nail it down, but he knew he wanted to be around it.

But that was before...

when he was a boy and she was a girl

"Ella, whatever happened to the fire in you-" He asked her on one of those days when she was fussing about something somebody wore to the store that afternoon. The question she heard was,

"Ella, whatever happened to the fire place, do you-"

"You wouldn't let me buy it when it was on sale, prices are too high right now. Does that mean I can start looking for a sale Harold. Thank you baby. " She closed her answer with an 'I love you' as she continued with her original conversation about Susan Meyer's attire this evening and the particulars of fashion.

"What about the men's fashion show that we talked about this fall, did she start the planning?"

"No, she just never got to it."

"Oh this one, Ella wanted to take the local kids on a field trip to see-"

"Oh yes we were taking the children to see the caves. I did that. Ella meant to go with us, but she just never got to it."

So many disappointments it was becoming hard to hear any more of it. How had this happened, how had she slipped into this life when she had meant to be so much more...

(c) Jamillah Warner, www.gospelnerve.com, I got the nerve to say . . .