Title: Solace
by Bethany from Staffordshire | in writing, fiction
If you have ever lost a loved one you will know the strangeness of it. Its like waiting at the bus stop, seeing the buss crash into a ten story building and seeing it being crushed by the rubble, and yet still expecting it to come and pick you up. Although comparing the death of a loved one to the compressing of a large automobile because of an unfortunate collision with a building seems absurd, it is in fact true in the sense that you can't quite get to grips with the fact that they have gone, and you simply expect them to still be there. Unless you have lost a loved one you could never understand until you go through it yourself. I am regretful in saying that Anna and James Shaw were very familiar with these feelings, as there parents had been tragically eaten by a lion whilst on safari in Africa. And, as any youngster would know, the large gap in there life that had been left with them, was currently being filled with mixed feelings of dread, remorse, loneliness and insecurity. As they stood in front of the door, labelled 'head mistress', starting at a boarding school full of strangers was the last thing the two children wanted to do, they wanted to be with there parents, though they knew this could never happen.
I was inspired by books by Lemony Snicket and my weird interest in boarding schools; its name is in fact an irony as ""solace"" is a place of happiness, not despair.
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