A “Dead” End

Chapter 20

Hope was determined to bring her best friend … her sister back from wherever, whatever had kept Sarah trapped. She couldn’t help but recall all the memories they had created together …. like the day she was trying to teach Sarah how to apply makeup. Hope couldn’t stop a little laugh from escaping when she thought of how clueless Sarah was and how much she had hated ‘putting all this crap on her face’. Desperate to move on to her next ‘normal life’ lesson she hurried through her ‘test’, as she called it …. failing miserably as she came out with bright pink eye-shadow with mascara smudged on parts of her eye lids … dark brown blush and deep, red lipstick. Hope had clicked endless pictures of Sarah in her ‘perfect makeup’ … everyone had a good laugh at the dinner table that day as Hope circul