Embracing Samantha

Amber sat outside on a stone with Harper beside her who held her body together because of the cold evening air. Her eyes were fixed on the small stick in her hand as her mind travelled elsewhere and she snapped the stick into two. The sound of the snap reminded her of her father taking her picture while she smiled happily and the world they used to live in, before his death which changed everything about her. She remembered the words of courage he made her learn over time and she said it in her mind;

“I am the guardian of my mind, body and soul. I have the power to control the way I respond to what happens to me. I will get up again when I fall and I will never give up. I won’t give in to my fear. I will rather control my fears and overcome it. I am strong. I am brave. I am a fighter.”

Now, as she repeated those words in her mind, it seems to her to have a different meaning and something just tells her that all her life, the things around her has been preparing her for something, some