Jelly beans

jelly beans

About An hour later I was standing out side of Esmee’s Honda waiting for her to find her keys. It was a lovely little car with bumble bees and flower transfers on the exterior that always made me smile. It was when I got in to the car and breathed in deeply that my body made the familiar stiffening moment when I was about to flash back.

“Mi are you OK, honey?”

The breaks squealed and I was blinded by bright headlights of the car that drove at us full speed up the wrong side of the road and Arabella swerved hitting the brakes before turning her car over and tumbling down the embankment on the side 0f the road.
“Mi, talk to me.” Esmee said again leaning over and resting her hand on top of mine which knocked me out of my trance as the flash back played in front of my eyes.

“Jelly beans.” I moaned to my self glancing up at the new air freshener that hung above the rear view mirror before looking at the floor breathing hard trying to control the nausea.

“What about them honey?” Esmee asked gently even though there was a part of her that sounded like she thought I might of actually lost the plot completely.

“Your air freshener,” I moaned again glancing up at the offending object. “It’s Jelly beans.”
“Yeah, ummm, I thought it smelt lovely.” Esmee said now looking and sounding properly convinced that I might have actually lost all mental capacity.

“It does, it’s lovely.” I moaned again more to my self then Esmee as I hurried to wipe the tears out of my eyes before they could roll down over the side of my face.

“So what’s the problem then?” Esmee said laughing still sounding completely confused and more then a little bit concerned

“Arabella used to love that air freshener, she used to bye a new one every week , that was before she rolled her car off over the embankment and died that is.”