Write on Wednesday - Status Anxiety

Yes, I realize that it is no longer Wednesday, but the point I believe is to find the time and inspiration to write … soooo … better late than never right?

This week’s Write on Wednesdays challenge was as follows:

Write On Wednesdays Exercise 6 - Status Anxiety: Log onto your Facebook/Twitter page and write down the first status update you see.  Set a timer for 5 minutes. Write the first words that come into your head after your prompt. Stop when the buzzer rings.

Since I was late on this one I decided to write twice.  Both statuses are from facebook friends.  The first is when I clicked the Top News tab, the second was from the Most Recent tab.  Thanks to those two indiviudals who let me borrow their status update (if you even read this!)  Enjoy!

LESSON LEARNED.  NEVER ASK THE QUESTION UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR THE ANSWER.  She sat in front of him in total silence, stunned to her core at what he had just said.  Things had not been right between them for a while, but still, had it really come to this? 

“Are you serious?” she asked still not believing the words that had just come out of his mouth.  How could he not want to even be friends anymore.  They had been friends forever.  They grew up together, went to grammar school and high school together, left for college on the same day and spoke almost every day they didn’t see each other in that four year span., they applied for grad school together, went to grad school together … everything … together. 

They had met for dinner because he was supposed to be telling her something great like he got a promotion or he put in an offer on a house he had been looking at or he closed his latest deal.  Anything but this … anything but telling her that his new girlfriend essentially forbid him from seeing her. 

THERE ARE NO WORDS.  JUST LOVE.  Alexis looked into those big beautiful brown eyes and sighed as she encircled him in her outstretched arms.  He was warm and solid.  He was always there when she needed a hug, always there when she got home from a hard day at work, always by her side to celebrate the best of times and help her cope with the worst of times.

She pulled away and smiled.  Theirs had been a long relationship starting in grad school when they first met through a mutual friend who had wanted to pawn him off.  An overzealous, rowdy, pain her friend had called him. 

Despite the lovely description, Alexis agreed to meet him.  It was love at first sight.  She knew she was in trouble as soon as his little brown paws slid into her hands, he wagged his tail and merrily licked her face.  There were no words, just love. 

This challenge was quite enjoyable and really show how anything could be a form of inspiration to write.  Again thank you to those who provided the status updates.

As last time, it takes gumption to share your written work!