Another Excerpt from My Story

In this excerpt, Amelia Finley is coming back to her dorm room after dating a charismatic and handsome cult leader, Sidney Reynolds. Amelia went through much grief in her life and the new relationship gave her new hope.

Those answers she sought were found: Amelia was a woman of reason; emotions typically found no place on her face and only raged in her heart. But she could not resist to smile, uncontrollably, impulsively, as though a new form of happiness, with which she was never acquainted, possessed her and renewed her soul. Faith began to enter her heart, and, with it, a new joy and jubilation cleansed all her grief away. The burden upon her shoulders was relieved, and, like a slave finally given liberty, she rejoiced and laughed at this new love she found.

Almost dancing with the Autumn wind, she ambled through the campus of Berkley, spinning, laughing, skipping her way through the streets. She used to care about her image, and wished that those around her perceived her to be serious and intellectual, but that day she did not. Others may have seen her as a frenzy girl, devoid of reason. But she did not care. She was happy, and happy that that happiness possessed her fully; she was simply unconcerned with others’ perception of her current self, which would be strikingly uncharacteristic with her usual personality.

That Autumn day was solemn yet joyful; the sun sank down slowly on the eastern horizons while the wind was busy with making its music with the leaves and bushes. Nature’s beauty seemed to have accompanied her happiness as the vestige of the waning Sun fell upon her shoulders, as much as Sidney would have caressed them. The Sun, though dying, was still alive, and sufficient to renew that warmth Sidney gave her earlier; hence, nature was working with Sidney’s love, for both served the purpose of making her day lovely and delightful.