It was the best place I could think of for our first meeting.
Half way between our respective homes.
I had always loved Brella Park and had spent many hours there walking its many and varied pathways.
I had told her I would wait on the seat above the water feature.
I had to admit to being nervous.
We had only known each other a few weeks when she had suggested we meet and see if we liked each other as much in the flesh as we did on the net.
I looked at my watch, it was almost the appointed time.
Several joggers puffed their way past me, a father with his baby in pram sauntered by. I looked in every direction anticipating her.
I waited a full thirty minutes past our meeting time. It was then I heard the sirens. People gathered on the nearest hill.
I started to run…..
Written for: https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/fffaw-week-of-07-01-2015/
Morpethroad 
This is wonderful! My heart literally sank reading the last line! Excellent Michael!
Thank you Joy, hope you are having a good day.
Iam, Michael, and I hope you are too.
Its 7.15am, cold and wet….
It is 3:15 pm here and bright and sunny.
Summer and winter Joy….
That’s true. Do you live in Australia?
Yes, east coast…
I’m not that familiar with Australia. I’ll have to look on the map. I live in the states – in the Four Corners (the corner where four states meet). Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
Ok….I live to the north of Sydney….
Along the Tasman Sea?
No Pacific Ocean
Oh that’s cool. I always thought it would be nice to go somewhere in the winter where it wasn’t winter! LOL!
That’s strange.. this map I have says the oceans on the east coast of Australia are the Tasman Sea and the Coral Sea and on the west coast of Australia is the Indian Ocean. Stupid maps! lol
No sorry I forgot that’s how the maps say it…if you find Sydney, then a little above that is Newcastle, I live a little to the west of there.
Yes, I saw Newcastle. Is it tropical in your area?
No ours is very temperate…hot in the summer but winter gets down to about 2C at its coldest…if we are lucky we get an occasional frost
Our weather here get’s to about 100+ F in the summer and about 10-20 degrees F in the winter. Not a lot of snow, but usually alway a little. In fact, 50 miles away in the Colorado mountains is a big snow ski resort called Purgatory. Of course, Arizona gets a lot hotter. Phoenix is about 400 miles away. They have been having 114 deg. F temps already this year. I think my area is considered to be semi-desert. (The Southwest of the US)
Looking at it again I can see that it is the Pacific Ocean and those seas are just a small part of the Pacific Ocean.
I agree with above, wonderful story
Thank you Huma. Have a good day.
You too
Oh dear…then, did they not get to meet??
Well one wonders Dell, what do you think? Maybe over the hill she is directing traffic? Saving a small child from a burning fire?
I’m such a nervous-nelly, always fretting–even about fiction!
Well nervous nellies I like……but its always just a story, but its good to know my words can draw you in like that….have a good afternoon/evening…
Yes, your writing is never boring!
Thank you Dell you are so very kind…
I was about to comment on feeling a little sick about that ending. It may even keep me awake tonight. But then I got distracted by the wonderful geography dialogue between you and Joy, me being a states person, too. I want to believe there was a happy ending after all. 😊
Well firstly you can never get enough geography can you Mandy and secondly the good news I am sure is just over the hill.
Thank you Michael. I’ll rest easier now.
Good, you can imagine the GOOD things he discovers over the hill……
Loved this story! Isn’t it amazing how we react to unknown situations…we tend to think the worse and the fear just builds up until we get to learn the real facts. I, for one, will end this story in my mind as having a happy ending! Thanks for the opportunity.
Good as my ending doesn’t mean a bad end. Thanks for that comment.
If the sirens pertain to your lady friend to be, I hope you go the emergency room with her for a few cuts and bruises. She was running late, and didn’t look before she crossed the street?
Or she was Florence nightingaling an already injured person.
True. Is she in the nursing profession, then?
No but she could be…lol…..
My search for what you find over the hill that made your new friend late continues. ;D
I think we can speculate, but in my story she is engaged in some way in the positive of ways…..they meet and he sees her in this role that only entrances him all the more……maybe he offers to hold something while she goes about her humanitarian work….
A puppy, child, hand?
I was thinking like a fluid bag, or bandage to prevent blood spurting stuff like that….
I really do hope that he was stood up and that the sirens were not for his friend! Cold feet is much better than cold corpse!
Yes indeed Roger, one hopes it does have a good ending…
Oh no!
Oh Rosy she could have been saving lives.
True that. Hopefully – that’s what it was.
Then ran into his arms and lived happily ever after
Awww… ❤
I can dream can’t I?
Always…🌈