IveGotItMemorized

 It was dark under the bed. Ellice breathed out slowly and slipped her arm into the darkness until it was up to her elbows, grasping around blindly for the ring she had dropped. Her mother had left her home alone for the first time. The air of the room was laced with the borrowed perfume from her mother's vanity table, and the carpet was littered with discarded clothes that were, in Ellice's eyes, not quite fit enough for her fancy tastes. Instead, her mother's wrinkled and forgotten wedding dress pooled around her ankles as Ellice squinted into the blackness, searching for the long abandoned wedding ring that had only moments ago been wrap