One Marble

The Keep Writing Challenge prompt for today, May 13, 2020, is "marble." The assignment is to write a story using 100 (exactly) words. 

One Marble

The stunning young woman descending the stairs took my breath away. Glancing at the young man beside me I knew, by his shining eyes and sudden breath intake, that he, too, was transfixed. My daughter was off to her Senior Prom.

As the door closed behind them, a cocktail of emotions compelled me to the sideboard where a large apothecary jar sat. In it was one lonely marble.

One marble. Only one. 

Eighteen years ago it held 936 – one for each week we would have to raise our baby – our baby who will celebrate her 18^th birthday next week. 936 weeks! Now only one.