Melody sat down on a chair in the living room. Tom’s house was warm and cosy, he had good taste. Melody sat and admired the painting she so loved on the wall, it was of a beautiful, green valley full of lush trees and with the bluest sky she ever had seen, it reminded her of the summers the Shire hadn't seen for so long, she had admired that painting for years. Tom placed a cup of warm tea on the table; he pulled up a chair and sat next to Melody. “So, how are you feeling about the journey?” Tom asked.
”Good, I guess. I am rather excited but still, very nervous”
”Oh yes, I feel the same”
An awkward silence filled the room. Melody stood up and dusted off her dress “Uh, can I see what you have packed?”
”Well” Tom paused and smiled sheepishly, “I haven't quite packed yet.”
”Oh Tom," Said Melody shaking her head and rolling her eyes, "That doesn’t surprise me at all!” She paused and thought on Tom's typical behaviour for a bit. “Well I am off to bake a batch of cookies to take on the journey, I’ll see you later” Melody said with a huge smile on her face. She was unusually happy and excited today.
Melody went home and made her own special cookie dough that she had come up with herself, after much experimenting. She was known for making delicious choc chip cookies and what would be lovelier than taking a whole batch of cookies with her on the journey for those blue moments which would undoubtedly come? Melody made sure once more that everything was packed. She planned on getting an early night so she could do what ever was needed to be done the next day and get ready for the small going away party.
The next morning Melody stumbled out of bed. It was so cold inside there was ice on the inside of the windows and Melody didn’t even wish to know how cold it was outside. She looked out of the window, misted by ice crystals, and saw white, nothing but white. The huge tree outside her window used to be green with huge pink flowers growing on it but now it was covered in snow and miserable, like the rest of the Shire. Melody hadn’t seen a bird for many weeks, not even the little robin that used to live in the garden.
She spent the rest of the day running a few errands, making cookies and doing as much as possible to make the day exciting, the last thing she wanted was for it to be dull. Melody took out her favourite green dress which had small white lily patterns around the hem. She had made the dress herself and was proud to wear it. She only wore it on special occasions though, because she didn't want to rip it. Once she was ready for the party she walked over to Tom’s house.
Melody knocked briskly on Tom’s door, desperate to come in from the biting cold. “Coming!” Tom shouted from across the passage. He opened the door and was stunned to see how Melody looked, he always had liked the green dress but she today looked extra special, even though she was hopping from foot to foot in a most undignified manner to keep the cold away. “Are you going to let me in or will you let me freeze to death?” Melody said jokingly.
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