That morning started like every other. Laying in bed staring at the ceiling, my body, my mind aching for something different…..something adventurous. If only I knew what the day would bring I never would of hoped for such things.

I sat staring out the window at the sun slowly rising on the horizon sipping my usual Folgers brew. My body seemed on auto pilot and my mind off in the distance……

That’s when it happened.

The orange yellow sky turned a glistening sparkling purple…..I was mesmerized. The hue of purple like nothing I have ever seen before. My eye drawn toward the center of where the color was coming from…….far off in the distance.

What is that? I thought to myself. I couldn’t make out what it was it was just too far away in the distance partly shielded by trees and the glare from the bright lighting.

Just as quick as it came it was gone. The sky now a grey color…..no clouds no sun just a grey dreary color. Like nothing had even been there.

But wait ….what is that slight shimmer?!

I rushed to put my shoes on so I could run down to the tree line to see what it was. Suddenly something from my childhood flashed in my mind.

“So remember if anything seems strange stay away from it. The prophecy foretells of the end of time if someone is to discover the jewel.”

The flash of a faint memory of my mom telling a story when I was very young slowly played through my mind but I couldn’t remember it all.

I shook the memory out of my mind and rushed down the path from my house to the evergreens. As I grew closer and closer I could see something so beautiful……so immensely beautiful……

My hand reached for the deep purple jeweled necklace laying on the grass. As my hand touched it the world went away and my surroundings were magical.

My boring old life was replaced with a new land so full of beauty I couldn’t even put it into words. There were colors I have never seen before, no plants or trees of shades of green anymore. The land held a magical aura that made my entire body tingle.

Was my mom correct…..did me finding the jewel make the world end.

No I shook my head…..every inch of my soul told me this was home….this was where I belonged.

As I clasped the necklace onto my neck I thought to myself ;

There was never a prophecy, it was all a lie. I was finally where I belonged. I was finally home.