The Ticket That Changed My Life

I feel my long brown hair fall down my back and feel the tug of the two braids in my hair, I love waiting by the window for my twin sister Emily to come and talk with me. “Kate!” she yells, I hear her voice echo through the large house, and hear her heels against the hard floor. “I’ve been looking for you in the courtyard” said explained, She was holding something, what could it be? I see the dirty stamped envelope in her pale hands, I know what it is, and there’s two. The letters fall to the ground and we hug with excitement. The letter was not very neat and it was sealed not to well. I grab the letter that says, Kate Burkley. It was from my husband, he is a soldier and is away right now. Letters take weeks to even come, and when they do it makes the wait worth it. Emily and I go down stairs and make tea. The warmth of the cinnamon and the hot milk hits my face and fills the air with warmth. “Kate, we miss our husbands and can barely make a living. Let’s be honest we never worked a day in our lives. I think our best option is to go to the New World and find our husbands,” as the words came out of Emily’s mouth the tea started to taste worse and worse, I knew she was right. “Let’s go to the New World” I said. I can’t let go of our life and it will forever stay in my heart but what is there for me in England? The New World it is. The next morning I packed up all my things and kissed my life in England away. I walked across the grey road, “Emily my dear,” I yelled. I heard nothing. Only a big lavender hat with lace and pearls draped around it dropped from the high white ceilings, and it hit my head and pulled one of the braids out of my hair. “Em!” I started to get annoyed, we were going to miss the next boat. Within 15  minutes of Emily throwing her stuff in a bag, she was done.

Luckily we didn’t live too far from the boardwalk where the boat docks were. After walking for a little bit we reached the part where we got our tickets. As we waited and waited for the boat to come I started to get sad and started to miss my life in England and didn’t know if I was making the right decision. The man that was helping boarded the boat with passengers yelled “ready to board, ready to board.” We got in line and we were ready to get on the boat. One tear dripped down my cheek, it was the only one and the powder for my makeup started to run down into my corset. I gave the man my ticket and kissed England goodbye and Emily and I got on the boat and the adventure began there.