Short Story written for a challenge.

“Must use the words: fleece, coffee, medication, blue, wrap, plunge”

“Have you taken your medication yet?” the nurse asked, as she gently rearranged the fleece wrap on the elderly woman’s wheelchair. The woman nodded at the nurse and patted her blue hair as she checked her reflection in the mirror over the small vanity. Today she was going to do it – she was going to take the plunge.

The nurse continued, “Are you ready, then?” The woman nodded, and the nurse wheeled her to the dayroom, to her first date in years. She was meeting him for coffee and conversation. She was as excited as a teenager, so excited she could hardly sit still.

As they turned the corner into the spacious dayroom, she felt her heart begin to speed up as she caught sight of him waiting for her. He stood as the nurse wheeled her up to the table, welcoming her with a warm smile.

–by me, today