Capturing Sunlight

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Evain woke to the sun blinding her, having forgotten to pull the blinds shut on her bedroom window the night before. With a groan she rolled over in her fluffy bed, she reached to her bedside table pulling on her glasses , the bedside clock read 5:28am.

Evain let out a strangled groan, why was it so bloody bright this early in the morning,she thought to herself.
Her head dropped back onto the pillow and puffed a strand of her hair from her face. She knew now that she was up, there would be no going back to sleep.
Sitting up in bed, she was sure she would be a sight to see. Her hair a crazy nest of chocolate locks, skin dry, lips chapped and glasses hanging just barely onto her face. With a loud yawn and a skyward stretch, she folded her legs beneath her , rewatching back her nightstand she pulled open the top drawer and withdrew her daily journal and a pen, snatching her hair tie as well. Dropping the book in her lap, Evain pulled her hair up out of her face and began contemplating her days events.

It was Sunday, meaning she didn't have to open her gallery today, also meaning she didn't have jack squat to do. Evain loves days like this one the most, it meant she could go wherever and do whatever without having to come back and lock up her store, or be restricted to time scheduling.

With the pen between her lips she chewed as she opens the book and began thinking what exactly to do, it took her all of 2 minutes before she got bored and tossed the book aside , palming her phone instead and leaning against her headboard.
Evain scrolled through her tumblr then through her Pinterest, before that too made her bored.
Tossing her phone aside as well, she rose from her bed and scrubbed a hand down her face, making her way into her bathroom.

Evain lived in a one bedroom mini cabin out on the suburbs of the city, she house consisted of the entire ground floor being her garage, with a staircase leading up to the landing that consisted of her living room and kitchen, down a narrow hall was her bedroom, with an attached full bath, the only other room in the place.
Adjacent to her kitchen was the sliding glass doors that led to the small patio.
Her house was small but for only 35,000$ it was a steal. She had all she needed, with no pets or company . Evain was living her dream, her house came with the small slightly wooded 1.3 acre, the small cabin sitting at the forefront of the property.

In the bathroom Evain went about her business, before hopping in the shower. Humming softly to herself, a sudden idea popped into her head. She knew she needed more prints for her little gallery, and with this new idea, she may just have those by the end of the day.  She had to keep reminding herself not to forget it as she stepped from the shower and dryer herself.
After blow drying her hair, Evain had to pause in the bathroom doorway, towel wrapped around herself.
She had been so busy trying not to forget she had actually forgot.

" Fudge, what was it..", she mumbled to herself.

Evain went about getting dressed all while trying to remember what it was. Looking at her selection of t shirts, she couldn't decided between a plain dark green neck or a gray shirt or the exact type. By the time she was pulling on her butterfly socks , Evain suddenly sprung up," Forest photo shoot!", she exclaimed into the air .

" yes, that's so damn brilliant!", she snatched her journal and wrote it down before pocketing her phone. Now the time read 5:46am.
With a squeak, Evain began rushing around her room, grabbing a duffle she stuffed a few of her dresses into it before stuffing a makeup compact and a mirror. Onto of that she threw her camera, ring light and other things she thought she might need, her large tripod already in her car from her last brilliant idea, that one hadn't ended so well. But Evain fully expected this one to go off without a hitch.

Tossing her duffle on the floor by her front door, she grabbed her Thackeray Birch backpack and shoved a bag of pretzels she snagged off her kitchen counter into the back pack, going back for her journal , she shoved that too into the backpack.

In all her duffle had her clothes and equipment, in the back pack she also packed a flashlight, Bowie knife , rope and a tarp and two water bottles.

Thundering down her stairs into her garage, she tossed her bags into the back seat of her little red Jeep. Pushing the button for her garage door to open she pulled out .

The door!

Hitting the breaks and putting the car in park, Evain rushes back inside and up the stairs to lock her door, then back down and into her car.
Once she was out on her driveway she closed the garage and locked that before she forgot that too.

The soft tunes of journey played from the Bluetooth of her phone to her stereo system, restarting the last song she had been playing. Driving down the streets of the still asleep Suburban roads, get gas's light pinged on.

" Frick!", She thwacked her forehead at her stupidity, she had forgotten to get gas coming home last night.

Pulling into the shell corner store just before she hit the main road out of the city and into the mountains, she pulled up at a pump and turned her car off. Reaching ton the back seat for her back pack, Evain fishes out her wallet from the side pocket.

Wandering the aisles of the store Evain comtmplated which chocolate bar to get, deciding on a crunch bar she made her way to the counter.

" Will that be all?", asked the dreary eyed clerk.

" Ye-no!," she quickly spat out," um- 40$ on gas's at pump..." She leaned back to peer out the front of the store, having not remembered to look at the pump number she was parked at. " pump 2!." She smiles brightly at the man.

Handing over the cash she palmed her candy and her change and made her way back out the store to her car. Tossing her candy in the center console. Evain filled her tank and started back up.