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A Cobblestone town where everybody knows everybody and their drama. Middle of summer but theres a cool breeze flowing through the village.

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Time period is the mid 1960s, although the village falls behind o technology and beliefs of the typical american society. They are isolated, stay to themselves and the law of the country doesn't always match up to the law of the village. The villagers usually take justice and revenge in their own hands.The village provides themselves with food, jobs, and entertainment. Families stay in the town for generations and it is shamed upon to leave.

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Elizabeth (Main Character)
18, Humble, Kind, Brave. Cares about her family more than anything else. The second oldest sibling.

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Mom (Emily) and Father (Johnathan)
Emily Hamilton is 42 and her husband Johnathan is 44. They have 4 kids. Emily is a stay at home mother who volunteers at the church and Johnathan is a coal miner.

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Macie and David

Macie is the oldest
Hamilton Child, at 20 years old. She recently married 22 year old David, who is a fire fighter, and they are pregnant with their first child. Macie is a protective older sister, but she is also slightly clueless and hopelessly optimistic.

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Alexis Hamilton
14. She was found abandoned at the local church as an infant and was taken in by the Hamilton family as their own.
she adores her older sister Elizabeth and is the smartest and most gifted Hamilton child. She loves the outdoors and animals.

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Coleden Hamilton
14. Emily was pregnant with Coleden when they found and adopted Alexis. He looks up to his brother in law David and hopes to be a firefighter. For now, he studys with Alexis and they are two peas in a pod going on adventures.

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The costumes of the play are very old timey and handmade. Women wear dresses and men wear pants. The clothes are made from what they can get and mended to be used longer instead of making a new garment. Nobody wears anything to "stand out' and do not dress to impress.

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The warm light coming from the window reaches across my face and brings a sense of calm to my bedroom as my eyes flutter open to look at my bedside table towards my clock,. June 27th, 9:00am. I turn over to deny the fact that I need to get up and I almost slip back into the comfort of sleep as my door slams open, hitting my bookshelf behind it, sending books and knickknacks into my floor.

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I flip back towards my door to see my sister Alexis standing in the doorway. “Mom wants you to get ready and head towards the square soon with us because Colden wants to see his friends before everyone in the village gets there. She says she will be about ten minutes behind us.” I nod and she heads off down the hallways towards the stairs before I begrudgingly stretch my arms over my head and stand up. I decide to skip the part where I wash my face and only make the effort to dress myself and put my hair into a half up style while heading out of my bedroom towards the front door.

(Yellow is a happy and joyful color

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Mother is standing in the kitchen patching up my fathers work coat that he has again managed to tear and I give her a smile before closing the door behind me. The cobblestone road is entrancing and I almost forget where I am until I feel hands covering my eyes from behind.

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“Guess who!” says a warm voice clouded in giggles and I instantly know from the smell of vanilla and the sound of her laugh who it is. I turn around to see my beautiful and glowing older sister, Macie, standing before me. She is dressed in a baby blue summer dress that compliments her blue eyes and dark brown hair perfectly, as well as her now swollen stomach from my growing nephew/niece

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“How’s life with David?” I ask her, as if she doesn’t only live a short walk from our childhood home. “He’s brilliant and married life is brilliant and I couldn’t ask for a better father for our son.” She says as she cradles her bump. I laugh and she looks entranced by the ever growing amount of love in her heart.

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“How do you know it’s a boy?” I ask her and she looks at me as confident as ever, “I just have a feeling. Mother’s instinct, if you will.” We continue down the cobblestone path towards the square as we are met with the sounds of children running and playing amongst themselves, tossing stones at each others feet and laughing. Men in suits, as well as men in overalls seem to all meet with each other at the other side of the square and all smile and laugh those genuine laughs that seem to only come from men who you know have stories to tell. The women of the village all huddle together with gossip and I nudge Macie with my shoulder and make a movement towards the women with my head “shouldn’t you be over there with all of them instead of with me and the kids?”

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She laughs and states “I would much rather stay with you, Alexis, and Colden than stand over there and talk banana bread recipes with Mrs. Summers.” I laugh but it is interrupted by the sound of a whistle and a man yelling over the crowd “All right everyone, you know how it goes. Men in the middle drawing for their family name, women and children off to the sides.”

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Macie and I move to the shoulder of the crowd as Mr.Summers reads off the last names alphabetically and the men go up to the black box and draw a slip of paper.)I’m drifted off into conversation about baby names until I hear the name “Hamilton” called from the paper and I see Macies husband, David walk up to the box. He draws a slip of paper and from my angle, the sun shines through the paper and I can clearly see a dark mark through the paper.

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My heart begins to race and adrenaline pumps through my veins as without thinking, I run full force towards David and the stool holding the box, knocking him, the box of papers and myself onto the ground. He yelps in shock as I look around at the number of papers that are now scattered on the ground and the one from his hand missing amongst the others.
(When i think of fear i think of a dark red)

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I apologize profusely and make my way back to the edge of the crowd as Mr. Summers returns the papers to the box and asks David to redraw his paper. Both my mother and sister look at me in shock and I just shake my head as to say “don’t ask.” The drawing is done and there is a murmur amongst the crowd as they wait to open their slips. Mrs. Summers announces that the papers can now be opened and one by one the men hold their slips in the air to show that their papers are blank

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Everyone accept my father who is only staring into his hands. My mother joins him and only quietly exclaims “oh no” before a man somewhere behind my father yells out “Johnathan has it. Johnathan Grady.”

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A sense of dread overwhelms me as Mr. Summers approaches my father asking to see the paper. “All right John, you know what happens now. One paper per family member back in the box and Macie doesn’t draw with you, as she is accounted for by David now.” Macie looks at me nervously as she is pulled away and towards her husband. Almost robotically, my mother and father grab a slip of paper out of the box, as do my siblings and I. One by one we begin to open our papers. Colton holds his up, clean. Alexis has a blank paper as well she hold highly above her head.I can hear the feet walking across the square towards the stones that the children had stacked along the edges of the grass. My father holds his up, blank and my mother as well. My ears are flooded with the sounds of rushing blood and adrenaline as I open the paper in my hand and drop it onto the ground in one swift motion.

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Then all I feel is pain, and then darkness