A Girl Read Aloud To The Empty Chair Next Door. Who She Found Listening Broke Everyone's Heart In The Best Way.
She thought no one could hear her through the wall. Someone had been listening every single night.
A girl loved reading her storybooks aloud on the front step each evening, practising her voices for all the characters. She often noticed the empty chair by the window next door and read a little louder, just in case.
She didn't really know who lived there. The chair was always empty, the curtains half drawn. But something about it made her keep reading toward that window, night after night, as summer stretched on.
One evening a soft knock came at her door. The elderly neighbour stood there, explaining that from her armchair just out of sight, she'd heard every story through the open window and looked forward to them all day.
Her eyesight had faded and she could no longer read for herself. So now the girl reads to her properly, side by side in that very chair, one chapter every evening. Neither of them has missed a single night since.
