Poof

"Quickly, stick some black tape on the window." shouted John. The news channel was reporting many strange incidencices where birds were exploding when they hit people's windows.

"It's a news scam John, that's stupid. Birds just smash into windows and fall to the ground limp and dead. Nothing new." Sally said. Sally is John's sarcastic teenage sister.

"Last time when a bird hit the window it cracked it.We live in the woods. Do you really want to risk it?" John asked.

"Do whatever you want. I don't care." Sally rolled her eyes.

"Of course you don't care. You never do." John said annoyed. He ran to the garage to grab some black tape and stretched it across the window in their kitchen. Sally walked into the kitchen to get some cold pizza they had bought when they went into town last night.

Just as John was going to cut the tape. A black bullet darted towards them from a distance. John backed away from the window and screamed.

"Sally look! Th-The bird is coming right towards –,"John shut his eyes tight waiting for the thunk.

"What just happened?" Sally stared shocked. Her eyes were open the whole time. She couldn't explain what she say. The bird zoomed closer and closer to the window but the second before it hit, it went POOF. The only thing left of the bird was one black feather. It was now falling peacefully towards the ground.

"The bird just disappeared." Sally told John.

"I told you birds explode." exclaimed John. The two siblings rushed outside to go make sure there wasn't a cold dead bird laying outside.

When they got to the spot outisde their window, nothing was there, except for a perfect black feather.

"This feather symbolizeds something." Sally pondered.

"What does it mean." John asked confused.

"Hope." It was simple.