kiss

A Chapter by IndigoChild

We are walking down the street. Its got to be like 1:00 in the morning. The street is nameless to me. It’s cold and damp out, the air is dead, still, like someone pushed the pause button. I am just an empty walking shell, not even a Crosser. I just cant find anything inside my self, not even anger. I have let my father down, Killed my mother, and lost all shreds of myself.

The air burns down my throat, but whats pain when your whole life is under a blanket, hidden and smothered. Sylvan is quiet and sullen, He walks next to me with his shoulder low and his head down. His violet eyes capture the riseing sun and strike at my cold empty heart. Will i ever feel a stir of emotion again? Will sylvan ever let me go enough to love him?

All we can do is keep walking. The land and buildings become a blur to me, grey and dead. I leave my little town of Carrie creek, with its golden trees and pale blue skys. I leave the robins singing and the ravens stareing. I leave the cracked asphault and bumpy back roads. I leave my blue house and blue life. I leave my little nameless street. I dont say good bye and i keep walking. My thoughts are interuppted when sylvan lifts his head, a locked in , determined look in his face and takes my hand. Its warm against mine and my ice cold hand melts, along with my ice cold heart. He rubs the side of my hand a little with his tumb. gentil waves of warmth spread through me and my slugish heart starts to race once more. Maybe my heart can be full again. I just have to wait.

“ I think we have left Carrie Creek behind rose.”

“ yep, we did.”

“ For some reason i just don’t feel sad, I’ll miss my little garden though.”

“ Me too” I stop walking, there is a tingeling feeling all over me and i feel happy. I almost feel like a little child in a toy store. I let go of sylvan hand. We are on a back road leading way out of town up to the more rural part of Main. “ Syl, I’ll race you!” I take off running.

“ Whats with the syl, thing!” i hear sylvan call out behind me. I smile and push harder. When i run, its almost like the ground can’t keep up with me. The air cuts and moves around me and i am alive. I could run like this for hours. I used to run and switch from the Mist to the dead world without stopping. I miss the feeling of slipping through the mist, like running through water a very fine water. I hear sylvans pounding foot steps behind me. I’m not going to let him win this one. I jump up and swing onto a low branch. I have always been very flexible and fast. I guess i never put much thought into how flexible and fast i was. I race along the trees flipping and twirling. The branches snap against my skin but i don’t feel the pain. My breathing fills my lungs but i am still breathing slow. My hands reach and release without command. I can hear sylvan down below me and i drop right in front of him.. He runs into me full force and we hit the ground. As we roll off the road and into the grass on the side, I laugh and shrike.

“ Damn rose, your like a cat. Well a cat can manage not to get shredded by a bunch to trees” I smack his chest playfully. “ How are you able to do that?” He looks at me with awe. And i am taken aback. What’s so awe inspiring about me running and swinging through trees. I probably looked like an idiot.

“ I don’t know.” I move to get up but he presses me back down onto him, so i stay where i am. He looks at me now with curiosity. There is a light in his eyes and i cant help but blush. I bury my face in his chest in a pointless effort to hide my embarassment. Of course i fail

“ Aww come on, really rose, dont hide on me what did i do?” He runs his finger through my hair and down my shoulders. I bury my face deeper into his sweatshirt.

“ Rose?”

“ you looked at me”

“ I looked at you, well, rose thats pathetic” He sits up and hold my face so i have to looks at him. “ what’s so embarassing about me looking at you?” I don’t answer him because i don’t have the time. His lips are on mine before i even have time to think.

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