Beautiful Memories

Memories are powerful, and can hold so much emotion. Each one holds its own story.

I just got out of the car when my DRIOD X vibrated. I took a peak at my phones screen and on the notification bar at the very top of the phone, her name appeared, along with the message, “I’m on my way!”

I smiled, put my phone back in my pocket, and continued to walk down the street that ended where the ocean started. To the east of me, sea food restaurants where humming and buzzing with business. This place was popular on a Friday night, especially during the summer when the weather stayed in the mid 70’s throughout the night. I was nearing the end of the sidewalk when a kid, probably an eighth grader, went running pass me. The sidewalk that I was walking on had the restaurants on the right side and a huge open grass area to the left where, currently, a mix of incoming eighth graders and incoming freshman were playing and hanging around. The way they dressed, and I guess the way they looked, made you think that they were about to start their junior year of high school. Kids these days just didn’t look or act their age anymore.

I snickered and walked to the handrail that kept you from falling into ocean. A slight breeze accompanied the calm and steady ocean tide. The few clouds in the sky were a bright yellow, reflecting the dying sun’s rays, while the rest of the sky was a very deep orange. I let out a long deep breath, enjoying the summers evening at shoreline.

A hand fell on top of my forearm and I looked right to find her looking out at the oceans view with me.

“Come on,” I said, “Let’s walk.” I grabbed her hand and we walked around the restaurants and began to climb the hill that hid this small community of rich houses and stores. I let her walk in front of me and put my hands around her waist as we began to go up the hill. Her dirty blonde hair flowed to the right making her light tan neck visible. I pressed my noise on it and kissed it. She shrugged her shoulders and jolted as I had forgotten how ticklish she was. She turned around and flashed her beautiful smile at me. The sun’s light was basically completely gone, with the moon fully present in the air now, making her brilliant blue eyes glow white with bliss.

We were half way up when I spotted two seats hanging off the side of hill, revealing a blanket of light covering all the houses and the area that we had just left, which was considered downtown. I tugged on her hand so that we could go and sit there but I met my tug with a harder tug, pulling me back to her. I looked at her confused and she said, “Trust me, when we get to the top, you’ll realize why I don’t want to just stop here.” I trusted her and with her on my side, continued walking up the hill.

Everything was now very dark, the road hard to perceive with only the moons dim glow guiding us on the right direction. Finally, the road curled and made us walk a 180 turn and a brick walk, three feet tall at most, greeted us at the end. I looked up and the sky was so clear it made it seem as though I was in space, stripped away from all the town lights blocking the night sky’s view. I turned my attention back to her but she was already leaning on the brick wall, smiling at me. She waved me over and turned back around. I came behind her and wrapped my arms around. Now it was clear why she wanted to come up here and I couldn’t have been happier that I followed her. Over the wall, the hill dropped off to reveal the shimmering ocean, glowing from the moon’s gaze. Beyond that, the city came into view and was blurred out from all the lights that flared off of all the skyscrapers. Of all the beauty that I could see, the most noticeable feature of it all was just how quite everything was from up here. I could see from up here where we had started and it was funny how we couldn’t hear a thing from up here. The only thing I could hear was the soft breeze that flew through the air.

She turned her head and kissed me on the cheek. “I’m glad everything worked out the way it did,” She said. “I’m glad this is only just the beginning.” I couldn’t have said it any better. I looked back up into the night sky and wondered what the stars had in store for us. I could only hope that the future held happy, beautiful memories like this.