The Tree

 

 

I let out a sigh and pushed myself off the ground. One of these days Felix was going to be the death of me. He really was. All this deep thinking about things that just get more and more confusing the more you think about it was going to kill me. Sometimes I wondered why I didn’t just take the easy way out like Felix and just have faith in something bigger than me. Believe that there was a reason for everything to happen. But I couldn’t. It just didn’t seem right to me. To leave all my problems in the hands of some big invisible man who in all reality probably didn’t give a rat’s a*s about my problems to begin with.

 

It was times like this, Times when Felix and his logic got me so twisted up in my head that I needed to take a breather. Go to a place that only I and Felix knew about. A place we found when we were little. It was past all the lights. But everybody had a flashlight. It was mandatory. In case the lights failed at some point. Most people believed that would never happen. But it’s better to be safe than sorry. But when you supply curious little girls and boys with flashlights, they tend to find things, things they weren’t really meant to see.

 

That was how I and Felix found the tree. It took a lot of convincing on my part. To get Felix out of the rooms of learning and out past all the lights. Felix was afraid. Of everything. That’s what reading books about giant waves wicked witches, monsters, and power storms do to you. It makes you paranoid.

 

But I got him here, out into the field. And right when we were about to turn back fearing that we had gone too far. We saw it. Something we had only seen pictures of. A tree; a giant tree with twisted roots and hundreds of thick strong branches. It was beautiful, we sat there that day. For as long as we could before we realized our parents would be looking for us. Then we left grudgingly, not before I gloated of course.

Rubbing it in his face that logic couldn’t explain everything, especially how this tree had survived so many miles below the surface. Even Felix was at a loss as to how it survived down here. I mean sure it had lots of soil, but it lacked water, and sunlight. And as hard as Felix searched through the libraries of the room of learning. He could find nothing. I could tell that it bothered him. And I didn’t have to read his thoughts to know that. It was just, obvious.

 

But ever since that day, this is where I went when I needed to think. To reflect on something smart Felix said to me and made my mind so jumbled up that I didn’t know what to say. I’d come sit here. I’d come and figure out exactly what I meant to say. And how I was going to say it the next time I saw him. Although inevitably he would just say something smart again and I would be right where I started. But it was the thought that counted. Or the thoughts really. The thoughts that came from sitting in this gnarled old tree that somehow lived eight miles underground.

I sat in that tree for hours that day. Trying to think of a way to prove to Felix that his idea of god was just silly. And that even if there was a god there was no way of proving that the god Felix chose to believe in. the Christian one is the right god. And man would those other gods be mad at him if he was worshiping the wrong god all his life.

I watched my feet dangle off one of the branches, it was peaceful out here. Lit only by the glow of my flashlight. It was like I was the only one left in the universe. Alone at last. Free from having to figure out what was wrong with people and trying to fix it. Just to sit here completely free of stress.

But it never lasts long, the feeling that something was happening had washed over me. Something bad, something Felix was trying to show me. Images flashed trough my head, death, food, destruction and an empty store room. I opened my eyes and looked down at the ground swinging off one of the branches and landed at the base of the tree. I had to find Felix.

Author's Note

re written as well :)

Reviews

[melissa]

Amazing book I can't wait to read the rest

[pamzilla. &hear..]

I enjoy this book.
It's official.
This book is amazing ♥
Still, a few errors here and there, easily fixable.

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[Marie Starr]

Love it! Can't wait to read more!!