Eve

“Oh Eve, Why can’t it be?” she whispered among the trees. “Oh Eve..”

Late night, not a fright, yet no light. Calling, crying. A subtle sound of pain echoed throughout the calls. Trees bristling, Elizabeth kindling. The fire blazed broadly, large and glowing like the sun’s rays with autumn’s heart and joy. Looking up at the stars, faded from sight as the fire blazed on. The moon seemed to be reaching out for her. The fire slowly withdrew from the sky’s face. The stars were clear again. Tired and slowly she drifted off to sleep with the fire close to hugging her.

    The sun has awoken, the dandelion of the sky smiled ever so proudly, glowing with hope. She has awoken with the sun, the fire was no more. Cold but slightly cuddled by the sun, she began her day. Up and about she traveled on. She had enough time to think, but all that drifted around in her mind was Eve. Her dress tore and ragged, a reminder of her heart. Had it only beat for Eve? It seemed so. But she couldn’t know. “Oh, I must arrive back to my home, I must capture a sight of Eve, and if I must, I shall tell her.” On she went, everything seemed so cloudy, so distant. What was life? Did she live for Eve? Oh, she wanted oh so many answers, but got none. She was forbidden from them it seemed, and she ached for them. What she wanted so much, she could not have. It was the answers, it was Eve.

    Arrived back to the path, up she went with the hill. Following it as it beckoned her. On the streets all the humans seemed to have let her catch their eye. Was it the visually easy to spot reminder of how this all happened? The very cloth she let rest on her flesh? Pay no attention, she did. She continued on, until home was where she stood.

    Finally there, the place full of memories. Many good, many bad. Oh the variety. She let out an arm, it stretched and her dress hung from it. She placed her fragile skin onto the knob, a gentle touch at first. She gripped it and opened it, walking in she was lost in her thought, her own world.

    Up she went onto the steps, which hadn’t been touched since the day. The day where her very heart had shattered. It was the reality, the realization of what couldn’t be. She had always dreamed, but never noticed. She longed dearly for much, but got little. She, Elizabeth had made it to the top, the way. Carefully laying her hands onto the rails of broken hope, she had started to finish what she had started.

    In her room, her place of comfort, her own palace. Oh what it seemed to her, what it meant to her. She changed, her last dress couldn’t be held onto to. On it went, it’s way. Disposed, gone. Her brown locks that shined with gold went into the air, a curl fell into place. Her soft hair lay on her head. A new dress over her pale body, and better shoes for the journey onto her feet now. “I’m coming Eve,”

    A rose in her hand, pricked the delicate flesh, blood dripped down. Gone with a fall, and she continued. Elizabeth looked around her surroundings. Enchanted trees for miles all around to be seen, curious flowers sprung all around, and danced ever so freely with the breeze. The soft grass that grew in the nurturing earth was clinging ever so passionately to the ground, which it loved like a baby to it’s mother. She saw it, the fence with the brave vines that grew all around, onto the arch and old white fence, from which paint chips had fallen off and flew with the earth’s breath. She had made it, Eve would be inside.

    Inside the fence, a magnificent structure supported by the world had stood so tall. The soft gothic influences were all spread over it. Steps calling Elizabeth’s name watched her from afar, she went up to them and lay a Victorian boot onto it, her hair touching the breeze and letting go as Elizabeth was shielded away by the structure. She let out a subtle release of breath and raised her pale, dainty hand up to the beautifully crafted door and let it hit the door. Once, twice, and there she was.

    Eve stood, her blue eyes met Elizabeth’s green eyes. Eve’s sun kissed hair slightly moved about from the sudden open arms of the outside world. Her fine flesh full with life’s colors rested all over her petite body. “Elizabeth” Eve began “Hello,” Elizabeth didn’t make a sound, her pink lips dared not to move. She stared in awe, feeling the rays of love hit her as she studied Eve’s features. Time flashed by and Elizabeth quickly apologized, “Hello Eve, excuse my absence of words, my mind sometimes leaves me for a while I do not realize until afterwards.” She awaited an answer from Eve, but in the brief seconds of none, she heard the earth whispering so lightly. “Understandable, do not feel sorry if it you are feeling it fill you.” The sympathetic words left her soft lips and she looked up and down at Elizabeth, she continued “Now, Elizabeth, may I assist you in something? Or what is it that you seek?” She finished. “Oh yes, Eve..” Elizabeth said, leaving the words to hang for a couple seconds as she let out a breath once more “Is it wrong of I..to feel something other than the normal, friendly relations to another lady?” The words spiked the air, and silence seized the opportunity and filled all around. “..Elizabeth, come in. We shall discuss matters inside.” Eve’s words had pushed the silence out of the way.

Elizabeth walked inside of the artful home that belonged to Eve. “Thank you.” Elizabeth said gratefully. They made their way over to a sofa, velvet in texture and an antique look to it, it was a simple grey color, but the way it had been constructed made it seem more than what the color was, simple. They let the seat support them and they both sat on it. “Now, Elizabeth..referring back to what you had wondered moments ago, it isn’t wrong. Love is love, is it not? For it’s the people on this planet that make the illusion it is wrong, when in fact, it is not.” Eve let the words gracefully part ways from her mouth, her lips. Elizabeth tried to hold her calm posture and began to speak again, but before she could, Eve had questioned “May I ask why you wonder this? Is there a girl?” Elizabeth nodded and answered Eve, “I wonder this because there is in fact a girl, and I cannot help but feel fear for my emotions. I cannot control them and I cannot fight them off, for doing so would result in the very crumbling of my own sanity, which I cannot bare to allow to happen.” Elizabeth calmly put, but from the inside she felt anxious. “I see,” Eve nodded sympathetically, she paused, then went on “You shouldn’t feel any pressure, these are your rightful feelings. You shouldn’t fear them either. I think you, Elizabeth, should confront the very girl you wish to be with, the lady you love. You can do it.” Eve encouraged. Elizabeth shook slightly and cleared her throat and then looked into Eve’s blue eyes, “Eve- you should know that these feelings I speak about, they are all for you.” Elizabeth said, she then broke eye contact and looked down, fearing what the reaction might be. “Elizabeth..” Eve called out, she brought Elizabeth towards herself and she felt Elizabeth’s tears softly fall onto her skin and splash. For they were best of friends, but she could have never predicted what her friend had been going through. “You should know, I have an interest in you as well.” Eve proceeded, “I was going to tell you this day, I was ready to walk to your house as you did to mine.”  Elizabeth wiped her tears and made eye contact once more, love played in both of their eyes “Oh Eve..”

Lightening boomed into the sky, and Elizabeth opened her eyes, confused, she got up. She heard the sound of crashing waves, and felt the late night howl all around. She then realized, she was on the ground. Near her was the grave of Eve, her love lay in the ground. Elizabeth let tears steam down her cheeks, it was all just a dream. A dream of her past, when Eve was alive. “Oh..Eve” She cried out silently once more, before she let herself fall back onto the ground. There she lay near her love, on the ground, as the lightening flashed across the sky while waves angrily crashed against the black rocks of the sea. The wind moaned on. Elizabeth closed her eyes again, wishing for Eve to come back and then she drifted off, back into sleep near the sea where she never woke.