The first love
Broken branches, twigs, dirt and leaves violently kicked up.
Heavy breathing. "Where do I go. Shit! Tree.. Tree, tree. It's ALL FUCKING TREES!"
"Just run; just keep on running"
A light brighter than I have ever seen, permeating through the trees drawing in every detail of the forest to one point.
The boy enters, blinded by the light. Opening his eyes to a meadow of pink roses stretching further than his mind can fathom bleeding into the edges of the forest like a brand new world cut out of a fairy tale book.
He stands In awe of everything before him, the color, smell, light, warmth of the sun all of it gently filling his body with sensations never known. In a panic breathing heavily; the tension starts leaving his body and he wanders deeper into the meadow, almost frolicking. The boy spins around trying to not miss a single detail of the beautiful sight.
A slight smile is seen growing on his dirty face Then "huh" he trips on something sending him face first into the ground "owww" in a soft high voice.
The boy's mind fades to black and falls unconscious.
"mmmhh soft, So soft and warm mmmhh,(deep breath relaxing exhale) aaah sniff sniff, smells so nice and sweet sniff haaa where am I" his eyes open slowly to see sitting over him a girl with pink hair and a flushed face. His eyes still slow to open, mind too shocked to what's in front of him.
A rose colored Messiah, a vision with the sun at her shoulders.
"Are... are you alright?" the girl asks.
The boy stuck in a moment he dose not want to leave. The girl moves her face closer to the boy "Hello?" face inches apart from each other "you sure don't look alright" the boys face turns red "ahhh I'm'' spastic and freaking out the boy franticly tries to get up from her lap but instead sneaks an accidental kiss.
Eyes wide open the two cannot begin to keep up with what just happened but they crawl apart facing away. Both taking a second to breathe the boy's face redder than an apple, heart beating out his chest like he's never known.
The girl, embarrassed and face red, putting her hand to her lips thinking of what just happened. Not too far off a red fox peers its head out of the meadow with wonder and anticipation.
The air still, sun overhead, a gust of wind runs through the meadow towards the children.
The boys straining himself to speak, Nervous and heart pounding. On the floor slowly reading out " I'm VaaaOOWW" a red fox jumps out of nowhere biting his hand "Velveti no! Bad girl" the fox listens and lets go. She runs to grab the fox as it pouts.
"Ohh my lord I'm so sorry I I I just wanted to help"
Gazing up at her seeing a long worn skirt with large red stains and an average tunic fit for a young lower class girl covered by the red fox she cradles. Her left sleeve torn off from the shoulder down she tightly nuzzles the fox hiding her red face.
"Soooo… I'm sorry… and (gosh relax; she mumbles to herself) but my name…my name is"
"VATU!…(takes a deep breath) vatu is my name"
He notices that one of the fox's back legs is missing and sees her trying to hide an injury of some kind. Holding the fox by its body like a child letting its legs hang.
"OH ahh Vatu, My name is… Rosa, Rosa leevana"
Extending her right hand to greet like a lady would but forgetting that its injured, vatu looks just as she realized nothings their and turn in embarrassment
"sor...sorry its, i was"
vatu "wait (he gets close and grabs her right hand) I can help" he pulls her hand to his chest and begins to whisper an unknown language.
A bluish fluorescent light irradiated from Vatu in slow waves passing through both the children.
Rosa feels the pain subsiding as a deep gentle warmth from vatu washes over her. Struck with awe and a strange sense of deep emptiness; a longing for something. As Rosa feels these emotions not of her own understands this child is not any kind of malicious maybe misunderstood but definitely not evil.
"I need to change to bandaged" Vatu begins unraveling the bloody cloth revealing the wound has scabbed over and stopped bleeding "my god how did you (the sound of ripping clothes) WAIT stop"(in high pitched tone) vatu rips up her skirt
"i needed clean cloth"
"WHA WHAT IS WRONG!"
he begins to wrap her hand with a smile on his face
"with you(under her breath)" she looks to the side blushing.
"Rosa"
she looks at full attention his face down looking at her hand, Vatu puts his other hand on top hers as if a hand was their
" you're so so just the most beau.uuu illgu ruu" the fox crawls into Vatu's lap. Rosa smiles at vatu and puts her hand over his
"let's lie down"
She falls to the left pulling Vatu to the ground, The fox is sent flying into the air jumping around as they lie down holding hands Staring at the sky.
"The clouds go by without stopping free in the sea of blue white things? bound by nothing they never stop or die".
"you're a strange one Vatu, you're not like anyone I've ever met, with you I feel weightless like I'm not even a person anymore…"
"Not at this moment, It's like I'm a cloud floating ever so slowly in an empty sky just like I always imagined, and now I don't ever need to again.
Because i can just remember My time with you; So thank you, vatu"
He looks over and sees she's fast asleep, He smiles looking up.
"a cloud huh, sounds nice"
As his eyes close and begin to drift asleep, Still holding her hand. On the edge of the meadow; Paw and footprints can be seen.