Date - part 2

Nicolas Grothmann

"And we're here," I say aloud, turning towards Somchai who was awing at the scenery around us.

"This place looks like something out of some fairy tail Nic!" Somchai said whilst looking above us at the brightly, coloured lime, green leaves that covered over us, like an umbrella shielding someone from the fresh, salty rain. Birch and oak tree's surround our sights every where we turn. The long path, overgrown with non-living leaves, twigs and roots that would easily trip you up if you didn't notice them. Leaves were gently swaying side to side off of the tree's that they use to cling onto for life.

"Woah, Nic! The waterfall!" Somchai says, getting out of the car, rushing towards the bright, blue, sea-like lake with a waterfall gushing down making the water below freshly white. I chuckle at him as he rushes around like a little kid in a toy shop.

I hopped out of the car, swinging it driver's door closed before walking towards the boot of the car to collect the picnic that was amazingly made by the chefs of Yaroslav Hotel. Following Somchai's lead I walk towards the lake, placing down the picnic basket.

"I use to come here often when I first discovered it after moving here from Konstanz. It use to be a wasteland, though I took care of it for a little while and suddenly everything became brighter and more lively." I begin, Somchai looks into the basket to collect the red, black and white blanket that he soon stretched out and laid the basket in the middle.

"So how'd you actually discover this?"

"Well, 3 miles on the left of us is a martial arts studio where I use to train, one day, Xaver didn't pick me up so I walked the way he use to drove to get to our house, whilst I was walking this area began to whisper my name and repeated the word help us. I was a clueless and began to walk further in and boom every night after I was finished, I would decline my father's lifts home and worked further on here." I sit down on the blanket taking a swig of some water that Somchai handed me.

"That sounds epic! Did you ever see the people that asked for help?" He asked, his bright doe eyes staring at me listening fully.

"Truthfully no, I haven't heard anything since this place brightened up..." I mutter mostly to myself, what happened to the girl voices? Were they just wanting help to save this place? I'm glad I did help, cause this place is sparkling with joy.

We began talking about random stuff that sparked happiness in our lives through our hardships. "I remember this one time, where this lady handed me her credit card, she told me to buy 3 things from the toy shop as she was banned from it, so I did that." Somchai begins, "I handed her a toy truck, a Dora the explorer plushie and a colouring book. She thanked me and told me that she was going to put a hidden camera in the plushie, make the colouring book's crayons into paint and the toy truck would stay the same."

"Wait why? Do you know what she wanted to do?" I asked.

"No, but a week after our meeting she was on the news for killing a child. She's on death row I believe." Somchai says, nodding after what he said, agreeing to himself.

After what he had said, it became silent for a bit, only thing heard was the sound of food being open and swallowed. After my last piece of caramelised chicken I roll over to where Somchai is, laying my head on his lap I stare deeply into his eyes as he blushes ever so slightly staring back at me.

"You're the rainbow that sprouted in my world, don't disappear to early..." I whisper to him, brushing my fingertips against his cheek.

"I won't leave you, you'll have to kill me if you want me to ever leave you." He giggles, smiling towards me. His hand brushing the hair out of my face.

The sound of the waterfall filled our ears as we laid and sat in comfortable silence.

The silence was soon broken by an angelic voice that came from the body I was laying on, "Is the water fine to swim in?"

I hum, "Believe so, wanna go in?"

He nods already getting up to strip everything except his boxers, I did the same. He had jumped into the clear water, moaning out how warm it felt on his skin. "This feel's nice! Hurry up haha!" He says, smiling widely. I chuckle, shaking my head side to side before ripping off my socks and running towards the rocks, I look at the amazed facial expression coming from Somchai. He was in awe. Splashing into the water, the colourful fish beneath us rushing away from the sudden disturbance. Swimming towards the surface I gasp for air.

"That was amazing babe!" Somchai said, he eyes were crinkled due to his cheeks raising softly below his eyes, his lips curved upwards into a giant smile. He was adorable. I swam close to him, grabbing him softly by the hips.

"You're such an innocent little angel, how did anyone want to make our two worlds collide?" I mutter mostly to myself. I hold him close to my body, his legs wrapped around my waist as I support both of us above the water with my legs swaying forwards and backwards, continuously.

This was the most amazing thing to ever happen, finding this place, clearing it up and then showing someone I like this place, it's something that hardly ever happens unless you trust them with your whole heart or life, depending on the secret you hold...

Yet do I tell him what kind of wasteland this was or not... Do I trust him enough not to run away from this area?