Ch 141: Wondrous Forest

~ The second I stormed angrily into the woods, my breath was taken by this beauty. Even the birds chirping sang the most extraordinary songs I've ever heard. The faint breeze even made the leaves sing on the high trees. Small cute critter creatures scurried up and down the trees or around on the ground.

Above me, the high trees shade as a blanket over the ground while the sunlight sparkles between the thick branches covered in leaves. Small patches of moss and light green grass were growing within the soil in some areas. Other areas of the forest had tiny flower sprouts growing in all sorts of colors from yellow, blue, indigo, red, purple, orange, violet, and so on.

Roots from these thick trees were curled up and swirled above the ground from what I could see throughout the woods. Some of the trees have these purple vines, that blossomed these dazzling blue and white flowers; that draped down the thick tree trunks and snaked onto the ground.

There were tons of cut-out pathways made within the dirt to adventure on. I could tell the woods were used often. For how the pathways appeared to be smoothed out and flattened. I even noticed many different size shoe prints left behind in the dry dirt.

Meanwhile, Cory half-grinned to observe each of Sally's astonished expressions. Her eyes never stopped cycling. Her mouth even curled a darling smile, that made his icy heart sing. She is so ravishing, he thought while watching her every expression. She was lost inside the wondrous forest and had likely forgotten my existence. He said to himself in a faint chuckle. He felt gleeful to see his beautiful bride gleaming like this. The way her eyes lit up and her complexion shone like glitter. Made him form a delightful smile of pleasure. He could imagine she'll twinkle as a white starlight on the day of their wedding.

"It's almost like a magical place in here." He finally said snatching her attention toward him nearby her.

I turned my head to the right toward him. All I could do was glimmer at him. Within this moment, I had completely forgotten that I was annoyed at him. But seeing him flash a faint charming smile made me melt. My heart was even fluttering around my chest like it grew wings. Being shy, I tuck a piece of hair back behind my ear. Thanks to the wind curling it around my chin. Which caused him to smirk a flirty gaze to see that happened. Gosh, I was blushing right now and knew he saw it.

"I am speechless from how gorgeous the forest truly is. I had no idea it was this magnificent." I managed to say while I tried to stop blushing. But I couldn't deny the fact that Cory was also the reason why I am breathless too.

"Come on," Cory chuckled some and smiled. "Let's walk the pathways."

He made this all so easy for me. Here I was dying from a blushful shy glow. But he took the lead and helped my heart to come back down into a steadier beat.

As we roamed forward on this one pathway.

To the right, I saw us nearing this jungle gym clubhouse. It has tons of slides that were either steep or spiral. Then it also had bars and ropes to climb onto and swing from. It was filled with playful tunnels and platforms to play on that were shaped like a house, boat, or treehouse so it was quite huge in size.

Once we were crossing up to it, I heard joyful giggles and laughter. Coming from the kids playing hide and go seek together. I was even surprised to see older teenagers chilling on it. My guess is they were watching their younger siblings playing but I could be wrong. Since I saw a few of the boys doing silly stunts on some jungle gym bars. Obviously, they were being show-offs to teenage girls with them. I even heard Cory faintly chuckle at them as we strolled up.

"Looks like they're having fun," I giggled watching the kids.

Cory half-smiled at me and said. "The kids like to play inside the woods a lot. So we built a clubhouse for them. It's built more for younger kids. But to our surprise, the younger teens and even older teens like to hang out on it as well."

"Well, I can't blame them," I said çhuckling. "It makes me wanna go play on it like the older teens."

Cory chuckles as we walk passed the kids. "Oh and I'm the one that has to grow up. While you go play in a clubhouse." He playfully teased.

"Yup, that is right, Hot Shot," I said playing along with his joke, and glanced his way.

"Well, fine," Cory said laughing. "I'll go find my own clubhouse to play in."

"You go right on ahead and do that." I teased him giggling. "Don't forget to add a little mutt-house beside it."

Cory laughed hard for a minute and turned himself beat red. "Alright, now I'll admit that one was a better comeback. Compared to your failed attempted insult you came up with a few moments ago." He admitted still sorta laughing between his words.

"You could just make this easier, Hot Shot, and just admit. I did insult you." I told him in a sarcastic yet playful sass as I beamed my eyes his way with a smile. And yet I realized I found a good nickname to give him. As I even saw his flirty eyes cross towards me.