Saying Goodbye to the Giant Child
She had to leave the boy, she just had too. They wouldn't understand how he came to be. They couldn't. Dark curls streaming across his large forehead so unlike her own. The oversized body of a baby pressed against her chest forcing her normal sized frame to appear shrunken in the darkness. She walked, as if to a requiem. Endless tears captured her cheeks before falling to the blanket wrapped around the boy in her arms. Her feet barely made a sound against the damp cobblestone. She stopped before the lit streetlamp and placed the boy beneath it. Her hands left the corners of his blanket and he remained asleep, unaware that all he had in this world was to leave him there, alone in the cold night. His eyelids twitched but did not open; she was relieved; she could not face those eyes. She remembered they once belonged to her; it seemed so long ago now. And yet in what had merely been a moment and an innocent glance, a mirror could no longer reflect any eyes but his own. The boy sighed peacefully in his sleep, the warmth of the amber glow reaching his face, encompassing him as if to secure rescue from a silent passerby. The girl turned from him and began to walk once again into the shadows. Nevermore would she see his face. Nevermore would her eyes meet his. One tear for now and many would follow. Nevermore. Nevermore. It's all over now. It's all over now. Not again would she know the giant child.
-Phoster Laine Widole
AN: So, what did you think? Sad I know. So here's a thought. I wrote a prologue for this. As well as an epologue. They're both very short but longer than the original. if there is anyone willing to read it let me know. Reviews are fine as well as flames if you so desire. Although I do ask that you refrain from saying hateful things just to be hateful. I strongly prefer that if you say something hateful… that you actually hate the fic.