Foreward

The springy grasses of Flute Fields cushioned our tired backs as we rested beneath the sky. It sometime seemed as though we were only six feet below the clouds. Beneath the shimmering blue sky; together, and as together as could be. Granted that where the sky ended was immeasurable, the fantasy in our heads that the clouds could brush our noses if we willed it ended abruptly. However, the truth may be hard to process, but within truth, there is only more truth; a greater truth, a more satisfying truth. And that is that the sky begins wherever the ground ends; where ever we are.

And when that bright little ball of energy, yes'm, the one that gives us all being sets in that far-away, never ending sky that begins where we end, we all know that the spell is broken, and the clouds are no longer seemingly six feet above us. Now, there are stars; it may be much easier to believe that we could brush our own noses against the stars, but fantasy, though taking different shapes and forms, is all the same in the end.

Fantasy is fantasy. Truth is truth. Lies are lies.

These near trivial things crossed my mind as I batted away the clouds with my eyelashes, lying there in Flute Fields with him. The grass rustled a bit, and I tilted my head, reluctant, not wanting to move my eyes from my clouds.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Hm?" A half-dazed voice asked me. He opened an eye, raising an eyebrow, quizzically. "I'm right here..."

"Oh, haha, good!" I exclaimed, surprised that I was so happy to discover this.

"... You sure are weird, Molly." He laughed. I loved that laugh.

"Weird? Am not... I'm just kinda happy..."

"Why?"

"I thought you were leaving."

"And?"

Was this conversation getting awkward?

"Well, it's just that I don't want you to leave... Not at all, in fact. This is too fun... So, um... Don't leave, 'kay? Because it's... uh... fun?"

There was that laugh again. "C'mon, Molly, you're a cheese ball for sure. Why would I leave YOU? You're a weirdo, but a cool weirdo, I guess... And don't worry, I know why you want me to stay." He smiled a smile I did NOT like.

"Hm. Well, WHY then, smart guy?"

"I've told you before. You LIIIIIIIKE me~!" He always annoyed me with that stupid grin on his face and the stupid little way that he made fun of me. Geez, what was I, the laughing stock of the town? No, I was NOT. I don't like being laughed at, never have.

"HA, please! As if... You only WISH..." That was my poorly thought response. They were always poorly thought. I wasn't good at improvising.

Once he had settled down from his laughing fit, and I had settled the fumes of hot gas erupting from my ears, we lie back down on our springy grass, looking at our disappearing clouds overhead. We could have kept them. They were only six feet above us, anyway. And they were ours. Like our dreams. But it was time for them to drift away, and time for our stars to shine.

The sky was turning an angry pink, and a ferocious orange, inter-mixing, fighting violently for the attention of the disappearing sun, grasping the last of its fleeting rays. I sighed a great sigh and thought back to times when things were not as easy as they are now. I thought of-

"So, anything changed since you moved here?" he asked me. "I mean, like, I bet it's not as intense as it was starting out... But it's no fun when things settle down, huh? The thrill of getting started with your new life..." He sat up, crossed his arms around his knees half-heartedly and looked at me with solemn, truthful eyes; eyes that I did not see all that often from him. My heart always stopped when I saw those eyes.

"Well..." I closed my eyes and thought back. "It's... Different... Then it was before..." I opened my eyes and looked into his. By the look he was giving me, I was obviously not satisfying his curiosity.

With an exasperated grunt, I sat up and focused my eyes on the blaring sun. It scarred my eyes, yet I did not mind. The sun was feeding memories from the past into me, burning them into my brain, engraving them into my soul. The sun was a messenger. It always was, ever since I came here.

"Let me... Think..."

And I did.

Please, R&R! Chapter 1 is up! ^^