Controlling Elements
Chapter One: Darkness Meets Light I pushed my way through the hedges to find two people kissing on a bench, not what I needed to see right now, right now what I needed was a comforting face, a helping hand, a warm and sensitive smile, my girlfriend standing there, ready to take me into her arms, to tell me that it had all been just a bad dream, just my imagination, that I hadn't really seen her in bed with my best friend.
As I was running, blindly, hopelessly, looking for that friendly face and those warm comforting words, I didn't notice that I'd entered a crowded area of the park, until I knocked into someone, a boy looking to be about my age wearing a bandana and bad attitude expression. I got up quickly and told him that I was really sorry; he just glared at me and turned away. Not really in the mood to argue, I just left, and started running again when I got to the edge of the crowd, running was the only thing that could make me feel better, that and the darkness.
I ran, ran away from the light and into the welcoming darkness, but in the darkness, I saw a light, one not like the lights I'd left behind, this one was warm and comforting, and it had a kind of orangey glow, a campfire. I decided to go forward, maybe they would bet me sit with them by the fire, and maybe it would warm my cold heart.
I saw only one person when I stepped up there, another boy looking to be about my age, he had on a yellowish hat and goggles, a yellow shirt with a red over shirt, brown pants, and red and yellow tennis shoes. He was sitting near the fire, smiling to himself. I decided just to leave him alone and go around the campsite but as I was backing up, I stepped on a twig. The boy looked over and smiled at me, he came up and dragged me over to where he'd been sitting.
"Hey buddy, what's wrong, you look like you've been crying or something," the boy said, resting his hand on my shoulder and looking concerned. Finally here was the helping hand I'd been looking for.
"Nothing important, really," I said, ignoring his "yeah right" look about in not being important.
"If it's not important, why were you crying?"
I sighed, "Okay, so it is important, I caught my girlfriend and my best friend sleeping together."
"Hey, think of it this way, at least you best friend isn't a girl."
Thunk, a man who I hadn't seen come up hit the boy in the back of the head for that one, "Please forgive Takuya, he doesn't know when to be serious."
"I was being serious," the boy, Takuya muttered, rubbing the back of his head.
Chapter One: Darkness Meets Light I pushed my way through the hedges to find two people kissing on a bench, not what I needed to see right now, right now what I needed was a comforting face, a helping hand, a warm and sensitive smile, my girlfriend standing there, ready to take me into her arms, to tell me that it had all been just a bad dream, just my imagination, that I hadn't really seen her in bed with my best friend.
As I was running, blindly, hopelessly, looking for that friendly face and those warm comforting words, I didn't notice that I'd entered a crowded area of the park, until I knocked into someone, a boy looking to be about my age wearing a bandana and bad attitude expression. I got up quickly and told him that I was really sorry; he just glared at me and turned away. Not really in the mood to argue, I just left, and started running again when I got to the edge of the crowd, running was the only thing that could make me feel better, that and the darkness.
I ran, ran away from the light and into the welcoming darkness, but in the darkness, I saw a light, one not like the lights I'd left behind, this one was warm and comforting, and it had a kind of orangey glow, a campfire. I decided to go forward, maybe they would bet me sit with them by the fire, and maybe it would warm my cold heart.
I saw only one person when I stepped up there, another boy looking to be about my age, he had on a yellowish hat and goggles, a yellow shirt with a red over shirt, brown pants, and red and yellow tennis shoes. He was sitting near the fire, smiling to himself. I decided just to leave him alone and go around the campsite but as I was backing up, I stepped on a twig. The boy looked over and smiled at me, he came up and dragged me over to where he'd been sitting.
"Hey buddy, what's wrong, you look like you've been crying or something," the boy said, resting his hand on my shoulder and looking concerned. Finally here was the helping hand I'd been looking for.
"Nothing important, really," I said, ignoring his "yeah right" look about in not being important.
"If it's not important, why were you crying?"
I sighed, "Okay, so it is important, I caught my girlfriend and my best friend sleeping together."
"Hey, think of it this way, at least you best friend isn't a girl."
Thunk, a man who I hadn't seen come up hit the boy in the back of the head for that one, "Please forgive Takuya, he doesn't know when to be serious."
"I was being serious," the boy, Takuya muttered, rubbing the back of his head.