A few Thousand Years Later
It was a Winter's evening, a newlywed human couple were enjoying each other's company and having the time of their lives. The newlyweds were named Jake and Maude Nagune.
Jake Nagune was a modest man with honey blond hair and light green eyes. Earlier in his life before he met Maude, there was another woman in his life, he described her as the greatest Ballerina who ever lived. She was beautiful, with her long red and blond highlight hair and blue eye's that sparkled like sapphires. She was known for being a great dancer and the most graceful. As a Ballerina she was always light at her feet, never missing a step and made twirls faster than any other Ballet Dancer. He never knew how she became so good, but it was her talent that made him fall in love.
She and Jake spend time together, even though Ballet Dancers were forbidden to date, so they kept their relationship a secret. They would often sneak off and go places, exploring certain parts of the city, indeed had they have so much fun together. Those were the happiest times in there lives.
But alas, it was not to be.
One day, Jake received a message from the Ballerina, that she had found someone else and they ran away together. This left him crushed, broken hearted for the whole month. He just couldn't understand what had happened between them and why she would leave him after all they had together he thought they made the perfect couple... perhaps, he was wrong.
He met Maude at a coffee shop the other day. She was a brunette with deep green eyes. He told her about the great dancer that he fell in love with and how she dumped him for another man. Maude took pity on him explaining how she too got out of a bad relationship and the two started dating after that little conversation. They got married about a year later.
Then just as they were about to cross the city street, they stopped to see a woman holding a bundle in her arms wrapped in a pink knit blanket. Jake recognized that woman as his former lover the Ballerina. When the street light changed to 'Walk', she crossed the street toward the couple and handed the bundle to Jake. Not once did she say a word, but Jake noticed she had a dead expression on her face, and somehow knew what she was feeling. The moment she gave him the bundle, she turned around as Jake cried for her to wait but she ran off never to be seen again.
There came a pause at that moment, until Jake felt movement from the little pink bundle in his arms. It was a baby, barely a month old, he noticed it had the same hair color as its mother but it's eyes were closed so he couldn't see what color they are. Jake knew that the child couldn't really be his since they broke up a year and a half ago. So he assumed the man that she left him for got her pregnant and broke her heart.
He discovered a note left with the child, there it said:
Dear Jake.
I'm so sorry if I ever hurt you, but I wanted you to know, that I now know how you feel. It is because of this that I can never dance again. We have known each other for a long time, and I can never forget the magical times we've spent together... which is why I'm counting on you to take care of my dear little Paige for me.
Jake had hated her for abandoning him without giving a reason, but now took pity on her, now that she knows the pain he felt, but worse... left with a constant reminder of both their heartbreak... Of what could've been.
"Who was that woman?" Maude asked. Jake stared blankly down the street where his former lover disappeared to, but said softly. "Someone I once knew." Jake felt the baby squirming as it began to cry, so Maude took the child and rocked it back to sleep. But the situation still left her a little confused. "Whoever she was, why would she leave her baby girl to us?" But Jake smiled seeing how his wife cradled the baby and gently held her by the shoulders. "Maybe it's because she knew we would make great parents someday." The two stared into each other's eyes in a moment then looking back on the child. "I gotta admit, she is beautiful... what was her name again?" " Her name... is Paige... Paige Nagune."
