Music blared from the small speaker as Lina and the others danced.
"Lina!" Someone shouted, tossing her a beer.
She took the bottle and opened it with the ring Andi had given her when she was seven.
It was small and rusted, but it worked.
She chugged the drink greedily as the sun started set.
The leaves around her were a violent color of burnt orange and red.
The brown ones fading into the background.
She looked up into the canopy of trees that surrounded her.
She felt like she was in a storybook somewhere.
But her heart ached and she didn't know what to do about it.
She hadn't felt that ache in ages, she had suppressed it.
She knew it was wrong.
But she didn't care.
She just wanted it gone.
And so, she took another hit.
To get away from the trees and the sun setting between the hills.
"How'd I ever get this fucked up man?" she asked the man next to her as she plopped down on the bed of leaves next to him.
He smiled slightly at her, blinking that slow blink she always loved so much, the one that said "I'm paying attention to you."
"I don't know love." He said smiling, and looking at the stone in front of him.
She leaned back and looked at his form on the ground next to her.
She smirked at the back of his head.
His hair turned around in a spiral shape as it curled in front of his face, the bleach blond falling in front of his beautiful face.
She sat up and leaned into him as she took another long drag.
"Love you." She said, taking a drink out of the glass bottle in her hand.
The man next to her just smiled and looked into the sun.
"I missed Germany." He said.
"I'm sure." Lina smiled.
"I missed it, I missed knowing what people were saying and the food, but hon, you gotta get out of here. You gotta leave." He said talking to her in English, she always enjoyed that.
"I will." she said as she took a drag as he dissolved back into the mist he was made of.
