Hey, you enter on a small ship! And what a beautiful one! It looks like a small bird! Perhaps it's not a ship, then, perhaps it's a real bird! I'm sure it won't be scary, Pan and uncle never bring me to places that are scary, and, besides, it can't be scary, with such a pretty ship...
We sit down, now I'm on Pan's lap and they sit side by side. When the bird sees that we're sit properly, it starts swimming towards the tunnel. It's very beautiful, it looks like a cot, we go up and down, so gently... it feels very nice... I hope I don't fall asleep, though! I don't want to miss whatever there is in here!
It's not as dark as it seemed from outside, just a bit, but not much. Hey, there are stars on the ceiling like those from Pan's bedroom! The ones that come out when you turn the lights off! How pretty it looks, there are lots of them...
I can hear some music, but it's different from the one I could hear out there. This is softer. And nicer. The instrument that plays it is called flute, granny taught it to me. Pan strokes my hair, they're speaking softly, the little bird swims slowly... Argh... I'll fall asleep...
There are some drawings on the walls. They're weird, but nice. Look, there are stars on the walls too. What nice places you bring me to, uncle, Pan, I love you both a lot!
Uncle has passed an arm behind Pan's head and Pan's put her head on his shoulder, the way I like it. Uncle, with his hand, does the same to her than she's doing to me, he touches her face and strokes her hair... I can hardly understand what they're saying, because they're barely whispering and I can only catch a few words... and with this flute music...
I like it a lot when uncle and Pan are like this, this sweet, when they look so much after each other... I like that they tell each other nice things, like now, that uncle's said that he couldn't live without her... I couldn't live without both of them, I love them a lot, I'd miss them loads! And Pan has said that she couldn't either... ugh, ugh, I think that in here they're not so shy as outside, because they're telling each other lots of things that out there make them get all red... though here it's different, for, as it is a bit dark and so on, they can't see their faces and they don't know if the other is blushing! Perhaps that is why they aren't so ashamed... Hey, uncle must have stopped being shy in all, because he's just said, I think, that she's an angel... and he only talks about angels when Pan's not there, never when she's around, I don't know, maybe Pan doesn't like them, but yes, she must, because I've turned around to see what face she was making and I've seen her very happy, with her eyes like this, half closed, taking away the strands of hair that uncle always has before his face and that granny is always telling him to have cut, because he can't see... He blows them up when they bother him, it's very funny, but I think that he prefers it when Pan pulls them back, because when he does it on his own he doesn't make the happy face he's making now...
I like the faces they make... they are the same as the faces that mom and dad make after kissing each other in the mouth, one of those kisses that last for so long... these faces will mean that what they're going to say next is that they want to get married, at once?
Grown ones know a lot of things. As they're always so shy, they've had to make up this kind of tunnel to be able to say the things, inside, those things that they don't dare to say outside... maybe when I'm a grown one too and I'm shy like the grown ones I'll have to come here with the one I will want to be dad with me the mom, to tell him so... it'll be nice... then it'll be me who'll have the head on the boy who'll marry me's shoulde and I will carry a child like me on my lap. But who'll be the child...? Well, I don't know, I'll think about it later, it's still a lot, until I'm a grown one, I must wait until my legs and arms grow as long as Pan's and uncle's, and I must learn to talk properly and, ugh!, I must go to school too... maybe it's even a year, until I'm grown up! So I'll have the time to think about it!
They don't stop kissing each other, on their faces and hair. I love being here with them, because they're very happy, and if they're happy, then so am I. And the birdie keeps on swimming, and there are lots of stars, and uncle and Pan have bright eyes, as if they were full with stars as well... I wish his tunnel is very long and that the journey lasts for very, very long... until they tell each other everything, for if not they'll be shy again, outside...
Now it's been a while that they're silent, and I've also rested myself on uncle, like Pan... I'm starting to feel drowsy again... and if they don't speak, I'll fall asleep, with this music, the sound of water, and the bird that moves just like my cot, and Pan who caresses me... now uncle calls her, in a soft, very soft voice, and he calls her Panny, as he always does, and it's a very beautiful name because he says it with a tone that I like very much; but I don't know why he's called her, because he doesn't say anything else after that...
They move a bit closer and I fall towards uncle because I've slipped a bit, just a bit, and when I sit down properly again and I look back, to see what's happened, I notice why they've been silent for a while. They're kissing each other, but not kisses like the ones before, those on the face and hair, no, not those, but those that last for so long and that are so nice because they're the same that mom and dad give each other on their mouths to tell each other that they love each other...!
They haven't realised that I'm looking at them and they go on with kissing, they pet each other's hair and face, and I hide my face a bit on uncle's tummy because I want them to think that I'm not there, and to go on... they're saying things, but they are kissing each other so much that I can't understand them!, though I guess that they can, because they're laughing, and smiling...
They're so cute... when I'm a grown one I want to be as cute as they, yes, that is...! It was time already that they gave kisses to each other... they always wanted, but they were too shy...! We should have come here much before, and they wouldn't have taken so long. Hey, how good will Pan look in one of those white dresses with suuuuch a loooong tail, when they get married, because it'll look very nice, the white colour and the back from her hair, both together...
I get on my knees on her legs and I start kissing them as well, then they stop kissing each other and look at me for a moment, before starting laughing and hug me. I'm sorry...! I couldn't help it! But, uncle, Pan, you are so cute that I want to tell you so, and you've said such a nice thing, that I've got very happy!
Uncle and Pan have said that they love each other!
Uncle's said, I love you very much, Panny, with that sweet voice he makes when he talks about Pan, or angels, or his girl, his small one, who I still don't know who are, because I thought that it was me, but he says it when I'm around, so I guess that it's not me... ah, well, it must be his daughter, the one that lives in those small houses! Now they'll be able to go and fetch her very soon, when they get married!
And Pan's said that she loved him a lot as well... and, after a second, as if she couldn't remember that she had just said it, she's hugged him tight, very tight!, and she's said it again, repeating it many times in a row, like this, I love you, I love you, I love you a lot, Toran, that's the name she uses to call him and that is as beautiful as Panny, and with every I love you she has kissed him on the lips... uncle's made a face as if being sooooo, soooooo happy, that I've thought that he was going to fall from the bird, and what a pity if he fell, because he'd end all wet, and if he fell Pan couldn't go on hugging him...
And now all the people that is out here must be thinking that the three of us are very happy because the tunnel is already out and the bird is swimming on the water outside, and we are still in a hug, the three of us, kissing, they on the mouth because they'll get married and I on the face...
I think that now they've realised that we're not in there, because they've stopped and now they're only looking at each other, smiling like mom and dad do... they're both a bit red, but now it doesn't matter, because they've told each other everything... how glad I am...
We go down from the bird and I wave it goodbye, because it's helped us a lot. They put me on my stroller and they push me again, we walk through the crowd, the music and the balloons again, but I don't pay attention, I only want to look at them, so I turn around on my cot and I don't get my eyes out of them. They're walking hugging each other and they kiss from time to time. Once again I lose some words, I'm too down here, I can only hear some pieces of what they're saying...
I don't know how I've been able to hold it on for so long, uncle says, I'm an idiot.
And Pan says that he isn't, that she doesn't think that he is, that he is a sunshine, like the one in the song! I don't think it either, that uncle is an idiot!
And they don't stop saying that they love each other... it's as if they were saying now all the things that they didn't dare...
Uncle tells her that about the drawing where he painted her a pair of wings, he tells her that he's drawn her many times, and she fakes to get annoyed, why haven't you shown them to me, ever?, and he smiles, I'll give them all to you, in the end, I only made them for you... I love you...
I do love you as well, she says...
You're the better that I've ever had in my life...
You're too, for me...
You're my live, I love you more than anything else in the world...
Don't ever go away from me, I need you... I love you...
I love you, I love you, I love you!
When we pass through the small house where a man gave us some small pieces of paper to uncle again, Pan takes me in her arms and uncle makes some magic with the small sweet, and the red ship, puff!, appears again! And before getting in it Pan asks me, have you had a good time, Blau?
And I say a thing to her that I've been training for very long, looking how uncle said it and doing my best to get it right... to tell her when they were to get married, when they finally told each other that they loved each other at once! I don't know if I got it perfectly right, but, well, it'll be enough for them to understand, and by now, it's enough...
I say, yes, auntie....
And they hug each other and give a huge kiss, and I wished I had my arms long enough to be able to hug them both at a time.
I've changed my mind. It's this one, the photograph I want to have hung in my bedroom!
