(Yes, I wrote the poem that you will read ahead. If you would like to read more poems email me at stopped suddenly in his tracks. He looked suspiciously around the lush green, large, overgrown jungle of...Moon Mountain. Steadily, he bent behind a bush to keep Kai from seeing him. When Kai's back was turned, Jack waved his arms for Karen to see him. Please let her see me Jack hoped deep in his heart filled with love for no one else besides Karen; or maybe he did have love only for another...
I can't think of a better way to get her out of her without Kai noticing ...except to kill him. Jack thought. Jack pulled out his brush. He didn't want to hurt Kai. They were good friends. But if Karen was in danger, he would have to do anything within his ability to help her. Jack looked at his wooden weapon. It's not really good for anything except keeping his animals happy. He sneaked behind Kai and bonked him on the head with the brush.
"Karen! Come on," Jack motioned.
Karen was still tied to a tree. So without futher adjournment, Jack took out his handy pair of dull sheep shears. He cut the rope that bound his loved one to a immeasurable pine tree.
Jack stole Kai's horse and pulled Karen up to sit abaft.
"Thankyou," Karen only let that one word escape her mouth.
"No problem." Jack smiled with optimism that Karen might start to like him back."I just wanted to help a friend in need."
Jack and Karen rode through the starry night. Morning sun was under consideration.
"Mmmmm...snore..Zzzzz." Karen realized that Jack was awakening. She had had to take over riding during the night because Jack had become too tired. He rested his head on Karen's shoulder. "Why do I?. Hungtherrrrrrrr."
Karen's brow scrunched together."Are you okay Jack?"
"It's because I ate your cheese..." Jack mumbled creepy things in his sleep.
Karen sighed and slowed the horse to a draw up. As she slid off the horse, Jack's head flopped to one side. Drool hung from his mouth as if he wouldn't quite let it fall.
The time was only 3:15 in the early morning and Karen was tired, hungry, but yet satisfied. It wasn't her stomach that was satisfied: It was her heart. She loved Jack now. Not only for what he did for her but because of who he really was. He never tried very hard to impress her, and he never spoke of his own problems that much, which made it easier for Karen to become closer to him. Nothing could hold back the love from her heart. She had fallen, only to hope Jack would catch her.
Karen smiled gently at Jack as he slowly fell off his saddle. BOOM Luckily he fell in a pile of leaves.(How intriguing). A small breath of laughter left Karens lips. Jack fully awoke and sat up. He blinked as he felt the back of his head and rubbed his hand through his hair in a forward motion. He started to get up when Karen offered him a hand.
"Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?" Karen chuckled.
Jack looked confused at the horse, then the pile of leaves.That's not a bed..., he thought.
Karen lead Jack to sit under a red maple tree. The leaves were red as fire. Jack and Karen talked for hours upon hours until the stars no longer shone. Their relationships bonded as they laughed and told of themselves all through the night. I have to tell her how I feel about us, Jack argued in his mind. This might be my only chance. He was worried he might choke and begin telling her about once when he was nine, he was helping his grandpa on the farm and found a grub worm... so he ate it. (Nice...) They didn't talk for a while. Jack had a strong urge to tell her something that might burn her very soul. The silence hurt Jack's ears. His head echoed his thoughts over and over. He had to tell her, even if it did hurt. Instead of holding her hand and letting it come easily, Jack asked Karen if she liked to sing. It was blaintly obvious to Karen that Jack was feeling uneasy.
"Yea, I like to sing some. I never thought I was much good at it though," Karen expected Jack to laugh. He didn't laugh; he asked her to sing. At first, she was afraid, but Jack convinced her with his racy eyes and peppy smile.
"Please.. I've never heard you sing before. I want to hear you." Jack articulated with his hands behind his head.
Karen composedly began to sing. She sang so beautifully. Jack's heart teemingly drank in the notes of the song like a butterfly sucking nectar from a daylily. As he layed on the soft blanket, Karen leaned against the tree. When she sang, Jack's ears had no room for ugly sounds: they were filled with happiness. Never had he imagined that any one person could sing so magnificantly. His face put on a smile. Being pleased with the song, he became tired and could barely keep his eyes open. The skies reflection glared off of Jack's eyes and faded as he closed them.
Karen woke up sweating and breathing heavily. "Jack?" she looked around the forest with confusion spread across her face."Jack, where are you?" The horse was still there, only... Jack wasn't. He must have left to wash up by the river, she thought. She stood up and to her surprise. Jack was not too far off. He was swimming in the lake with Ann. Where did Ann come from?
"I knew he couldn't have," Karen whispered to herself."Why did I ever thank him? Why did I ever love him?" She couldn't help herself. She wanted to storm off and ride the horse back to town. Forgetting about Jack wasn't very easy.
Almost as if she felt pushed, she walked closer and closer, hearing Ann's laughter grow louder and louder. Her feet paced with a mind of their own. Karen looked down at her feet; however, her head immediatly moved back up. She was placed behind a tree, then she sat on a rock.
Jack was laughing with Ann, as though last night had never happened. Karen's heart snapped into. Tears rushed from her eyes. Pain shot through her body like a powerful shock. Inside, she felt as though she was shrivled up and nothing could ever make her whole again.
"Ha ha! This is so fun!" Ann squealed as Jack picked her up in the water. She turned and saw Karen sitting alone, on that rock. Karen half expected Ann to come kill her, she had such a mean look upon her face. Karen sunk deeper behind the tree and hid where only she could see Ann and Jack having such a good time together. Her heart sang this poem:
This strong sence of love
I feel in my heart,
It's pounding and tugging
it's pulling me apart
I can't tell the difference
between I and Me
when I am mezmarized, in his eyes
I can't but cry, you see?
I fall and trip inside of me
my mind is going insane
My insides twist, my God I missed
the love that just split lame
It's not a lovely feeling
until I settle my glee
when I am mezmarized in his eyes
I can't but cry, you see?
No, I can't rid myself of this pain
This nonsence, his name
But in all of this, I can't but miss
the love that just split lame
If all of the world fell apart
and all that was left were I and mine heart
I wouldn't die of loneliness, or sadness
I would merely become vernal again,
because of his depart
Jack got out of the water and sat along the shoreline.
"What's wrong Jack?" Ann asked intent."I thought you were having fun?"
"I was..I mean, I am.. It's just since Karen left everything..."
"It's been so nice?" Ann remembered Karen sitting remotely on that rock.
I NEVER LEFT YOU INSOLENT MORON! Karen screamed inside her head.
Jack gave a thoughtless smile."Yea, I guess. I mean, no... I --"
"Come on Jack! Let's have some fun!" Ann didn't want Jack to say what he really thought.
"No,.. let's not right now. I want to think a little bit."
"What is there to think about? Nothing but fun and laughter aeh?"
"Well, you see Ann, I think she..."
"Maybe she didn't. I talked to her and I don't think that she ever felt --,"
Jack quickly interupted Ann and stood to where he was looking down at her. "She did!" Jack yelled, but then calmed himself before he started bickering."I know she did," he said as he sat back down on the cool wet sand.
"Jack, we can't bring her back." Ann couldn't bring her back because she didn't want to. She was going to do all she could to keep Jack as hers."She won't come back. It's over..." Ann could really pretend to be sympathetic. Karen still leaned against the tree that hid the tears as they dripped from her rosey cheeks, to the rough bark of the old oak tree.
Jack looked at the sand as if looking into someone else's eyes, thinking very seriously. He needed to tell Ann something he had been wanting to since Karen had left. (Karen left)? "Ann," he paused because he felt shaky and a little rattled inside."Have you ever thought about me? Like, really thought."
"Of course I have." Ann held Jack's hand. He felt comforted because now he had a bonding relationship between himself and Ann. "Do you ever think about me?" Ann responded.
Jack felt woozy and distracted; almost like he had just sucked the life out of a helium balloon. "Well, yea,...I guess."
"Awww, really?" Ann being full of playful alure, reached around Jacks neck and ran her fingers through his hair. "You're so sweet Jack..." Jack felt nervous inside. Chills slid through his spine. Ann asked again,"What do think about,... when you're thinking of me?"
"Well, I kinda..," Jack looked away for a moment."It's not like you think it is..."
"Oh! Jack, you do love me!" Ann sqeezed the life out of Jack. He gasped for breath until Ann finally let go and kissed him. That made it worse. Not only did it make it harder for him to breath, but Karen had left the scene. She couldn't take it any longer. Her broken heart could never be rid of the indention that permanently scared her heart.
The moment Karen lost site of the two --
Karen woke up sweating and breathing heavily. "Jack?" she looked around the forest with confusion spread across her face."Jack, are you here?"
"Yea, just one sec. I was washing my face." Jack came from behind a tree wiping his face with his shirt. "What do you want?"
Karen gazed into Jack's dazzling eyes, realizing that it was only a dream. "Nothing, I just wanted to make sure you didn't leave me." Jack looked at Karen addled.
"Leave you?" he also noticed that Karen was sweating."Why do you look so shook up?" Jack started towards her."I better help you onto that horse. I don't want you trippin' or anything. Is that alright with you?" Jack smiled again. There was nothing to take that smile off of his face when Karen was around.
"I'm okay, I can probably pull it off." she intonated. "But you can carry me anyways if you don't mind. My leg is a little cramped." she put her hand on her leg and looked up at Jack. Of course, he smiled and said nothing: just smiled. Jack picked her up as her arm went around his neck. Karen had always dreamed of a man like Jack, ever since she and her father started having arguements all the time, a few years back. She wanted to leave her home and be free, not bound to some rundown grape garden.
They started their short ride to town, it would only take a few hours. Or would it be as short as they thought?
The sun was blazing so torridly down on Jack and Karen, that Jack's back was dank with the moistened air. Karens hair stuck to her neck. She continuously had to move it away from her face when Jack's hair dripped unstoppingly. Finally, he suggested that he lead the horse while Karen rode. It was too hot for any two people to sit next to eachother and not become on edge. Jack trugged along, every once in a while, stopping to rest. He continued on though, knowing that Karen's family would want to see her as soon as possible.
He couldn't bare the heat much longer. Jack stumbled and let go of the rope that led the horse. He almost coudn't catch himself before his face collided with the dirt.
"Jack!" Karen screamed. In her mind, she thought Jack had died. He didn't die; only passed out. The dust around Jack upheaved into Karen's face as she slid off of the horse. "Jack, are you alright? Oh my gosh, help. Help!" Her mind boggled as tears ran down her dirtied face. She didn't know what to do, until she turned around after lifting herself from the ground and came face to face with Kai. He had followed them. He stood there gathering hate and feeling avenged. Revenge was to come, and not to Karen. Kai shoved Karen out of the way, and stomped towards Jack. He picked him up by the collar of his shirt and spit in his face. Jack groaned and turned his head. Kai gave Jack an upper cut to the eye. Again, Jack groaned as sweat drinched his hair. "Karen..." he dryly said through his unmoistened lips. But then again, Kai threw him to the ground then kicked his stomache.
"Kai! Stop!" Karen screamed for mercy on Jack as she through her knees to the rocky ground. Kai only laughed and muttered some curse words to her. Karen didn't know what to do. She couldn't take on Kai all by herself. Jack meant so much to her. Only... she couldn't help him this time. Her body shook and her teeth began to chatter. Her body throbbed with agony.
Kai just picked Jack up by the collar again, only to strike his lip and cause blood to trickle down his chin. He began to lift his arm back to punish Jack one more time when someones hand grabbed his arm. Thinking it was Karen, he tried to throw it off. The hand held fast. Kai turned around, and to his bombshell, the hand was Rick's. Kai dropped Jack as Karen rushed to attend Jack's side. Kai was ready to knock Rick's lights out, but Rick nervously pulled his own fist back and propeled it forwards until it met head-on with Kai's eye. THUD Kai fell backwards and hit the ground. Rick had saved Jack and Karen but he didn't realize it until he opened his eyes. Then, Rick caugt up with himself and helped pick Jack's feeble body up to put it on the horse.
"Hey, Karen, Jack." He noticed."I came as soon as I heard you were gone Karen. I guess I made it quick enought huh Jack?"
"I guess he can't talk right now." Karen answered for him, because his upper and lower lip were swollen. The extravagant pain that pulsed through Jack's body was unbearable. He had a broken rib from where Kai kicked him, a black eye, and a swollen lip. His face bled from the impact that Kai's large fist had.
"Karen, I need to ask you something," Rick started.
"Can you ask me when I get home? I'd rather talk there," Karen was very concerned about Jack. His condition would need a doctor. But Rick agreed as he led the horse into the dawning of the day.
No cliffe this time, I wrote this story a while back, and it is really not very good. I used to many big words to make it sound good, but the thing is... it doesn't...