ETHEREAL
Drabbles in which we see characters we know…and yet are no longer familiar with.
Hoagie.
The sky is gray twilight covered in a shroud of mist. Rain falls from the heavens, caught in an endless waltz of clouds, earth, and air as it hits against the ground, and the trees, and people. Hoagie in particular. His hands are shoved deep in his pockets, as he walks down the sidewalk, going nowhere and everywhere all at once. The wind is singing hymns, soft and gentle against his face and hair, but its comfort is lost behind the harsh pounding of rainwater.
There were times when he enjoyed rain, when he played in it, when he spun around in the puddles it formed with his friends. He knows this for he feels it in his heart, and yet…looking back on all those childhood pictures, all he can recall is being still and alone and wet, as the rain fell onto him reminding him that it was all he ever would be.
He doesn't remember, but he can't forget.
He knows that he once was happy, but he has no proof.
He cannot recall what day, or month, or year it was when everything peaceful faded from his memory, but he rues that moment.
He does not know his friends, but he knows that once they were the best ones he ever had.