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Here Be Da Story.
Happy as could be, Gar skipped around the empty park looking for something to do. Its emptiness due to it being close to midnight and in the middle of winter. Though it was the middle of winter, it was warm outside as if it were summer. He looked around for a while wondering where in the large park he should go. It was all his for the night, and he had no idea where to go. Gar decided to go atop a small hill but nice hill where there was nothing surrounding it but green soft grass. Quickly and in one swift motion, Gar was laying down on his back looking up at the sky.
How long before I get in?
Before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide?
Before I know what it feels like?
Where to, where do I go?
If you never try, then you'll never know.
How long do I have to climb
Up on this side of this mountain of mine?
The sky was filled with small glimmering ounces of light and the finger-nail shaped moon. Gar even thought he saw Venus, but he wasn't quite sure. He just knew that he loved this sight, and if he could get closer, he would. 'THAT'S IT!' Gar jumped to his feet and ran to the center of the park. There stood the tallest tree in the world, (not going by actual facts just making this up) Goliath. Its name was fitting due to it being 900 feet tall, and Gar's idea was to climb to the top. There, he could be closer to the heavens then ever before.
Holding on tight to every branch he seized, Gar was nearing the top. He had no fear in him at all, just that if he fell, he would never fulfill his dream. But he was pretty sure it wasn't going to come true anyways. Finally, Gar made it to the top of this nine hundred foot tree. Once he had situated himself nicely on a thicker branch, he looked into the blackness above him. Ah, it was ten times as beautiful from here. This park that he was in was just a little ways off from the city so the stars were all gleaming to their fullest and the city lights weren't ruining it. Suddenly, Gar lost his balance and began to fall. Fortunately, he didn't fall far. Maybe three or four feet down, but he did get himself caught amongst the many branches. 'Oh crud. How am I going to get down?' Cautiously, he looked down though the tree. Quickly, he shot his head back up toward the sky with his eyes closed. 'Don't look down, Gar. Don't look down,' he thought as he started hearing a familiar song by Coldplay.
'CELL PHONE! THANK GOD FOR CELL PHONES!' he reached into his pocket and took out the ringing cell phone.
"Hey," Gar spoke waiting to see who it was.
"Hi, where are you? I called you at your apartment and you wouldn't answer," came the voice of a lady in her late teen years.
"Hey, Rae. And I could have been asleep you know. Speed of Sound puts me to sleep. It's like a lullaby, anyways, you rang," he replied.
"Ya, you didn't answer my first question. That is why I rang as you put it. I need to talk to you, in person," her voice got quieter as she spoke.
"Well, Rae. Unless you are an extremely good tree climber, you are going to have to wait till tomorrow. I'm kind of stuck in a tree," Gar answered in a slightly joking around type of way.
Raven sighed loudly, "I can't wait. Where is this tree I'll come get you out, if I have to."
"You don't have to. You could always call the fire department and tell them that a cute teenage human kitty is stuck in a tree and he needs help out." On the other side of the phone, Raven shook her head and sighed.
Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light.
Climb up, up in the trees,
every chance that you get,
is a chance you seize.
How long am I gonna' stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.
"Gar, where . . . are . . . . you?" she said the words slowly so that maybe he would comprehend them and answer her.
Gar heard noise at the bottom of the tree and he looked downward. "Rae? Is that you?" His loud voice caused all the birds in the tree to scatter, flying faster than sound. The birds came from the very top of the tree, too the very bottom.
"Gar, you did not get yourself stuck up in Goliath! No! Gar what were you thinking?" Raven scolded. Her head fell into her hands and she stood there. After about ten seconds of moping, Raven began to climb the tree. 'I am WAY to desperate!'
And all that noise, all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
To show you how it all began.
Birds come flying from the underground,
If you could see it then you'd understand…
"You really want to know what I was thinking?" he shouted down to her as she climbed the tree.
"What were you thinking, Gar? Tell me," she said in a bored voice, and stopping her climbing briefly to rest her hands.
"I was thinking how much more beautiful the stars would be than all the buildings ever built, and how much more beautiful it would be than seeing Japan and China lit up with the sky scrapers," he explained. "Like you. Lit up and Beautiful," this he said much quieter, but she heard him. She smiled, happy that he couldn't see her. She just pretended that she hadn't heard a word.
"Gar, did you know that there was a sign down there, and always has been, that says 'DO NOT CLIMB TREE!' and there is a light pointing to it, you couldn't miss it?" Raven questioned.
Gar gulped, "Uh, I didn't see it, and even if I had, I wouldn't be able to read it. The light is too dull."
Raven couldn't believer her ears. This was the boy she had known all of her life that had the most amazing censes ever and he was claiming he couldn't read a sign with a light on it. He was a puzzle to anyone who would or had met him. Crazy he was. Crazy.
Ideas that you'll never find,
all the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up,
Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read,
or a light that I couldn't see,
something's you have to believe,
but others are puzzles, puzzling me.
And all that noise, all that sound,
All those places that I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
To show you how it all began.
Birds come flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
Oh when you see it then you'll understand…
"Gar, are you lying to me?" Raven asked knowingly.
She was getting closer to Gar by the second. She had maybe ten feet left before she was right there with him. He wondered how she would help him out of the tree though. "Uh, when you get up here, we'll talk." Ok, so maybe he wasn't really stuck, but it was a great way to get Raven up there alone with him. And the sight that he could show her, she would be dazzled.
Raven approached the spot where Gar was and he had already gotten out of the 'stuck' position. "Hey, Rae. SO maybe I could read the sign and maybe I wasn't really stuck," hearing this her mouth dropped as she held on to some branches that were keeping her up in the tree. 'He invented this whole plan just to get me up here! He is good, or is he just trying to get on my nerves?' she wondered.
Hearing this, Raven did lose her balance a little, but before she could go anywhere, Gar caught her, his arms around her waist. "Trying to take the fast way down, are we?" he laughed. He helped Raven find a branch to stand on, then he received the death glare from Raven, and began to talk again, "So, you wanted to talk to me?" Birds, well raven's to be exact, once again flew from the tree. In with the Ravens though, were doves, pure and white. Raven saw them. They looked like magic, but Gar didn't notice, his eyes were glued to the pretty girl in front of him.
"Uh, I am not sure you will understand, after all you aren't the brightest bulb in the pack, but," Raven had a loss for words. "Would you mind if I just showed you what I meant?" Gar nodded excitedly. She gently placed her hand under his chin and tilted his head upward. "The birds dance under the stars together, isn't it beautiful?" She removed her hand and he lowered his head. Just as he was about to answer her question, she placed her lips on his and kissed him tenderly.
"Oh, I don't understand! Show me again!" Gar pleaded after the kiss ended.
Raven shook her head, "Race you to the bottom." And with that, she was on her way down the tree, climbing at the speed of sound!
All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Something's you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Ooh…
Birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
oh, when you see it then you'll understand…
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