It Takes Two
Chapter 11: Flare
I woke up the next morning and saw that Flare was looking at me and waiting for me to wake up. I looked into her eyes and smiled. She smiled back.
"good morning Flare!" I said cheerfuly.
"morning Speeder!" she replied and she hopped around me playfuly.
I looked up at the sky and saw that it was a nice day and started to walk off into the forest. Flare followed closely behind.
"where are we going?" she asked, still keeping up with me.
"we?" I said back at her and looked at her confused.
"yeah! we! you and I..." she replied as if making fun of me.
"fine... we're going to a nearby hill..." I said to her as we started moving on again.
I could tell that she was lonely. I slowed down and walked next to her. I then looked at her and smiled. She returned the smile back to me. She then noticed the hole in my back leg.
"what happened there?" she asked.
"a human launched something out of a metalic weapon at me." I replied.
"oh..." she said and she slowed down and her head went down.
"you don't have to worry about it... I'll be fine..." I assured her.
"no... it's not that..." she said.
"then what is it?" I asked.
"my...big brother..." she said.
"what happened to him?" I asked.
"the same thing happened to him except it hit him in the side of his body. He did it to protect me." she said sadly.
"oh...thats sad..." I replied.
"he was the only one I could trust... I had no friends, my family didn't care about me either. All because of my colour"
I couldn't say anything. I was shocked.
"I hate my colour..." she said.
"but I like your colour!" I quickly said. She looked at me and blushed slightly. We started moving again and got to the hill. We stayed on the hill for a little while.
I felt bad for her. Losing her brother. No wonder she became so close to me as quickly as she did. I curled up and stayed awake thinking about it. Flare curled up beside me and went to sleep. I kissed her forehead and fell asleep as well.