A/N: First off let me say sorry for not having a chapter up sooner. Secondly sorry I forgot to post the A/N and disclaimer I was so hyped up on flu meds and antibiotics and all that i'm surprised I even stayed coherent enough to post the chap. lolz!
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, only my storyline, and any characters that run out of my head and onto the screen...
It was a sunny Thursday afternoon in Forks. In other words it was a miracle. I decided not to let it go to waste and went for a walk in the woods behind Charlie's house.
As soon as I stepped out the backdoor I was greeted with a smiling mother nature, a welcome sight when compared to the usually dour and drab demeanor looming over Forks.
A playful breeze dance around me tousling my hair and causing laughter to bubble up out of me. I bounced down the back porch steps and over to my garden. I was so excited, there were little green stems with buds on the top shooting up out of the soil, soon there would be flowers blooming everywhere.
After I was finished admiring my soon to be flower garden I wandered off towards the woods. I was just meandering around, enjoying being outside and in nature. My mind started to wander, landing on the only topic I seem to be able to think about. Alice.
Hanging out with Alice these past few weeks has been amazing. We have gotten to know each other pretty well, honestly I feel as though I've known her for much longer than two weeks. We have hung out a few times, sometimes at her house sometimes at mine. She even took me shopping once. It was defiantly the longest 6 hours of my life, the only thing that made it bearable was the fact that Alice was there and it made her happy.
It's just that sometimes I feel like she's holding back, like there's something she wants to tell me but can't. At this thought I sat down at the base of a Giant Oak tree and heaved out a sigh.
"Are you okay child?" a tree, I'm guessing the one I'm leaning against asked me. "No," I sigh. "Can I ask you a question?" I have been meaning to ask someone this for a while now but every time I talk to them I always forget.
"As long as it's not my age" She said with a chuckle that sounded like leaves being blown around in a playful summer breeze. I laughed with her for a moment, getting caught up in the carefree delightfulness of nature.
Once our laughter had subsided I asked her, "How do you know that I can speak to you? I mean do you guys just try to talk to everyone who walks by and just hope that eventually one of them will reply or what?" I am burning with curiosity.
"You and others like you have an aura about you. Not the normal kind where you can see the emotions and such, but a color that surrounds you."
"Oh, ok well do different people have different color auras, or are we all the same?" I question while inspecting my hand like I was suddenly expecting to see the aura she was talking about.
"Everyone has their subtle differences but there are three basic colors." She said while shifting her leaves to achieve maximum sun exposure. "There is green, orange, and blue."
"What do the different colors mean?"I asked as I picked up a twig off of the forest floor and started picking off the outer bark skin.
"Green auras generally prefer to talk to the grass and the trees. They also tend to have a harder time coming to terms with their abilities. They tend to rationalize too much." She said with a laugh like she was remembering a particularly funny memory.
"Orange auras usually lean more towards the flowers. They also tend to lean toward the more carefree, act now, think later mentality. And last but not least blue. Blue auras prefer water plants. They are more indecisive and change their minds as often as the waves roll in and out. On the other hand though they are extremely loyal, just like the tide that you can always count on to come in and out, you can always count on them to be there for you." She finished, but I still had one more question.
"What color is my aura?" I asked throwing the stick that I had previously been toying with deeper into the woods.
"You, my child, are extraordinarily unique." She said her voice full of what sounded like amazement. "You aura is like a rainbow, a mixture of green and blue, and orange. You also seem to have a shimmer of purple around the edge, not exactly like the color itself is there but more like the suggestion of it is lingering in the air around you."
"What does that mean?" I asked, man I seem to be full of questions today.
"I'm not exactly sure. I've never met anyone with an aura such as yours." She said as I stood up. "Not leaving are you dear? We haven't even talked about what you came here for." She said knowingly.
"No, I'm not leaving. But would you mind if I climbed you and sat on a limb?" I always thought it polite to ask before I just started climbing all over them.
"Of course not," She said as I started climbing. Once I was settled on a limb that allowed a generous amount of sunlight to wash over me she spoke.
"Well come now dear, what's bothering you?" I just sat there for a moment, enjoying the sunlight before I spoke.
"There's this girl that I really like, and I think she really likes me too. The only problem is that every time we start to get close to one another she will back off. It's like she is holding something back." I say with a touch of hurt in my voice. It truly did hurt that she didn't trust me enough to fully open up to me. I feel as though she is running away from me.
"Have you thought that maybe she is feeling the same about you? I'm willing to bet that you haven't told her you can talk to me. Have you." The last part was less of a question and more of a . meant to make me think. The tone behind it though was gentle and carried a grandmother's touch. "Maybe if you tell her you're secret she will trust you enough to tell you hers." God, now I feel dumb, why didn't I think of that sooner…Oh yea, I was too busy getting lost in thoughts of Alice. Meeting her was like falling down the rabbit hole, wondrous and scary and exciting and adventurous all at once.
After I spent a few moments mulling over these thoughts and trying to decide what I was going to do we started to make small talk. I found out her name was Tala and I told her my name as well. I also told her all about Alice.
About how whenever we brush hands while walking down the hallway her hands are colder than ice, and how I don't even mind, I've actually started to even forget it's not normal. About how her voice sounds like wind chimes and musical bells, about how she seems to dance everywhere she goes, and about how she carries a subtle grace in every movement, action, and gesture she makes.
Around that time I realized how late it had gotten. The sun had already set and the temperature had dropped a few degrees. I jumped down out of Tala, and after promising not to be a stranger I ran back to Charlie's house; only tripping once I might add.
Charlie wasn't home when I walked through the back door so I decided to cook him dinner. I made Chicken Alfredo with garlic bread, and a small salad.
Once I had dished out my portion I put some on a plate for Charlie, covered it, and stuck it in the microwave. Then I put the rest of it in the fridge and headed into the living room to watch a movie and relax while I ate.
I walked over to the DVD player and popped in, "I Can't Think Straight" and then settled down on the couch to enjoy the movie. I and my mom had watched it together shortly before I moved up here and it was instantly on my top ten movie list. Renea has known I like girls since before I did I think. She was unusually perceptive about things like that. She was okay with it though, she even tried to set me up with her bosses' daughter, needless to say we had a long talk and it never happened again.
After the movie was over I decided to head to bed. I walked upstairs to my room and grabbed some pajamas and a towel to take a shower.
Once I was done in the shower I walked into my room while towel drying my hair. I walked over to my dresser and picked up my hairbrush. I started running it through my hair as I walked over towards my window and looked down at my pixies.
They started to giggle as a shower of tiny water droplets were flung off of my hair and onto them due to the brush. "How was your day?" I ask Mary.
"It was wonderful. We played in the sun!" She exclaimed in her sun-kissed, wind chime voice. "Me too," I said while setting my brush down and heading over toward the light switch. I flipped it off and called a goodnight to Mary and the rest of my pixies.
I walked over to my bed, turned on the radio and then climbed under the covers. I turned on my side to face the open window and was met with a truly breathtaking site.
The moonlight was shining on my pixies and giving them and ethereal glow, making their remarkably deep purple color seem almost ghostly in its transparency. It was bouncing off of the tiny beads of water that still lingered upon their delicate petals adding to the ethereal feel. They were swaying slightly in the breeze, causing the water droplets to look like tiny sparkles of glitter. My pixies were truly beautiful.
My eyes began to droop and soon I was drifting off to dream land. Just before I left the real world I decided that I would tell Alice about my ability and hoped that she would be okay with it. After that thought I drifted off into dreams of Alice and my own personal Wonderland.
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I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up, but it may have to be next week some time because I have three college tests to study for that I have to take Saturday. Rest assured though, I have started it.
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