Forgotten
Song: A Beautiful Mind Piano
Maximum
Looking back, there is no time that I miss more than anytime that I spent with the Flock. Life is normal, or as normal as it can get when you're winged. I live alone with my husband and our twin girls, Caroline and Scarlett. Nudge? She's still working on her first photo shoot with some magazine. Iggy lives with his wife in an apartment in downtown Atlanta. Angel is still working in mental therapy for her power-hunger. Fang? Well, he's here with me. Maya and Dylan live in the next house over, and we all get together. Caroline and Scarlett love to play with little Davey. The danger is never gone, but the past is...well, the past. We never forget the times of our teens, fighting for survival. We have scars to prove it, that we'll never forget. But peace is welcome here, even if a crazy, power- driven scientist or two shows up to try to take our children. They're learning to fly, they are. Little short gasps of flight, like splashes of cool water. They're like the sun and moon in difference. Caroline is a brown-eyed, blond haired little girl with wings as light as mine, with fewer freckles. She's always thinking how to keep us together, like me. Scarlett is our myserious beauty, with her long, wavy black hair and black wings. Her eyes are just like Fangs, only they sparkle with happiness a little more often. I'm watching them play now, on the floor. They just turned three yesterday. Fang walks in, and I still don't hear him until he's talking to me.
"They're beautiful." I say, smiling.
"You're beautiful." he says in my ear, holding me close. I've forgiven him as he needed it. He, in turn, has loved me more deeply than Dylan ever could, and Dylan found his own way in the world without me after all. I kiss Fang gently, and we turn to help the girls fly, lifting them up to take flight off of us.
The present may be what we live in, but I have not forgotten the past.
Hopefully, it will not forget me.