a longer one shot. not very random. inspired by angels.
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CELESTIAL SKYAll I ever remembered was a flash of white light.... and I was back to where I started.
I was holding a flower in my hand- a single rose encased in glass as big as my hand, kneeling on the dirt covered track of an abandoned lot of land that no one ever went to nor even cared to look at....
"Except for me?" I stood up in wonder as I dusted off my skirt and started to walk home. Questions started to whirl my mind as I looked at that rose. All I knew was that I DIDN'T have amnesia. I was absolutely positive, but what I didn't understand was why...
I was back to where I started, what reason I had for coming here, and why...
I had this rose.
Why was it encased in glass?
Why didn't it wither?
Why do I have this?
Why am I here?
Nothing made sense anymore.
My footsteps slowed down to a stop. The only thing I could do right now was to look down at my shoes, to try and understand why it led me this far. Worn up and beaten from all the years, my shoes were broken; just like this girl standing alone under a cloudy sky, about to rain or about to shine.
A wind slowly picked up, and the leaves around me danced, the trees swaying...
"Jade."A distant voice called out and I turned around. The voice resonated again and again in my head, playing a tune so familiar. It was something I seemed to recall and it strangely made me at ease, but I couldn't remember...
I felt a sudden pang of pain in my chest, as if my heart ceased to exist.
I held on the rose tighter and I lunged forward, running and running, looking for whoever might be there, looking for an answer to all this madness.
I continued to run in and out of tree branches, overgrown roots, barely missing cliffs and dead ends in the forest... only to be brought in deeper in its maze. I abruptly stopped, losing all hope as I gazed up at the rainy sky now covered by a thick canopy of trees.
The pain was worse than before, worse than an open cut, restraining my movements and my mere thoughts.
I watched the rose, blooming silently inside the glass on the palm of my hand.
Watching it slowly shed away its petals, one by one falling down to the bottom- the wind grew stronger and stronger....
"You've already tried hard enough, haven't you?Unwanted tears rolled down my cheeks. I furiously wiped them away, but they wouldn't stop.
I clasped my head,
"Stop..."
telling it to make it end...
"Stop!"
to make everything go away.
"STOP IT, I SAID!"
Why does it hurt me so much?
"I don't want to see you like this."But I don't want to hear this voice again either, no matter how much I longed for it.
It only made the throbbing worse, the pain in my heart unbearable. My eyesight unfocused, making everything around me dim... until I couldn't see anything..... but a broken piece of a forgotten memory.
"I'll give you this rose. As a gift....
So that even if you forget... even if time blows away every trace of me,
I'll always remember... and my heart will never change.
Just like this rose. It will never change."
"It never dies... Just like my love."
"No matter how different we may be, you taught me how to live...
how to smile...
How to love you like I do now."
I took a hold of my balance, resting my free hand on a tree trunk beside me. My breathing was laboured and my mind was in a complete disarray. I found it harder to breathe now, the facts harder to swallow... But everything became clear as I opened my eyes and listened intently in the deafening silence-
"I love you, Jade."-to the voice I thought I forgot.
"Goodbye forever..."I finally let go of the rose that I was holding, and the glass that encased it broke. It was now wet from my tears that started to fall on its own again as I collapsed down in the ground.
Holding the rose close to me, I buried my face on the forest floor whispering his name in vain...
"Grey."
Time was not infinite for both of us. He was an Angel destined to fly, to go back to where he truly belonged, a Fallen Angel...
struck by fate.
And yet, the rose never died. Its petals continued to shimmer under the celestial sky where destiny brought us together... only to part us again in a cruel game.
“The Charmer”
Budge Wilson
Kassandra, a nurse from the hospital
A rather cloudy Monday
I’ve been working in this hospital for almost five years now. Despite the stress and the two hundred percent I give up every day, being a nurse is quite enjoyable than it seems; it’s a rather rewarding job. Thankfully last week my patients weren’t very hard to deal with, partly because they had lost all their strength to talk, think or even move. Don’t get me wrong, they’re certainly recovering and are good to go within weeks notice. At the very least, the possibilities of them living again were very likely.
But then I met this little girl today. She was admitted into the extensive care department so that the hospital could treat her illness. Apparently, she had leukemia. I was in charge of delivering her medications and such as of yesterday, and seeing her pale face staring at me as I stepped through the door made my heart burst in sadness. For a while her face shone but it was soon replaced by a sense of disappointment that ran through her face. Then I told her that my name was Kassandra, and that I was going to be her nurse from now on. She replied to me with a weak smile and said her name was Lizzie. Lizzie was a very pretty name for a sweet girl like her, I thought.
I noticed as I walked in the room that she was holding onto something in her hands. I realized it was a comic book. And every time she looked at it, Lizzie would smile and just for a moment- I really thought that the colours were back to her cheeks. But as soon as I looked at her again, that same pale and disappointed look greeted me once more. Somehow, something about Lizzie made me want to understand her more and cure that sorrow in her clouded, young heart. As I said goodbye to her and closed the door, I swore to myself I heard a small cry and a soft whisper of a name that seemed to come out from Lizzie’s fragile mouth. Zack.
random super short one shot, :)
no copying, s'il vous plait
XXX
LET IT FALL
I took a walk out in the snow, and stared at its grace, its magnificence and purity... its cruel beauty. I closed my eyes, as it started to play in my head like a broken music box again. It was deafening.
"I never really liked her in the first place."I fastened my pace.
"I don't even know why I've gone out with her."
This time, I was running, running away and escaping. But from what?
"What was going through my mind?"
That's right. I didn't want to accept it.
"Maybe it was pity, huh? I didn't want to turn her down."I didn't want to believe.
"But I ended up making her believe in a lie instead."
The truth
.
It hurts... doesn't it?
"Seth..."
I whispered
his name in vain, as I finally slowed down and stopped... where I was alone again in the park, where everything just came crashing down on me.
"I'm doing you a favor of ending it once and for all, Seth."
"Goodbye." I went down on my knees and stared at the sky, as the snow continued to fall down softly on my head.
But now I couldn't even tell, which ones were my tears.