Let Me In ( Anne with an E fanfic)

Chapter 29

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Saturday was a family day in all accord. Starting with a huge brunch, courtesy of Mary's catering business, they packed some snacks and went to a closeby national park. Delly was beyond excited to go to a forest with fairy Anne and Pilbert, and they didn't disappoint. Growing up in the forest of Avonlea did mean they were great at recognizing seemingly insignificant stuff.

Delly insisted on skating again in the late afternoon, and Gilbert was pleased to see how she had interiorized the lessons from the other day and seemed to have improved already. When she went to take a bath, he was feeling much more confident about her managing on her own, and Bash was breathing again after seeing her speeding up and then stopping.

"Hey hey, Anne-girl," Gilbert said as he sat close to her on the back porch sofa later at dusk. "Almost didn't find you, Bash and Mary rarely come to this side.

"Why wouldn't they come here? It has the most perfect view" she asked, turning to him.

"Perfect for you, I guess? They never got around finishing the yard here so Mary calls it a pain for the eyes or something... So, how are you doing?"

"So relaxed," Anne answered, looking at him with a soft smile. "There is nothing that walking around nature can't cure. And there's nothing to finish here."

"You're right, of course," he said, lifting his arm so she could snuggle close to him, which she did willingly. "That image of you in the woods... It blew my mind. Delly's as well, I'm sure."

"You're kidding, Gil."

"I'm not. If she thought before you might be a fairy I'm sure by now she is more than certain. It was like this perfect light between the leaves and how do you even get freaking butterflies to befriend you? I've never even gotten close to one and you had several on you."

"I guess we're kindred spirits?"

"Yeah, of that I'm sure my fairy Anne," Gilbert said, kissing the top of her head as they enjoyed the late evening. The sky was beginning to turn into all sorts of yellows and oranges, the clouds reflecting every colour. "I was just watching you and I couldn't keep a song out of my head. I don't even know where I heard it first. But there you were, in the middle of a forest, looking just like the mythical character I told Delly so many times about."

"What song, Gil? You do know you're too cute for your own good, right?" she said, taking his hand and giving him a kiss on the palm. He caressed her cheek.

"It's called Walking in the Air . From a singer that's called Aurora," he said. He sang softly a couple of verses, Anne feeling warm inside. Not only because of the summer heat. " I'm walking in the air, I'm floating in a moonlit sky... Anyway. I'm so glad I managed to snap a couple of pictures of you before Delly went running and scared all the poor animals."

"She only wanted to greet them!" Anne laughed, remembering how all the butterflies had all but disappeared in a matter of seconds.

"Yes, with the emotion of a four-year-old," Gilbert chuckled. He caressed her arms softly and they stayed in silence for some minutes, reminiscing about the day. "I've always loved sunsets, you know?"

"I didn't, actually," Anne replied, adjusting so she could see his face. This was a new story, and she was all about Gilbert Blythe's stories. Because they were so damn nice all the time, especially when John was involved.

"Yeah... When I was a kid, we would always take a walk at sunset. It didn't matter what hour it was or if it was raining or snowing. We always went out. He had this idea that being outdoors was the best, you know?"