Eversweet ♥

Chapter 9 ♥

I look down at my hands and sure enough there’s a pale orange glow reflecting off my skin. “Jesus Christ,” I whisper. “Jesse this has never happened before. What do I do? Oh God make it stop. Jesse make it stop.

          His laughter returns and through his cackles he some how manages to explain. “It’s normal for any carrier of telekinesis… but still most people notice when it happens. Unless this is your first time.” He stops laughing and grows serious. “This is honestly the first time this has ever happened to you? You’ve never had this happen before?”

          I shake my head. I’ve never noticed myself glowing when I was emotional, right? Yeah. I’m pretty positive I would’ve noticed.

          He sits up and crosses his legs strumming his hands on his knee. The words coming out of his mouth are too low for me too hear so I watch him murmur to himself. While he murmurs to himself I nearly gasp at our surroundings, for it’s the first time I’ve looked around. The grass is deep lime green and softer than any pillow back on Earth. The sky shines bright blue above us, yet it’s not Earth-sky blue. It’s intense and clear with no clouds in sight and goes on, in what seems like, forever. To the far right is a dense forest with trees canopying the entire woods. “I’m going over here,” I whisper to Jesse who is still sitting on the grass pondering over what I told him. Slowly, I stand up and wander over to the forest and inhale its fresh fascinating scent. It doesn’t smell like trees and pine needles, but a gentle vanilla-y, sugary kind of scent that pervades the air around it. I can hear a stream in the middle of the woods tinkling a soft melody almost like music. As I’m standing before the forest a small path to the left comes into view. Jesse is still sitting in the grass, frustrated, completely oblivious to the entire world and me. Should I just wait for him? The tree’s branches connect above it created a tree house sort of feel making me think of home. My Mom and I tried to build one in our back yard this one time and it resulted in us just calling a carpenter and paying him to do it. The thought makes me smile. If I look close the spring that I heard earlier is flowing through the trees sparkling.It’s literally shining like diamonds in the forest, still humming the dazzling tune. I approach the small entrance in front of the hundreds of trees and  walk in just to be overthrown with it’s genuine beauty. Purple flowers litter the ground in heaps causing the beautiful vanilla scent. Streams of light pour through the tiny gaps in the canopy about making the forest shine. Kneeling down, I lift one of the flowers to my face and it blossoms under my touch, making the scent waver across my face. I shut my eyes and close my senses to everything around me except for the music and the scent. Everything is so authentically exquisite that it makes me want to sit down on the soil and completely block out the world.

          “Having fun?”

          I spin around to see Jesse casually leaning against a tree staring at me with his amazing eyes. “Jesse, it’s beautiful here.” I whisper. He smiles and looks around.           

          “It really is. This place that you’re sitting in is sacred. This is where James Yond first landed when he came here and where the first people were. If you go farther down that’s the place where most couples get married. Come on I’ll show you.”

          He walks over towards me and offers his hands to lift me up. Taking our time, we past the tinkling stream farther down into the woods. I walk behind him just to absorb everything. The trees, the unearthly sky, the flowers, the scent- everything basically.

          “It’s up here,” he says, gently pulling me out of my wondering thoughts.

          I twist my head around him to see a breathtaking clearing ahead. The trees gradually get lesser and lesser until we’re standing in a open field. Above the branches and leaves still canopy the sky creating a bright shadow through the field. Wild, exotic flowers of every single color line the bordering. In the middle is a circled platform.

          “My parents and grandparents and great grand parents got married right here. Actually mostly every couple gets married here.” He pauses and smiles down at his feet. “My brother and his wife got married here too. I was eight and I got to be the ring man and my sister the flower girl. That was the first time I’ve here. You never forget your first time.”

          I look up to him to see him looking at the ground. “You’re right. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this. It…” I stop. How do I word this so I seem that I still love it? “It’s just so much to take in at once. I don’t know. I guess I’m just overwhelmed with all of it. I don’t know how to react you could say. Everything is happening way too fast. But this place—Argatha you called it—is just so incredibly amazing that I really don’t know what to say or think.”

          “I know, I get it. That’s how I felt my first time. Now that I think about it this was the first place I came when I first got here. This forest was the first impression I had on this world and honestly, it’s the only reason I didn’t go screaming and crying back to Earth. The feeling of comfort just oozes out of this place. And there’s so much more, you don’t even know. Scarlett just take it all one step at a time because I promise you; you won’t regret coming here.”