Forest (COMPLETED)

The night

We walk deep inside the dark. Pass by trees, bushes and noises of night arthropods. We kept walking uphill until I realised we had reached the top of the hill. City lights can be seen from up here. It seems small yet bright and loud. We decided to stay there at least for the night. Standing by the cliffs, our eyes were captured by the view of the small city. Our minds, lost somewhere at the corner of the globe. 

“It’s beautiful…..” I smiled at him.

“Enjoy the scene while we’re being homeless tonight”, he said with a laugh.

I took a deep breath, sit in front of him and stared at his eyes. He is wearing a cap that has a Skrillex logo. We smiled at each other and started talking. We talk about life, family, future and I get to know every history in the life of this stranger in front of me. He offered me a bottled drink that he has been carrying since we met at the park. I drink while he finishes every single drop in his bottle. 

“Hey, wanna play Truth or Dare?” he asked while spinning his bottle on the ground.

I agreed and we start playing. From telling the truth about our exes to dancing in front of each other, it feels like we have known each other for a lifetime. We had so much fun but things started to get boring after some time. We start making dirty dares like hugging and we end up making out. But it ends there because we both know that as soon as the sun rises, we will be back into strangers that will never bump into each other.

We lay down on the bare ground, staring at the sky full of stars. I open up about how I was raped when I am still young and I never tell anyone about it. He is not surprised but he said, 

“It’s good that you stand up for yourself because we shouldn’t depend on others to do that for us”. 

I fell asleep in his arms and he woke me up when the sky turned to light blue. We walked back to Garden Plaza and we went separate ways after giving a hug to each other.

I have never seen or heard of him ever since that day but I will never forget him.

He once told me that life is like a forest. Forests that we should not ignore but conserve and make it better. Each and every forest is different. Some are so complicated while some are not. Hence, we should love it as it is. The most important thing is that everything in it matters even the tiniest thing can make a change to it. Therefore, love your forest.