Children of the Forest

My boyfriend is a mushroom!

This story is about a tiny mushroom that lives in a dark forest. 

In the forest full of trees, there used to live small creatures. You wouldn't be able to imagine them at first, imagine someone telling you that little men and women, tiny and wearing mushroom hats existed? Crazy eh? 

Well in this forest, these small creatures called Boys and girls of the Mushroom existed. They were born from the ground, the mud, and dirt, as normal Mushrooms. 

They didn't have parents or family, they would be born from the spores so they never had real parents. They would grow in the dirt, when the mushroom had matured, their bodies would open giving way to the human body to move. The hat of the mushrooms would remain attached to the small head covered in human hair. 

From then they would need to learn everything on their own, they would live with each other and help each other out. They made their clothes from leaves, or feathers. And when they were ready or adults enough, they would begin to build a house. Some of them chose the ground and a few of them chose the trees.

Yoongi was an adult mushroom already, yes indeed he was, he had large black curled hair, and he was paler than the rest of boys or girls from the mushrooms he had met.

He wasn't a normal mushroom boy. He didn't have friends, nor did he was wanted near the other mushroom houses. 

He had grown to be inefficient. He was dumb, clumsy, inexperienced, and didn't knew a lot of useful stuff. Not his fault though, no one ever helped him out or taught him. 

One day, a human came, he picked some flowers and herbs, and he picked some mushrooms, real edible mushrooms, but Yoongi didn't know he should never walk between normal mushrooms or he could be eaten or picked up by humans. 

For kilometers deep inside the forest, he lay asleep in a bag, with many other mushrooms, but somehow the human had realized he was red, with white dots everywhere, he was a poisonous kind of mushroom, he knew immediately what to do with him. He dropped him to the ground and continued without him.

Yoongi had been afraid, he was pretty much afraid indeed. In fact he was so afraid that he never wanted to be picked up by humans again, thank you very  much, but no, he didn't want to be eaten. But for some reason, knowing even humans didn't want to eat him made him feel rejected and sad. 

"Wue?" He asked himself. But why? He couldn't understand. 

He had fallen with a tiny plop on the dirt, dry twigs and leaves. His butt hurt, his round body heavy and sad on the ground, he used his mushroom hat to cover his face, he cried under the big umbrella of his mushroom hat. 

He was lost, there were no other mushroom villages there. Not that he was wanted in his previous one, or that he was spoken to. But still he felt worse being so lost. 

A feisty and chirping squirrel boy had climbed down the tree. If you think Yoongi is a fairy, or even a gnome, you are mistaken, he was just a nature boy. 

Now this feisty happy squirrel boy was pretty much the same indeed, another nature tiny creature. But it was different. Yoongi's life came from the ground, and the plants, he was a plant boy after all. While this squirrel boy came from other squirrel people. 

Hoseok was his name, a cute name, perfect for a squirrel, he would say out loud to anyone who wanted to hear him speak about his glorious name. 

He looked pretty much like Yoongi or a fairy. A human body, human hair on his head, small and tiny, but he had a squirrel tail and ears, and he could transform himself into a full real squirrel.