For once, they are all awake in the morning, instead of resting until the mid afternoon. They sit under the peach tree, in full bloom again, the branches laden with fruit. Their eyes are turned out into the Fields of Elation, watching as one tiny figure and one tall figure play.
Her hand is tucked into one's hands, her feet propped up on another's lap, her back resting against the third, while the fourth is running through the fields, the small child toddling after him. He swoops down and lifts the child into the air, causing the child to scream in exhilaration. He does it a few more times before he settles the child down on his back to run back to the tree.
She can feel the kick of the next one in her belly, and a whoosh of air escapes her lips. They all turn to face her, but she waves their concern away, telling them that she is fine, and it's normal to feel the kicks so often, and that they should know better by now.
When the pair come running back from the fields, he sets the boy down, who races over to her, the child falling into his mothers lap, bubbling with laughter. She looks down at him, the boy she loves with her whole heart, kissing his perfect little button nose as he squeals.
She lifts her eyes to the fields again, and it's then that she sees him there, watching his family. There is no love there though, because he cannot love them, but he is desperate to experience it, to still witness the love they all share, the little family they have built up. And it's why he is always watching them.
Though she has gotten only just used to it, she still feels the disquiet within her, of him always watching her, always being near her, around her family.
After the sun rises higher in the sky, and turns the the early summer morning hot, they stand and stretch from where they are sitting to return home. Her hands slip from the ones she was holding, as she plucks the boy up from the ground, and settles him on her hip, his plump little arms wrapping around her neck as he reaches for the one behind her, the one who held onto her hand.
Her eyes meet her child's; a pair of deep, sea blue eyes. And she turns her head to smile at the one behind her, meeting his own pair of lovely deep, sea blue eyes.
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The End of Eden
ParanormalEllaria's life isn't all she wants it to be. She works too much for too little pay, lives with her sister who doesn't care for her and who has a boyfriend that preys on Ellaria, and on top of that, she's starting to have weird dreams. She tries to...
