To Touch The Blue Sky [COMPLETED]

Chapter 8: To Feel The Heartbeat

"So you're just the only child?"

"Yeah," I say while eating the grilled fish. We did fishing lately and now we're eating and we just set up a fire. This is just the food we just eat since then because we can't find any. Well, at least there is something in our stomach and the food does taste good!

"How does it feel?"

"Like you don't know how it does feel," I chuckle. She's only child. And we both know how it actually is like.

"Tsk! Like yeah, I know how it actually feels." She is chewing and I can see that we just are feeling the moment even in just a bit of seconds. We just feel that we escaped from odd things happening to the both of us. "Don't your parents want you to have a second child?" She chuckles.

"I don't know... I mean, I didn't have a chance to talk to them?"

"Why?" She turns to me and raises her one eyebrow.

"They died very early when I was just a baby." I smile to assure her that it's fine.

"Oh... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say something..." But before she finishes I cut her off.

"It's fine. And you don't need to say sorry."

"Ahmm..." She looks doubtfully what next words she will say. "May I know how they died?" Without a hesitation I told her.

"They died in a car crash." I take a breath to hold back some things that may trigger to make my tears fall and flow on my face. I tell her some details how they actually died. And I do tell her about my grandma and everything how she raised me and how just the two of us live normally and peacefully.

"You're lucky to have your grandma." She pulls a smile on her face.

"Yeah, I know. She taught me so many things in life. And she also makes corny jokes." We laugh together. "Sometimes I just laugh at her jokes to just support her."

"You two are cute." She chuckles.

"But... you know what, even though my parents died when I was at an early age, during my growing up years in her ward. I did not feel that I lacked something, though in some aspects. I mean, sometimes I wonder... what if they were still alive? What if we were still a complete and happy family? What if my life is the other way around? What if things are not way like this?" I take a deep breath to get rid the heftiness inside my heart. I turn my gaze from the blue sky to her face which is now facing at me. I see her watery eyes welling up. I shake off my consciousness. "Ahm... I am sorry if I'm being emotional. I shouldn't have told you that.

"No, it's fine. I did not expect that from you, I mean just a bit. I thought you were just like a hard rock difficult enough to not be shaken off," she chuckles awkwardly.

"Tsk!" I shake my head with the awkwardness. "My granda used to teach some metaphorical but philosophical things." I don't know if she understands it.

"Your grandma is really special to you."

"She's lovely. And kind. And has a deep good heart."

"And so are you. You have a golden heart with pure soul." She smiles at me as if she is looking me in the depth of my eyes. I can feel my heartbeat again. It's beating hardly than I can actually bear it. I don't know. She said those words and it's now pulling me towards her. I feel weird. As if the sky opens with dancing light above us. I feel my heart alive when I look at her in the eyes. I now feel alive every time I look at her and hear her voice. She is beautiful but she's more beautiful inside. She's different from the women I have met. I mean, she's a princess and she deserves that title. She deserves golden crown on her head. And she deserves a man who could make her happy and they both will have a happy ending story. The way I think about a man who she really deserves makes my heart ache. I don't know why is this. I just met her but I feel like we both already know deeply each other. I feel like we have been friends since then, longtime ago. Is it really friends? I don't know. Before I will go down deeply to my thoights I instantly shake it off. I squeeze myself to pull back myself into my consciousness.

"Me?" I say. "Tsk! What else good is there inside me?" I laugh a bit loud awkwardly. She's a bit surprised.

"I am serious, George. You're kind and I truly believe that you have a good heart. Your parents must be happy and proud of what you've become." She smiles. I don't know but it really moves me. It touches my heart. She's so unique and different. My heart beats faster right now. I want to take my tears out of eyes and burst to cry but at this time and moment, I just don't want to that.

"Thanks..." That's all I can say. And I smile back at her.

Before we fill in the silence rising between us, the land quakes from little to literally huge stagger. The trees and their leaves are shaking as if they were moved by huge wind or creatures. I feel my heartbeat faster again but it's in the other way. It's terrifying right now. The shock rises from the base to the top. I look at her and she looks the same way, shocked and terrified. The quake grows bigger and bigger and we start to get up. We look around and in the distance where trees are starting to dodge away to the both opposite directions as if there is someone who is huge who is passing the way. The birds start to fly off of those branches towards any directions. They squeak. I look at her again with our eyes wide and wrapped with fear. But as it goes continually. I think I now know what it is.

"It's the giants," she says. "Run."