𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐩

𝟎 || 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

There once was a tree swaying in front of a riverbank, with an old bench built right between the two. Overlooking the calm waters, it was so beautiful but unknown, since it rarely saw any people nowadays. No one even knew it existed, since it's beauty was covered by a dark forest.

Except for a group of curious teenagers. They knew where it was and the bench saw them often. Although they were just teenagers, the bench soon became their home away from home. They came to go swimming, sun bathe, or even just talk for hours. On that very bench. It was peaceful.

The smell of flowers, grass and nature was so amazing, you could never get bored of the smell.

After years of it just being the four of them, one day it was suddenly 5. A little baby came along with them this time. His moody grey eyes with a small peek of blue, glistening in the sun. He was beautiful.

Years pass once more, and it becomes 6. Then a few years after that 7. Contrasting the mysterious eyes of the first one, they both had soft dark brown ones. With a hint of curiosity. Just by looking at them you could tell who they belonged to.

Sometimes the families would come separately. Just to enjoy life in all its glory. Julia and Andrew would drive their car with two young kids in the backseat. Once they arrived, the little bundles of joy, Liam and Estelle were their names, would sit there for hours just playing with their toys.

Sadly, soon after Estelle turned 5, they slowly stopped going there. Ever since her father left them, it just brought back bad memories.

Until Estelle had to start dealing with real life at 14, and soon after finding it once more, it became her comfort place. Just sitting there for hours and looking at the birds flying around the sky was her idea of peace.

Wishing she could be free like them.

As for the other family. It was different, Emily and William had been going there ever since they were kids themselves, having Aldric just made them wanna go there even more, sharing the joy of the place with their little treasure. They wanted it to be a place that nobody knew about except them, their little boy, and their best friends. Aldric liked it there, he'd go sit in front of the river and watch the soft waves passing by him slowly and smoothly..

Until he turned 10. His life turned into the worst nightmare any kid could dream of. His parents were killed. That same night he dreamt about them dying. It scared him. He was soon taken in by his uncle, but Aldric refused to talk to anyone about his parents death and what he possibly knew.

However, what hurt Aldric more was that his uncle didn't feel like the same person Emily told him he was. He was an alcoholic, abusive and a rude man. He'd hurt Aldric. Blaming his sister's death on the little kid who didn't know how to do anything but cry.

8 years later, Aldric packed up his life and ran away from his uncle's house. He didn't know where to go, just knew he had to leave. Until the small little memories pieced together in his mind while walking. It didn't take him long before picking up the pace to his parents favorite place before he was gone for good. He ran for hours, tripped 3 times and ended up right where he wanted to be.

His comfort place.

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