Wild

Wild; Chapter 1

The Lion watched the little kids at the bars of his cage with bored eyes, wanting nothing more than to shut them up.  

Why was he the only lion in this zoo? He had once heard that he was, in fact, the only lion in the whole estate. Did they have zero jungles? Stupid humans, they had probably destroyed them.  

After all, that's why he was there. He was homeless.

He was lonely.

Sometimes he craved for friends, friends that would laugh (roar) when they scared the little kids behind those stupid metal bars.

Sometimes he craved a family, a family of his own, with his female partners and his children that would grow up and have their own family too. 

Sometimes he craved for love.

But he knew that in this artificial world it was hopeless to even dream of it.

He yawned, suddenly tired of all his thoughts, wanting to just accept his life the way it was. His body relaxed and threw itself back to lay on the ground.

He was about to close his eyes when they caught something interesting. A pair of honey colored eyes looking back at him.

They held understanding, as if they knew what he felt, how he felt. Could it be real? He observed this eyes carfully, trying not to loose himself in the depts of them.

Then, slowly as if he didn't dare to look away, he looked at the body those eyes belonged to.  

A little female with brown hair tied in pigtails tilted her head to the side, observing all of him too.

She saw a person inside that animal with wide jaws and long teeth, someone that felt trapped the way she did, feeling there couldn't be anything to change their lifes.

Both of them were trapped souls.

"Lena, come on, we are leaving." A middle-aged woman with dark skin and short hair squizzed lightly Lena's thin shoulder.

"Yes, Miss Allya." Lena finally turned her eyes away.

The lion watched them walk away and the little girl sensing his eyes on her, turned her head over her shoulder. One last glance at him that promised another meeting soon.

The lion closed his eyes feeling hope renewed inside him.

Their eyes had spoke for them things that could'nt be expressed with words. For just a moment that broke away they had someone to share the silent feeling that came without an explainable reason and drowned their souls.

He could sleep peacefully knowing that someone finally had understood him.

"Finally..." He thought.

He let himself slip to the dreaming sea that turned him away from reality but not from those honey eyes.

Those beautiful and innocent honey eyes.