"You've been really quiet since we started walking,” I said, scratching my neck and looking upwards.
The sky looked ethereal. The sunset was magical. I could see pink, red, purple, orange and blue strewn across and they all melted into each other. I don't know what we could possibly do or find that related to it but even if we didn't find anything, that was alright.
It was worth it. I'd seen a lot of sunsets but I'd never seen one as beautiful as that one.
“I have nothing to say,” she replied quietly.
“Are you sure? Saying nothing can also mean you have a lot to say,” I mused.
She didn't reply.
“Maybe you're just speechless cause of the sunset,” I said with a chuckle.
She chuckled as well. “Maybe."
“Hey,” I began cautiously. “I just want to know if we're cool now. If we're friends.”
I looked at her but she was staring straight ahead.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” she whispered, taking a deep breath and then putting on a faux smile. “Just thinking.”
“About? Is it me? Something I did? Or say?”
She shook her head vigorously and a frown materialized on her face.
“No, it's not. Well...” she sighed.
“Well what?” My stomach churned. I started to get worried.
“I’m just very confused.”
“About…?”
She looked up at me. Her eyes softened and she stared at me, as if studying my face. My chest tightened at how close her face was to mine.
Her lashes fluttered and then she gave me a tight smile before bringing her hand up to pick something out of my hair.
“There was a leaf,” she said with a chuckle and turned away from me. I exhaled and kept walking, trying to free my head from all the fog that had been there for a moment.
How did she just change the subject so deviously? And why was she acting so weird? One minute, she looks lost and another she's smirking and acting all carefree. And how dare she pull that cliché leaf-in-hair trick on me?
“You're the one who's silent now.”
I felt my face grow hot and I looked away. I really hoped she didn't notice my weird behaviour.
When I looked back at her she was picking at her nails. I took deep breaths and ran my hands along my face.
“Wow…” She gasped. I looked at her and noticed that she was looking at the sky. I followed her gaze and then gasped myself.
“And I thought it couldn't get more beautiful…”
“Me too…”
“Do you like sunsets? Do you like it so much that you always watch it when they happen everyday?”
“Yes, like I told you I love nature. I love many things about it. I had lots of pictures of the sunsets, sunrises, rain…”
“That's cute.” Like you, I want to say. But I knew I had to stop thinking that way. I felt heartbroken at the whole thing. It was so frustrating.
"You okay?"
“Yeah. I'm just…”
I didn't know what came over me. I suddenly yelled at the top of my lungs, “I'm FUCKING TIRED!”
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Fall in San Diego
AdventureHaunted by the death of his family that he caused, Larry cuts himself off from the world and relapses into depression, subconsciously craving anything that would make him happy. He finds himself lost in the woods after his swirling emotions forces h...
