My Digital Escape Imagines

Paper Plains (Shannon Taylor)

You're sitting in your back yard on the lawn. You have some paper you've been messing with.

You wouldn't consider yourself an artist. More just enjoy art and creating it. So you spend hours, days, just creating art. From models, sketches, paintings, to videos, and photography. Even writing songs, stories, and playing instruments. You enjoyed all of it. But you do it for fun and personal enjoyment and didn't think you had any real talent.

At the moment you were doing origami. A paper balloon, hat, and giraffe later you decided to make your favorite.

A paper air plane.

Something about it made you just absolutely adore them. Maybe it was their ability to be simple of diverse. Or maybe the way they could extremely easy to make or very challenging. Maybe even just finding new ways to make them look cooler and change the way they fly.

You started with the most simple kind you knew. The kind you made when you were 5.

When finished you decided to see how it flew. You throw it in the direction of the slight breeze you find it traveled amazing. High, smooth, and for what seemed to be a never ending distance.

You felt a sense of accomplishment, but it didn't last long. Your veins went cold as the folded piece of paper disappeared behind the fence separating your yard from your neighbors. After cringing, feeling a slight ping of lost, and letting out a frustrated sigh. You settled on the fact that your amazing plane was now littering the strangers property and that's that.

You moved on to more planes, testing them in the other direction, when you noticed something fall into the corner of the yard.

You got up and walked over to see your first paper air plane, lightly propped with the nose facing the ground at an angle and the opposite end pointing towards the sky.

You picked it up to see that it was basically the same as when you threw it but now there were words on the wings. They read "Hey, thought you might want this beauty back. Though I don't mind finding cool, entertaining things in my yard. ;)"

You couldn't help but giggle at the last line. This person seemed like a dork but in the best way possible.

"Well keep it." You wrote back. Throwing the plane into the others yard. You decided to go inside and get some tea or maybe order a pizza when the plane landed at your feet.

"Will do. Thanks!" You laughed before replying.

"That's hard to do when its in my yard." And watched it glide over the fence.

"Yeah... But I don't want to stop talking to you..." You read in your head after picking it out of your flower box.

"You don't have to ;) keep the plane. ***-***-****" After you wrote the last digit of your number on the now much more interesting plane, with all the slightly worn edges and scribbles of text, you threw it over for the last time deciding on pizza and tea.

You got inside and walked straight to your kitchen. You grabbed a peace tea from the fridge and pulled out your phone to call the pizza place. Before you could call you got a text.

"Hey XD" -Unknown

"Hello XP. Person next door?"

"Yep! Its Shannon btw." -Unknown

"Well Shannon, you seem nice and we share an interest for paper air planes, would you like to come over for pizza?"

"YES! I never pass up an opportunity for pizza." -Shannon

"Well come on over. :D I'm about to order. What kind do you like? Also what kind of movies are you into?"

"All pizza is good. And I really like horror movies." -Shannon