Aurora

The single waterfall

My feet were making tiny squishing sounds on the damp forest floor as we zoomed between the daunting trees, The sunrise coloured our bodies in pinks and oranges, the breeze rippling through the leaves above my head making the air chilly. But we just kept going. We came to a three way fork in the forest path and can't recall which way the caravan was sleeping, just by listening to my gut feeling one way was infested with weltering trees and engulfing shadow at every angle, and one of them after shooting my sight straight down there only a few meters was walkable, after that was vines forming a net as if to catch me with bait so that was obvious it didn't lead at all to my destination. I hesitate for a second, then begin to pick my pace up down the left path. As we started to jog the trees become more closely packed and I become more anxious to carry on. Occasionally there's the squawk or the scurrying sound of some tiny animal running up a tree. I look to my left and think I see a gleam of light, I look closer and see its a reflection of the sun above peaking through the branches. But whats reflecting it? I strain my eyes to see, to make out the rest of the image. Suddenly, realise that reflection moving in uneven patterns, I gasp, staggering back a little to pull Aurora my way, I check behind me every few seconds to make sure we were walking towards it together, because with her I new I'd be safe. I've never been particularly fond of the woods, but after I saw this I think I loved it even more. In the distance empowering us was a whirruping waterfall. At this distance, it looked like silver tears on the wrinkled face of the mountain. It was plunged into the depths of a paradise-blue pool. As I began to get closer, the noise of the cataract increased. It was growling and rumbling, I let out a sigh of relief, i was about to speed over to it and shove my hand against the force until Aurora grasped my hair and pulls me back, the look she gave me this look as if I was ignorant which when I looked beneath my feet it was clear her look was right. My toes were literally dangling off of a five story cliff, eroded rocks crumbled and fell into the lake below forming rings a second after each other. Aurora was still clutching hair when I stepped back in shock, just starring at  the rings wave outwards and outwards gave me a butterfly feeling in my stomach, not in a bad way, but an adrenaline rush. "Do u wanna jump?" I smirked at Aurora; she looked a bit unsure and communicated by taking one over exaggerated stride back. When I replaced my feet in their original spot on the cliff my breath making little white swirls in the air, I could feel Aurora thinking I wasn't going to do it, and that gave me even more of a reason to do it. I stood up straight then wind thrusted upon my face when I leaped of the edge causing my hair to whip my back and shoulders. The splash of the lake seemed come longer then it should, my eyes were closed the whole time only seeing with my hearing and sensing, I went head first into the tropical-like water making me feel I bit drowsy after I piped my head up from the abyss. The top layer of my ball-gown dress spread around me floating lightly like petals blooming in the spring. "Aurora! You gonna jump?" I called upwards. All I saw was her forehead and eyes poking out from above, I swam over to a island where the rainbow waterfall was running, when my feet met the greed again I shook my hair and dress like a giddy dog and peered around bushes and pink lily's rising up the cliff attempted to persuade Aurora to jump down here. "Aurora trust me, it's fine and you won't hurt yourself" there was no reply but to be honest, you would expect that but she didn't even show her face. I didn't get too worried because she could just of gone to prove a point that she doesn't have to do it, this was until it had been about five minutes and there was still no sign of her. Anyway I tilted my head I couldn't see further then the tips of trees, I heard a rustle of grass to the left of me and Aurora was standing their not wet so she definitely didn't jump. She read my mind and pointed over at a slightly more walkable part of the cliff wall. I grabbed her hand and pulled her to sit next to me; all we could hear was the spatter of water crashing into every little pebble. It was so peaceful.