Something about the kiss...

A long way up

I looked up at Nathan in shock.

Did I really want to spend the rest of my life with him?

My hands started to shake at the thought… I was only 17… I dropped the water in a heap over my shoes and practically ran back over to the hospital building. But just as I made it to the door a strong hand had landed its way onto my shoulder. I turned around only to see Nathan’s concerned face watching me.

‘Myth…’ he trailed off.

‘What did you see?...’

I took in a gasp of air as I had almost forgotten to breathe.

I looked down and I could see now that I was only a little translucent, but I didn’t care anymore.

How could I tell him? How? How could I marry him now? What if I don’t want to?

‘You know… if it’s any conciliation… sometimes the things shown can change… you can always change them… if you really want to…’

But did I want to change it though… I like Nathan so much… You know… I could even seeing myself marrying him… someday… but… now that I know… do I want to change it…

My mind was just so full of crap and unanswered questions… all I wanted to do was go home... not here but simple, plain welcoming home.

‘I want to go home.’ I stated.

‘What?'

‘… I said… I want to go… home… to my house’ I said trying to keep myself together.

‘Now?’

I nodded my head with tears starting to fill my eyes.

‘Umm… well… I’m not sure if you can… but we can talk to Dr Craft or someone?’ He asked doubtfully.

I shook my head quite furiously. ‘No. I want to go now.’

‘I’m just… not sure I can… ‘

I was starting to get a little angry now so I walked across to where the edge of the cloud was with Nathan following close behind.

‘If you won’t take me… I’ll take myself… ‘

That was when I jumped… I didn’t even think about it… we were hundreds of kilometres high… and I just jumped.

The air was cold, and the other clouds dampening my robe weren’t helping the situation. I looked around… my gosh was I high... I looked down… immediately regretting my decision to jump off… what was I thinking?

That was when I remembered my wings. I tried wiggling them a little, but I just wasn’t able to move them fully with the wind flapping them around so much. I tried to concentrate harder, even though I was falling at over 50km an hour.

They moved a little when I tried really hard. Then I seemed to forget everything. All I was focusing on was moving my wings. Suddenly I could feel them moving… one flap, two flaps, and another.

I couldn’t believe it… before I knew it I was flying… but that still didn’t answer why I was in this situation in the first place… why did I jump off?... It didn’t even feel like it was me doing it… it felt like a dream.

I was around 100 meters away from the ground now. I hoisted myself up so I was falling a lot slower and before I knew it my feet were planted on the solid ground and I dropped to my knees slightly shaking. Surprising enough I’m not that into heights.

Once I had regained my breath I heard louder foot steps behind me and then a loud voice boomed throughout the farm we had landed on.

‘WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!’ they screamed.

‘YOU COULD HAVE KILLED YOURSELF, YOU STUPID GIRL’.

I knew it was Nathan, even though he had never yelled at me before.

‘I just needed to go home, ok; you’re NOT the boss of me!’ I yelled not quite as loud.

‘I DON’T CARE! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED THE BOTH OF US!’

‘I DIDN’T ASK FOR YOU TO COME AFTER ME YOU PRICK, YOU COULD HAVE JUST STAYED UP THERE, WHY WOULD IT HAVE MATTERED!’ I yelled louder than before.

‘OH SO YOU WANTED ME TO JUST LET YOU FALL!? WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!’

‘I’VE DONE IT BEFORE AND I CAN DO IT AGAIN! AND NOW I CAN EVEN FLY, THERE WAS NOTHING PUTTING ME IN DANGER’

‘HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW YOU CAN FLY YOU HAVEN’T EVEN HAD YOUR WINGS FOR A DAY!’

‘WHY SHOULD YOU EVEN CARE IT’S NOT LIKE WE’RE MARRIED OR ANYTHING!’

… That stunned him a little… The way I said it was just so harsh… I didn’t even know I could talk like that… maybe that meant something to him that it didn’t to me… I knew we were destined to be together but did it really hurt him that much…

‘I was just trying to look after you… but don’t worry… I won’t make that mistake again’, that was when he walked off. He walked 50 meters before jumping off into the air and up high into the sky.

I fell to my knees once again… I had no idea where I was… I was just so confused… and now I was all alone… so I just lost it. I lay down and started to cry, I wasn’t even 100 per cent sure why I did… but I just really needed to get it out of my system.

I kept running through the conversation over and over again. I didn’t want him to leave me… especially out here in the middle of nowhere.

I looked up after a while and hobbled to my feet, all I saw was a corn field so I decided to fly up so I could see clearer.

Flying came a lot easier to me now so I just flew straight up with ease. I looked over the land and saw the city a couple kilometres away, and I only lived 5 minutes off from there.

I really wondered what I would find at my home… would my mother still be there or did those people take her away. By this time I was a little beyond caring… I could barely even think.

I was just slowly flying around closer and closer to my house just thinking about resent events. I was so exhausted that I could have crawled into a bed and fallen asleep in a matter of seconds, I was even struggling to stay up high enough for humans not to see… it seemed weird to think that I wasn’t human….

After a while I spotted huge tree that was just around the corner from our house. I did a small check to make sure no one was around then I flew straight down behind it. I carefully folded my wings down then used my belt to keep them in place. I shakily walked along the path until I was face to face with my house.

I slowly walked up to the door, and then I took in a deep breath before I pressed the doorbell.