Short stories

Chapter 24 Two birds

Two birds on a wire, one tries to fly away and the other, way he's him close from that wire he says that he will but he's just a liar.

~Kaitlyn~
After high school and college, I finally moved into my own small cottage on the borderlands of Kentucky.
My friend Sarah had just visited me and she had given me new paint, pencils and paper, all engraved with an small tree, Sarah said that the store felt magical, so she got me that stuff.
Sarah's always been the weird one of our group, always flowy, but you never knew what she was thinking her eyes and head were locked up tighter than the hope diamond.
Anyways when Sarah Visited and she told me that she saw Preston  while she was driving up here! Sorry I got a little too excited there.
Preston was an old time friend of Sarah and myself, but he was my crush, he lived right down the street from me and Sarah and he had the fluffiest hair ever and almond coloured eyes, and he had like a million other siblings, it was actually 5 but I was a child with only 1 other sibling, my brother who is a little bit older than me.
He gave me a hug and we started  talking and he asked how you were doing and I said of yeah she's fine I'm actually visiting her and he was like really? And I said yeah and he said mind giving me her number, might want to talk with her and catch up those were her exact words.
I sat on my bed staring at the ceiling waiting for my phone to go off.
1 hour.
Nothing
2 hours
Nothing.
3 hours.
Nothing.

I'll believe it all
There's nothing I won't understand
I'll believe it all
I won't let go of your hand

Now I was starting to worry. Don't. He's fine he's probably just musting up the courage to say something to me.
~later that night~
I walked through the archway and sat down on the couch, my fish giving off the delicious smell. I turned on the T.V and the news was on, I was about to change it when the announcer started talking.
"Earlier this afternoon, a car was smashed by two out of control Semi trucks, the young man Preston Arsement did not survive the impact" my fork clattered
P-Preston M-my P-Preston? The fluffy haired almond haired- I couldn't even think of a good word to fit. A picture appeared next to the crash, and I immediately switched the channel.
Tears streamed down my face, they wouldn't stop flowing.
"P-Preston" my tears flowed and I slowly ate.

Two birds on a wire one says come on and the other says I'm tired the sky's overcast and I'm sorry one more or one less nobody's worried.

A few minutes later Sarah calls, telling me everything will be okay... How will there be anyone with Preston's features and personality? There won't.
I sat in my room staring at the wall trying to think of something funny, but nothing came, all thoughts turned back to Preston.
I stayed there wrapped in a ball for a little while untilI heard a little, voice, a whisper almost. I slowly sat up and the whisper was a little clearer now
"Kaitlyn" and then it disappeared
I slowly got off my bed, tiptoeing, I don't know why I really thought it was necessary to tiptoe, I tiptoe out of my room hearing the creek of certain spots on my wood floors.
"K-kaitlyn" I walk through the kitchen. nothing? I peek around the living room. Nothing?
"Okay what the hell!" I say Exasperated.
I still hear the faint whisp.
I run back to my room, grab my headphones and put them in.
"Get out of my head" I sit down on my talk stool and set up my Easel and put the new paper in. Humming I start to draw the outline of a figure.
"I have the silhouette for now that should be good" I prayed that that this portrait would make a good gift for Preston's parents, I held back tears as I thought about him and yawned.
"Time for bed" I said still talking to myself like I always did
-dream~
"Kaitlyn! Come on!" Preston's voice
"I'm gonna fall" I whined
"Come on I'll catch you" Preston persisted
"Okay" I said slowly and walked across the mossy half decaying bridge, one of the boards beneath my foot fell and my legs were scraped I could feel the blood, my elbows had slammed into the side of the bridge when I had fallen between the boards.
"Preston!" I yelled scared
"Hey hey hey, I've got you, I'll always get you okay?" He said pulling me up and away from the hole
"Okay" I said shivering and scared as Preston pulled me close
"You'll be okay" he said flattening my hair and holding me closer to his chest so I could hear his heart beating a thousand miles per hour.
I nod answering his question
"We'll be okay" he says adding emphasis to We'll
~end~
Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
I slam my hand down on top of the alarm clock
"Shut up shut up shut up" I sat up rubbing my eyes and a pale figure filled my vision
The figure took my hand
Oh god. I'm going to be sick.

I'll believe it all there's nothing i won't understand.
Ill believe it all, I won't let go of your hand.

I jerked my hand back
"You're not real." I turned around
"You're dead" I could barely manage out.
"Believe me" Preston said
"No"
"Kaitlyn please"
I scream and open my eyes, I'm back in my bed,
"I think that The Arsement's would like my art, they've always said they do." I start to draw the other siblings and the features on each child
"Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone, you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess" I hummed along and started dozing in and out
"No- no stay awake, you've got to finish the features today" my body is shaking from no breakfast or lunch and no water it's about 9:30 now
How?! I turn off my phone take out my headphones and set my pencil down
"Preston" I head to the kitchen and grab a ramen packet, When we were younger Me, Sarah, Preston, and Lachlan would all eat ramen while watching movies, I laugh at the memory and start to cook the noodles. When I get back to my room I nearly drop my bowl. The painting which is-was Preston is crawling out of the painting.
I cover my mouth to stop from screaming and the painting falls earning a 'ow' from Preston, once the Preston painting is done coming off the canvas paper, he turns and  smiles at me, I uncover my mouth to scream when a hand stops my scream
"Kaitlyn shh, your always so difficult, shh" I whimper through Preston's hand comes off my mouth and he takes my hand and presses it to his cheek with his hand over mine
"Preston?" I said through my tears
"Yes Kaitlyn?"
"Your dead"

Two birds of a feather say that they're always gonna stay together but ones never going to let go of that wire, he says that he will buy he's just a liar.

Preston slowly moves as close as he can to me towering less than 4 inches over me, making me feel small.
"Really?" He says sarcastically
He pulls a small smile and I manage a smile.
I reach for my phone
"It won't help, they'll think you're crazy" I hold the phone close
"Why are you here" I ask a bit sharply
"I'm going to disappear during the day, remember my horrible sleeping schedule?" I nod remembering that was the one thing we fought about
"Yes" I say in a sharp tone Preston takes my phone and puts it on the bed
"I'm exactly like that now, up at night sleeping during the day" I let out a weird whimper and Preston kisses me pulling me close
"Your suffering so much" he says
I laugh
"Aren't you?" He nods and kisses me more passionately sending butterflies up my stomach
Preston picks me up and lays me down on my bed and kisses me again and then lays next to me, and we sit there in silence
"Why? How?"
"That paper is magical, made from a special tree in one of the seasons worlds"
"What does that mean?"
I turn over so my face is right by Preston's
And he kisses my forehead
"Sleep" and suddenly I feel my eyes dropping
"No"

Two birds on a wire one tries to fly away and the other watches him close from that wire, he says he wants to as well but he's just a liar.

-the next night-
"Kaitlyn" Preston said after he was done braiding my hair I laughed at the attempted braid
"Cut me some slack" he said defensively I laughed before kissing him
"Come with me Kaitlyn"
"Where?"
"To my realm where we can be together"
I stood shocked that he even gave me the proposition
"I-I"
"Sleep on it" Preston said guiding  me down by my shoulders
"No Preston"
Irgh Preston!
I woke up ready for work and sat staring at the picture of Preston and his family in my front corridor, I balanced back and forth on my feet, I picked up my phone.
"Hey Serena?"
"Yeah" came the groggy voice of Serena that indicated she had been out partying
"At 3 today can you go into my apartment and take a wrapped painting and take it to the Arsement's house"
"Sure, Kaitlyn... I'm so sorry about him" her voice turned to honey now, the soothing motherly voice see had when she was serious
"It's fine, I can't visit his parents I'm going to his grave"
"Of course honey. 3 got it"
I quickly got dressed into my white dress with red roses on it and my converse, I did my hair in a braid and stuck small flowers in it. 
I immediately uncovered the other Preston painting I had started and waited in my closet. I heard the door open and close and then shuffling and the door close I waited a bit to see if she had really left by 8:30 the Preston painting came to life.
"Kaitlyn" I left my closet
"Preston" he smiled at me warmly
"You look beautiful" I smiled as  he took my hand
"I thought I'd like to look pretty next to you on a painting" he smiles
"Let's go" he nods and we enter the painting
And I kiss Preston.

-news report-
This past Saturday a young girl Kaitlyn (L/N) was reported missing her small condo was filled with beautiful paintings
See here and we found out that her boyfriend from the crash the other day was in most to all of her paintings.

Two birds on a wire one tries to fly away and the other