What A Wonderful World

I want someone to...

I want someone to make a show or animation where the main character and spectator slowly fall in love...

I walked along with stone covered pathway, gray, dark and ominous storm clouds looming overhead. The chill of the cold winter air hit my face, my body being covered by a light jacket, scarf around my neck protecting me from the cold chill. I knew in the back of my mind that this 'winter' was out of place, I mean, the episode prior was summer. It must have been your doing. That breeze that blew by, your breath and the gloomy storm clouds your sadness. "Were almost done...aren't we? The final episode can't be that far off." I asked, my voice cracking a little as I kicked a little pebbled out of the way, my shoulders hunched over, shuffling in my sneakers along path. I heard a grumble come from the clouds overhead, and I felt your sadness, your pain and regret, rumble and ripple  throughout my skull like a pebble hitting the surface of water.

"I know you don't want it to end...but, the animators only drew so much. It has to end sometime." I mumbled out, my breath coming out in a fog in the winter air. With a sigh I reached my destination, the old gray wood bench. The wood that was once so bright and so welcoming, now seemed dark and almost eerie.

I let out a little laugh as memories started to flood my mind, "This is where it all started didn't it?" I questioned, placing a hand on the surface of the wood to give it a gentle pat. In one swift moment, I turned myself around and with a grunt I plopped myself on the bench, my dull eyes looking up into the somber clouds.

"I don't know how I know, I just...everything seems final some how..." I sighed again, ruffling my already messy hair as I casted my eyes downward, "Its like, my crazy life calmed down. All the pieces are finally falling into place now. " I stated, once again looking up into the clouds, searching for your face. The face that has been with me since the start of my journey, the face that confronted me, that helped me through tough times, that told me that 'I could do it' when things seemed bleak.

"After this...we hit the final episode right?" I questioned, pulling my jacket closer to my body when a cold gust of wind blew by. Another boom of thunder rolled through the clouds, my eyes watching the leaves  as they danced in the winter breeze.

"What did you say?" I questioned, looking back up at the clouds, "It's getting harder to hear you." I stated with a sigh, casting my eyes downward, a pinch of sadness hitting my heart. I looked up again, as the thunder rolled once more, this time bringing a single drop of rain that dropped on the wooden surface of the bench with a plop. I looked at the water spot, tears of my own clouding my vision, as I brought a hand up to touch the water droplet.

"Your crying...aren't you..." I croaked, running an arm underneath my nose to stop the leaking. I closed my eye, tilting my head back to face the sky, "I wish...I wish I could change this. I want to be where you are." I stated with a cough. The sky roared with another round of thunder, but behind that I heard a voice. Your voice.

"Me?" I asked with a little chuckle, "I'll be fine...I think."I let out another sigh, and ruffled my hair some more.

"Honestly, I have no idea. This has never happened before so, I really don't know what happens when you...you know...finish the final episode." I muttered out, my eyes casted downward once more. I heard your voice asking if I was afraid, making me chuckle once more at your worrisome nature.But  I stopped, and blinked, and thought about the question as I brought my hands together, intertwining the fingers, "Oddly..." I drawled out, "I'm not." I whispered at the ground.

"I mean...you can finish the final episode and always re-watch it right?" I asked the winter air, my head glancing up again, before my words actually sunk in.  I jolted up, my eyes wide as I smiled a goofy smile at the sky, "That's right." I sung, my cheerful laughter dampening the once dark mood. "You can always re-watch the episodes. I will still be here. All of the dialog and story will still be the same, and you will still be here. You can meet me all over again and I can meet you, and everything that we have now will come back." I smiled at the sky, jumping up as I pumped a fist into the sky. I heard another thunder rip through the clouds, making my celebration stop short, my eyes casted up at the clouds. I watched, a sad smile on my face as the first water droplet of many poured out from the clouds like flood gates, soaking me down to the bone. I squinted up at the sky, and watched as the clouds seemed to merge together, and for the first time, I saw your face. Your beautiful face, with tears streaking down the sides of your cheeks leaving little tracks in their wake, a goofy smile plastered upon it nonetheless. And in seeing your crying face I soon realized, the rain was your silent tears hitting the screen of your phone, another jolt of pain going through my chest at the thought. But, I smiled back at you anyway, tears of my own coming forth cascading down the side of my face mixing in with the salty rain. With a sudden jolt, I knew it deep in my soul, that we don't have little time left and their was something that I wanted to say before it ended.

"Look- I know our time has been short, and that it will end soon, but I wanted you to know that..." I took a breath in and let it out, my eyes closing as my head was casted upward,  "I love you. I love you with all my heart and no matter what happens you will always be in my heart." I smiled at the sky, the rain becoming even heavier after my statement. And in that moment, no words were exchanged, but deep in my heart I knew you felt the same way. There was a very long pause, as if you were trying to prolong the inevitable, making my eyes flutter open and glance up at your face, the goofy smile still their. 

"You can do it, go on." I encouraged, and for the first time you had to be the hero. The hero you were meant to be all along and hit the button that would end our story. The rain slowly stopped as the light of the sun started to peak out from behind the clouds, the cold winter wind soon replaced with the hot and blistering heat of summer. With one final glance upwards, I see your face in the puffy white clouds, your mouth open, and for the first time, I heard your voice. Not just a feeling or a vibration in my head but your actual voice, every syllable and word crystal clear right down to the little hiccup in your voice hinting that you were still crying.

"I will never forget you." you say, you voice calming to my nerves, "I will come back one day." you smiled. I smiled back before the bright light of the sun blinded my eyes, and when  I looked back, your face was no longer their. Just the bright cloudless blue sky overhead. I sighed and looked downward a smile still on my face, "I will never forget you either..." I whispered, hearing the cries of my friends in the distance.