P r o l o g u e
Dedicated to Noèlle because she has inspired and influenced my writing.
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"Dad?"
I look down to be faced by own beautiful daughter.
"What is it princess?"
She looked up at me with her chiselled auburn hair and her big hazel eyes.
"How did you and mummy meet?"
A small smile makes it's way up to my face as I think of how I met my angel. The girl who lit up my life.
I take a deep breath in.
"Well Audrey, I don't know how our story will end, but what I do know is where to start."
"Where will you start Daddy?!"
I sigh.
"Well, I honestly think it all started with a single willow tree, but I will start before that ".
She searches my eyes quizzically, but I am stuck in my own daze.
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Willow Rose Mathews was quite different to any other girl you would usually see. Her hair an electric blue, messily fish braided to her mid back with small daisies sticking out of certain parts of the braid. Her dainty, fragile wrists were covered with floral and colourful wrist bands and her clothing ensemble matched her hair.
She held everyone's gaze as she walked to her class room- the new girl.
To everyone's utter surprise, instead of returning their curious and pondering looks she smiled broadly at everyone who so much as looked her way.
I look at her sceptically as I try to observe her every movement. Her silky satin dress swished and swayed whenever she walked and was covered with pastel coloured flowers.
I could already tell that she was rather odd and quite obsessive of her flora and fauna.
I snap out of my sudden daze by what sounded as beautiful as holding a jar of Nutella and marshmallow fluff on a Saturday morning.
I look over to where the twinkling sound was coming from. It was her- the new girl, the beautiful girl, the girl with the blue hair and the flower obsession.
I see her eyes twinkle as she laughs with a quiet girl from my class. Sarah, I think ?
I see as she covers her mouth to muffle the sound of her constant giggles.
As if she can sense my gaze, she turns around. Eyes twinkling in the hot summer haze.
Her eyes search mine and instead of growling, she smiles. A parted lips, straight toothed, clean cut smile. A genuine smile. A smile you would give your friend, and a smile nonetheless.
I look back at her not sure of my own next movement. However, she only smiles back as we lock eyes.
Keep it together.
You can do this.
I slowly walk up and approach her and her new found friend.
"Uh. Hello", I say as awkwardly as a baby penguin waddling.
Again, I hear the soft twinkle in my ears as she giggles at my stuttering.
I know for a fact that my ear lobes are now a tinged red and I can feel the butterflies dancing in the pit of my stomach. Pretty soon my cheeks will warm up too.
Honestly, man up.
"Hello, I'm Willow", her angelic voice rings through my ears like a soft wind passing by.
Her green eyes twinkle in the sunlight and completes her exotic flowery look.
Sarah shuffles awkwardly as she is stuck between an intense, coincidental stare- down.
I decide against ignoring her.
"Hi Sarah".
Her cheeks flush red and she looks at her shoes as if they are the most fascinating thing in the world.
"Oh,hi Kael", she responds awkwardly.
Willow smiles and puts an arm around her, clearly finding her new friend embarrassed quite amusing.
I smile back at them as we make our way inside the over heated, un-air conditioned class room.
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As I stare around the boiling classroom I can't help but feel a small trickle of sweat roll down my forehead.
Everything about this scene spells h-e-l-p m-e. Everything from the old dusty shelves to Mr Rim and all the way to the lazy fan which looks and sounds as if it will fall and crash at any given moment.
My eye averts it's gaze to Willow. I bite back on the inside of my lip to stop myself from smiling.
I observe as her fluttery fingers linger on her pencil case zipper and how she fiddles with the rim of her dress. With her long plaited blue hair and the way everything of hers seems to match; she looks like a work of art. Like one of those little art collages that you find in art museums, only better.
Her orbs are a magnificent shade of green mixed in with a hint of blue and black flecks.
As I look towards her again I see her looking right back at me. Red- faced I turn back and smile.
What was this ?
What was it that I felt with her?
Why is it that I blush over someone like her?
Why do I feel such bliss when around one person ?
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