Fall in May

~56~ May in Moonlight.

"The sunlight sees your body, but the moonlight sees your truth." - Anonymous

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Following April's directions, I push the Deathwish through the moon gate. Where I drop the kickstand on the bike before closing the gate securely behind me.

I am just beginning to understand what Guys Mike meant when he said, the Grimm's were not San Fall rich, but real world wealthy. Because the House of Grimm isn't like any house I've ever seen before. It's more an entire hillside that been converted into a sprawling terraced house. Like one of those Frank Lloyd Wright terraced house's built in the side of a mountain with the natural landscape. Surrounded by old some expensive looking foreign trees that I don't think naturally belong here.

I head around the side of the house alone and down the flagstone steps to the garden level to the long Koi pond. Which turns out not to be one pool but a series of cascading ponds of dark water. Ringed with bright blood red Japanese maple trees around the circumference of the cascading Koi pools. The bloody landscape reflects back into the glass wall that dominates an entire side of the main house like a mirror darkly.

So through the bloody forest I go until I reach the bridge. Stone pagodas stands guard over the entrance to an ornate bridge that arches across the dark pool. Across the arching bridge, I cross over the dark waters of the Koi pond and down into the garden proper.

The garden landscaping alone is impressive in its ostentation. Complete with those tall stone lantern things spread along throughout the manicured paths. Even without the obvious moon gate and the ornate pagoda bridge, I get the sense that the entire theme is clearly Celestial in nature. It occurs to me that May has indeed has been holding out on the Ancient Celestial secret spots. Cause if Chins was here, I am pretty sure she would be in Sinophile heavenly kingdom right now big time.

True to April's directions the guest house, sits down away from the water. Behind a stand of giant bamboo trees, effectively screening it off from the main house. It also turns out to be less of a bungalow and more of floating Japanese Tea House. With a wide dark hardwood floors running around the outside. I think it's supposed to be a traditional tea house or a moon viewing room thing? Which would definitely fit into the leitmotif of everything else I've seen of the Grimm garden so far.

After crossing over another low wooden bridge, I reach the small floating tea house. Where I finally find May waiting for me on the wide porch. She is sitting contritely outside in a rope nest swing thing just listening to the wind. I take note that she is wearing a thin pale robe over a pair of black silk pajamas and she looks absolutely adorable.

It also looks like there is no way in hell she is going hop into the back of a motorcycle in this outfit. Not unless she wants to add pneumonia to her list of maladies. So I'm pretty sure at this point the only way we are going out for dinner and a movie is if it's ordered in.

"May, it's me," I announce before taking the last tentative step down to the wide wood porch.

"Hey Dare, danger stranger." She singsongs up at me smiling.

"April just let me in, I hope that's cool?"

"Yup. That's pretty much what she was supposably supposed to do." May smirks up wickedly.

Well, that and supposably throw a bunch of condoms at me from a moving vehicle apparently.

"Hey, May," I step up and touch her on the end edge of her collarbone.

The one place on her body designated as mine and mine alone. Something that we started doing after the kiss in the rain that day. The secret signal of the slight twisting press of my fingertip on the edge her collarbone, so that she will always knows it's me, and only me.