XxQueenJeannexX CypressOury NEGAISHIPPERS OFFICIAL
I passed some people on my way to the lake, they glared at me through closed eyes. No one really would pay attention to a non-white girl with a long braid, not them. Racism may not be a thing, but it certainly was a "thing".
The lake is calm, the lake is colourless. It is a mirror that reflects the sky's feelings, and today it was blue and cloudy, unpredictable. I came here every day to look at the fish and the birds and the dragonflies. When I was little I wanted to be a dragon, to be invincible and strong and fly everywhere. Now I just wished I could be like a dragonfly, happy and carefree, watching the world go by. Or were they happy?
My eyes have a filter, a filter that immediately assumes the life of others is a hell lot better than mine, but I guess it's time to switch that off.
A boy told me that once, his name is Ash. He told me that Unova wasn't exactly the happiest place in the world, but that didn't change anything. Other people can suffer as much as I did, even worse.
"If you really want happiness, Iris, you would be looking for it."
Ash wanted to be a bird, be free of the world, free from his parents and school and racism. Ash was asian, but he'd lived over here since he was born, since his grandparents were born. But that didn't stop people from trying. It didn't stop anything. Here, emotion overpowered facts anytime.
I told him if he was a bird, we could fly together, leave this world and look for the stars. He told me I had a future ahead of me in Unova, and that he was moving back to Kanto, where no one cared where you came from. I told him he was my future.
"Happiness is in the sky, Ash. I need wings."
"I think you just found them."
He promised to stay, for a while. It didn't matter if he left, did it? I was already soaring, and wherever he was he was flying next to me, dragonfly and dragonfly.
