soulmate ✗ grethan

two

Completely and utterly jet-lagged, the teenager stumbled his way across the foreign airport, miraculously making it through all checks without fail. As soon as he'd finished, a sudden rush of compelling desire coursed throughout his body.

Determined to quench his mind's thirst, he began sprinting, earning strange stares from onlookers surrounding. Without a care in the world, the beaming boy ran onwards, wanting nothing more than to embrace the cultivated destination.

After what seemed as though much too long, he finally arrived afore the immense glass doors. A wave of sudden yearning trepidation crashed upon him, stopping his hurried pace. The concerned boy grimaced in apprehension, knitting his brows together. Yet, somehow, the lust he felt for his dream haven once again engulfed his absolute self.

The broadest grin spread across his face as he took his first, long-awaited step outside the airport, and into his one sole aspiration.

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An excessive sigh escaped his mouth, and with it, it seemed, his soul.

Although, if there was one thing he'd at no time ever want to replace, it was the sonorous sunrises and sunsets that could be seen from the heights he'd encountered. To say they were simply beautiful was perhaps the biggest understatement one could make.

Hues of lilac and dusty rose interlocking with streaks of autumn auburn, ivory blue smeared delicately over and above all, the golden afterglow of the sun lacing all tones together in a synchronising harmony. They were purely divine, with best regards. They were a dying ember, a falling star. A midsummer night's dream, the Romeo to one's Juliet. The perfect culprit. Yet, a mere ghost, when thought about, for they could never be under one's touch, never reach one's clutch. They were a hopeless devotion, yet one that he would never, in a million years, replace.