Fantamasia

Best Friends Forever.

I got tired of staring at the sun which was preparing to make its grand exist. The silence was driving me crazy and I had to talk to Feathers or else I would explode. Not yet.... As I watched the sky turn in to misty hues of pinkish orange, I remembered the first time I saw Feathers.

 It was a cold night and I was hugging my knees, my face wet from crying. My parents had a fight; I heard them shouting at each other. It was the first time I had seen my parents so angry and frustrated. I had thought it was my fault and had slipped outside watching the view become blurry and cold. I saw someone throw a box near our gate. I splashed my way to the gate which hence made my clothes wet. As I held the box in my arms, I felt the box slightly shake. As I put the box on my front porch I wondered who- and what could be inside it. As I cut the box open I saw a small bird the size of an eight month old puppy inside, its bones shaking in terror. ‘There, there. It’s okay, I won’t hurt you’ I hushed to it. As I took it inside with me I saw that my parents had gone upstairs, annoyed with each other for sure. I held the bird in my arms as though I was cradling a baby and saw that it was fully covered in feathers a sort of an innocent adorable look on its face. ‘I wonder who did this to you. But don’t you worry; your safe now’ I said looking straight into the birds eyes. Its eyes replied back to me, saying that he would one day pay back the kind deed. ‘ I think I’ll call you Feathers’ I cried making a nice bed for my new friend who had from that day, stayed at my side through thick and thin.

 I was supposed to pay him for all he did for me and here I was my mind filled with thoughts and still I had not opened my big mouth to thank him. I cleared my throat. ‘Hey Feathers, listen’...  so it wasn’t the best line to start a conversation. ‘All ears; what’s wrong?’  Suddenly I was lost for words.

‘I need to tell you that-um-look it might seem that I don’t like you, and that I get annoyed by you- the latter is usually correct; but the point of me saying this, is that you’re a part of my family and- I don’t know what I would do without you, because you mean the world to me’ I declared . Just as I had said this Feathers dived down and looked for a place to land. ‘Why did you land?’ I asked. ‘Lily you’re the only reason I am alive and I owe you for that. And if you think we are family then let me tell you that I am not going to be sleeping inside the kitchen like the cats and dogs’ I couldn’t help but laugh ‘ okay, okay don’t worry’ I said quite out of breath from laughing. I walked to my best friend to give it a hug. 

Once we were back in the air, I felt much more relaxed because of talking to Feathers. I felt happier but I couldn’t help but feeling worried. It may have been easy to talk to Feathers but my father was another different story which would be hard to tackle. I just hoped for the best.