Can I Keep You ♡ Taehyung/Reader FF ♡ Completed/Currently Editing♡

Chapter Three ~ Blue Creek

Y/N's POV ~

In the forest the sky vanishes almost completely, only a few fragments of blue remain- like scattered pieces of an impossible jigsaw puzzle. The air is rich with the fragrance of leaves and loam, damp too. Even so many hours after the rains have passed, the soil remains wet, slowly releasing its heady fog. Outside is the noon daylight, the powerful rays of early summer, but in here everything is cool and the colours have the softness of that time just before twilight. The only movement is the occasional bird, startling in a tree or a squirrel dashing up a nearby trunk. The sound of running water in the brook has the same hypnotic quality as music, I want to stop just to drink in the sound. The huckleberries are mostly red, tart but with just the right amount of sweetness. I take in all the air my lungs will hold and expel it slowly. These hikes in the forest are like a trip out of my life, a visit to somewhere the measuring of time is done only by the rising and setting of the sun.

I spent hours taking my photographs and enjoying the solitude, stopping on occasion to take a drink or eat some of my sandwiches that I always packed before leaving the house. I wasn't entirely sure how much time had gone by since arriving but knew it was getting late, the sun which was once bright now a deep crimson as it filtered through the tree canopy. I decided to head back, taking my time and going through the photos on my new camera.