A Single Tree

the start of a forest

There once was an old tree. It stood in an empty feild towards the outskirts of town. There was a little girl. No one paid much attention to her. She didnt have any close relationships with anyone.

She would visit the tree every week. She eventually built a ladder to climb it. She would bring books or homework and spend the whole day there. She sat in that tree everyday. She fell asleep in it a couple of times.

The tree would comfort her. She never wanted to leave it. It was her true happy place. She hated being around her parents and siblings.

Sometimes she felt the tree could talk to her without saying anything.
She began to feel connected with it.

She eventually got her first job. With her first paycheack she bought some tree saplings. She told the tree that she was planting them to return the favor the tree had given her throughout all these years. They began to flourish and grow quicker than they were supposed to.

The tree had a secret hole that you could crawl into if you climbed a few branches up. She used it to hide from the world.

One day a 10 year old kid followed her from the store. The little girl watched her climb the tree in awe. She noticed how tremendous the tree was.

She look up at the 18 year old and asked said "could i join you up there miss?" She stared back down at the kid in shock. No one had ever wanted to climb the tree though all 9 years she had known about it.

She said to the little girl, "My name's kayla. What's yours?"

The little girl smiled and replied, "Stacy."

Kayla helped the little girl and asked, "Do your parents know where you are?"

Stacy shook her head, "They never seem to care."

Kayla and stacy ended up staying in the tree for the night. Cuddled in the crawl space of the tree underneath a blanket.

The following morning kayla then explained to stacy how the tree has been her greatest comfort in life and that she will always protect it in the end. She looked into stacy's eyes and told her to promise that she'll take care of it, because i t be able to forever.

The 3 trees continued to flourish and stacy began to take care of them by herself. She passed it on to her kids. They all ended up planting their own trees next to it. Eventually the tree turned into a beautiful forest.