Part one:
Vanilla Twilight
Four o’clock P.M., I just went out, and the feeling of despair flooded me as soon as I thought of it. This is the last day I will spend with Gabriela, the love of my life. It just, wasn’t fair, the way it ended; my parents came into my room, while I was talking with her over face-book, and started shouting at me, and they were like. ,, We are leaving this town. ‘’ And then I was like. ,, Why? ‘’ And then some more shouting, out of what I could understand only one thing. ,, Because we say so! ‘’ And pretty much since then, I spent the most time possible with Gabriela.
I went out, and to the park, where we agreed to meet every day, she was as beautiful as always, from the top of her chocolate brown hair to the bottom of her fancy fur shoes. Her sky blue eyes, and her round face, everything was just so beautiful.
As we walked through the town, my feet felt heavy, the thoughts of leaving the town, the cliff, but mostly Gabriela weighted me down the same instant I would think about it. We were slowly walking towards the cliff, the one last time.
The town looked beautiful in the sun set. And the sun set was at its peak when we reached the cliff. I had it all, the cliff, the sea, and the love of my life with me, the one last time.
We turned to each other, our faces close to each other. As the sun set shined over the cliff, and the tree next to us, we kissed, the one last time. We looked at each other after the kiss, and then she hugged me, I hugged back.
This was the one last time I will be happy, either until I find another one, but I shook off that thought the same instant it got in, or until I manage to make my parents to come back here, of course, running away was also an alternative. But I couldn’t do that to my parents, and anyway, I couldn’t live with Gabriela, her parents would call mine and it would be all over again.
But the saying says this: Hearts grow bond when separated. So I just turned around and watched the twilight, the vanilla twilight, for the one last time.
We went back to the town as the sun set turned into a vanilla twilight; everything looked so beautiful under the setting sun. As we walked through the town, holding each other’s hand, we saw everyone we knew in the town, our friends.
After greeting them, we went to the fountain in the park; the water was vanilla yellow during the vanilla twilight, and the trees in the park didn’t look green under the setting sun, no, they were a combination of vanilla yellow, and dark green, and it made a perfect color of the leaves who slowly moved on the soft breeze, for the one last time.
Part two:
Separated
I returned home, dragging my feet because I now knew the meaning of that saying, a man doesn’t know what he has before it’s too late. I dragged myself to the bed, ignoring my parents in the living room.
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The morning came, the sunrise was beautiful, and the silence wasn’t so bad, until I looked at my hands. The spaces between my fingers now looked so empty, without her hands between mine. I got up; the sunrise wasn’t so beautiful anymore, without her. I dragged myself downstairs, and slowly ate away my breakfast, I already felt sad, nostalgia already got into me, even though I’m still home, still here, close to her, but I knew that won’t last long.
As we entered the car, I looked back at the house, it looked so unsettling now, maybe because I won’t be able to come back here, this was the one last time, the last morning, I will be here. I turned around and faced the car, for a moment I wanted to turn around and run away, where ever, but only as far as possible from my parents.
I slowly dragged myself into the car, my legs felt so heavy, almost like I can’t lift them. My father started the engine; we were now on the road.
All the way to the destination, I thought about home, about Gabriela, about yesterday. The feeling which has haunted me since I entered the car has now became unbearable, we were about to arrive, and when we did, I ran inside, and up the stairs, the house was already furnished and my room was ready, I sat on my bed and leaned my back against the wall as I hugged my knees to my chest and buried my head into my legs.
Nostalgia slowly crept into my, and soon I was in total despair, I locked the doors, I heard my parents knocking on the doors, and then my father shouted at me, I simply said ‘’ go away ‘’ and buried my head into my legs again. Her eyes were in my mind, her hair, and her face followed, and soon I found myself crying, crying silently. The tears in my eyes slowly fell from my cheek onto my legs; nostalgia was now harder than ever. My thoughts were all messed up, I first thought about her, and then about my friends, the town, the cliff…
As I cried here silently, my parents started knocking on the door again; I simply ignored them and kept sobbing. And then, my thoughts fixed up, I figured out that crying here won’t do me any good, but with all this nostalgia in me I won’t be able to do anything serious, I unlocked the doors and got out, my parents were waiting for me, my father started shouting again, I simply ignored him, and got out. I sat down on the wooden stairs; the house was in front of a cliff, so I had a beautiful view while the sun set shined down on me, how long was I locked up in there?
I didn’t really care, I hugged my knees to my chest again, and buried my head into them again, I started thinking about her again, we will see each other again, I know that.
