Path Of The Wind

Part 4:《Perhaps, it's just that》

Adem

"Perhaps,  a friendship has always been so young and fragile , it doesn't get old and it doesn't mature, it stays an infant with mostly everyone, that's why we all end up leaving it behind... "

Walking beneath a blanket of sparkly stars, some used the stars for a way out, a sort of map to show them directions, but I've never looked them that way because I could never have enough courage to escape the tiny town.

Instead, I looked up to make big wishes and was certain there was who listened to every single thing we don't say out loud but desired more than we often speak about, so as long as I could remember I made my dreams, my desires and every little feeling I had suffer into a storage space that grew smaller than those rooms I've been saving in my heart could've handled.

And when I wanted to, I realized those responsibilities upon my shoulder made me forget how to care for myself. How to be selfless in a way that stripped some of the most human things to keep on surviving in a rough life.

To Sink into the night, to cover my flaws that blended so well with the dark, pledging and hoping was what I did often, but who knows for others.

Anonymous whispers came out like screams, secrets became so clear like fresh news reaching every ear.

The darkness blurred visions, covered bodies, and called so many devils out.

It was comforting, deep, and scary all at once.

Downtown was somewhere no one would ever wonder why some things go wrong yet so beautiful.

As I neared the hamlet I started to crash the grass underneath my shoe and could smell the air coming up from the wood, light, fresh and detoxifying as I blew out in relief.

Before getting consumed by the quiet livings of the forest, I left the way that led to it, huge old trees towering over a hundred small houses, I ended up sneaking into the heart of the maze, dim lights, some broken lamps, and so many narrow streets, finally standing near our closed restaurant with my dog Miki insanely howling.

:" Miki, calm down " walking my way to her, the shadow that once was fixed on the street moved, and within seconds it was swallowed by the dark of the other side of the alley, my eyes widened when I realized it was a shadow of a person who was secretly hiding behind the wall.

: "hey, stop! "

Immediately running after the person, there was no way I would lose track of those steps as long as the person was Making the slightest move, steps that were followed by a loud clicking sound and emphasized by echoes from so many walls.

Oddly going through all of the dark alleys didn't even step into the light, not even once was making the chase frustrating.

Spotting the person that turned out to be a lady limping weakly toward a moldy wall, hanging her hand in need of support, barely rushing air into my lungs, I stood firm and straight in intent to catch her but for how defenseless she was at that moment, I just watched how powerlessly her body met the rough ground, knees bearing all the weight and shaky hands that sink into her small bag.

:" are you okay? " I asked, but earned no response from her, coming up as near as possible, the lady was curled up in a small ball, looking down as her thick brown hair wrapped her face in disguise.