Forever Separated

Ellek - V

We were so young, and so afraid of the worlds we lived in. I hated the city for hating me, and this hate controlled so much of my life. It wasn't good. But April didn't hate, she just got annoyed every now and then. And the annoyance just washed away the next day, and thus made her so pure and kind. She held no grudges, and if she did like me, April would be worse than me. As much as I hate to admit it, I need April to keep me up. Not in a sappy kind of way, but in a friendly.

She was my first friend, so of course she was the one I always went to. Up until a time where I made my mistake. Where I shouldn't have done something that ruined whatever was going on between us. After it happened, I never saw my best friend again.

- ⚫️ -

April and I met when I was a scrawny 14 year old and she was a young twelvie. You already know that. Our friendship brought us closer and closer after every visit April made through the invisiwall. I asked her if I could visit her planet in her dimension, but she always said no. This was the only part of her I got annoyed at. Everything else about her had no possible negativeness to it.

I begged and begged her to let me go, but she explained how the pressure would have been too much for me. I stopped whining, but gave a hint every now and then. She would just laugh and shake her head.

"You know the answer to that question, Ellek, so don't try," she'd say.

This was how it went for two years, and on each other's birthday, we'd always have a surprise. I only wished my surprise was to see her dimension, and explore the unknown to mankind.

After two years I stopped. One day full of whining to the next where I didn't mention it at all.

"Ellek," she said, lightly touching my shoulder, "are you alright?"

I looked up at her.

"I'm fine, I've just figured after two years, your obviously not going to take me 'where I should never go'."

She smiled and sat down next to me, "I never thought you would stop. It was really getting on my nerves. Maybe one day though. When you're a little older."

"April, I am older than you. Why do I have to be 'a little older?"

"Because, my dear friend, your body can only take so much. You need to be stronger to survive at least five minutes. That's all you'll get there. Five minutes to take in your surroundings and get used to the gravity difference. Deal?"

I sighed. What more of a choice did I have?

"Deal."