The frog that leaped into the Winter skys

Frug la manifest

I remember.
On that summer day, it was us, playing around the ponds without a care in the world. Just a group of kids doing summer activities. The smiles on our faces were as bright as the sun itself. The cicadas were singing their summer song and the bees were on their daily pollen gathering routine. All was right with the world, it truly felt like everyone on earth was at peace for that second. A moment to truly be alive. Such a sad day.

   "Toemo Toemo, snap out of it buddy, you're daydreaming again" Toemo's friend Popo said. When Toemo snapped out of his daytime daze, he was met with many concern eyes staring at him.

   "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Toemo asked

   "Dude you're crying," Popo said.

   After Toemo wiped his face, he began to feel the tears trickling down his cheeks. He grabbed his bag and excuse himself from the class. He didn't know why he was crying, but he knew it was not healthy for him to be there at his current state. On his way home, Toemo began to think about what led him to cry, but the images in his head were foggy and trying to force himself to remember makes his heart ache.

   "Why am I feeling this way" Toemo thought to himself ." "Maybe I just have a fever or something."

   Toemo finally arrived home and tired wasn't the word to describe how he felt. After Toemo ate, he launched himself onto his bed and slowly drifted into slumber. It was currently midnight, and Toemo was finally deep in sleep, but then a voice called.

   "Toemo, come to the pond," said a soft voice "I want to see you."

     Toemo jumped out of bed and scanned his room to look for the owner of the voice, but his room was empty. He became restless. He told himself it was a dream but his gut did not allow him to believe it. Suddenly, a faint image of a girl by a pond flashed in his head, his heart began to beat on his chest. He felt that he will not be able to sleep again if he doesn't go to investigate the pond. He grabbed his bike and pedal to the pond as quickly as he can. The closer he got, the colder the air became, then he stopped, he saw a little girl by the pond, she looked familiar but he doesn't know why.

   The child hair was jet black which greatly contrasted her skin, which was white as snow. She wore a long black dress with a red bow around her neck and what looks to be some sort of leafage around her arm.

   "Heyyy, are you lost?" screamed Toemo

   He began to walk towards her and when he got closer, his heart began to drum, tears rushed from his eyes and his body became numb. The little girl walked closer to Toemo, she smiled at him and then hugged him.

  Toemo collapsed.