Both of you sit there, on the hood of the car, staring at the large expanse before you, just drinking in the sunlight and soft pink, white and deep red of the wildflowers swaying in tandem with the autumn breeze.
I am a fugitive in all the right sense of the word. No cops are chasing me, no criminals want me dead, but still, I run. Because regret is a vengeful enemy that would never let you out of her wrath if you had a business of touching her once. People don't know how incessantly I would worry over the smallest of things, but you do. You always have. When our gazes met and you sighed, I knew you knew what went on in my head - mechanical, practical and often nonsensical stuffs I pondered on with painful scrutiny because I can't let go of them. People became the ocean I needed to conquer with my tattered sail, and on the horizon, I saw you - the lighthouse that called me home - blinking a sad farewell of a love that grew but never nourished. I imagined you saying, 'Turn around. Look at me. Come back.', as I looked further away from you towards the murky water where I thought laid my greatest treasure. I had been so confident then, so damn sure that I can finally find the peace I desperately needed. I had thought you were a nightmare I have to live with because no one will understand what it feels to want you - need you, love you - but not knowing what to do.
If loving you means conquering the world, then watch me. I’ll be right in front of the battle field taking them all down. Never am I going to make a way for anyone to destroy our bond. I will love you endlessly. I will fall in love with you over and over again. This is forever.
She runs at an angle nearly horizontal to the ground, circling like an eagle as her long limbs eat up the concrete ground. She fairly trips, but he catches her single-handedly, saving the stumbling girl.
‘Trying to prove there’s no gravity in this region again?’
‘Nope,’ she replies, unspoken words a trail of bread crumbs he treads after.
"Just checking to see if you’d catch me when I fall."
