Fox (AComFttU)

Out in the open, laying down somewhere.

Facing nature, so beautiful and out there.

Someone just walks up to me,

It's a girl named Sky.

She asks, "What are you doing?"

I say, "Nothing. Just laying down."

She then asks me if she can join. I said, "Sure. Why not?"

She lays down beside me like she's also enjoying nature

I've nothing to do. I can stay with her.

Years pass by in sight, it's now high school.

She's grown older, she can fight

We always lay down at the same spot underneath the tree

I ask her, "Do you ever feel lonely?"

She looks at me confused but comprehensively. She nods slightly.

Suddenly, I have a little jolt; something washes over my mind

It's as if it's infatuation, something out of sight

For her? No, it couldn't be,

For we're only friends and friends it shall be.

A year passes by, we graduate high.

She's going somewhere, so am I with a sigh.

I stopped by to congratulate her, she smiles.

"I had a fun time these past 2 years," I recalled.

"Me, too" She replied.

We conversed for hours about where she was going, what she wanted to be.

Suddenly, my alarm rang. It was time to depart.

We said our goodbyes and we both were sad.

But I left her something...

I gave her a kiss on the cheek; she was shocked.

I dashed as quickly as I could the car, I was scared.

An immoral act like that when we are only friends? I felt ashamed and impure.

But it felt fair. Did it?

I didn't see her again for months. I felt sad and depressed.

I felt like I didn't belong.

I went to another college, somewhere farther. I didn't know if she hated me or not.

We were so close, as close as friends could be. But it loosened the knot.

I bought myself a gun, I was old enough now.

I wondered how my head would feel if I did it through the brow.

I closed my eyes and thought of happy thoughts. But there's no Neverland.

Then something snapped, a voice fired.

It said, "Don't go that way. Playing your game."

It was right.

I took out all the bullets, went to the landfill, threw it out.

I returned swiftly, it was pouring outside.

I sat down, grabbed my hair. Tears started to flow, I collapsed. I cried.

Just then, a knock at the door.

I got up, I staggered drunk to the door. I opened.

It was Sky. She asked if I was ok. I never felt better.

We chitchatted about life, family and college. She seemed fine. I felt like stone.

Then, she asked me how I was doing. I lied and said I was fine.

She needed to leave.

All of sudden, I felt that feeling of love from high school. That feeling set it out.

As she was at the door, I clasped her hand tightly. She noticed.

All the voices came back, I grasped tighter and tighter.

I confessed to everything.

I then let go, ashamed. I waited for the bullet.

Then she grabbed me, pinned me against the wall. Our eyes locked. My heart stopped. I never felt so scared before.

However, words cannot describe the space that diminished so passionately and quickly.

After that experience, I uttered the one thing I couldn't speak. "I love you."

She looked at me happily and lovingly. "I love you, Kaylon."

We then hugged. I could never seem to let go of her.

It was like she was a fox, she always seemed wild and untamed. I didn't know she also felt for me.

So tender and empathetic. It was the most prominent trait she had.

We went to go see a movie. The two of us.

The reason why I couldn't love her is because we were the same. We were magnets that couldn't attract.

But we did.

However, the one thing I noticed as I left was that her hair was shorter. It used to be below the shoulders.

Now, it was brushing them.

I thought it was adorable. It fit her.