The sky is clear and the brightly shining sun is covered by giant trees in the woods. The ground is covered by countless autumn leaves hiding many secrets in its heart. And there stood a man in his mid-20s staring at something as if he is immersed in some sort of memory, painful memory from the past. He is tall and has a handsome personality that seems perfect in every aspect. Being in the states for a long time he hasn't visited his native land for a while about half a decade. It's a place where he left her the love of his life just to save his career, just to became someone his family is proud of. Just to save someone's life. There are signs of embarrassing feelings, rage, and pain on his face. A slight movement of leaves crushing strikes his eardrum as if someone is walking on them. A pretty girl comes behind the person standing and whisper in his ear, "Are you happy now?" it strikes like an electric string in a man's body and he turns around curiously towards the girl. "who are you?".Says the man. "Huh you removed me fully from your mind right?" says the girl with no feelings shown on her face, a whole blank face.
"it's you ....you....Ro....Rosy...I....I...missed you." Suddenly the expression on girls face change, tears start to pop out of her eyes and she says, "Finally ... finally you are here but ... but you didn't miss me with all those pretty girls for whom you have left me in hell for five years." "Rosy ....listen to me" calls out jack. His face is full of mixed feelings as if he doesn't know what to say or do. "You had your time you ordered me not to love you anymore as I wasn't that cool and pretty like others". Says Rosy. Her face is full of anger with nonstop tears dripping down her face making the face sparkling in a dark forest.
"If you had known why I left you you wouldn't be that stressed as you are right now. I ...I know ...I can explain to you if you want... I wasn't happy all these years I... I missed you only you there isn't anyone else in my life but you and ....and you know that don't you?" Jack explains. "Ahh that's enough it's too long by the way, so just forget it".Rosy says. She as if have engulfed all her anger inside herself she points to the ground with a slightly high slope covered by reddish-brown maple leaves and brushes them off.
"You see, you know what's that? It's the spot where you left me crying...It's the grave of old Rosy." Rosy continues. "All your and my belongings our relationship memories are embedded in this pointless ground". Jack hurls up and try removing leaves to see what's inside it. what the ground is hiding in its heart. As Jack removes the leaves, Rosy bends down at an angle of 90° and whispers in his ear. "You know what, time heals everything even an unforgettable experience, even the deepest scar." Says Rosy abruptly. Jack is looking at her with questionable eyes.
(15 YEARS AGO)
"You see that kid, he's playing alone hehe." "Ohh come on he's not having any friends ....let him be." children whispering to each other. There is a small young boy covered with mud all over his clothes sitting on the edge of the beach trying to find out something while some naughty kids caught the eye him so they started making fun of him.
"Hey, you! stop right there you don't have any right to say such things to him." Suddenly a young girl (about 10 years old) the same age as that of boy canes down the beach running towards the children's. The children are all just stunned in a shock standing thoughtlessly on the same spot looking at the girl. One of them tries speaking up to her as she seems annoyed by their actions.
"Why are you defending him as if you are his girlfriend." "And what if I am what are you gonna do by then?" Then she turns around towards the boy and asks him what he was looking for. The children left the scene as they don't want to be scolded by the little young girl. "You see here are the beautiful seashells that you can't find anywhere here." Says the boy with an expression filled with both excitement and curiosity. "Ohh my my so you got all this mud on your clothes just by digging those seashells right?" The girl asks him.
"Yeah aren't they pretty."The boy looks into her eyes and bells are ringing in the girl's ears. She is immersed. The boy gives a little smirk and asks the girl, "So are you, my girlfriend, now?" The girl as if suddenly got shocked she rushes off and with mixed feelings says, "No...I...I am not your....your girl..friend." "But you just said soo in front of kids." says the boy his eyes hiding excitement. The girl turns around and says, " You are too young to be my boyfriend but if you want we can be friends, the best friends." There is a pause. "Would you like to be my friend my best friend?" Finally, she breaks the silence. "Why not." Both looks in each other's eye with a smiling face.
(Few Days After)
Jack and Rosy are walking down the street wearing school bags. Turns out that their homes were just a yard away from each other. The weather is cloudy and a little breeze is blowing, it's early spring days. Rosy is looking here and there when her eyes get stuck at a beautiful butterfly who is struggling for her life. She taps at Jack shoulder and runs towards it. " Hey see they're a cute butterfly," Rosy says to the jack as she rushes towards the butterfly.
The butterfly is reddish-brown, seems like it's unable to move its leg. Jack picks her up and turns around towards Rosy. "You see she got little hurt but if we release it from the higher place it may fly again and return to her home." Jack says but Rosy doesn't dmseems to believe him. "Are you crazy how is it even possible?" Rosy says. "Just trust me and see what happens next will amaze you." Jack says liftinh his hand up in the sky. Rosy nods and jack pulls up his hand and hurls the butterfly into the sky where. Firstly is falls down but after several times of liftinh her upp in sky, it starts flying again. Both children laugh excitedly. They make their way back to school. Rosy turns her head and in slight voice she says, "We will see you again dear."
Jack Rushes towards the ground covered with countless autumn leaves and starts dispersing them to find what Rosy have covered in the ground. He brush-off the sand and finds a small box embedded about 5 feet down in the ground. It's a wooden box, looking very old as the mud from rain has stuck hard on it. But the wood have protected the material inside like an unbreakable sword used by ancient emperors. The wood is composed by parts of tropical and temperate deciduous forest trees. There's the lock, that looks not so old but there alot of mid on it and it's covered with rust.
"Is it where you have kept all our memories?" Says jack in a deep painful voice. The unstoppable tears that are rolling down his cheeks are crying hard seeing the miserable face of Jack. His clamor beats the eardrum of Rosy's ear and she turns around seeing that he has taken out the box and is looking at it.
"Yeah!." Says Rosy finally wiping tears off her face.
As he tries to open the box the voice of various accessories inside are heard by both of them. The fear of what would be inside the box made Jack burst into tears but manages to open the box. The lock is so old that it opens up in just one pull. There are some letters of different colors in it, a key chain, a watch, a small rusty teddy bear, chocolate wrappers and some other stuff. Everything inside there had indeed a beautiful behind it. The noise of bird chirping can be easy heard by anyone. The beat is converted to a sad melody like a curse is created on both of them. And the curse which is never going to lift up over their heads.
(10 years ago)
The door closes with a BANG. A girl, with pretty golden eyes shiny blue hairs come out to the street roadside. She's wearing a whitish blue school uniform with a pinkish black bag pack and as always, a bright smile on her face.
"Hey wait for me." A voice of a boy strikes the girl's ear. She turns around and see's a tall boy standing in the same uniform as hers. He's waving at her with a refreshing smile and shining black eyes. He then hurries towards her. He's Jack and the girl standing opposite to him is Rosy. Both smile at each other.
Jack pulls something out of his pocket and gives it to Rosy. She's as if surprise and curious that what the beautiful cardboard box is having inside it.
" Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Rosy. Happy birthday to you. woohoo." Jack sings the birthday song to her and she burst into a wider smile.
" Hey, I thought you forgot my birthday. why didn't you wished me on time?" Says Rosy with a voice full of excitement. "Ohh come on I know you like surprises rather than being wished on time. Just see that's why I bought you a gift too, now can you please let the cat out of the bag?" jack replies in rather apologizing and a friendly tone.
"Ahh, that's not the case you know. But let me see what you bought as a gift for me." She opens up the box and there lies a beautiful key chain with a little heart and seashells of different textures and colors, a unique piece of nature. "OMG!!! it's so beautiful, how come you came across this idea." It's Rosy, her voice full of liveliness. " Well, you know we just met due to these seashells, and yes your bag looks worse without anything on it so I chose this keychain for you. Isn't it pretty?" Asks Jack excitedly. Rosy nods her head in admiring way. Rosy immediately takes out the keychain from the box but jack steps forward and takes the keychain from her.
"Hey didn't you say it was mine?" Rosy says as Jack snatches the watch out of her hands. "Wait a bit you impatient girl." He says and grabs his bag. Than in a go he puts the chain beside one of her bag zips. "Ahh you should have told me earlier." says Rosy. "A story without suspense and a conversation without missing clue always have best endings." Jack says smiling at her.
13 years ago
A huge playground of a school where a baseball match is going on. The teams are divided into red and blue colors. Both parties are cheering their teams present on the ground.
Rosy, as always with a shining pretty smile cheering on to the blue team. She's wearing a well-pressed tidy uniform along with blue ribbon in her hairs and blue colored flags to cheer the team. Of course, there's her best friend in the ground standing against the red team and getting all points off them. Just a few minutes ago when the blue team was scoring 1:9 he stepped in for his friend's sake and made the score 18:9. It's looking as if what Rosy can see right now is him just and just him. Out of all 24 players, the only person she could see from afar is Jack. It's the point where she falls in love with him. People say that only 3 seconds are enough to fall in love with someone but she didn't even count the time as she counted with other guys. "Rosy... Rosy?...ROSY can you hear me?..." Someone was calling out her name. She as if just woke from a dream, a beautiful dream. "Ye...yes?" Replies Rosy with a quite upset tone. "The match just ended with the blue team blowing up the charts and you are just standing there like this?" Calls out a voice. It's Shela's voice. She's her classmate as well as her groupmate too. "Ohh... Ohh...Yayy... I know you could do it... I knew." Her voice suddenly changes into a cheerful voice. "I said blue team won and you are cheering them?" She confusedly asked Rosy who is still immersed in a nut hall. She shakes her body and Rosy gets up as if she heard a morning alarm. "Ahh yes..... I know.... I know. Jack you won I knew you would blowup charts my bestie well-done." She starts wising to jack seeing the annoyed face of her friends who is not understanding why she is acting up. She is waiting for Jack. And there comes Jack with a Silver star-shaped trophy in his hands. He pulls out the trophy happily and shows it to Rosy.
Rosy's face turns red and her heart skips a beat, hundreds of thousands of bells started ringing in her head. She can't get her eyes off him. Jack flicks their finger on her forehead in a rather cute way. " Hey, where did your mind vanished?... May I help you?" Ask Jack out of curiosity." Ahh no ...no I...I am..fi...fine." she as if recognized whats going on. Jack seems satisfied with an expression on her face. Rosy pulls a little wooden box out of her small handbag and gives it to Jack. Jack surprisingly takes it.
"It's a gift for you from my side for making our team win. No more excuses now, just open up the box". Jack opens up the box and inside lies a watch which is very old from the 1950s era. " Where did you get that? It's ... It's a too valuable girl!". Asks Rosy. " Well this is the gift my grandpa gave me when I first made the catch in dodge the ball game as a precious gift. Now that I am giving it to you keep it with care with you ok?" Rosy asks Jack in rather an angry pretending voice to make sure he takes the gift from her. Rosy lifts her head and glares at him. "You better be good to me or I will not give it with you okay?" Rosy says. "Yes master I will serve you all my life."Jack replies in an ancient accent. Both of them bursts out of laughter. Both make their way to school cafeteria.
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