A Fragment of Peace- Chapter 8

Well dinner was a complete nightmare, my brothers were both in foul moods, and my parents were swept off their feet with work. Though I did the good daughter thing, I helped clear the table and tried to talk to my parents for a while after dinner had finished. My brothers run off as quickly as possible, but I often stay sitting in my chair. Well I finally gave up on any attempt of pleasant conversation, so grabbed my coat and let myself out of the back door. I still had my lighter with me, so I reached inside my rainbow coat, to the inside pocket and brought out my tobacco pouch and sparked up a pre-rolled cigarette. 1

I just got to the gap between the trees, when I looked up to see Si…sitting on my fence. Right ahead of me. You wouldn’t believe how happy I was to see her there. I wasn’t allowed round to the orchards whiles people were being shown round, and I had missed her so much… Strange, that I would grow so fond of someone in such a short space of time. 2

I stopped. She looked quite worried, I smiled so widely, and she returned the smile, a genuine smile! I forgot my manners and just ran, as fast as I could over to her, she jumped off the fence and open her arms just in time to hug me back as I threw my arms round her. We stood there, in the dark, just holding each other. I finally drew back. 3

“Urm…sorry about that, I needed a hug” I smiled at her, she didn’t seem to mind though. We walked back over to the low fence and stood leaning against it whiles gazing at the stars. They had all just about come out now. It often takes a while to see them once the sun has set. I kept on thinking to myself about therapy and what would happen if I told my shrink that I was spending my time with a faery and that I had…very strong feelings for the faery. AND the fact that the faery happened to be female. She would probably increase my dosage and put me into observation again. I chuckled to myself at the thought. My shrink is a very strick Muslim. She would not approve of homosexual feelings, and she would certainly call si an illusion of some twisted “devilish” religion. After all, faeries don’t exist right?4

The field was silent, only an owl nearby could be heard. Its ghostly call to the night, at night it can take it’s place as dominator. I love owls, I always have done, my granddad had a friend who reared a barn owl from an egg, it used to sit on his shoulder when he went out to the shops to do errands, a really…original sight. They are just so beautiful. Have you ever seen a barn owl  gliding silently above hedge rows on a starry night? It is an amazing sight..5

The owl called again, I couldn’t help but smile. Si noticed and smiled at me, yet again I felt so calm and peaceful… The night sky was beautiful, the owl was calling and Si was beautiful. Slowly she lifted her hand from her side and took hold of mine, I turned my head to smile at her, and guess what? She blushed! Well I can honestly say I’ve never made or even seen a faery blush till then. How amazingly cute! I couldn’t stop myself, I had to giggle. Si turned away, oh no! I hope she didn’t think I was laughing at her! I wasn’t, I just seem to chuckle or giggle when I find something cute.6

I moved behind her and put my arms round her waist, leaned in close to her sweet pointy little ear. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you, it was just… I’ve never seen… I didn’t think faeries blushed.” Jesus H Christ I was being daring wasn’t I? 7

She leaned against me and stroked my arm absentmindedly.8

“Look, you can see a satellite” Si happily said, she raised a finger and pointed to the sky. I followed the line and sure enough, there was a satellite, orbiting the earth, its hard to think that that small bright dot is so so far away fro where we were standing..9

She slowly turned round to face me, I still had my arms around her middle. She studied my face whiles I stood there feeling very odd, why was she looking at me like that? I removed my arms from around her and smiled, those eyes were diving deep into me again. She looked as if she was searching for something, I tried to carry on looking back at her, but the stare was too intense so I eventually looked away.10

I felt her hand on my cheek, she turned my head back round the face her, smiled and then leaned in and … she kissed me. What?! Not just a little kiss, but a flow blown kiss on the lips. She tasted like strawberries… her lips were so soft and warm, faery skin maybe… I suddenly felt rather dizzy, overwhelmed…  Was this really happening. I felt her hands wrap themselves around my waist, so they could pull me in closer, which they did. I realised my hands were just dangling at my sides, hehe, what a crazy sight that must be. Two girls, or… could other people see si? Well that would be a very daft sight if they couldn’t. I put my arms over her shoulders, and ran my hand through her hair. I had to draw back from the kiss though, oxygen was needed. I leaned looking over her shoulder, the meadow we were in looked so calm and pretty…11

She kissed me lightly on the side of my forehead. I looked back into her face then, she just smiled at me. I felt so happy, it was disturbing. I hadn’t been this happy for ages. Si was looking up at the sky, so I took the opportunity to run my finger over her lip… it was so so soft, so soft… This time it was me who started the kissing. She didn’t resist, thank the Goddess, I think if she had I would have curled up and died right then and there. She broke off first this time.12

“Are you ok?” she asked me… I just leaned against her and sighed. I wasn’t really sure, my world had spun upside down, and here I was…making out with a faery. Well I guess that if this just turned out to be some sort of fantasy world I was living in, at least it wasn’t a sick and twisted one, right? I mean, no blood and guts and rape. Just innocent kisses in a beautiful meadow. 13