THE LEAF {Part 1}
My first short story anthology
Autumn season, that day was a very pleasant. The chillness started to feel in the air because of the soon arriving winter. It was a very colorful and aesthetically pleasing day when it’s compared to all the days in autumn season.
After completing my casual college day in Kingston university of London, I was walking down the roadway to get some air and a cosy hot decaf latte with chocolate and caramel drizzle which I absolutely love.
I found a bench near the coffee shop which was isolated just like how I wanted it to be for my journaling so that no one could peep in how I let out my desperate feelings for my crush.
After completing my writing, while I was about to return to my apartment, I found a fallen leaf which was so pretty it was shining like a bright star but in the color of an ocean.
The only worlds that left my mouth were,” OH MY…!” It was impossible and beyond imaginary to see a leaf in an exceptional color. I tried to capture it in my phone to share it with my friends and to post it in my Instagram handle.
But after I took a shot of it and searched for it in the gallery, to my surprise, I couldn’t believe what my eyes saw. It looked like the regular orange colored leaf in the phone, it was like magic when I simultaneously looked at the picture in the phone and the actual leaf on the ground. I was surprised and more like shocked that I got to see this kind of magic or whatever it was in the movies, novels and which was way too impossible to be experiencing in the real life.
I was scared to touch the leaf with my hand, but with all my courage I gently took the leaf in my hand. Like every other person has the double thoughts running in their mind I got my crush in my mind while seeing and appreciating the leaf. To see it more keenly, as soon as I turned the leaf to the other side it was containing a message which said, “Wish for your dreams WISELY. Write the dream which had come true and throw it in the fiery red space from where you’ve picked up the leaf. Remember if you put the leaf on the soil ground, your turn for wishing the wishes will be terminated and others can use it. You cannot disclose the secret of leaf until you’ve kept the leaf on the ground! Good luck.”
Like it wasn’t the end of the surprises, I read the message and was almost fainted as my brain was spinning at the rate of 100 km/sec. My mind wanted to try it, but my heart was ready to place the leaf on the ground.
Just like any other sane person would have, my mind was popping up with 2 thoughts instantly. One was about my crush (Ethan) and other was about my career. I didn’t wish yet, but I couldn’t believe the resemblance of my journal writing and the scene that was happening in front of my eyes. I saw him coming towards me, running to be exact, “Hey Katherine.” Ofcourse, he was my friend and we were in the same class.
Gaining my *mental* conscious again, “Hey Ethan. Why were you running so fast? Other than on the track in the college?”
“I wanted to ask something which I was desperate to ask since the day I met you.” I wonder what he was talking about.
“Go on, I’m listening.” I didn’t know how, I said it with confidence which was piling up inside me as if I already knew the answer.
And I noticed that the leaf wasn’t appearing to him like it was appearing to me. I thought it was unnoticeable to other persons rather than the one holding it.
“I like you, Kathy. I think I’ve liked you since our 6th grade when I first saw riding the bicycle. I just wasn’t brave enough to say to you all this time until now when I noticed you in the campus, just effortlessly and beautifully being just the way, you are. I don’t want to lose you. Not now, not ever.”
I couldn’t believe the words that were coming out of his mouth. I didn’t write these words in the journal, but they interpreted the same meaning. My mind was growing suspicious about the message back of the leaf. It said to wish but my random thoughts are started to execute, and which was not a good sign for my anxious filled brain. I didn’t want to, but an idea popped up to try one of the accidents, a small one like falling of a lamppost or…… and just like I thought I saw a lamppost across the street started to fall because of the wrong wire setting. Ethan was looking at me confused and tried to interrupt my sight from the lamppost.
“How did that happen?” he asked.
It was hard I was feeling like air in the space was contracting and I fell unconscious.
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