falling

two : who are you?

Elijah lifted her up by lending her a hand. She smiled while squinting at him.

"Who are you?" , she asked. Of course she could say knew who he was...but did she really know.

It was a loaded question. He can simply reply by saying that he is Elijah Lance Adler...but the question only made him think...who is he?

A friend. A son. A smile on a freckled face. The quarterback of Amster high's football team. A hand up in class to an answer he may or may not know.

If he simply answered with his name she would know he's lying. That would lead to deeper questions. Besides, Who is Elijah Adler? Does he even know? And even if he did...a lot can change in a minute. He thinks that what we get every minute should be cherished. So he did cherish it. Walking down the train tracks with a long haired hazel eyed girl was in his records, perfect bliss..

Any moment to him was perfect. Anything can change

And in sixty seconds, Jade Repond changed Elijah Adler in a way that was yet to discover.

"I keep asking myself the question", he finally replied looking down at the smiling girl.

"Well who do you think you are?" , she asked. He could have sworn he saw the galaxy in her eyes in that very second.

"Who do you think you are", Elijah asked her in return.

She smiled, " I guess you'll have to wait and see"

-

The two skipped the rest of the school day. It was just the two and their bicycles. Oh and of course the yellow music player on Jade's basket.

They blasted music and fulfilled their ears' desires. Jade felt happy with elijah..it was strange.

She threw her bike to the floor and laid herself down on the plain. Elijah mirrored her actions. There they laid, in silence staring at the sky.

Until Jade broke the silence. " Thomas Edison's last words were 'it's very beautiful over there' " she whispered into the blue sky.

"Yeah?"

"Mhm..I'm not sure where though"

"Where do you think it is?" He asked as he admired her dimples

"I dont know..but I'm sure its beautiful. I wish I did know..sometimes life isn't beautiful. I wish I could go there and see the secrets of the universe." Jade always had the habit of going deep into thought until she broke out of her trance.

"I like music" Elijah said, being the one to break her out of her trance. "When life isn't beautiful, I listen to music. I hear myself in it..it helps me understand myself of the sorts..like I hear myself with every note..every octave"

"What do you hear?" Jade asked

"I hear acoustic guitars and constellations at night..red Roses in the day. It's a mix of so much...and not just that...It makes me think of how many people would have listened to the song. How many people get over a bad day listening to songs..I hope people who write songs are happy and proud. I hope they know their songs are enough because they make me happy..and I'm only one person. I want to write songs."

Jade grins "you deserve to be happy..and maybe some day you can write a song that makes people happy. Help someone find themselves "

He liked that thought..he looked at the girl laying beside him and realised that he had learnt more about her than he has ever known about herself.

She likes bicycle rides and slow meaningful songs and quotes.she likes books and places outside that are beautiful. She likes life somedays and somedays she doesn't. She smiles without meaning to. She has dimples. She really likes the sky.

"I think the sky looks like the ocean " her soft voice spoke.

"The ocean?"

"That's what I assume it to be. The white spots the foam..the blue, the water."

The two looked at each before bursting into a fit of giggles. Elijah turned back towards the sky with a grin.

He realized that he would like to spend the rest of his life smiling with her.