10 hours later . . .
We're here.
Michael is sleeping on my bed . . . I couldn't close on eye tonight. I was on the deck with my father almost the whole time . . talking to him about how much I will miss Michael. The last few days with him in our house were CRAZY though . . . but I wouldn't trade them for anything . . . I hate to admit it but It's for the best to just let him go. It's is not about me . . it's about him . .
I can't keep him, as much as I want to. . he can't be happy with me. I walk down to our beds. There he is sleeping like a baby. . . he's wearing my favorite shorts. . . . I left his loincloth at home . . I wanna keep it. It's the only memory I will have from him . . and some phtotographs.
"Michael" I brush my hand across his cheek . . . he's been up all damn night . . going crazy, literally. No wonder why he's sleeping so deeply now. "Michael. . wake up. . come on, open your gorgeous eyes" He opens his eyes and looks around. "Come on sweetie. . let's go on the deck . . I'm sure you're gonna be excited when you see where we are" I take his hand and bring him up to the deck. His mouth drops . . . I can see the light in his eyes again. The light of happiness. . . .
I can't keep myself together. I'm crying like a baby right now. "I'll miss you buddy. . . I'll miss you so much" Michael prepares to jump down the stairs . . . but he doesn't . . he's looking at me now . . what is he waiting for? . . . why doesn't he jump? . .
"Go Michael, you're back home . . go see your family!! go!" . . . he's just sitting there, looking at me. I can't take this any longer . . . "GO!!! Michael just GOO!!!! jump!!!" . . . I'm crying my eyes out . . . He slowly walks back to me. He takes my hand and walks to the stairs with me . . . "I think he wants you to go with him, Yuli . . looks like you're not gonna be the only one with a broken heart" . . . .
~ Michael's point of view ~
I'm back home ! WE ARE BACK HOME! I can't wait to tell my mother about her, to show her to my friends and family. . . I found my female and I'm going to start a family with her in my home. We are going to live here together. . . . I didn't feel happy at this other place . . . I was missing my friends, my mother, my home . . . I felt trapped in her home. . but now I'm happier than ever that we're back. I'm ready to leave but I'm waiting for her to follow me. "Michael please stop looking at me like that . . . I can't come with you!" She looks sad . . why is she sad? isn't she happy that we're back home now? she liked it here, didn't she? . . . .
I can't wait to see my friends and family again! I just can't wait!! . . . maybe I have to carry her . . . like I always do when I bring her somewhere . . . I gently pick her up. "What are you doing Michael?" I jump down with her . . . "No . . I can't come with you! I can't! . . put me down and please just go!!" . . . she pushes me a away. . . I walk back to her . . then she pushes me again . . . "GO!!! . . just GOO!!!!!!!" . . . . why is she crying and pushing me away? . . . . :( I don't want her to cry . . I want her to be happy . . .
I am happy now - why isn't she?
I'm starting to believe that she doesn't even wanna come with me . . . maybe that's why she keeps pushing me away . . . . She wraps her arms around me very tightly. "OK, NOW GO!!!!!!" She let's go of me and gets back on the ship . . . . I run after her.
"NOO!!! GOO!!!" . . . why isn't she coming? :( . . doesn't she wanna come with me? . . . "Daddy, make him leave, I can't look at him anymore . . it's breaking my heart, do something! . . please. . . I wanna go home, I wanna get this over with. . . ."
Suddenly I hear that loud sound in the air again . . . really really loud . . . it scares me. "It's working dad . . . shoot some more. . he'll leave eventually" I can't hear that sound anymore . . it's so loud . . . I have to go . . .
I run as fast as I can . . "BUSTER! . . JULIEN!! WILLY! PAAAUL!!!" 3 minutes later I finally arrive. . . My mom is sitting on her tree. . . . I bet she's so happy to see me!!. . . "Mom! I'm back!!" She looks at me. "Michael. . . where the hell have you been? I WAS WORRIED SICK!!!!!!"
She screams at me . . as loud as she can. "WHERE WERE YOU? and what are you wearing? what's that thing??" She smells it and pushes me away "You smell like human . . why do you smell like human??!"
"I was far, far away . . . . they gave that to me" - "You were far away? how far away???? I told you not to go near them!!!!. . now GOO!!! I don't wanna see you!!! I want you to go for tonight . . . and maybe tomorrow aswell . . you hurt my feelings . . . you broke your promise!!! I'm VERY, VERY disappointed in you Michael . . . VERY!!!" She scares me away by screaming in my ear and pushing me . . . my ears are hurting from all the screaming . . .
I'm sad enough because I miss my female . . . . :( . . .
why is everyone pushing me away? don't they like me anymore? . . .
I run down to the water . . . no one is there . . . Paul usually spends all his time down here . . he's either near my tree or down here near the water . . . and so are Buster, Julien and Willy . . . where are they? . . . . . :( . . . I sit down on a rock and start crying . .
I'm so sad. I was looking forward to seeing everybody again but all I get is rejection . . . why is nobody happy to see me? . . . I run back to the ship as fast as I can . . if nobody loves me here anymore then I might as well go back. . . .
~ Yuli's point of view ~
"DAD!! he came back!!" He looks for his gun to scare him away again . . "NO!! leave the gun!!" I walk up to Michael and sit down next to him . . "Why are you back?" He's got tears in his eyes . . his cheeks are wet from crying . . . my poor sweetheart . . he wants me to come with him so bad . . .
"Dad. . I will spend some time here with him, 1 or 2 hours to help him get adjusted again, I'll be back later" I walk down the steps . . . Michael doesn't follow me. "Come on sweetie, I'll bring you back . . I'll stay here with you for a while . . . come on. . . let's go" He's not moving . . . "Dad, give him a little push" My dad pushes him. . . Michael looks at him and shakes his head. "NOO!!!" . . . . .
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DID HE JUST TALK? . . I can't believe it!!! He just said 'NO' . . . . my heart is fluttering . . . this is so amazing! he finally used a word to express himself! A word we all understand!!! . . . "Michael, look at me" He looks at me. "Come here . . come on baby. . . come here. . . follow me"
"NOO!! NO, NO, NO!!" He runs to the other side of the ship . . . . why doesn't he wanna leave now? I don't understand . . he felt so sad in our home . . and now he feels even sadder here . . . "Yuli, I think someone's in love" I smile to myself . . . how cute . . the thought of that is so precious . . could it be that he has feelings for me? . . could be have fallen in love? . . .
I decide to walk into the jungle all by myself . . he'll follow eventually . . I will just sit down somewhere and scream my lungs out . . he'll think an animal is attacking me and he'll come to my rescue like he always does. I sit down a rock and start screaming. . . . Not even 5 seconds later Michael is right there to check on me. "Hi baby . . I knew I would get you this way"
He looks around nervously . . checking for danger . . . "Honey there is nothing here, I screamed so you would finally get your butt out here. . . I'll miss you baby. . . so very much . . come here" I open my arms . . . he hugs me and gently bites into my shoulder. "I can't believe you said NO . . . that made me so happy, do you even know how happy that made me??" He looks at me "No" . . . "YES! It did" - "No" . . .
Ok now he's playing with it . . . he knows how to use the word - that's what's important. "I love you sweetie" He picks up a tiny rock and puts it on my lap. "Thanks for the rock. . . I said love you, do understand what that means?" He pushes me . . I fall off the rock.
"Hey, what was that for?! why did you push me?" - "NO . . NO . ." - "YES, you pushed me, why? what did I do? I only said I'm in love with you" He pushes me again . . . not hard at all . . more like a playful push. . . "I love you" He pushes me again. "I love you baby. . I love you very much"
. . . He's going crazy right now, jumping around me . .
"Are you smiling? . . can you tell me why you're smiling?" . . It's my turn to push him now . . he does the same to me again . . "I love you Michael, I love you very much. . you're my baby!. . are you my baby?" He suddenly lets out a loud scream and jumps up on tree right behind me. I love how he reacts to it . . . whenever I say 'I love you' he does something weird to express himself. . . .
I wonder if he understands the meaning of it . .
probably not but who knows? . . he's extremely smart.
He throws a banana in my lap . . "Why thank you baby! I was just looking for one, how did you know?" He jumps down right in front of me. . trying to scare me. "I'm not scared of that face. . forget it. . nice try" He looks so happy now . . it pains me to know that I will have to leave here soon . . .
"Are you happy to be back home?. . look around baby
. . this is YOUR home, are you happy?"
He smiles . . .
Gosh, I swear . . that smile is setting my heart on fire.
~ to be continued ~
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Tarzan
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