Chapter 15

Noah

I tried to run away. But couldn't, as I recalled this forest. My nightmare. Flashing into reality. The dense weeping willows. Olivia and Liam ambled behind me pursuing the trail I was following. Crooning the same melody. Now the flags of trees motioned to its rhythm. A dark figure in distance lurked at the rear of the trunk. It held on to a camcorder, the lens looking onto the unfilled space encircled by the green and brown giants. The silhouette was too far flung to be clearly seen. But I knew it had a recorder. Almost like a Déjà vu. I’ve experienced it before. Not in a dream or hallucination. In reality. The stage was set. I hurriedly tramped through the two steps into the center, to perform the pirouette Jenny and I had been preparing for our dad’s wedding.

A baby-blue color was slathered over nature’s ceiling. The sun hid behind an enormous cloud, giving it a silver lining. I watched them drift away by the joyous winds revealing the solar disc ornamented in the sky. It w