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Echoes
High on the side of a great red stone canyon, as the sun climbed ever loftier in the robin egg-blue sky, a teen-age girl stood.
The wind played her shining-gold hair about her face, tendrils slid across her nose and mouth, small strands sticking to her recently chap-sticked lips. Her pastel colored skirt swirled around her legs as a few birds rode upon the summer time breeze. She seemed as if she were waiting for something; a certain time, or an appointed signal.
The girl waited for an occasion, standing still as a rose, only until the sun reached its climax in the heavens. She cupped her delicate hands around her pink mouth.
“Starboy! Where are you!” she cried into the still and sunlit canyon. Echoes played off the rosy-orange rocks, undulating back and forth, and becoming increasingly quieter.
The girl began to turn as the echoes slowly died away; her shoulders bent in defeat and betrayed hope.
As she took her first step away from the fissure, fine red dust rising from the ground underneath her bare feet, a whisper, barely audible, light and tender as a white feather, reached her curved ear.
“…here I am…”
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Uhhhh, yes? I think. The girl kinda does represent me, and yeah, I would call my soulmate starboy :}
Thanks :)
AWW
That just seems very cute. :)
Why did you call him starboy?
Is this girl supposed to represent you? So when you mean by looking for your starboy, you mean by looking for your soulmate? you would seriously call your soulmate starboy? I find that kind-of funny. It's a funny, cute petname. :)
Thankee kindly, dear dove :)
It has taken me ages to develope my sense of imagery, it was once one of my weaker spots.
Your praise is thouroughly appreciated :)
Thank you so much :)
Your words are kind.
Thanks :)
And I would be glad to :)
Please try to finish the story in comments, if you like :)