[Dis]connected

Prologue

The wind was whispering trough the leaves of the forest, and the sky was black but James was still able to see the luminous leaves.

The weak light of the pale moon reflected on the trees, James looked up.

The stars looked like the fairy lights his mother used to decorate their house with for some festival occasions, they created a pleasing familiar atmosphere, perfectly arranged and almost like someone had put them up there just for him.

He felt the warmness of alcohol inside himself, the cold wind gave the weather a perfect balance.

Under his feet the dry grass complained when he crushed it with a pair of white shoes, he liked that sound though, the little moan before the grass was completely folded and snapped.

He didn't see a trunk on his way and fell on the ground laughing heavily, it echoed inside him and between the branches of the trees, it almost felt like it was shaking them.

He then try to get up realizing his body was weak and tired, so while moving and laughing at his own self he happened to look just behind, that's when he noticed her.

There was a girl a few feet away from him laying on the ground, her arms were rigidly open on the grass, the face to the sky.

Looking at her like that it would have seemed like her heart was frozen and dead, but her stomach was going up and down, breathing delicately.

The long hair wrapped a fragile body.

Those locks, almost immobile like the rest of her, let the wind shake them a little.

She was laying between leaves e she had let some of those sleep on her.

It was clear that she was looking for something clear in the sky, and with such intensity that James was drawn to look just in the same direction, and he felt silly for it.

He only found the moon, or maybe that stranger wasn't even looking at the moon.

The big and sunken eyes seemed drawn by the shadows around them, like a perpetual starless night.

And the lifeless eyes were completely lost in emptiness, now that he looked better at her she wasn't looking at the moon, her look was a lot more ambitious, she was looking for something beyond it all and it felt like, whatever that was, she was in need of it to be fulfilled.

Her eyes served to her as arms, as those were paralyzed, and they were trying to catch that certain something that was hiding behind the night.

He was pretty sure he had never bumped into someone who was acting that way, after all, people didn't behave like that.

Maybe that should have made his smile disappear and made him want to look for something more amusing, but he couldn't go away, if anything he wanted to get closer.

That's when he realized that what actually separated him and the girl was the Boundary, he hadn't quite noticed it just up until that moment.

He must have walked for so long to come there, and the realization he was so far away from home should have scared him enough to make him run away as far as he could from that place.

But he found himself immobile, a part of him couldn't have felt less uncomfortable, the dark color that covered the girl reminded him of the needles cold of ice.

The trees over there had pale wood and and the leaves stretched to the sky as if they were trying to touch the sky.

She was still there, like a stuck in an instant, James smiled.