please listen to the song above to get in the mood. thank you :)
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It had been twelve years since she'd last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same.
It was winter and snow was everywhere, but she still knew that it was the place she was looking for.
It still had this comforting and calming atmosphere, even though the painful memories flashed through her mind.
She closed her eyes. The smell of wood and apples rose in her nostrils. The birds were singing, the wind was blowing. Everything seemed so relaxed.
As she opened her eyes again, she took a deep breath before she got closer to the place she was visiting.
The treehouse.
Her once hidden safe place.
The place, she could always go to when she just couldn't take it anymore.
The place, where she could calm down.
The place, where she had cried so many times.
The place, where she had her first kiss.
The place, where her first relationship ended.
The place, where all her sad memories had come together.
She never wanted to see this place ever again, but here she was.
Slowly she climbed up the self-made ladder she once built. Unsure if she wanted to look at her old retreat from the inside. When she arrived at the top, she looked at all the stuff she left behind.
Her heart was pounding, and her hands started to shake. All the pictures and all the Notebooks, all the
paintings and all the vinyl's, all the blankets and all the pillows. They all were still here.
She looked at everything as careful and attentive as she could.
The pictures of the people she used to call friends but who later betrayed her.
The Notebooks with all her thoughts she wrote in them before she would drown in them.
The paintings she drew to describe her feelings.
The vinyl's she listened to, to escape from reality.
And last the blankets and pillows she used to sleep on, when she couldn't take it at home anymore.
Her eyes started to fill with tears. All the memories and all the emotions she used to suppress, they all came up once again. Her inner wall started to collapse. She fell on her knees as they couldn't hold her anymore. Sobbing.
The tears were burning as they rolled down her cheeks. The cold air hurt in her lungs as she breathed in. The snowflakes landed on the bare skin of her hands and her face. Her past caught up with her.
She lost herself in her sadness. All the tears she held in when she was younger, she let them out now.
And as she felt like she was drowning in the sea of her own tears, she remembered.
And as soon as she remembered she heard a noise. A voice. The voice.
She looked down from the treehouse and the person she saw was no other than the one who had saved her life. Her eyes were still red from crying and her hands still shaking. She didn't have the power to move. So, the person who exuded such calm came up to her and pulled her softly into their arms.
She breathed in the known smell of honey and cinnamon as she started to calm down. All the bad memories didn't exist anymore. She was in the arms of her lover, head on their chest, listening to their heartbeat and that was all that mattered.
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