Hello reader this is my 1st story I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm making it💜😀
Many years ago...
It was night fall, and while every person was snugged up in there beds a little boy was lost in the dark gloomy forest.
"Mommy" said the little boy wandering through the forest endlessly with tears in his eyes. "Mommy w..where did you go?" A 7 year old boy found himself lost in a forest, his legs were about to give up on him. Lost, cold and scared, the little boy was sobbing and tried to wipe his tears on his torn sleeves on his brown jumper not knowing where to go.
As he walks through the unknown forest suddenly, the little boy tripped over a tree stump, covering his black shorts with dirt and hurting his knee so he couldn't walk in the process landing on the cold hard ground.
The little boy slowly sat up so can see his knee that is bleeding but not as much as he expected. At this point, his tears started to come down like waterfalls and curled himself into a ball of fear and sadness, hoping someone could save him...
Out of nowhere, a loud rustle not too far away from his position was coming towards him it was getting louder and louder.
"W...who's there?" The little boy tried to move back as far as his legs would take him before he bumped into a tree behind him. Sweat started to trickle down his face while he wrapped his arms around his already injured legs, he tightly clenched his knees and ducked his head down. He was trembling from head to toe, hoping this is all a dream until the unknown being, came out of the bushes...
"Hello?" Called out the unknown voice. The little boy peaked through his eyes a little revealing a another young boy around his age looking towards him. His skin looked pale and soft with a few cuts here and there...probably from the bushes he came through just now. He wore what looks like a white polo shirt,a dark royal blue jumper on top and black shorts that reaches just above the knee. His facial features looks perfect, each feature stands out from each other. By now, his eyes were wide open.
While gazing at his looks, he didn't notice the boy walking towards him in a hurry. "Are you ok?" The boy asks as he got down on his level. The moment he said those words, he shot his head up to look at his features clearly. A few seconds in, the little boy snapped out of his thoughts and looked down in embarrassment.
The Other boy's POV
I received no reply from the sad boy. Unfortunately, his hands and face was covered in dirt, his eyes looked scared and lost, his now rosey red cheeks are now wet and damp from all of the crying it made me feel sad for the boy. I look further down and I noticed his right knee was injured and blood was slowly coming out bit by bit covering the leg with his hands, streams of blood still came running down his leg. I took my hand and reached for the knee but the only results that came out was the boy hugging his knees even more forcing me take back my hand.
"Hey it's ok I'm not going to hurt you, I'm only here to help, honest" I try to comfort him hoping he will let me take a look at the cut. "Please..." I reached out once more.
He hesitated at first but finally he let go of his injury and kept his hands close to his chest. But as long as I get to see the injury it was fine with me.
His cut on his knee was big but not that deep that it will prevent him from trying to walk back home. I look around to see if I could find anything that could stop the bleeding when I finally remembered that I had a handkerchief in my pocket maybe it will be big enough to wrap around the cut.
"What is your name?" Once again, I got no reply I took a big sigh out. "It's okay, if you don't want to say I understand"
"H...Heeseung. My n..name is Heeseung" whispers the shy boy.
Heeseung's POV
"H...Heeseung. My n..name is Heeseung" I told him with my quietest voice possible. Even though I couldn't see him properly due to the tears in my eyes, his face started to form a smile from cheek to cheek.
"What a beautiful name Heeseung" he said looking towards me with a radiant smile. Once he said that, I snapped my head to look up at him. My face started to feel hot.
"Are you alright? Your face is a brighter red than before." He asked
"N..no no I'm ok really!!" I exclaimed while shaking my hands in disagreement, I was panicking so much that I accidentally hit my injured knee "I..I jus- ouch!"
"Oh I'm sorry let me help you with that" the boy replied.
He took out a light purple (like a lilac colour) handkerchief from his pocket, it has a golden outlining running around the edges and what looks like a pinkish and blue flower in one of the bottom corners, a perfect contrast with the purple handkerchief.
This is what the flower looks like.You can make it look like how you want it on the handkerchief.
I followed his hand to my knee. He wrapped it round my small knee making sure no blood would come out of it and tied it with a bow on the side. He looked up with a small smile and said...
"See all better. There's nothing to be scared of" I made eye contact with his eyes, his eyes were sparkling. Even though his eyes were black like the night, there were stars in his eyes.
After a few seconds of staring into one and another, I realised what we were doing and looked away.
"So why are you here in the first place?" The boy asked
"I u..umm w...well" I felt nervous that I looked down and started to fidget with my fingers.
"It's ok if you don't want to say, I must be a stranger in your eyes anyways"
"N..no your not!!"I exclaimed."Your actually the first person that I have met that have helped me!" Once I blurted out my sentence, I just realised what I have just said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well..." I guess there is no turning back now...
"Everyone that I meet hates me because I look ugly, they blame me for everything even though I haven't done anything wrong. When they look at me, they think I'm not my mommy and daddy's child when we walk through the streets" at this moment I couldn't hold back my tears.
"T-they call me a freak, a p.. piece of trash a..a monster...I can't t..take it anymore, I d..don't like my life the w..way it is I want to end it and just d-"
Suddenly, I felt a warm embrace out of nowhere, the boy was hugging me. His grip tightened around me holding me like I was about to slip away from his grasp.
"Please don't. You are not any of those things they said to you. To be honest I think you're the most beautiful person I met"
"Your just saying that because you feel guilty right?" I asked knowing everyone will denies it.
"If I were to lie, I wouldn't be hugging you now will I?" He replied in a calming way.
He loosened his grip and stood up making me miss the warmth that was radiating from his body. He extended his hand out to me. "Come on let's get going before it gets darker...Do you think you can walk?" I nodded in response. "Ok then let's go back together" I hesitated to reach out for his hand but I grabbed it in the end. He put my arm around his shoulder and kept it there and supported my waist with his other, it was uncomfortable at first but we managed to start moving.
It was quiet on our journey back home and very awkward, so quiet that you could here a pin being dropped on a table. So I decided to speak up. "Umm this might sound weird to you but..."
"Yes"
"Why did you say those things to me, you could have just left me there but you didn't, why are you being so nice to me?"
"Well that's easy. First of all no one should be treated the way you've been hurt it's just not right and I bet if anyone saw a crying kid I'm sure they would help and finally...well" I look at him confused but all he did is just sighed and looked straight ahead.
"Someone who's important to me told me that, 'life is horrible it hurts you more than anything but that's life. We don't know what is beyond the wall for us.You have to eat, sleep, remember when you want to forget, go through every bit of life knowing you have to start again the next morning. But one day just one day, you could maybe prevent someone else from feeling your pain and suffering. But until you find your purpose, let's have hope in our hearts for things to get better one day'...So, I'm willing to wait for another day to come for me..and you"
He looked straight towards me in the eyes and just gave me a smile and when he did, I thought he was a person who just popped out of a fairytale book right infront of me.
For some reason, my heart started to beat faster than normal. What is this feeling? I ask to myself, Why do I feel so safe and comforted by him?
But by the time he finished finished talking, we were already infront of the village. We both heard a loud cry.
"Heeseung! There you are!" A young female was running towards us in a hurry. It was my mother.
"Mommy!!" I ran up to her ignoring the pain which was stinging from my leg. She embraced me with a hug but for some reason, it didn't feel the same when that boy hugged me.
"Where have you been? We have been so worried."
"I'm sorry mommy"
"It's ok, as long you are safe"
We hugged for a while. At that moment I remembered that I needed to thank that boy. I let go of the hug and turned around with a big smile.
"Thank-"
My eyes widened in shock...
He disappeared...
Present day
Heeseung's Pov
I look out of the small window in my room. The wind blew in my face, it made me feel calm and happy. The sun was slowly rising getting ready for the day again.
My eyes wandered down to what was in my hands which was always kept close to me at all times. The handkerchief...
Yes, the purple handkerchief was very special and important to me for it was the only thing that was reminding me of that boy that I saw in the forest that night but of course, that memory will never slip out of my grasp. I made sure there was no blood stains on it from the very beginning it was given to me. It was folded into quarters with the sewn flower facing up.
I brought the folded cloth close to my face admiring the colourful flower that was greeting me once again.
I want to see that boy again. I just had to, I need to. I didn't even get his name.
His looks were amazing and his personality was so kind and caring. It made me feel like I was the only thing special to him. And he was the only thing special to me.
I opened up the handkerchief and lifted it up towards the sky. I looked at the opposite corner from the flower and took a big sigh.
"Just who are you...
..S.H"
Book No.001