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"Shine, shine it doesn't matter how.

Even being in only one site,

that little inexistent light must shine.

The imagination is everything,

if what you wish is freedom.

Like an unique sphere,
even without that vision...

surely you will see if you perceive the bright of love."

<<LiliuM-GoRe>>

Just one silver grille kept us apart. We had grown up so close but we didn’t know anything about each other. Every day we looked, every day at every hour but we never talk to each other. I'm still unaware of that reason. I always looked him; I was curious about him. Although we were locked away, he always smiled. I don’t know why, I don’t know if there was a reason to do it. I don’t know if he was happy. There wasn’t an only minute I didn’t look at him. I was surprised by the way he looked, by the way he behave himself. Sometimes I wonder if he knew where he was.

Just one crystal grille kept us apart, but I felt we were close in so different ways.

The snow was falling down strongly and the room was frozen. I never saw him angry, much less sad. The true is that he was the one that help me so many times I can’t remember.

―Who is he?―I asked one time, but nobody could give me an answer.

It said that love is a mysterious feeling. It born and grows inexplicably and when you realize its meaning, you sink further in an incompressible world. That happened to me. Although there were more people, none of them make me feel so curious like him.

―What’s your name?―I dared to ask. My heart was beating rapidly, like if I had eaten a humming bird. I didn’t understand that feeling but strangely I liked it. It was warm like summer days.

―Mahou.―he smiled.―And you?

What a strange name.

―I’m Umery.

―It’s weird that after so many years we are talking, don’t you think so?―he laughed gently. What a strange boy.

I had seen him grow up over the years. I remember that he sat on the same place, letting the air to play with his hair. He was different from others. He face had so much peace that made me feel good. He had this special smile like no one else. His eyes were coated with long colorless eyelashes, and its color was a powder blue. He always looked at the same place; I didn’t know why. His hair was straight, a little long. Its hair tone was a light blond that combines perfectly with his white skin. He looked like a doll, so delicate I couldn’t understand how he can be in such a lonely place.

―Yeah, I think so.

Since then we didn’t stop talking. Although there wasn’t so much to talk, Mahou always came with something new. We talked about anything; the weather, the nature, good and evil. I didn’t get bored being with him.

―I like talking with you a lot.―I commented, leaning myself against the crystal grille.

―I too like it, you are really interesting, Umery.―he added.  

―The interesting is you.―I said. I was only one more girl how wished to know more about him.―Why are you here?

I asked finally one of the so many questions I had in my head. What could have he committed, to be here? Mahou kept silence, being this the first time he smiled in a different way. A…melancholic way.

―I can’t longer remember why.

―I guess it’s better not to remember.―I laugh with nervousness. Nobody in this place wished to remember the reason of our confinement; it was better to live without sadness or false hopes.

―And you? What is the reason for you residence in this peculiar place?―he asked.

―I stole…someone I shouldn’t….

―A thief, huh? I didn´t think that you were that kind of person.

―I wasn’t but I have to do it. I didn’t have other choice.

―Here nobody has haven another choice.

What were our truly sin? We did bad things but that didn’t justify our confinement here. Sometimes I ask myself how the life outside is, far away this cold grilles. Everything is dark. Rarely the sun comes inside. Sometimes you can see the shining stars across a little window cover of dust.

Although I know perfectly the answer, I can’t avoid wondering, when shall we leave this place?

―What does your name means?―I questioned, while I was drawing on the earth with a rock.

―Freedom.

―Isn’t that something contradictory?

―It is, really.―he laughed with my comment. I liked it so much every time he smiled. You could see clearly how his face shined every time he did it. For me, he was my sun.

The time kept passing, but I wished stop it forever. I didn’t care any longer living here, I just want to see him, being by his side…although there was something I wished with all my force; to touch him.

Time is cruel; it passes without leaving a trace and makes you forget the important things, beautiful things. It makes you realize that anything isn’t forever and that the bad care feeling gets to grow incredibly.

How I wished to break those grilles, but I was so weak to do it. So weak and fearful.

―Umery...

―Yeah?

―How are you like?―he asked, but his question shock me a little.

―Huh?

―How are you physically?―he inquired again.

―Why are you asking me something like that?―I laugh, but the guy didn’t imitate my laugh. I remained silent.

―You haven’t realized, right? We have so many time talking and you haven’t realized… What an irony.

―What do you mean, Mahou?

―I’m blind, Umery. I have never seen anything in my life.―he said lowly, smiling a little. I was in shock… was he talking seriously?

Now I comprehend why he always looked at the same point every day, why his eyes had that strange color. I couldn’t believe it, but I guess is good not to see anything. That way you don’t get to know the horror in where we are living…or maybe it’s the entire contrary. 

―Blind…?

―Will you answer me?

―Ah…well…―I made a pause. How was I supposed to describe myself?

―I wish I could touch you. That would be easier.―he laugh, going back to his normal behavior.

―Sure, if these grilles didn’t exist.―I mumbled.―I’m pretty normal…―I started saying with a little nervousness.

―Umery, I don’t know what “normal” means.

―You’re right, you’re right… well... Long brown hair, white skin, lilac eyes and thin.―I said rapidly. I didn’t want to enter in details.

―That’s all?

―Yeah

                ―Wow, you really are normal.―he smiled mockingly.―I think more than before I wish I could see you in my way just that for now it’s impossible. I guess I have to imagine you as I have been doing so far.

                ―I guess so…

                All this years together but I didn’t know the true. Now that I think about it, every time I saw him, he never realized. So calm. Just one grille divides us, but I still was a stranger in his eyes. I think that is part of my sin.

                More days passes. The persons started whisper, creating a plan. They were planning to escape and they will make it tonight. Some of them where nervous, they didn’t know what to expect from such a risky plan but something was sure… everyone wanted to leave this place forever.

                ―Tell me, Mahou…

                ―What, Umery?

                ―Would you like to leave this place?―I asked a little nervous. Although he couldn’t see me, I still was ashamed talking to him.   

                ―Of course.―he smiled.―More if it’s with you.

                My heart beat faster. It wasn’t a lie what he made me feel. I was happy talking to Mahou, seeing him every day… I wish I could be with him forever. My feelings were strong and I want to lock them so deep within me, keeping them for all the eternity.

                ―How this night?

                ―Isn’t it a little hurried?―he mocked, believing I wasn’t talking seriously.

                ―This is our only chance, Mahou and tonight will be.

                ―Is a lie, right?

                ―No, of course no!―I exclaimed.―It isn’t a lie, Mahou, it’s the true! Tonight the other guys are planning to escape and this is our chance!

                Mahou didn’t say anything for some minutes. I was afraid of his answer, maybe he was from the opinion of not leaving this prison… Maybe he just wanted to be in peace but…

                ―You really want to leave this place with a nuisance like me? With a blind guy that only will be a nuisance for you?

                ―You are not a nuisance, you will never be one!―I shout angry.―You are very important for me, you are my only friend!

                ―Umery…

                ―No! You are everything I have! You mean so much to me…you don’t know how much and I’m not thinking in leaving you here!

                ―Umery.

                ―I don’t care if you’re blind, Mahou… For me you are…―how to say easily the fact that I was deeply in love with him? How to express these words that was gnawed inside me, so slowly I could die?

                How, dammit?

                ―Are you crying?

                There wasn’t necessity to tell anything in that moment and I was shocked he could know the true without seeing anything. I was crying because I couldn’t express my feelings to him, because I was so silly to keep believing in hopes. Mahou stood up, leaning against the grilles that kept us apart. So close but at the same time so far away. How I wished to be able to touch him...although it was only one time.

                ―I’m sorry…

                We didn’t touch the topic for the rest of the day. It was weird not talked with him.

                The whispers were stronger. In a few hours the sun was going to hide and then, our opportunity will be presented. I didn’t have to think it twice; I will go and I wouldn’t leave Mahou all alone. 

                Everything went silent, while we waited the exact hour to attack. My heart couldn’t stop beating; I was really afraid, but I had to be strong. Everyone was prepared, then, a noise ruled the place. The screams weren’t the only ones present; the hits also were there, while the person fought aggressively against those demons how had us locked here.  The person spread, coming out of their grilles and staining the floor with cold blood. It was horrible, a scene I wouldn’t never wish or imagine living.

                My grille opened, while the person and demons were running everywhere, trying putting an end to the fight that was starting to begin. I stood up quickly, leaving that prison that for many year were my home. I opened the grille next to mine; entering to that place I never thought I could enter.

                ―Mahou!

                I approached him, when the guy turned in my direction. His face was serious, thoughtful. Without thinking it too much, I embraced him strongly, breaking into tears. At last I was able to touch him. I didn’t care not coming out of this place, what I wished the most was now a reality. I was touching him, feeling that warm skin that I always wanted to touch. He was right in front of me, without that grille that kept us apart.

                ―Umery? Why…?―he asked trembling. He also didn’t think this could be a reality.

                ―I couldn’t leave you here….Mahou…I love you…―I finally said those complicated words. If it wasn’t now, then it was never. I didn’t care what he thinks of me, I had to say it.

                ―Umery…―he touched delicately my face, making my skin shiver. He was everything to me, the only truly important in my life.―You’re so beautiful.

                ―Mahou…―I whispered crying.

                ―Don’t cry.―he smiled just the way he knew to do it.―You’re everything I have, my only light inside this eternal darkness, how not to feel the same?

                Those words I dreamed so much now were there, being pronounced by him. Happiness…that was what I was feeling in my heart in that moment.

                ―It’s time to go…―I dried my tears.―Let’s go!―I took his hand, starting to walk.

                ―But…

                ―Trust me. ―I said.―Just trust me, yes?

                ―Ok.

                We leave that prison that kept us apart. I run faster, showing him the way he had to follow. I didn’t get separated for him. We climbed the stairs that kept us apart from the exterior, when an intense light appeared before us. We were near. We had leaved behind the quarrel and the pain. The wish was about to become a reality. 

                We went through that door with mud, going out at last. The starts leave me blind for a few minutes… in that moment I understood.

                ―Beautiful…

                The scenery showing in front of us was amazing. Totally different from my memories and imaginations. Everything was so brilliant and beautiful, so green and different from that shadows.

                ―At last…―he gritted my hand. Although he couldn’t see a thing, he knew perfectly we weren’t there anymore. The air was fresh and the starts intensely illuminated the sky, the one I didn’t think see again.

                A pain in my chest. What was that? My vision distorted, becoming into shadows. We were I? Had I go back to that prison? A reality that stained itself. The dreams, dreams are, but it can become true if you work for them, but there’re occasions when the work is not compared with destiny. When we at last could leave that terrible place, our destiny played cruelly with us. I thought I had find happiness, but the only thing I found was more sadness and pain.

                I wasn’t with him anymore and I never could be. My sun was missing, was withered like a weak flower.  The crimson color enveloped us, leaving us in that eternal and cold dream. Our heart stopped beating, the two at the same time. There wasn’t an exit, there wasn’t a new beginning. Nobody could ever get out of those grilles. We were dead…those demons killed us…

                 ―Umery…Umery…

                That voice again. I opened my eyes slowly, looking him again. Now what? A new game?

                ―What?

                ―I was right, you’re really beautiful.

                That smile that could change the world. His eyes didn’t have any more that powder blue, now it was green, so green like the leash of the trees. How? I looked around. There wasn’t any shadow, or the pain. There weren’t any grilles or darkness. A flowering field enveloped us, with flowers of all colors. The butterfly flew freely, without encountering with a crystal wall. I couldn’t believe it… where were we?

                ―But what…happened?

                I was sure we were dead, I remember it perfectly… then, what was this?

                ―This is our own eden. Just you and me.

                Incompressible words but full of calm. An eden where to live peaceful with him?

                ―Just you and me? Really?

                Mahou came closer to me, gently stroking my face.

                ―Just you and me, forever.―I looked him carefully, the same way he did it.  

                ―Forever…

                ―I love you, Umery.

                ―I love you too.

                A kiss that changed my reality, a reality that become in a beautiful dream. Definitely my live changed inside those silver grilles and, if I were to reborn, I would do the same, waiting to meeting you again. My beautiful and unique sun.

**AUTHOR'S COMMENTS: Aww, finished! The true is that I had think in a sad and piercing ending but I said; "it's good and change", so, here is it A happy ending! Well, I hope you like it, the same way I liked creating it. The principal songs that help me in the creation of this story were; "404NOTFOUND's Start Line", "Sadie's Dearest", and "SuG's Scheat". Thanks so much to them. :)