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He was a Hurricane
I was sitting, reading the book I’ve read over and over and knew by heart. Reading this didn’t take my entire concentration which is why I realized when he passed by. It was a gush of wind so cold and hard, my bones trembled. He was genuinely annoyed, which is why I had to get up immediately to follow him. His long steps were hard to catch up, but when I did, I knew what I had to do.
I grabbed one of his sleeves and tugged. He turned around and stopped walking. He shook his head, and his eyes began to glitter. “I can’t, not right now”.
It hurt to look at him like that, so I did not let go. I held on until he caved in and sat at the side of the hall. “I’m scared. I’m losing myself, I lost you, and look where it got me”.
Oh dear, you could never ever lose me, I thought.
"Is that your biggest fear?” I asked as I watched how his whole self went numb. I needed to know how hard was he taking all this, but I regretted asking the exact moment I saw the stars in his eyes fade into dust.
But he replied, words like knives carving into wood. "Loneliness, yes. I hate the feeling of loneliness". It broke my heart, mostly because I felt his answer, every word stung, I knew the feeling and if he had asked me that question, my reply would be exactly the same.
"But you aren't alone. You should know that". I replied, and the stars in his eyes started to light up a little. That was my favorite view. "You've got a million galaxies inside of you and a thousand million waves crashing, flooding yourself with the best traits a human can have. They're your greatest companion, they're there for you when you feel like nobody else is. You're the whole universe, you just need to believe it." His lips trembled and I watched as his smile, slowly, started to become what I thought of him to be: one of the greatest natural disasters, because if people were water, he wasn't drizzle, he wasn't a goddamn downpour, he was the greatest fucking hurricane in the universe. He left people with the most beautiful impact, he rattled and shook everyone into thinking maybe, just maybe, a maddening disaster as big as him, could be beautiful.
