Chapter 6

In this little world I was creating, time was running like a tornado, 4 months past like 4 weeks. People say; hours feel like minutes with the right person. It was true. I didn’t acknowledge how fast the time was speeding. 

During last month’s Harmony started taking extra classes saying she was doing it as a compensation for days she didn’t attend school. I never asked about it anymore, there was an urge in my heart that whatever she did or said was right, without any uncertainty.

We continued for a month but weren't able to continue because of her asthma so we both fell back to our routine. Yes, we. I hated school but for her I took extra classes too. Days were passing by everyday, more lively than the day before. There were some other things that changed at that period of time. 

We started having family dinners more often, I was spending my time more at their house than mine, she would have made me have proper lunch instead of having take-out. Her mother was treating me like her own since she found out I lost my mother.

Lately Harmony was looking tired constantly sweating and the blue white asthma pump was always traveling with her everywhere. She said it was a precaution for her health and like always I believed. Deep down I was worried about her but she was assuring me that she was fine and that shut my mouth.

It was another day of our daily visit at the same place which Harmony named it heaven. She was sitting on the ground beside my lying frame with her violin on her other side. She was smiling looking up to the tree which we were lying under its shadow and me being me, staring at her pretty face. I couldn’t avert my eyes from her face.

“Harmony?” 

“Axel.” She turned her head, mocking me. How was I going to live 5 days without seeing her? Annoyed, I sat up from my lying position.

“Is there something annoying you?” She asked.

“I’m leaving the state tomorrow. It’s my_"

“Your mama’s anniversary.” She replied before I could finish. 

“Don’t look at me like that. I saw it in your calendar.” I just put my head back staring at the crystal water in front of me. 

“Are you mad at me?” She whispered, poking my arm. 

"Nope. I’m not capable of being mad at you.” Answering truthfully, I drown back to her hazel pool of eyes. 

"For how long?” She said playing with the grass nervously, not meeting my gaze. It was harder than I thought it would be. 

"5 days. I… wanted to see you before leaving.” For a moment we both were silent, not uttering a word. Stealing glances from her I was waiting impatiently for her to say something. 

"Are you leaving after we return home from here?” I nod with my head, confirming her words. Again pin dropping silence. 

“Then I will play for you so you won’t forget me easily.” She said with a smiley face, getting a hold of the violin.

“I can forget about myself but not you.” Putting an escaped lock of her hair behind her ear I caressed her cheekbone with the pad of my thumb. She leaned to my touch rubbing her cheek on my palm. Anything it was between us it wasn’t sexual nor was it only a friendship. We held hands before, we hugged, kissed but it was always naive kisses on cheek and forehead but we never had a real kiss, whatever it was between us, it was indescribable. 

Harmony played an unheard melody, I couldn’t make the name but it was clear that it was a sad melody, her expression was giving more than the music was hinting. By time she was done her beauteous hazel orbs were teary. She gave me a sad smile dabbing the tears which were escaping nonstop. Shifting closer to her I pulled her for a hug to take her in my embrace. 

“Why a sad melody?” She was silently crying, face pressed on my chest. 

“Will miss you Axel.” Voice hoarse from crying she mumbled. Tightening my hold around her I squeezed her tightly to myself.

"I_" I nearly confessed my feelings for her but I stopped myself, I wanted it to be special, she deserved something special. “I will miss you too.” That was the biggest mistake I ever made.

“Harmony… when I return back home will you…” Coming out of my embrace she was staring at me waiting for me to be finished. “Go out with me, a date?” I whispered slowly, unsure of her reaction. Her eyes welled with tears, turning glossy but she didn’t let them fall instead covering them with a smile. 

“I will wait for you under the same tree.” She smiled again, this time her tears betraying her. I grin from ear to ear engulfing her in a tight hug. Those two precious minutes slowed for both of us. I didn’t want to leave and she was afraid of leaving. Losing my hold but still not letting go, I cup the side of her face leaning down to kiss her lips. Our lips met at a slow pace, it wasn’t lust nor desire for a minute, it was the love I had for her. That minute, that kiss and that hug was the last memory we made at our heaven. If I knew that was going to be the last time I will see her I would have never left, never.