Where Fireflies Remember Us
1.
The village breathed in soft winds and golden sunlight. Fields swayed like lullabies, and the air smelled of wet earth and old stories. Goats wandered freely, children laughed barefoot, and time moved gently — as if the world had nowhere else to be.
Tucked behind lemon trees, the old library stood like a forgotten poem. Creaky shelves, sun-dappled dust, and books older than memory. Leo sat by the window, reading quietly, suddenly get disturbed by a bang sound of the door.
?
Oho! Leo! Are you taking the training of being Einstein!?
A young man around 22, amazingly mesmerizing structure, shiny eyes, full lips curling little from corners in a teasing smile, sweat droplet spreading on the forehead like the pearls, breathing heavily suddenly bragging inside in a dramatic way
Leo doesn't look at him directly. He placed his books aside before shooking head towards Him.
His tired eyes suddenly lit up, and his dead face covered with a lint of softness.
Ivan
(grin.sit beside him)
Ivan
Drop the idea Leo. Otherwise, People will curse you till your seven generations.
Leo
(chuckle left from throat)
Ivan
By the way! Your Plants tried to kiss me again!!
Leo
Those are ferns Ivan. They don't have lips.
Ivan
Neither do you when you are reading.
Ivan laughed loudly, laying on the floor holding stomach.
Leo gaze towards him, a sincere and soft smile lingers on his lips turns into a wide grin and the cold and lonely library covered with the spring of laughter.
LEO WILLIAMS
(24 Years old)
A quiet, bookish soul who moved from the city after getting burnt out. Now spends his days fixing the local library and talking to plants (he claims they’re better listeners than people).
IVAN (Orphanage)
( 23 years old)
A flamboyant, dramatic village boy who thinks cucumbers are “the devil’s fruit because he is having an allergy from them” He’s known for his loud laugh and magnific eyes. He have tendency to name the chickens after K-pop idols.
2.
reddish and rosy brush of pigment spread in the sky. Birds turning towards their home. A cozy spring breeze stepped in the blossom petals kissing the air.
The whispering stream curled through the valley like a silver ribbon, its waters singing softly beneath the hush of willows.
Leo quietly sits on the ground, feet damp in the stream. Closing eyes feeling the spring breeze patted him gently.
Ivan
(quietly sit beside him. Looking at his gentle and relaxed face)
Ivan
*They said Leo came from the city with brains, books and zero social skills. I had....... chickens, drama and no filter but we easily filled each other's void? Are we? That's.....funny*
Leo
Have you looked enough? Should I open my eyes?
Ivan
Only if you’re ready to see how cute I look staring at you.
Ivan
Oops, guess I missed the cute memo today!
Ivan damp his feet on stream too. Lay on the grassy ground
Ivan
Leo you have ever been in love?
Leo
why...are you interested in my love life?
Ivan
Nope, just checking if a miracle still happens. Honestly? It might be better than Netflix
Leo
Well books don't break your heart.
Ivan
But they don't hold your hand either.
Leo looks at Ivan whose hair stands draping on face fighting with long lashes to reveal the snowy blue eyes filled with the tint of mischief.
Leo
Maybe I've been waiting for the right hand.
Ivan
(pause a little. Rise eyebrows)
Ivan
Are you flirting or just naturally this poetic.
Leo shake head and lies beside Ivan. He said nothing but their silent understanding is more than enough than the mare words
They spend their company looking at the sky.Throwing and kicking water on each other.
Leo slipped on the grass and what follows is a storm of Ivan's contagious laughing that had them all breathless and crying from joy.
A evening full of Chaos and laughing
Download NovelToon APP on App Store and Google Play
