Crash

Till pointed lazily at a herd of vaporous rabbits gliding effortlessly through the mid-morning sky.

“Look at them all. They look so happy.”

“Yeah.”

I was more concerned with the way her hand was softly pressed against mine than the clouds. I could see the clouds every day, but this moment was something that I could not rely on.

Till silently rolled over and propped herself up on her soft shoulder. Her blond hair hung playfully in her eyes as they looked right at me.

“You know what?”

“What?”

“I like you.”

“Yeah. I like you, too.”

She let herself drop, her head falling against my chest. I felt her breathe out slowly, the sun warming her back. She looked just like a lizard, or a kitten, or some other lazy creature, just lying around all day without a care in the world. I picked at the grass by my elbow, making a little dirt patch on the hill. A single plane droned angrily against the silent morning.

“Hey Till?”

“Yeah?”

“Have you ever wanted to be there? Like, way up in the sky, flying around all day long until you ran out of fuel or energy and had to come down?”

“Sometimes, yeah. But if I ever had that chance, I don’t think I would come down. I would just keep flying until I died or ran out of fuel. Crashing to earth is worth those hours of unchained freedom, I think.”

“Yeah.”

I closed my eyes as the plane droned on. As it flew overhead, the buzz of it’s single engine grew louder and louder. I didn’t really think too much of it until I opened my eyes. The bottom of the plane grew exponentially, getting larger and larger, until there was no where else for it to grow than here.

“Till, get up!”

I pulled her small frame to it’s feet, scaring her out of a warm day-dream.

Four seconds later, the sound of twisting metal and crushing glass could be heard. Five seconds later, the back of my head felt like it was on fire. Six seconds later, I lost consciousness.

I don’t know how many seconds it had been since then. All I could hear were the frantic screams of a girl who liked me.