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Amber Sky: An Idiot's Lament
« Thread Started on May 5, 2012, 2:12am »

This was my entry for an art/writing contest for a project called Project DokiDoki. Never did find out how that project went, hope it went well.

Enjoy.

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Amber Sky: An Idiot's Lament

A sudden gale pulled me back to reality. Napping at the school library was definitely not allowed but when it was this late, the librarian wasn't really too interested in her duties.

A yawn came to me as I struggled to come into consciousness. Looking around, I saw that glasses girl was here as well, as she was everyday. If she wasn't so engrossed in her reading, she might actually scoff at me for using the library as my personal nap room.

Getting up on my weary legs from my clumsy seated slumber, another yawn came to me as I hefted my bag up my shoulder. Peering outside, I spy the girl's track team still hard at work, training for the coming interschool track meet.

"Go team." I whispered to myself.

...

"Could those shorts get any shorter?" The thought that came next.

Walking towards the hallway, for a moment I thought I witnessed glasses girl smile as I passed her. I shrugged it off. She was always so intent on her readings to show any form of emotion at all.

"OOF!" The next sound that came as something barrelled right into me in the hallway.

The girl from the classroom next to mine greeted my surpised countenance. She was clutching a book within her arms. She seemed rather petite to be a high schooler. A blush came to her face as she peered upwards to see who she had bumped into.

"Sorry!" She exclaimed in apology as she moved back a few steps.

"It's alright." I replied with a sort of stoic hand gesture reassuring her so.

She ran past me hurriedly and I continued on my way.

Didn't mean to sleep that long, I still had some shopping to do for dinner.

As I sighed away my carelessness, I met the glance of a foreigner coming up the stairs. Exchange student maybe, not too sure, but those eyes are certainly not ones of this country. She seemed lost, her head glancing every which way. She neared me in a demure pace.

"Do you know where the nurse's office is?" She asked with much concern in her tone.

"Third floor, five doors down to the right of the stairs." I reply plainly.

"Thanks." She replied gratefully with a smile on her face.

We shared the stairs on the way down the third floor. Was she keeping pace with me? I couldn't really tell.

We parted ways as she walked towards the nurse's office and I continue on down.

It was a bit childish, but the habit of jumping down the last three steps of the stairs whenever I was alone had always been with me for as long as I could remember. Down the second floor, check. Down the first floor, che...

"OOF!" The same sound came as I jumped right into someone running up from the base of the stairs.

I clutched my head in pain, reeling for a bit, then taking a glance at who I had inadvertently bumped into. A fierce gaze met me, her hand clutching her head as well.

"Watch where you're going!" She cursed at me with an ice cold glare staring me down.

Before I could offer an apology, she passed me by and was on her way upstairs. By my guess, she would still had been in a hurry were it not for her reeling back from our collision. A silent sorry rolled out of my mouth as I followed her with my eyes disappearing up the stairs.

Moving along, I finally reach the exit. The dying sun greeted me in full as I walked out into the open. I had but taken my first step outside when I felt a bump on my left shoe. Looking down, I see that it's a basketball.

"Hey, do you mind?" A voice asks me at my left.

The sweaty jersey of a female basketball player greeted me, a hairband parting her hair away from her eyes. I picked the ball up and tossed it to her with a half-hearted smile.

Nothing new today. School all day long, trying to get good grades for the days ahead. I'm most of the time asleep anyway.

And now as I lament things beyond this day, I cast my eyes skyward and saw the amber sky, wreathed with a pillowy sheath of clouds, carressed by the last of the noon sunshine. Such sweet beauty that not many could comprehend, lest they take the time to cast a better perspective of them. A good many just let them pass by without even noticing their untamed majesty.

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"I wonder if I'll ever get a chance to meet a sweet beauty like this amber sky?" A wishful tone in his whisper.

"Fat chance of that happening." He answered himself solemnly as he left the school premises and continued on down the road.

All the while, if God could have been heard by normal humans at that instant, they could hear him uttering the word "Idiot."

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