A Girl

For almost two years, no human interaction had I encountered outside of my family. Almost content I was, for my schedule kept me busy. But, I must admit, I felt lonely. Throughout my boyhood, I was timid and shy, but I had encountered a handful of friends. Those friends left me easily when I became The Avocado Thief, and I succumbed to a solitary world. Mockeries were forced upon me. The others teetered around me, cautiously. I became a stranger to the people of my town, or they became strangers to me. Overbearingly, they crowded, and then the time came for bravery, for heroism, and then the dauntless ones overstepped the boundary. And then they crowded once again, but suffocatingly so, and then, and then, and then… and then they swiftly left, swallowing me in an empty world once more. No human interaction did I encounter outside of my family. My sister found me such an embarrassment that she forbade me from eating at the dinner table. I lived in my bedroom, amongst the avocados I had pocketed, an isolated life, until one day I saw Her.

Things to know about Her:

  1. She was beautiful, very beautiful, but at the time I did not think so.
  2. Her hair was pink, very pink.
  3. She liked avocados, and very much so.
  4. I loved Her.

She was nothing to me, nothing more than a speck, but two things stood out to me when I first saw Her: the hair, and the way She spoke. Truly, there was nothing incorrect about the way She spoke, nor Her hair, but it was pink, and in my town anything out of the ordinary was looked upon with distate. And the way She spoke, it may have been regular, but there was one unique aspect: She spoke to me. And She spoke to me with such vigour, and it was such grandeur to my ears, I listened to all of Her ramblings. Even as She told me of Her taste for avocados, I did not turn away, so enamoured I was with Her voice. Even as I told Her, I told Her of my thievery, She did not turn away, so kind She was with Her ears.

She assuaged my loneliness and gave me distraction from the avocados. And it was only with Her influence that I experienced happiness during those almost-two years.