Whatever Remains by T. Richardosn (beautiful books to read .TXT) 📕

I was gorgeous, but I felt happy that someone actually thought that. Shane thought that as well, but I didn’t really care.
“Wanna get out of here?” I heard Glytherin yell from down stairs. I began running. Yes, actually, I do. “Come on,” he said. We walked out of the door and out into the woods again. The same creature that came out of the house went straight back in without letting me see its face.
“What is that?” I asked. “And why does it keep rolling around like that?” Glytherin shrugged.
“To tell you the truth, I’ve never seen anything like that.” I looked at him awkwardly. He was the one that lived here. I could hardly even believe him. We went down the path again. It was getting dark now. The moon was slowly rising.
“I should begin to leave,” I said.
He shook his head. “You said you were spending the day here.” He said.
“Yup,” I agreed. “And I said I wasn’t spending the night.”
He nodded. “But you meant you weren’t going to sleep here, what I want you to do, is stay her until eight at least, and I’ll return you home, I promise.” I thought about this for a second. I didn’t want to be here too long. All I really meant to do was stay at the park all day to spend my birthday. I wanted to look at the sky and remember this day, although, this day was pretty memorable as well, spending a few conscious hours at this dimension was fine.
“Ok,” I said. “I’ll stay no longer than eight.” Glytherin shook his head. “It’s seven o’clock now though; you have to stay a little longer, nine?”
I breathed deeply and nodded. I walked farther from the house. My hair got caught in the branch above me. I pulled stressfully. Glytherin looked at me. “Are you ok?” he asked. I nodded. He began to pull on it. “I’m sorry…” he said tugging, “that I live out here.” I shook my head. “Stay still.” He said. I stopped shaking my head.
The sky quickly turned a bright pink. “What’s up with the skies?” I asked, and the amount of questions a person as me could ask in a day was sort of mind-blowing. Glytherin shook his head still tugging and then I felt the pressure release.
“It does that when it’s going to rain, which is perfect for tonight.” Why would raining be perfect on my birthday? But of course, I didn’t tell him it was my birthday anyway, and I definitely wasn’t planning on it either.
I felt a slight raindrop touch my shoulder. They were purple. “This is definitely interesting.” I commented. “A very common color to me.” I nodded and smiled as we walked along. As we did, I saw Glytherin’s friend, Lydiard walking around again. “What are you doing here again?” Glytherin yelled.
Lydiard jumped in horror. “I’ve been here all day,” he admitted. “Waiting for the thing to begin, I guess you’ve been doing the same,” and Glytherin nodded. What thing? I ignored this. “Would you both like to come with me?” he asked. “I sure need a companion to walk with, in this case, companions.”
Glytherin ran up to him and put an arm around his shoulder. “Did you know…?” I hear Lydiard begin. I looked at the purple rain drops falling on to my arms. They were oddly familiar but I knew I hadn’t seen anything like this before. Did it taste like water? I stuck my tongue out. A clear raindrop was falling slowly towards me and I looked at it hard enough to see the reflection of Lydiard jumping towards me. The next moment, Lydiard was on top of me and looking down. Goodness this guy was hard boned!
“Ow…” I murmured. He rests his elbows beside me to get up.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “You don’t drink purple raindrops, are you human? Only humans do that.” We began walking on as Glytherin walked ahead of us. “The rain is only for celebration purposes, like party balloons. They are only for celebration, but if you try to pop one in your mouth, you can choke on it. The purple rain; it is only when we are having a celebration, try to get one on your tongue, it goes to your throat, and it chokes you automatically.” He paused. "Like a balloon." I nodded trying to seem calm. I could’ve died!

But unfortunately, I was yelling on the inside.
The moon began hanging in the sky. I heard songs and singing now. What celebration was this? “Come on,” Glytherin indicated. Lydiard and I began to run up to him. Right before us, amongst the trees was a bunch of lights.
“Everyone’s there.” I said. “Everyone who lives in this dimension, are they there? What is this for anyway?” Glytherin shrugged.
A night winter breeze snuck up on me again. Even Lydiard shivered. “Do you want my jacket?” he asked. I shook my head reluctantly. I was already wearing Glytherin’s but that was only to not show my wings. He gave me the jacket anyway. “I know you want my jacket.” He smiled. He put it around my shoulders and Glytherin immediately began running and pulling me forwards.
He held my hand in his. He looked directly at me with the most sweetness he could, I could easily see the attempt. We were a few steps from out of the woods and we’d be immediately in the party. Due to all of the noise, I could hardly hear him, but enough that I took in the words. “This is the celebration of your mothers’ death, the day she died. She was great amongst others, you must know that. No one knows you’re her daughter, but,” I stopped him.
“This is a celebration of my mother?” I asked. He nodded.
“You may not like the idea that I’m bringing you here, but you were born here. This would be an honor for you mother knowing that you are celebrating in this place, in honor of her. It’s a tragedy she’s died, and I really do apologize.”
How could I have forgotten that my mother died on my own birthday? I was so busy thinking about myself this whole entire day, not even thinking about grieving her, I read her poems and didn’t even have a clue. She died that long time ago and it gave me flashes. She was on the ground, she had no strength. She died as a young, healthy, untouched woman. She died from no heart attack, the doctors had said. She wasn’t murdered. She didn’t even have a scratch on her. I should’ve gotten a clue.
The purple rain stopped all around me and so did Glytherin. He looked at me with sad eyes knowing how I’d feel about this. This was one definite reason to why this day was never the happiest one for me to experience. Everything was frozen; I couldn’t hear the music anymore. My hair was soaked and my eyes even more with tears. Everything quickly unfroze. Glytherin was there still staring. “Was this not a good idea?” he asked. Lydiard was already into the party and walked passed us a while ago.
I breathed deeply looking at my feet and my legs as they shook. I nodded. I tied my arms around him. I sobbed into his shirt but it wouldn’t make a difference with him soaked by the rain. He held onto me tightly.
“Thank you,” I murmured. I felt helpless. I felt so weak and definitely naïve now

. I felt as if I could die in his arms. I never cried over my mother. I never thought of how much loss I had and how much pain it felt to lose her. I let go of him and wiped the tears on my shirt. My eyes were probably weary and red as how they’d been whenever I cried.
“We should go,” I said pointing over to the party. He nodded pulling my hands behind him. I tried to clear up quickly. We walked in. The grass was grainy and long and was filled with butterflies and different creatures like the puffballs that went through Glytherin’s door.
There were so many of them, their eyes were so pretty and light blue. Around other than puffballs were warriors, giants, witches, and then there were trolls. The puffballs jumped up and down high of the ground and bouncing against the hard ground. A giant came over me. Glytherin pushed me forward. I knotted my feet to the ground restraining to but he overpowered my strength of my feet. The giant got down on one knee. He had an Irish accent. “Will you pretty-girl-who-looks-like-an-Angel-and-comes-from-the-skies-and-does-tricks-to-my-head-that-makes-me-ask-random-questions dance with me?” I looked at Glytherin who proposed for me to say my answer. I didn’t know what to say. I looked into his deep eyes. They were practically the size of my head.
“Sure, I mean, if that’d make you happy…” I agreed.
The giant laid a huge finger on my shoulder. “You’re such a sweet girl, but I mean, will you be my acquaintance to Lyalia’s dance?”
“Oh!” I said in shock. “That’s so nice of you to ask me!” The man looked passed me and at the smiling Glytherin. “Oh, is this your date?” the giant asked him. Glytherin shook his head.
“Go along.” He said. Glytherin began laughing, why was this? All of a sudden, the giant picked me up in his hands. I held back what would’ve been a long and painful scream by covering my mouth. He now held me by my hands and waved me around like a doll. Glytherin walked away now.
“The queen and the princess are coming?” I heard someone ask. The giant took all of its attention from me.
“Thank you milady,” he said putting me down. He pulled something out of his pocket. It was a rose, shriveled up indeed but I was very thankful. He stepped away now. Once I was back on the floor, I could hear the voices much more clearly.
“Glytherin your fiancé is coming!” A man yelled. Rigor. I looked around. I began following people’s stares. I saw them both, the queen and the princess both riding in carriages being pulled by two men. No horses? Everyone bowed before her including Glytherin.
“Stand up Glytherin!” the queen yelled. “We’re your family now. The princess jumped down from the carriage now. She stood next to Glytherin. The whole party was silent. I heard Glytherin murmur something.
The queen jumped down and slapped him in the face. “Hosted by me you idiot!” she yelled. “Not just the woman should be honored, but also the host.” I felt tears come to my eyes again but I shut them as I bowed.