TEARS TRICKLE OVER FLUSHED CHEEKS, the world a blur from waterlogged lashes. her head rests in the others lap, and even in this state: her mind a mess of memories; head awash of flurried thoughts; the world itself so tantalisingly confusing and cruel, she still cannot help but feel the slightest smile twitch across her lips as the others fingertips run through her tangled locks --------- a tune they’ve played a thousand times before.
it is times like these she truly understands her mother; her thoughts and feelings for the human population, that perhaps in the end it can only be plants one can trust. plants and harley that is, for it is her aunt who is always there to pick up the pieces; when a customer gets too rough, or someone decides the little plant hybrid is easy prey, even when the world itself simply seemed too much. this time it had been the second option, a man she’d never seen before deciding to take some anger out on the ‘ freak ’ as he’d so eloquently put it. his hand had been raised in a strike and moments later she’d found her own clasped around his wrist, veins flooding with toxins and moments later he was dead. tears had already been welling in the corners of her eyes as he fell, not of any sorrow but rather the unfairness of it all, that she could never be normal, never fit in. she had not wanted to see her mother after that, simply calling to ask for help disposing the body before rushing to harleys. and here she was, once again finding the age old question escaping her lips, “ aunt harley, why is it so hard to be human ? ”