Escape
Copyright © 1998-1999 by Daniel Jeremy Perz

“Yeah,” he said, clutching his hand with both of his. Looking into his clear blue eyes, he knew it there and then.

His gaze didn’t falter, as he knew he realized the same thing. They stood there, together, in a crowd, yet alone. A few bystanders watched in curiosity or revulsion. The latter shaking their heads in disgust, and walking away.

He ran his hand through his cropped brown hair, and rested it on the other’s cheek.

He glanced around at the unfamiliarity of the location in the home he’d known for so long.

“We don’t want to miss it,” he said softly, without the slightest hint of urgency, as if the whole world would wait for the two to board their escape from the known.

The boarding call was sounded, and he felt an exhilaration in him at the taking of this chance, leaping into the unknown, in spite of what he thought had been thorough preparation.

He also experienced the whelming feeling of risking it all for love. There was no question in his mind of whether it was the right choice, he knew.

Finding their seats, the two took them and he looked out the window, softly whispering “goodbye” to all he’d known. He noticed this, and slipped his arm around his shoulder comfortingly.

They arrived, on time, at the “big city”: a strange, almost alien mix of life and technology, bustling with energy interspersed with hopes and dreams, and the broken versions as well, although the majority consisted of those who seemed to only be somewhere else.

Neither knew precisely what they were going to do, yet neither felt lost or alone, although in the most basic sense they were. They knew no one here, knew little of the city, and that only from reputation and stereotypes.

The sun high in the sky glowed encouragingly down upon the two, the rays warming their exposed skin.

The two seemed content to walk the cityscape aimlessly, blissfully unaware of the unsavory aspects of the monstrous urbanity they were making their home.

The two continued in their journey through the city, hand-in-hand, almost ready to take on the world.


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