The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair: A Miraculous Fable by Gavin Whyte

Author:Gavin Whyte [Whyte, Gavin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Being Books
Published: 2015-02-14T23:00:00+00:00

'Watch the ageing leaves,

As they fall down to earth.

Watch the ageing leaves,

They've been guided since birth.

Watch the ageing leaves,

And know that they'll return

To this wonderful place,

There is so much to learn.'

'Such uplifting words!' the boy said to himself, and was more determined than ever to discover their origin, so he quickened his pace.

And this was when his heart sank like a dense pebble in a deep pond, for the young lady he knew so well was no longer there. She had been replaced by somebody even older.

'Who are you?' he said, sounding rather bitter.

The boy didn't know it, but the aged lady beneath the tree was the young lady from summer, only forty years older. Her long, green-tinted blonde hair, which in summer seemed to have a life of its own, was now different shades of oranges, yellows, reds and browns, with only a faint shade of green left in it.

The boy forever frowned at her, which made her laugh. She looked older than his mum, but not as old as his grandma. He wasn't at that age yet where he could appreciate her beauty, but he could sense it. She seemed balanced and comfortable with herself. He noticed that her clothes had changed again, and was aware that the fully formed sunflowers on her brown shorts had begun to wilt. This frustrated him immensely, because why would someone have flowers on their shorts that weren't teeming with life? All he wanted was his summer pal back.

'I'm your best friend from spring and summer, my dear,' said the aged lady. She smiled at him in such a loving way that all he wanted to do was to be held by her. But he soon shook off that feeling.

'Why should I believe you?' he blurted out. 'My friend from summer was younger and her hair was long and blonde and kind of... green.'

Hearing himself say this made him realise how strange it actually was, because he could count on one finger how many people he knew with green-tinted hair.

The aged lady smiled knowingly and went and crouched next to him. Taking his hands in hers and looking into his confused eyes, she said, 'My love, we have shared so much, yet you do not believe it is I from a single season ago. Don't you remember when we counted raindrops? What about the time when we surfed on the smooth rays of the sun? Surely you remember that?'

The boy studied her hands first; they were plump and her skin had thinned. Next, he studied her face and noticed small branch-like wrinkles on the outer corners of her eyes. Her hair didn't look as delicate and as soft as the young lady's from summer. But then he found himself looking into her eyes. And at that moment he knew she was telling the truth, because eyes can't lie. He collapsed into her arms and she embraced him as a parent would a long-lost child.

'I'm sorry I didn't believe you,' he said, nearly sobbing.

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