{ For this chapter, I suggest you play/download the song Forest of Wishes - Derek Fiechter to enjoy it together. Please turn on the loudest volume on your phone and you can also repeat the music for a better experience. }
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The little girl's crawling into the large holes, and follow the way of that long path. She lifts her left hand in front of her face, tried to protect her eyes when she saw the light ahead of her. Her eyes become smaller when she watches the sun's gleam.
It seems like the rains had stopped. The sun appears behind the cloudy cloud, giving a very bright light. The panorama around her feels so different like she was living in another world.
'Chirp, chirp.'
She's watching the nature around her. She heard the sounds of birds chirping cheerfully when her little body managed to go out of that old building. She looks at those birds.
"Hello, little animals! Do you know what is this place? Why are you guys look so cute?"
After she said that, the little girl smile at the birds.
'Chirp, chirp, chirp!'
The flock of the bird's looking at her and chirping. When she tries to walk at them, they are directly flying away.
The little girl only looks at that bird flying away. She seems like could feel the freedom of the birds when she looked at them. She waves at them and shouts with a happily. "Goodbye! I hope that I can see you guys again!"
The sounds of gentle breeze made her realized that now she was in an unknown place. She holds her hair closely when the strong wind approached her.
The scenery in front of her was very beautiful. There were several exotic plants that she never saw. There are also so many flowers besides those plants. She glanced and she happened to remembers that she had ever seen those flowers. She seems like she knows and recognizes the flowers. Maybe because she always read books about flowers?
She perked up at the flowers beside her. There was an orchid flower, roses, and jasmine flowers. The flowers look so wonderful and incredible. It has a fragrant and cozy smell. The flowers also give anyone who looks at it a pleasant sight. When the plants and that flowers gather in the same area, it created a very stunning garden. There was also a huge peach tree beside the flowers. The tree looks so big, fantastic, and extraordinary.
She awes at the scenery while walking along the way and reaches out her hand at the small flowers. She picks it up and puts it on her hair.
After that, the little girl jumps happily and claps her hands.
"Seriously, this is so amazing!! What on the earth is this place? Such a great place!"
All of a sudden she saw a river and a bridge ahead of her. There was a lot of lotus flower on the water. It looks so beautiful with the sunlight shined at its.
"Wow! There was a bridge! And the river too!"
She went to the under the bridge but she was shocked when she saw someone was there. There was a small little boy was sleeping on the grass with his hands behind his head. He was in a deep slumbering situation with a peaceful expression on his face.
"Zzzz ... zzzzz ... zzzzzz"
The little girl goes to that little boy with a tiptoe, her plan is to avoid her make sounds that will make him awake.
'Crack'
Unfortunately, she stepped on the small tree branches that made a loud sound.
'Oh, no...I'm done now ... ' The little girl's forehead becomes wrinkled as she says that in her heart. She looks over at the boy.
Hmm ... it looks like the little boy has been waking up. He looks at her with a sleepy face and one close eyed. He raised his eyebrows at her and he asks his first question.
"Who are you?"
The little girl's giggling when glancing at the little boy's face and behavior.
'So funny!'
After he saw the girl in front of her was laughing, he quickly wipes his face to check that if there was something on his face. When he confirms that there was nothing, he quickly stands up and wipes his back.
The little boy started to stare at her and asks with a serious face while his hands are scratching his hair.
"Hey, I was talking to you! Stop laughing. I'm asking who are you?"
The little girl's start laughing aloud as she seeing the boy in front of her was speaking in a funny action.
"Hahahaha!!!!"
When he heard the little girl laughing, he made an angry face to her. But to the girl's view, it looks like he was making an expression of sulking.
"Hahahahaha !!! Sorry, your face is way too funny to me!"
She's laughing hard until she was choked on her own saliva.
'Cough! Cough! Cough! '
The little boy who's seeing the girl was coughing, quickly he gives a bottle of water to her. She takes it fastly and drinks it up.
"Uhm ... thanks! And I'm sorry because I laughed at you earlier!"
The little girl is clearing her throat and apologize to him. The boy is looking at her and smiles.
"It's okay. It's also my fault too, that makes you laughed. Perhaps, I must be a smart person!"
When she hearing the answer, the little girl almost burst into a laugh. 'Why did I feel like he is a narcissistic person?'
The little boy looks again at the place he slept earlier. He took his cap and put it on his head. He is gazing at the little girl with a confident and smile on his face.
"How did I look? Do I look handsome? Do I look cute? Do I look very wise?"
In the end, the two of them laughing hard and touches their stomach together while they looked at each other. The girl can't help but giggle when hearing the questions of a joke from him. The little guy also chuckled because he can't bear when looking at her face when she was laughing.
"Hahaha! You're so funny! Not bad!" The little girl gives her right hand to the little boy as a greeting introduction. She smiles at him.
"Nice to meet you! My name is Shi Yan, what is your name?" She asked with curiosity.
The little guy's shaking his hand with her. "Nice to meet you too. Hmm? My name, huh..."
He looked hesitant for a while before continues. "It's a secret." He's winking his eyes at her when he says that.
She glared at him and wrinkled her forehead. "Wait, it's not fair! I have told you my name but you didn't tell me your name!"
The little naughty boy just chuckles. "Hahaha!! It's your fault that you're easily told me your name."
"...By the way, you can just call me Cookie."
Shi Yan's staring at him and asks with a weird face. "Cookie?? Why is your name sound strange? Are you sure that is your name?"
He's thinking while puts his hand under his chin. "Huh? But it just sounds normal to me...And yes that's my name. Ahem! That's my nickname actually." He looks at Shi Yan.
The cute little Shi Yan just stares at him. Her face looks like pondering about something and she blinking her eyes at him.
"Hmm...your nickname? I wondered why was your nickname like that?"
The little guy grins when gazing at her with an innocent behavior and face. He replies with a happy face.
"My grandpa is the one that calling me with that name! The reason is perhaps that I like to eat cookies and buns. But I quite liked that name!"
He closed his eyes, clenched his teeth, and looks at her. His lips are carving a sweet smile. His white tooth seems very clean, his expression appears to be extremely excited when talking about his grandfather. Moreover, his eyes are sparkling, Shi Yan could sense a joy's in his heart. His face seems so shiny with the light from the sun behind his body.