He stared at the rock for a minute as another tear fell down his face.
"Ahhhhh…" he muttered, sliding off the tree and resting his head on the grass, his eyes looking up through the layers of the tree to the sun that shone through the leaves to touch him lightly below. "I'm tired Alice…" he mumbled as more tears rolled down his cheeks to the soil below where the rock was planted into. "I-I'm tired. It's stressful…"
He raised his hand up to the little hole where the sun peeked through and sighed. "You're listening right?" he asked, a trembling smile appearing on his face, "you're still here with me right?"
