Alek didn't understand why she suddenly woke up from her sleep. She didn't feel like she had a nightmare and, she didn't usually wake up in the middle of a night.
Her surroundings were completely dark and, she took time to get used to it to see.
She felt something move in her arms and, she remembered she had slept with her sister in her arms.
Alek thought she had woke up her sister but, it seemed like Bia had only changed her position.
Alek sighed in relief and, she carefully removed her arms from under her sister. She then moved slowly to get off the bed.
Once she was off, she went to look for her phone on her bedside table.
The clock on the phone said it was just a few more minutes until midnight. Alek looked at her sleeping sister again.
Alek realized Bia was squeezed at the edge of the bed and, she laughed silently. She didn't know her sleeping habits were this bad.
Alek now felt bad for her sister sleeping with her for years before sleeping on a separate bed.
Alek was now wide awake and, she knew she wouldn't be able to fall asleep. She went to the window, went under the curtain and open the window slightly.
The cold night air of August entered the room and, she smelt the sunflower. She could see the bench where she shouted before she showered.
The lights were still on in the garden and, she could see the garden and rows of sunflowers behind it.
Alek thought she would see the clearing in the middle of sunflowers but, from where the room was located, she couldn't see it.
This room wasn't the room that they were in that night.
Alek closed the window silently and went on her bed. She then remembered about that night and, this made her curiosity budge.
'Will that happen tonight too?'
Alek took out her phone and checked the time. It was one more minute to midnight. She quickly jumped off the bed, hurriedly went to the window and jumped off to the ground.
To her surprise, she landed quietly and, this made her feel like hugging herself but, she knew she didn't have time to do that, so she quickly turned in the direction of the clearing before the bell ring.
Alek heard the bell ring when she just entered the sunflower field.
She panicked and ran towards the clearing at a speed that she didn't know she was capable of making.
Her foot started to ache because of the extreme pressure that she put on her foot.
She knew she wasn't supposed to do it or it would crack in her bones more but, she couldn't help it. She needed to be in that clearing, now!
Alek ignored the pain in her foot and continued to run.
Alek finally reached the clearing but, the clearing was dark.
No lights like the ones she remembered. Her shoulders dropped. Her knees drowned to the ground.
She had ran in the hope of seeing the lights again. And somehow, she felt like she was going to see her brother too.
Alek's breathing was ragged. She did her best to make it calm down but, it wasn't working. The tears began to fill her eyes, making her vision blurry.
Alek now felt the pain in her foot increase. Her adrenaline started to decrease and, she could feel her senses coming back to normal.
Tears that she had held in her eyes were now flowing down her face. She couldn't hold it back anymore.
She couldn't find the lights, couldn't find her brother and, the pain in her foot was just too much to bear.
Alek began to talk to no one and everyone at the same time.
"Ah,... W-why?...Ho-how? Why won't you... let me..."
Her words didn't make sense to her and also to the ones who were listening to her.
She didn't know what she was trying to say. Was she blaming the lights for not showing up? She didn't know!
And Alek didn't also know that some things, or call them some people, were watching her cry.
They were hiding their lights and, that was one of the reasons Alek couldn't see them.
They were staring at her from the ground, covering themselves up with the leaves of the sunflower.
"Do you think she knows that we are here, watching her?" One of them whispered against another and, that made Alek look up from the ground.
They quickly hid and, every one of them held their breath. The little beings stayed like that for what seemed like an hour but, it was just seconds before Alek went back to crying.
The one next to the one who spoke slapped his head and said stupid silently.
They were around the size of fingers and, they had colourful hairs and eyes.
The one who spoke had platinum blonde hair with the same eye colour and, the one who slapped him had red velvet hair with the same eye colour.
'Stupid! She could have seen us! What were you thinking?!' The velvet featured one scolded the other.
'I don't know! Maybe talking to you was what I was thinking!' The platinum blonde retorted back with a glare.
He believed that a slap on the head will make him stupid and, he was stupid enough. He didn't need to be more stupid than he already was.
They now communicated through minds and was about to have a mental fight when another one of them butted in.
'Enough, both of you. We are not going tonight.'
The one who spoke in their head had black hair with some strands white. He had a dominant aura around him that made people not talk back to him.
He looked young like the rest, but he had a different vibe from anyone else.
The two stopped their mind quarrels and listened to the one who spoke without hesitation.
The tiny, black featured one looked at every one of them in the clearing before leaving back to the sunflowers.
They followed him one by one in silence, leaving the crying Alek alone. The platinum featured one stopped on his way and looked back at Alek.
He didn't understand why they were leaving her like that. At least, they could guide her back to the house with their lights. When he thought about that, he quickly made light to give it to Alek.
But he was caught just when he was about to blow it to Alek.
The velvet featured one caught his wrist and made the light stay in his grasp. He shook his head and made the light on the blonde stay with himself.
The blonde puffed his cheeks with frustration but, he still obeyed him and made the light disappear.
The velvet featured one let go of the blonde's wrist and dragged him away from the clearing. The blonde finally noticed that others left, and they were the only ones in the clearing.
The velvet was dragging him, so he didn't see the blonde making another light with his other hand and blowing it to Alek.
The light was so tiny. The light was the size of his hand so that it wouldn't be noticed by the velvet haired.
The blonde quickly grabbed the velvet feature and ran away from the clearing.
He didn't want the velvet to notice the light even though it was tiny.
The velvet was confused by the sudden action by the blonde. But he shrugged that thought off him and ran to follow the others that have disappeared from their sight, long time ago.
When the tiny, little beings were gone from the clearing, the light that the blonde created, finally found its way to Alek.
It landed on Alek's right hand at first and slowly made its way up to her face.
Alek thought it was an insect that glows at night like fireflies. But, the way it moved up her hands to her face, she realized that she was wrong.
This light was definitely not an insect! Plus, it was too tiny to be an insect.
Alek saw the light floating just in front of her face.
Her tears had stopped flowing and, everything around her turned silent. The light was like engulfing her whole.
It had a soothing tone and, this made her smile a little.
She raised her hand to touch it but, the light dodged it gracefully and landed on the tip of her nose. It was like the light was angry at her.
Alek stopped trying to touch it and stood up instead. Because that was what she thought the light was telling her to do.
It was as if she could hear what the light was saying.
But when Alek stood on two legs, she felt the sharp pain coming from her right foot. She groaned in pain but, she left it like that.
The light moved around Alek and started to move towards the house.
She knew what the light was trying to do, so she quickly followed the light, limping a little.
Each time she put pressure on her right foot, her face showed pain but, Alek didn't groan in pain again.
When Alek finally reached the window of her bedroom, the light went through the window and, waited inside for her to follow it.
Alek wowed in awe.
Why didn't she realize that it was just like any other lights! Lights go through glasses. Why didn't she think of that?! Alek slapped herself in her mind.
She then opened the window quietly and climbed it.
The window was around the height of her shoulders and, it was hard for her to climb it but, she made it!
Alek smiled triumphantly in the dark to herself and made her way towards the bed.
Bia was now in the middle of her bed. Legs stretched out wide and said, kill him in her sleep.
Alek was surprised to hear that from her sister. She even waved her hands in front of her sister and checked if she was really asleep.
Once she was done checking, Alek finally sat down in the middle of her bed.
Now her foot was aching badly and, it had started to swell.
'Dang it! Why is it so painful?!'
She brought her foot towards her to have a better look when the light also joined her.
The light was like examining the injury, but suddenly the light started to move upwards.
The light floated up to Alek's eye level and circled her once. Leaving little sparkles on its trail.
Once the light was done circling around her, it made its way toward her and landed on the tip of Alek's nose again.
It looked like the light liked her nose.
It stayed there for a short while before floating towards her injured foot.
Alek was curious about what the light was going to do.
Slowly, the light sank into her foot and made her foot lit up like a light bulb for a while before turning back to normal.
Before she knew it, she became very sleepy and fell back on her pillow. Drifting off to the land of dreams.