Angel

The night is clear and the sky is sprinkled with stars, the moon is full tonight and silver. There is a breeze, it blows a stray strand of my hair into my eyes. I smile as I see sally, she has finally gotten the hang of flying! At first she was to unbalanced to fly, to unable to concentrate but now she has it.
The wind blows her hair as she swoops thought the night testing her new wings. She flys up so that she is in front of where I am sitting on the rocks , it is overlooking the lake and the trees , the moon casts a silver glow around her picking up the almost gold highlights in her wings and making her hair shine
“ Zack , quit day dreaming and get up here with me!! “ she leans over , takes my hand and pulls me up. I let my wings unfurl she lets go of me and whooshes ahead of me laughing softly , her laughter sounds like a silver bell tinkling , it makes me smile . She spirals in the night and twists and turns up into the clouds.
We both lay exhorted on the ground, I feel alive again I feel happy. I turn to sally, the stars are reflected in her eyes lighting them up, the soft glow of the moon makes her white skin glow silver. She leans up I can see the question forming on her lip before she has said it.
“ Zack ?“ she says quietly
I look over at her “ yes “
“Zack … well can angels still …” she blushes and is quiet, I smile at her .She bends over me to brush a strand of hair out of my face I catch her hand and pull her over me . for a moment everything is perfect , she is perfect. I look deep into her eyes, she blushes and looks away . I feel her so close to me I touch her cheek she looks back at me there are tears in her eyes but still she tries to smile through them … I put my arms around her , the force of the crying shakes her
“ sally “ I whisper to her “ don’t cry “
... She just cries more