I was bewildered by her feeling. It had been awhile since my inner child last took a peek from behind her cold, gigantic wall. She sat on the fence of the wall and smiled while Summer was walking past. She blushed and said, ‘I like him’. I missed her innocent smile, so I confessed love frivolously to Summer for her sake. He smiled back, with such a sophisticated smile, and his eyes were full of mystery. So I thought, ‘shall the game begin’. Following their erotic dance, an irresistible stomach-knocking feeling was aroused from within.
My inner child approached Summer, hesitating if she should hold his hand tightly and invite him to play inside our wall. My mind forewarned her, ‘Flee! Before Summer melts your ego.’
I was paralysed with love and fear. Starting to perspire and tremble, yet she ignored my warning and took a big step closer to Summer. Certainly he could smell the fear in her scent. Although he said ‘it is okay’ in a soft voice, he stared into her eyes with a sneer, and turned his head away all a sudden; we were lost in translation. Then, on the spur of the moment, he vanished like Oz the wizard. Yet his remaining heat melted the seal of our memory palace, releasing the darkness out from its hell, which triggered an inner war.
My inner child could not stop her heartache, covering her tiny face with her hands, tears shedding down from her chin dropped heavily on my heart. My heart whispered to her, ‘Summer has been lost, you found him ’cause you have been a little lost yourself too.’
I am now awaken, realising that Summer is my mirror and that was why we were attracted to each other. In his eyes, it was not mystery but bunkers of mistrust and fear, clearly reflected deep in my irides, where he also has a wounded child living inside his own gigantic wall. As scared as my inner child felt, it was also difficult for him to let her venture into his inner world. How much I wish I could save him. But we must save ourselves before we can save the others.
Looking back at the wall I built around myself, and the memories of Spring, our deepest secret, which I have been trying to dissociate throughout these years, it changes everything that I thought I know about myself.
My inner child, now putting on her armour, is ready to exert herself to seek the truth, collecting fragments of memory, piece by piece, in order to bring us victory. She asked, ‘will you join me to the darkness of our memory palace?’
Chapter 2: Inner War
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