Countryside

As he was driving the car, he could see that she was quietly observing the landscape outside from the corner of his eyes.

Her hair is breezed lightly and gently into the air by the wind coming from the open window as he drives slowly through the countryside road.

He can see her large blue eyes fixed on the green fields of the farms filled with cows and horses lazily going about their daily lives.

He recalls once remembering when they were together with her parents out in the countryside feeding the animals, wondering if she was also thinking of the same thing.

Her quietude disturbs him, and even though she is just sitting next to him, it feels as though there is a great distance between them like a vast gulf could be separating them when they are sitting so close together.

At the same time, he didn't know what to say or how to say it anymore because he had told all the words he could say to her to the best of his abilities.

He watches outside the car window, sees the sun shining from the horizon, and notices how beautiful everything is here.

He slowed down the car and drove the car to the sandy road of one of the country farm neighborhoods, and put the car in the parking mode.

She looked at him with her large blue eyes with surprise, seeing that he parked the car on the roadside curb, and saw him looking at her with a warm glow.

Opening the driver seat door, he got out of the car and went to the opposite side to open her door, "Come on, let's stop for a moment and catch some rest."

He watched his hand, which he extended as she walked out of the car, catching a snack bar that Jon handed to her as they both leaned against the car and watched the countryside together.

Looking at the red farms in front of them as the sun shines down on the hayfield, he doesn't say anything except give her a warm smile as they rest, watching this fantastic view.

He sees the red color of the farms in front of him and watches as the wind gently blows the plants sideways slowly.

The road is quiet without any cars passing by, and there were only the two of them here looking out into the countryside without anybody else in sight.

"Do you know why I wanted you to see this?"

He asked, interrupting her from blanked stare into the space in front of them.

She looked at him with a tired smile and asked jokingly, "Because I was bored?"

He laughed hearing her saying this answer, "That too."

He held her hand dearly before continuing, "I didn't want you to miss out on what we have here in front of us."

"Look," He pointed his finger at the cows with white and brown patterns on their back; they were chewing the grass from the farmyard.

On the farm, there is also a shepherding dog running around happily, unaware of any troubles in the world.

The dog is enjoying the sunshine as they both look at it enjoying itself, tasting life with all of its flavors and forgetting any self-consciousness.

In the middle of the night, they parked near the forest, where there's a flat grass field. With the warm summer air blowing across the trees in the woods.

He held her hand as they both laid down on the grass, feeling the wind gently whistling the night away.

Underneath the stars, he watched into the darkness as they lay close to each other.

And where he could feel the warmth of her hand and the sweet fragrance on her body.

Jon watched her from the side as she continued to admire the starry sky quietly without saying anything.

He felt like during this short month; she had grown into somebody truly mature and impressive.

Although there are still fears in her heart for the unknown future, he felt like she had become somebody brave.

"Julia," he called her name quietly in the dark.

She looked at him, turning her head over to see what it was, then smiled a large smile on her lips as she watched him with her large deep blue eyes.

"What is it?" She asked sweetly.

He breathed a small breath, "Well, I want you to know that I'm here with you no matter what. You're not alone. Whatever that is out there, we will do it together."

She smiled with her eyes tracing the outline of his face, "I know, you give me that little extra push. That extra courage that I need."

Silently in her heart, she also said to herself, 'And without you. I wouldn't know how to bear this world all alone.'

He held her hand more tightly and turned his eyes back on the shining stars above them, magnificent with color.

He told her calmly, "You know, Julia, do you ever feel like the stars are a little lonely?"

"Why do you say that?" She asked.

"Well, even though they are right next to each other, they are many millions of miles apart," he told her with his index finger pointing to the stars above them.

She gazed at the stars above them, fixated with her attention, "Kind of like a beautiful dancer on the stage. Magnificent, but at the same time, distant and far away. Something you can only watch and never get closer to at all."

"I didn't think of this. I heard it from someone before," Jon told her.

He thought to himself about the people he had brushed past in life, the people, the strangers.

They are all walking so close to him.

But, in reality, they are all a million miles apart.

It is almost like two straight lines that will never intersect.

He holds her hand delicately, "And I don't want ever to view you from a distance. I want to bring us closer until you're right in front of me.