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a decade were just insignificant details. She felt behind her for broken glass, then lay down,
staring at the blue, cloudy sky. "Don't you think the sky is wonderful?"
"Huh?" Micky was puzzled, but lay on the grass opposite his friend, gazing up at the
sky. If he stared hard enough, he could just about see the stars, ready to shine in the dark.
They were both silent for a minute as they looked for clouds that looked like
something else. Micky saw one that he thought looked like a funny shaped balloon. "They
all look like funny shaped balloons, though," Jess pointed out. Micky shrugged and kept
looking. Jess saw a butterfly in one cloud. That had to be some sort of magic; seeing such a
beautiful creature in something else that was natural and wonderful. "It's amazing, isn't it?"
"Why is it?"

"Because it's just so big - and you'll never find the end of it, no matter how far you
go. And, it's always there. Sure, it changes a lot, like sometimes it'll be blue, or grey, or
black - multi-coloured when there's a rainbow - but it doesn't matter 'cos it's always
there." She smiled and bit her lower lip, unsure of what to say next. "It's ju st. amazing."
"Yeah, I guess it is."
It was another of Nature's own miracles. Like a huge blue blanket which kept
everyone together. Nature was all around - animals, flowers, even in the air - and Jess was
filled with awe about it; everything was part of Nature; how things were meant to be. She
could smelll it in the air, just dog muck from over by the tree, but it was magnificent,

natural. She wrinkled her nose, glad when the stink was whipped away by a sudden breeze.
Lying on grass staring at the sky wasn;t really something you could get away with as an
adult, but maybe they could learn a few things if they did. Like how they could change as
many times as they wanted, as long as they were always there. "I think it's the most
beautiful thing in the world," she sighed, happily.
"It makes me feel like I'm really tiny."
"It makes me feel big." She was the only one that mattered now. Again, they
silently watched the clouds move through the sky, trying to see pictures in them.
"What are you two doing," The slight form of May Young blocked their view and Jess
and Micky sat up.

"Looking at the sky. It's magical," Micky informed her as Jess looked up at the sky
again.
"What you want to do that for?" she wanted to know, hands on hips.
"Answers," Jess told her, offering no further explanation. "Just answers." Answers
that didn't exist, to questions that never went away.

NOW

You might now be asking how I can remember everything so well. How do you know
that I'm not making all this up, and laughing at you when you believe it? You don't know,