The Girl and The Wind

A girl once fell in love with the wind. She flirted with him all the time. The wind played along. He would play with her hair. Oh! how she loved that!! They would meet in the forests and he would make the trees sing for her. But he did not like her. She was nothing special. Besides, he was already married to thunder. One day, thunder found out about all this and confronted him and he told her the whole story.

"Put an end to this now!", cried thunder.
"But she will think I betrayed her and her trust....", said wind in a worried voice.
"She will understand, tell her about me, say you are sorry, you did a bad thing.", scolded wind.
"But--", said wind and thunder cut him.
"Swear by you children, you will put an end to this.", roared thunder.

The wind looked at his children, they were married for years and years now and had several clouds. He remembered all the nights he and thunder spent awake when the clouds rained. How much he loved them. He sighed heavily.

"I was wrong, please forgive me, I will put an end to this.", said wind.

So saying, the wind started his journey back to Earth to meet the girl. On his way he thought out loud.

"She cannot really love me...can she? She is just young and needed attention. I don't want to tell her the truth, what can I do to escape this? There must some other way to put an end to this...there must be another way!!"

His cowardly mind hatched a very evil plan.I will ask her for her heart, she will never give it to me. Then I can pretend to be angry and leave. He saw the girl, she was lying down in the grass by the farm with her eyes shut. She was plain to look at, nothing special at all. But, she had a very kind soul, it reflected in her eyes. She could see through everything if she wanted, but the ever optimistic girl chose to ignore the flaws. This is what the wind feared the most. He knelt down before her and touched her cheek softly. She did not open her eyes, but smiled as she blushed.

"I was waiting for you dear", she said.
"Well, here I am", he replied.
"You know, the weirdest thing happened last night...", she said as she sat up slowly opening her eyes.
"What?", said wind, feeling slightly uncomfortable by her stare.
"The moon, he came to me and started talking nonsense about you and thunder....I was--"
"Sweetheart, the moon is jealous that he cannot have you." , wind cut in.
"Really now? Please tell me is this the truth, or is what the moon was saying the truth", asked the girl holding her breath and her eyes wide.

Ah! thought wind, she has made my work easier.

"Oh dear! Oh dear me! Did I give you all my love to see this day? Do you not trust me?", cried wind.
"Oh please! Don't say that....", sobbed the girl,"I love you so much, its just that I saw you with..."
"Thunder?!!". roared wind.
"Yes", whispered the girl in fright.
"That is because she needed help with her children the clouds.", explained wind.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, please forgive me!", begged the girl.
"You don't love me, that is clear, I think we are over.", the wind said in final tones.
"Please don't leave me, I will do anything to show you that I love you...", the girl begged harder.
"Is that so? Then can you give me your heart?", asked the wind.

He thought, she will not, its just too precious to her!!

The girl stared at him again, probably he is right she thought , I love him so much!! She stood up and ran to a farmer in the distance.

She has gone! This was so easy thought wind.

The girl came running back with a sickle in her hand.

"I thought you went away m'love. What are you thinking, and what is this sickle for?", asked the wind, he got a bit nervous.

The girl looked at him and smiled, she kissed him lightly on his cheek, stood before with a determined expression on her face. Everything around them stopped moving, everything watched as she tore open her chest and took out her heart. It was a bloody mess.

"Here, take this", she said," But, remember not to break it, or I will die."

She stretched her hand to give it, and he his to take it. He was in a shock. He was not paying attention to what was happening and her heart fell from his hand and broke into a million pieces. There was dead silence as the girl fell into the eternal sleep.

The wind looked down at her. He had solved his problem. Somewhere in the distance he heard his wife rumble and was shaken out of his thoughts and started his way home.