Prologue

"Can you see him?
"Where?"
“There. Right beside that tree.”
“Yes. Who is he again?”
“I don’t know. But people talk. Some say that he is mad and stand there thinking that his long lost friend is next to him. Others say that he has a promise to keep so he is waiting there every day for that one person he love.”
“What about you then? What do you think is he doing there?”
A sad smile appeared on the person’s face.
“Me? I think that he is just lonely. I think that something is telling him that he has to wait there and that’s why he’s doing it. Maybe he is in big pain and he is searching for a way to get rid of it so he can live already.”
“For someone who doesn’t know him,  you sure can say a lot.”
“I’m just like that, I can’t really help it. What do you think about him then?”
“Nothing.”
“Nothing?”
“Absolutely nothing.”
“Hmm… Let’s go then.”
“Yeah, let’s go.”
The two people left the place where  they were hiding until now without knowing that the  boy they were talking about has seen them.
After they left, he looked up at the sky and smiled when he saw a balloon flying up there. He jumped when it was close to him and catch it. There was a piece of folded paper hanging on the wire of the balloon and he took it and opened it. A soft smile appeared on his face when he read it.
Yes, it was true that people talk. But no one of them knew the real truth about him. There was only one person who knew everything about him and he would never tell anyone the whole story because if someone knew his story, he’ll be pitied and he didn’t want that.
Sometimes he himself wondered why he keeps going there even when he knew how people stare at him and how children are being told by their mothers to stay away from him but when  this kind of thoughts come through his mind he just smile wild and tells to himself that there is a reason for everything.
And it is true, there really is.