Every morning at 8:00 AM for the last year, two birds sit on a wire singing to nearby pedestrians until they wake up. The wind blows softly in the autumn breeze. The telephone wire is straight across from an apartment complex. One man always sleeps with his window open and blinds open, allowing all the sunlight to hit him at all times. The old brick building has existed for centuries, getting renovation after renovation. There is a train that departs at 9:00 AM every day, scaring off all the birds, and then they disappear from the world until the next day.
"Today is the day, my friend!" The Finch says with glee in their tweets.
"The day?" The Sparrow says
"Yeah! The day! We can go to the Caribbean and woo the Ibis, meet up with the Osprey. Don't tell me you forgot about the Osprey. He's not gonna be happy to hear that!" The Finch says
"I think I wanna go somewhere new." The Sparrow says, "Anywhere new." The breeze hits harder than usual as the finch freezes in thought. The usual morning noise turned into the void of tension.
"Don't yer ever get tired? We sit here every day until 9:00, when the train scares us off. I have been able to trace and call out every single person that exists. I feel like a useless peasant, an office worker of god. My shift starts at 8, then my shift ends when the train comes." The sparrow stops and looks over toward the finch
"What in the blue hell are you talking about?" The Finch says
"Don't ya feel it? Every day, same old crap...Actually. Hold your thought. I can prove it right now. Right now, that guy will wake up. "The sparrow stops
"That's what alarm clocks do." The Finch says with attitude
"He will roll to the right side of his bed, scratch his ankle that has a sock mark up residue, look at the empty water bottle, and try to drink it before grabbing another water bottle out of his mini fridge. He'll drink about 48% of it before he loses the cap and scrambles to find it. He'll find it, then place the water bottle in his bag, but he'll remove the other water bottle and place it on his window." The sparrow says with a low pitch
"I believe you, but why would you want to go somewhere else?" The finch cried
"My father died when I was 3 years old. I'm 2 years old. I don't have time to just cruise control. I wanna go out there and do something God never expected me to do and then, I'll earn his respect." The sparrow says
"I want to go too." The finch says.
"Then let's go!" The sparrow says happily
"But I can't." The finch says
"Oh, come on! You have to let go of that wire one day!" The sparrow says
"I do!"
"This telephone wire goes from here to the islands. You have never let go. I want to."
"You'll die out there!"
"And what!?"
"You promised you'd always be here for me! Always."
"Being here for me would be letting me go north. Or whatever freaking place I end up going."
"I'll be there, with you."
"Will you? It's almost 9:00AM."
"Is it?"
The train rolls in, and The Sparrow flies off, but today. The finch stays on the telephone pole. The finch watches The Sparrow follow its dreams. The Finch stayed on the wire the entire train. The noises would scare it, but the world seemed so little for a moment, and only one sound could've existed at that given moment, and that was the sound of the Sparrow's wings flapping against the wind and its squawking of freedom.
