The Gardener

Chapter 5

By Zeldagurl

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha but I do own a blanket (with his face on it) that I snuggle every night. How bout' that?

(Begin)

"Inuyasha... Are you having trouble with that?"

"I'm doing fine." Came the terse reply.

"Because I would be happy to help you if you just so happened to need-"

"I SAID I'm doing fine, Kagome, go clean a sink or something." Inuyasha growled, picking up a wrench and banging it on the confounded contraption that he'd been "working on" since the early morning. He was at a loss for what to do, and had been for quite a while, although he would never tell Kagome that...

"What are you doing?" Kagome poked her head out of the open doorway of the house, raising an eyebrow at the clueless boy.

"Making progress." Inuyasha furrowed his brow even further and abandoned his trusty wrench for a screw-driver, and pounded even harder on the poor machine.

"Banging a screw-driver on the new air-conditioner is hardly progressive Inuyasha." She frowned as he continued, ignoring her criticism in favor of beating the air-conditioner up. Kagome sighed and walked over to the paper pamphlet that lay forgotten by a tree. She picked up the forlorn papers, and sighed at the terrible state of them.

The directions were simple enough, and would have been understandable to Inuyasha, except that he had refused to look at them after the first two seconds of reading. Kagome winced at the words, like cooling unit, reverberation, and forward aft compartment... Wait... Kagome wasn't sure if this was supposed to be an air conditioner or an airplane...

She looked up to find Inuyasha standing up and raising a leg to kick the machine; he looked up as soon as she did and backed away sheepishly, busying himself with finding an unbroken screwdriver.

"This is hopeless..." She said, half to herself while staring at the air-conditioner. Inuyasha was currently trying to yank a tool out of a tree trunk, which had been there since he had thrown it early that morning. Normally Kagome would have commented, but she decided that some things were just best left alone.

Kagome looked at the path that led out of the forest and back at Inuyasha, who was no doubt realizing that he had broken all of the screw-drivers and other such tools in the course of the morning. Kagome ignored that for a moment and considered the heat of the day, just coming with the climbing of the noon sun; today would be just as bad as yesterday was, which meant that the house would be unbearable. And as much fun as she had been having yesterday at the lake, she didn't particularly feel like exposing her poor shoulders to any more sun.

"Inuyasha..." She called tentatively, gearing up for some major begging.

"What?"

"You need help."

"No thank you, I'm perfectly sane." He replied from where he now sat, and soon sprawled on the forest floor.

"Not that kind of help, although it may be consideration in the future, let me assure you." She pursed her lips and squatted down next to him, "I meant that WE need help with the air-conditioner."

"And what exactly are WE suggesting? It's not like magical shoe elves are gonna come and put it together for us..." He sighed melodramatically.

"... Well that was out of left field. I wasn't even going to suggest magical shoe elves, unless we were really desperate." She winked at him, "How do you know about shoe elves anyway?"

"... I've read some things in the past that I'm not proud of..." Inuyasha admitted.

"Ah." Kagome voiced in a confused understanding. She shook her head and forced herself to reiterate her main point, "Anyway, what I mean is that... Well, you obviously can't figure this out, and I'm brain-dead when it comes to putting anything together-"

"Wow, I could have said so many things right there... You shouldn't just walk into insults like that... It's lucky for you that I'm such a nice guy." He commented somewhat lazily.

"-SO," Kagome said forcefully continuing, "I think we should take it into town to where I work, I'm sure they know how to put an air-conditioner together."

Inuyasha was silent for a moment, and the grin on his face was instantly replaced with a neutral grimace.

"That isn't a great idea." He said quietly, sitting up and keeping his eyes towards his feet.

"Why not?" Kagome asked gently, noticing right away that the levity of their situation was gone.

"I can't go there. I don't think that they want me there."

"But Inuyasha, I can't carry that thing by myself, I need you to come with me." She gave a wary glance towards the pathetic looking machine, and then took a look at Inuyasha, who was also looking almost as pathetic at the prospect of leaving the forest.

She felt a terrible pang of guilt in her heart as her eyes met his for just a moment, she shouldn't have even suggested it... If it was going to be this hard for him... then she would just... have to figure something else out.

"Inuyasha, if you really don't want to then I won't-"

"It's okay." He said quickly, standing up and taking a deep breath. Kagome could almost visibly see him accepting his fate.

"But I-" Kagome gave him a queer look.

"It'll just be in and out, right? If it's just a quick number, then I think I can handle it." He said, sounding a little more like his usual self. Kagome sighed, kind of glad that his haunted look and his depressed voice was gone as quickly as it came. It was too disheartening to see him upset...

"Yeah Inuyasha, it'll be quick. And if you want, we can disguise you so that no one would even know that you're any different than anybody else. They'll just figure that you're from the city, like me." Kagome chirped happily. Inuyasha smiled half-heartedly, if only for her sake, and Kagome stepped forward and placed her small hand in his large fingers.

"Everything's going to be fine." She smiled as he blushed and looked away. They stood there like that for a moment in silence, until Kagome decided that it was apparently time to get started.

"Ooh! I can't wait to dress you up! It's like a makeover!" Kagome squealed, immediately lightening the mood. Inuyasha was less than enthusiastic.

"Just please don't do anything strange to my hair." Inuyasha pleaded as Kagome dragged him into the house with-most likely- diabolical ideas in her head.

(Switch)

"Okay, now just act normally, and you'll be fine. Let me do the talking." Kagome hissed as they stepped onto the sidewalk from the road.

"Yeah, yeah." Inuyasha groused, his eyes darting from building to building, suspicious of any and all sunny patches of grass and open windows with curtains fluttering in the breeze. He had already nearly walked into a telephone pole, a bench, and an oddly placed tree because he was so busy playing look-out, but it was worth it as long as he could see any threat to his and Kagome's safety. Kagome though, wasn't half so enthralled. Soon enough she was leading him like a dog leads a blind man with a tight hand on his arm, steering him in the right direction from time to time.

Inuyasha, as promised, was doing the perfect acting job of pretending that the air-conditioner was almost too much. He complained almost the whole way, whining that he couldn't see over the bulky box. He had even continued complaining, long after the need to act a little more inconspicuously human had come and passed, but Kagome let him get away with it because she was high-strung herself, and didn't really feel like yelling at him here in the middle of the sidewalk in the little town.

Kagome pushed the glass door open and Inuyasha tried not to wince as the bell above the door rang loudly. With his height being what it was, the bell was directly over his head, which also meant it was directly over his sensitive ears too. Inuyasha sighed miserably and followed Kagome to the front counter, all but dropping the air conditioner on the table top. Kagome gave him a flat look before turning to greet the old man who owned the store.

Mr. Yoshida was a quiet man, seeming almost out of place in a hardware store, and rather belonging in a charming old bookstore. He was kind, with a glimmer of good in his eyes. Kagome liked him a lot, looking to him almost paternally despite the fact that they had only known each other a few days. Inuyasha noticed right away that she was very friendly with the man just from the exchanged looks of greeting.

Kagome visibly calmed herself at the sight of Mr. Yoshida's smiling face.

"Ah, Kagome. How are you today, my dear? You haven't been having too tough of a time cleaning up your Grandfathers house so far, have you?" Of course he already knew that it hadn't been a picnic, he only asked to tease her and to assure her that he had nothing but fond memories of her Grandfathers senility and oddball decorating schemes.

"You know... the usual: old mattresses, barely functional plumbing, spiders galore," She shivered, remember the multitude of spiders and other kinds of bugs that she had employed Inuyasha to kill over the past few days, "Other than this air conditioner, we're doing fine."

Inuyasha snorted loudly, but was quickly cowed when Kagome shot him a death glare, "...Ahem... Something in my throat..." He explained gruffly. Mr. Yoshida glanced at him as though seeing him for the first time, raising his eyebrow at the sunglasses and the ball-cap. Inuyasha looked away, shying away from the old man and his interested look. Kagome peered at the silent exchange and wondered if she should distract the both of them, since Inuyasha hadn't seemed to keen on talking with anyone anyway.

But soon enough Mr. Yoshida shrugged and decided to turn his attention to the box on his counter. Kagome breathed a silent sigh of relief.

The old man sighed at the sight of the air-conditioner box, dreading what he would find inside. He took another fleeting glance at the silent young man standing next to Kagome, "And who is this? A boyfriend perhaps?"

Kagome blushed and shook her head fervently, managing to avoid Inuyasha's eyes as she tried to explain.

"No, this is my friend..." She looked at Inuyasha for a little guidance and he pulled a face at her.

"...my friend Inuyasha, he's been helping me move in and all. In fact, he was the one trying to figure out hoe to put that together." She bit her lip nervously, making a note to herself to maim Inuyasha later for his smart mouthy attitude.

Mr. Yoshida took in Inuyasha's almost outlandish appearance and broke out into a grandfatherly smile, sticking out a friendly hand to Inuyasha,

"It's nice to meet you Inuyasha. Welcome to our little town of Miyako. I hope you'll be staying awhile..."

Inuyasha accepted the old man's hand awkwardly and smiled nervously, darting a glance at Kagome to make sure he was doing it right. She in turn, pulled a face at him, probably as payback from before... He made a mental note to himself not to make faces at her when she might be useful in any way. Which of course, he promptly forgot as soon as the though went through his head.

The old man smiled at the exchange and let go of Inuyasha's hand, deciding to take a look at the poor air conditioner before anything else happened to it.

"Ah... Wow... Did you..? Wow."

"Do you think you can do anything about it? Set it up maybe?" Kagome peered into the box as well and winced at all of the dents and scrapes.

"Well, I can try. I won't know how bad this is 'til I can get my hands into it and all. So I'll have to ask you folks to come back a little later." Mr. Yoshida rubbed his hands wearily through his thinning hair.

"How much later?" Kagome asked, darting a nervous glance at Inuyasha who had turned a withering glare on her at the old man's words.

"A couple of hours at least." He smiled apologetically and adjusted his stereotypical grandpa glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kagome winced and nodded, "Well, if you say so, then I guess we'll be back in a while... Thank you." She added wearily, reaching out without looking for Inuyasha's hand. He blushed as she grabbed it and led him out of the store, gripping it loosely.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha." She said genuinely, turning to face him as soon as the door had shut behind them. She sighed and looked down,

"I'm guessing that we're going to have to hang around town for a while. So... If you want to... We can get some ice cream and stuff while we wait." She suggested inconspicuously, her eyes veering away from his general direction in a shy manner.

"It's not good for me to hang around here." He reminded her quietly, his eyes flitting about for a completely different reason.

"But... No one would recognize you, not as you're dressed now. I'm sure that no one would mind you hanging around for one day." Kagome pleaded.

It was probably true. Although Kagome's grandfather had never been his height and build, he had some pretty interesting clothes stocked up. Even Kagome had been surprised at the things that she had found in her Grandfather's old Bureau, she hadn't known that her old fart of a Grandpa was so... erm... interesting. But nevertheless, Inuyasha was stuffed into his clothes until Kagome could sneak into a clothing shop and buy some more modern clothes for the boy behind the building. Consequently, they had tied up his hair and put a baseball cap on his head to cover his -now crushed- ears. He wore dark sunglasses and barely smiled for fear of showing his teeth... And other than that, Inuyasha was pretty normal; most people on the street didn't give him a second look. Kagome wouldn't have thought he was any different from your average city kid...

She had seen weirder.

"I don't know..." He said unsurely.

"Inuyasha... I just want you to have a little fun, that's all." She cajoled sweetly, "You deserve a treat after helping me and everything." And she didn't exactly feel like tramping all the way back to the hot and humid forest to stare at him for another four hours, but she didn't let him in on that too specifically.

Inuyasha frowned for a moment before sighing and nodding his head in defeat, jamming his hands in his pockets grumpily.

"If you insist... But this'd better be good." He resisted the urge to stomp petulantly like a child, but he knew that would pretty much get him nowhere.

Kagome looked up at him with a smile and grabbed his hand, "You're being really great today, you know that?" She beamed.

"Like how?"

"Well, I just..." She took a quick breath, "I know that it was hard for you to come today, and you're taking all of this so well." She smiled, "It's actually kind of creepy, like you're waiting to exact your revenge until the right moment." She added as a jokey afterthought.

He smirked and kiddingly tightened his grip on her fingers, unconsciously making the girl blush, "Ah, she's guessed my plan. There goes the element of surprise." The girl giggled and ducked her head.

"C'mon you goof." She pulled him along the sidewalk as he grinned at her back haplessly in reply.

"You just wait till' we get home tonight..." He smirked.

The world felt lighter already...

(Switch)

"So... This is the greatest flavor of anything known to man: Chocolate." Kagome held up her cone with a flourish as Inuyasha watched with amusement at her antics. He looked down at his cup of the same flavor; Inuyasha had decided early on to play it safe and get the same thing Kagome would be getting, since she would obviously have already been obsessed with it, as she was.

He took a tentative lick from his spoon as Kagome dove into hers with a tenacity that he hadn't known had been in her. He imagined that she was the type of person whose face was constantly covered with chocolate as a child, along with the silly little kid grin that made the adults giggle and coo ridiculously.

He wasn't sure how he knew about little girls with chocolate covered smiles... As a little boy, he hadn't ever known any little girls. Maybe it was his mother... She has shown him a picture once. He was sure that the picture had been of her when she was young...

"So what do you think? Heavenly, huh?" Kagome smirked as she bit into her cone, almost immediately realizing that a stream of chocolate had dripped down the side, and now smeared across her chin, which was almost the equivalent of waking up in a puddle of drool (that had happened that morning).

"It isn't so bad." He said nonchalantly, "It might be a bit of a stretch to call it heavenly." But what did he know about heaven anyway? He asked himself in the same unassuming tone.

She frowned playfully and sighed as though it was his loss, "Fine then: The greatest flavor known to woman, then." She raised an eyebrow at him, "Better?"

"Yep." He took another good sized spoonful of his ice cream and glanced out the window to the sunny sidewalks of the town. It was such a nice place. He almost wished he could live here with everyone else, walking down the sidewalks for no other reason but to walk, and eating ice cream with the girl he treasured. He almost laughed at himself for the corny statement, but it was true.

Now that he wasn't afraid and freaked out by every little detail of the town, he could see why people would enjoy it, instead of unending solitude like he had always known.

It would be nice not to be lonely...

Was it too much to think that he could do that? Live here as a normal guy? It was a simple concept that had been too much for the boy to think about before.

He had always been longing, always been wanting to belong here, but he knew he never could.

He looked across the table at Kagome who was absorbed in her chocolate cone, making appreciative noises and happy faces without knowing it. He shook his head and decided to leave his dreaming to the hours of night, opting instead to poke fun at Kagome's apparent addiction to chocolate.

"They say the first stage of admitting you're an addict is denial."

Kagome looked up at him and grinned, "I'm way past that one."

"Good, I'm glad you're on your way to living a healthy and productive life as a normal person." Inuyasha grinned and scraped out the last of the ice cream in his cup, wishing that he still had more left.

"Says the other addict," Kagome raised an eyebrow at his cup, tasting the last of her ice cream and tossing the last of her cone in her mouth. She sat back appreciatively and smiled with an expression of rare inner peace on her face.

"At least I know when to stop." She sighed dramatically.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and stood up, tossing his cup into the nearby garbage can and extending his hand to the happy girl.

"C'mon, let's go see if that old guy is done." She accepted his hand and stood up, smiling as he led her out the store and back towards the hardware store. She realized the happy feeling in her heart and smiled at the boy beside her, the one who had a trace of a smile himself.

It was times like these that she almost felt like she was floating, and she was sure that Inuyasha was floating there along with her.

(Switch)

Inuyasha lay quietly up on the roof, staring up at the twinkling stars that smiled above him. The wind blew softly, brushing his hair against his face gently as time passed on.

It had been a full day for Kagome and him.

He had been fully surprised to find that the town was almost harmless. He hadn't gotten more than a few odd looks when he had walked with Kagome. It was a swift change from the welcome he had recieved when he was just a pup. He was almost relieved.

For all of the time he had been living in the forest, he had always feared the town. He had often wondered if they were actually going to come after him like they had threatened, and because of that he would hide in the house or around it, especially after the old man had left.

They never did come, but that didn't lessen his fear. He grew older, but he never got up the courage to leave the forest. He was afraid of their words and their brutality, and though he knew that he could probably take all of them on, it was their stinging remarks that hurt him most. They would strike where no wound could be covered over, and Inuyasha didn't want to face anymore isolatory torture over what they said, with no one to tell him that he was anything otherwise.

And he had fully expected something like that to happen today...

Only it hadn't, and he had gotten to do some things that he only dreamed of doing before because for an hour or two, he hadn't feared anyone. Inuyasha felt safe with Kagome, and in a way he almost knew that she wouldn't tolerate anyone saying anything about him or to him, if only because she hated to see anyone suffer.

Inuyasha wasn't sure if there was more to her friendliness and acceptance, but he was only going to depend on it when he had to, since he knew he still didn't completely trust Kagome yet either. Although he was strongly suspecting that the warm feeling that he had registered as 'love' the other night also implied a sort of trust too...

Inuyasha shook his head in order to avoid any complicated thinking for that night, and focused instead on the day behind him.

By almost all counts, his life had visibly improved, and he was very happy about it.

He had only read about walking with a girl, sitting with a girl, and having whatever that cold creamy stuff was with her. And now that he knew what it was like, he never wanted to go back to just imagining. He folded his arms beneath hid head and closed his eyes with an almost boyish smile on his face with a front fang slipping discreetly out.

The moon passed silently over the trees shedding a ghostly light on the boy, the wind playing sleepy games with his loose silver hair as he recounted things to himself in his absentminded content. And it was like that, that Inuyasha slipped into a sleepy dream, although his rest didn't last long...

It wasn't much later that Inuyasha heard the sounds of soft weeping, coming from the room below him. It was quiet, and if Inuyasha hadn't had superior senses, then he might not have noticed at all. He sat up and looked down at the surface of the roof he was reclining on as though he could see through the roof into her bedroom.

Inuyasha was only conflicted for a few seconds on whether to go and see if he couldn't stop her from crying anymore. He knew that she probably wanted to be alone. He had wanted to be alone too, a long time ago. But then no one had ever been there after, no one who wanted to try and understand. He knew Kagome would want someone to understand soon enough.

He wasn't sure where this sudden confidence was coming from; he could even scold himself to presume to know how Kagome was feeling. He had only known her for almost a week, and... Well, Kagome was complicated.

But maybe... Maybe Inuyasha didn't really understand her feelings. Her mom might have been a totally different person than his mother; and besides the fact, Kagome's grief was still fresh, while his was festering and old.

Inuyasha cringed as he imagined the look Kagome would have given him if she had heard him referring to himself with a word like festering...

He shook his head and tried not to think about the logic of going to her. It was going to be hard enough listening to her cry without tearing himself apart at the existence of her tears.

He lightly padded along the roof of the house with a feral grace and swung down to the open door. And he crept quietly to her room, glad for the closed door so that he wouldn't scare her in the darkness she was crying in.

"Kagome." He called gently, knocking and pressing an ear against the door.

The crying stopped abruptly with a hiccup, he heard her take a breath before answering him, "C-come in."

He stepped into the room tentatively, almost scared of her grief. Kagome sat up and smiled, sniffing and wiping the trails of tears away.

"Hi Inuyasha." She swallowed heavily.

"Hey." He nodded.

She looked at him for a moment dazedly before looking back down at her lap. She folded her hands over the book that lay spread open on her knees.

"I-I was just looking at our old photo album." Her voice trembled and she patted the bedding next to her, indicating he could sit down there. He took her hint and sat down, scooting next to her as she smiled her fragile smile.

"I love photo albums. They hold all of the memories that people forget after just a little bit of time." She whispered, almost bitterly.

Inuyasha didn't answer, and she continued, "It's like discovering the joy or the love or the fun of that day all over again, and realizing how precious those times really were, except you didn't realize it then, even though you should've." She frowned as she tried not to cry, Inuyasha squirmed where he sat.

"There's Daddy, before he died, and me as a little girl, I think I was six. I can't believe I ever wore something like that." She laughed distractedly and her shoulders shook. "Souta was just a little baby, two years old that day. We went to the theme park for his birthday, even though he couldn't ride any of the rides." She tilted the book slightly and looked up at Inuyasha for a second before bringing her eyes back down to the page.

"...And there's mom." She said softly.

Inuyasha took a deep breath and leaned closer to her so that he could easily glance the book over her shoulder. She leaned back against him slightly and took a steadying breath to continue.

"She was so happy that day. She smiled and laughed, and she made us all laugh too. Both me and mom made faces at Souta to make him laugh while Dad looked on. He was feigning embarrassment." A slight laugh bubbled in her body, Inuyasha could feel it, but it didn't come out as Kagome stared at her mother's smiling face. She reached out a trembling hand and traced her mothers outline on the page.

"I wish I could be there now." She said quietly, her voice thick with emotion that almost prevented the words from coming out. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks as she stared, numbed, at the page. Inuyasha gently put an arm around her and tugged her closer to him as she continued to stare. The book fell off of her lap and onto the floor, leaving Kagome with her feelings simmering inside of her.

She turned and leaned into his embrace, not questioning the implication, and not wondering what it meant that he was there with her now.

"I want to be there... When my family wasn't broken. I want to be where Souta and I don't have to live apart, where I can touch her, and then not take her for granted anymore. I want my mom, and my dad, and my grandpa..."

"I want my family..." She trailed off as it became too difficult to speak and keep her composure. She sobbed, and her words became cries of agony and frustration, sadness and loneliness; and soon Kagome was a mess all over again.

Inuyasha sat quietly, holding her almost awkwardly as she cried. In any normal circumstances, he would have just run away at this point of dangerous emotion. But he remembered... he remembered someone's arms around him after his mom had died. He had trusted the owner of those arms completely, and it was the only type of condolence he remembered receiving from that time...

It had made the biggest difference to him then.

And with that thought in his mind, he was glad that Kagome trusted him enough to cry with him there... He wanted to be that source of trust to her too, in the same way that someone else had so long ago to him.

She breathed and calmed a little, looking up at Inuyasha's sturdy expression; she looked down again, ashamed.

"I'm... sorry Inuyasha... ugh... I'm blubbering all over your shirt." She made a face at herself but laid her head on his chest anyway. He blushed slightly at the feel of her there. His heart beat rapidly, and the teary-eyed girl could hear it between her declining sniffles and sobs.

"I didn't mean to force you to be here, I'm sorry." She breathed.

"I wanted to be here." He spoke for the first time since he had come in.

"But if I hadn't been-"

"It's alright." He cut her off firmly, surprising even himself with his force.

She was silent for a moment, and although his words didn't ease her embarrassment, they helped a little bit. His heart still beat fast, and she listened to it for a moment, letting the sound of it occupy her mind with its steadiness. Her tears dried and she thought about their day together in the town, she remembered how easy it had been to be playful and cheerful while they were there, how easy it was to be like that with him...

"Inuyasha, thank you for today." She said quietly.

"Why?" He questioned.

"I had fun today. I forgot about a lot, and... I felt relaxed. I didn't remember all of this." She took a breath, "You've been helping me a lot lately, and it isn't just with the house..."

Inuyasha's heart beat faster, and he didn't know what to say.

"You... you've made me very happy. Happy enough to get away from all of this for a little while." Her voice was small and frail, making her sound more like a broken child than the strong young woman he knew that she could be.

"Kagome." He murmured, allowing himself to rest his chin on top of hers, feeling more complete than he had even an hour ago, even during the day with her.

"Thank you Inuyasha." She sniffed and looked up at him with a watery smile. He smiled back and looked her in the eye with a courage born of their newly attained understanding. Inuyasha grasped one of her hands and tugged it to his chest, holding it over his heart in a tender display of affection,

"I'm here for you, so don't doubt that." He chided softly as he looked down into her soft eyes. "I know that it feels terrible sometimes, especially when you're alone." He looked away momentarily and sighed, "I miss my mom sometimes too, even though she went a long time ago. So I know..." He trailed off as Kagome sighed in such a trusting way that he could only think that his words would only dampen the moment.

He knew that she had gotten the gist of things now...

(Chapter end)

Authors note: Well, another chapter finished, I'm very proud of myself. This took a long time to write and revise, I know, but I hope that all of you who read this story will enjoy this new addition. Things will be getting very serious soon plot wise, and if you notice, this isn't just another filler chapter. Some important things will be coming to light, and the plot will be speeding up pretty soon, depending on what I decide to do.

Anyway, I'd also like to announce that I'm going to rewrite Chapter 1. It's just a bit too far off from the rest of the chapters, and my writing style has changed enormously since I began this story. So keep a look out for it, because I know I'll be including some new juicy tidbits to... ahem... enrich the story (or just provide some sugary fluff to my lovely readers).

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STUNNING SONG LYRIC-

"The bailey beareth the bell away

The lily the rose

The rose I lay

The silver is white

Red is the gold

The silver is white

Red is the gold

How can I love when I am so young…"

-The lily and the rose

-a chorus song