Hey guys!

First of all, thank you really, really for reading this story. You have no idea, what it means to me. I hope you liked it :)

Now, I'm really sorry for the sad ending, but it just couldn't go otherwise. I wanted to make sure you know, life is not a fairy tale, and those issues are important. I'm sorry if you didn't like it but I don't like child abuse and death either, and shutting eyes won't make it any less real. I'm also sorry if it hurt anyone's sensibility, but I just have to talk about this. It disgusts me when I realise that, in my country, so many people don't know, and don't want to know anything about child abuse. So I wanted to disturb, to trigger people. I hope I did.

This is also the reason why I wrote this story in English even though it is not my first langage. I sincerely apologize for any mistake you have found, but it's really hard to find an efficient rereader and I needed to write this in that langage so a maximum people can read it. I'll probably translate in french, spanish and german later, so if you speak spanish or german and have time to spend for this cause, please take a look at those translations.

Now, for the story, I'm not sure the end was really clear so I'm just gonna explain it quickly. Simeon and Jake, who both were in love but didn't say it, kept meeting at Simeon's window for days. Then, one evening, Jake stays with him for too long and Simeon's father comes back and sees them. The boy knows he'll never see Jake anymore, and probably gets severly beaten up, so the day later he jumps from the window and kills himself. The songbird and lark thing comes from Romeo & Juliet: Romeo is at Juliet's window and will be killed if he doesn't leave before the night ends, and the end of the night is announced by the songbird's song, so they litteraly argue over the bird that sings. As for the way Simeon has forgotten Jake, this shows how strong the psychologic abuse can be: after being locked up in that room for so long, Simeon has forgotten everything about his very self. This is also the reason he kills himself: never to forget he has loved, and lived. This is the meaning of the last sentence, that he repeats in his mind several times while dying.

So, thank you very much, once again, for reading this, it makes me really glad :) I'll probably write something else in English later (I'm writing some poems in Gazing Spot if you want to see) and I've also written some other stories in French so, come take a look sometimes if you want! It would really make me happy :)

With love.