Poem is partially written by C. Rossetti.
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Every late afternoon, right after dinner, Aiden left his little wooden cottage and went to sit beside the small stream that led into the woods. He sat there to think about life, to express his gratitude for the day, and to enjoy the beautiful nature.
The butterflies and fireflies flapped their wings busily around him, while the sky had at least five different colors.
The calm rippling of the water was hearable in the background, but that wasn't the only thing he heard besides that stream every evening. He also heard the Goblin's mesmerizing and appealing voice:
"Come buy my orchard fruits, come buy.
Bananas and oranges,
Melons and raspberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;
All ripe together,
In summer weather.
Come buy, come buy:
My grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine.
Taste them and try:
Pears to fill your mouth,
Lemons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy..."
Aiden knew that he shouldn't listen to the enchanting voice. That voice, that made his cheeks blush and his heart race. That made the blood pump faster through his veins and his ears red and hot. He mustn't listen! The Goblin and his fruits were evil, he wanted to lure him to take one of his divine fruits!
Aiden knew this because his mother always said to him: "Don't listen to a Goblin offering his fruit!"
But then why does Aiden torture himself and go to sit beside that stream every late afternoon? The answer was: He didn't know. His legs just took him there, day after day.
And on that one fateful day, Aiden couldn't resist the tempting calls any longer...
He stood up and followed the small stream further into the woods, where he saw the Goblin standing, and for the first time in Aiden's life, the voice had a face. The Goblin didn't look ugly or grotesque at all like Goblins normally did.
He was tall and slenderly built. His black shiny hair was combed to the back, except for a few strings which fell to his forehead. He was clothed in a tight dark emerald-green suit, made of thin fabric.
On his bare feet, he stood before his little whimsical market stall that was overgrown with wild blooming flowers which climbed to the top of the little tent that protected the juicy, delicious fruits from the evening sun.
Like a bee to a flower, Aiden was instantly drawn to the beautiful Goblin.
"You are here at last. I have called you so many times, Aiden. Welcome, my name is Kohl," the Goblin said. "Do you maybe want to buy some of my luscious fruit?"
Aiden knew he should have said no, but instead he said: "Yes...but I don't know how to pay for them. I have no coin with me."
Kohl smiled a devilishly handsome smile, showing his perfect set of pearly white teeth. "That's ok, Aiden. All I want is a kiss and you can take all my juicy and ripe fruits. Everything you want, it's yours..."
Aiden felt like his body was set on fire. He felt the burn inside his cheeks and a tingling feeling from his fingertips to the bottom of his feet.
A voice inside him said that he should walk away right now. "Don't believe this man, he might look kind and beautiful but he is a Goblin. He is evil and vicious, cruel and dangerous," it said. But Aiden wanted that man's forbidden fruits desperately, and a kiss didn't sound that bad, did it? He gazed at the Goblin's moisty, shiny lips. No, it didn't sound so bad at all...
"Ok, I will kiss you in exchange for some of your fruits," Aiden agreed.
That made Kohl's lips curl upwards. He had waited such a long time for this moment and finally, he was being rewarded for all that long waiting. Aiden might want to taste his delicious fruits, but Kohl himself wanted to taste Aiden's forbidden fruit as well...
The Goblin took a few steps closer to the other. "What would you like to try first?" he said and from behind his back, he presented one big, fat, juicy, and gorgeous strawberry that he held in front of Aiden's face. "Maybe you'd like this strawberry?"
"Yes, I like that one," Aiden said, licking his lips. It's been years since he had eaten a strawberry. His mother never wanted to buy the fruit because it was so expensive. He wanted to grab the strawberry out of Kohl's hands, but the Goblin pulled his hand away before Aiden could and walked forward, making Aiden walk backward.
"Wait, not so fast..." Kohl whispered. "Remember what you promised me? You need to pay for it."
Aiden nodded, feeling a little nervous. He'd never kissed someone before. He leaned his head against the tree, closed his eyes, and pouted his lips forward.
Kohl took a little bite out of the strawberry and smeared its red juices on his lips before he pressed them against Aiden's and licked his lips with his strawberry tongue. Aiden found the sweet-sour taste against his lips, so deliciously divine and he wanted more. He greedily stuck his tongue inside Kohl's mouth, licking him and sucking on the lips.
He didn't know what came over him, he felt so alive and yet so relaxed and so...aroused.
What kind of fruit did the Goblin give him?!
He threw his arms around Kohl and moaned into his mouth while begging for more. "More... more..." he moaned.
"What, more?" Kohl asked while unfolding Aiden's arms.
"More sweet juicy kisses from your lips..."
Kohl caressed Aiden's soft cheeks before he laid his hand against the bark of the tree. His touch made the branches grow longer and longer until some of them folded around Aiden's upper arms, pulling him against the bark while others curled around his ankles, pinning him against the tree.
What was happening? "Kohl..." Aiden whined.