Chapter 1
I was wandering through the woods, alone and on my own. It was already crepuscule and the sun stood low on the horizon. I was quite often here and used to the environment, the smell, the sounds and shortcuts through the trees and leaves to the most beautiful and secret places in the wood. Right now, I had no destination on my mind.
I turned my iPod on and sung silently to it while doing probably silly looking dancesteps while walking. I could have sworn I saw a shadow moving in the corner of my eye. It didn't bother me, I just told myself it's nothing special, just some animal shoing back into its den, hiding from the night's darkness in the save darkness of it.
I tried to tell myself it was nothing, but I felt strangely bothered and even distracted from my music. For a moment I stopped dead in my tracks and pulled my earphones out, trying to listen to something that didn't belong into a peacefull forest. My eyes looked over the area I thought I saw the shadows but they found nothing. Same with my ears. Still looking around nervously I put one headphone after another back into my ears and slowly went on walking.
The female of the Human race was incautious and unaware of my presence. She has noticed me, but she thought it to be a shadow. I made her nervous. It was exactly what I wanted. I smiled, the corners of my mouth pulled upwards. I smelled the air around her, she was so near I could almost touch her, but it was too early for that. Her smell was seducing and she didn't even seem to know that.
The Homo Sapiens Sapiens were such fragile creatures. I had much time to learn a lot about them. In all the desolated hours in the barn I had pilfered books after books and had brought them back before they'd noticed something was missing. There wasn't much they knew about me, but much more I knew about them. I've found a small connection from the barn to the house which I could easily use without them noticing. It was so easy. I had also red about trees and flowers, and one flower caught my interest. I had also seen pictures of it. My color sprectrum was a bit brighter so it had been a feast for my eyes to look at it. But I had wanted to see it in reality, feel it. I had wanted to go out. No I was outside, but I hadn't found it yet.
I was free, now. They thought I had died, back in winter. But before the next Homo Sapiens Sapiens had arrived, I already was far away. I was superior to them. They just didn't know how much. I had watched them from time to time. It was easy, they'd never discovered me. But I tried to avoid them nontheless. After some time I could even go back into my old barn after they finally left it. I knew they finally left it because I had red their thoughts. I knew they were afraid of me.
My thoughts drifted back to the girl or rather young woman only a few meters away from me. She had interesting thoughts indeed. Although she felt there was something not right she tried to push the thought aside and tried to distract herself from any opposite thoughts. She listened to music which I could tell by the device she had with her, her singing voice and the thoughts to her singing. And her dancing. It wasn't even much she did at all but it was undeniably beautiful. She was beatiful. She was different from her race, not many have felt my presence like her before. But she was unsure and didn't know what to do. Maybe I could give her prove of my existence.
The sun has set and it was dark. The moon didn't really shine, it was covered by clouds. It was cold. I stopped dancing and wrapped my arms around myself. I tried to deny it but I felt watched. But well, if it, whatever it was invaded my personal space would probably feel repulsed by my sent. I had to take a shower but when I had still been back home I didn't want to. And I had thought that no one else was here. But slowly I had the feeling that I was wrong at that point. That proofs that girls like me shouldn't go out into wood alone when it was already becoming dark. What were I'm supposed to do if someone attacked me? I do know some martial arts and I wasn't weak by no means but I didn't know what he or she wanted from me. Maybe I can send a warning for that person if I looked around. Not like I would simply look at trees but as if I would look for someone special. It would tell that person that I knew of his or hers presence and that I felt watched.
And I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked around, slowly, always turning around fully and not only twisting my body. Always show yourself frontal to someone, show that person you dare standing up against him or her. When I fisished checking everything I went on walking to the diraction I was originally walking to. I hadn't noticed something special but I still felt watched. Immensely. It somehow increased after I went on walking. I almost thought of turning around and walking back home when I noticed that I didn't know where I was. For a shortlived moment I was astonished that there was a place in my wood that I didn't know yet. But like I said, shortlived. I came back to reality when a twig behind me snapped. I winced at that quite normal sound. I almost started to run and I already leaned forward but I stopped dead in my tracks when I told myself to not run away from it, no matter how much I actually just wanted to do so. I stood still and waited for something to happen. I tried to distract myself by looking at the beautiful flowers around me.
I found it quite funny to tease her a little bit but I decided it was time to reveal myself. I stepped out of the trees that hid me and kept walking behind her, only a few meters separated us. I was walking silently, not wanting her to find out I had revealed myself to her. It was just too funny. I grinned. I kept my gaze on her neck, maybe she would feel it.
We were walking like this for not so long when she suddenly stopped. Slightly afraid I stopped dead in my tracks, not wanting her to find me just yet and having to end this. But everything was just fine. I wondered what she was looking at dared looking around as well.
And I looked around. What I saw astonished me. Across the clearance we were both standing on were all the flowers I've once seen in books. They were so beautiful. Many small insects shimmied around them and nourished from them. I suddenly decided to change my plans and to not reveal myself just yet. I slowly moved back behind the trees and watched the female again, she hadn't noticed me. She slowly moved to some of these flowers and started picking them. She obviously also liked them.
I forgot why I even stopped. I was so astonished by this beautiful flowers, I had to pick some of them and take them home with me. When I found my way again back home. I stood up again with a small bunch of flowers in my arms. I pondered for a minute on where to go, but I thought I should simply move and see where I would get.
Soon after I started walking again, I found a path that I recognized. This path led directly to my house, and I was glad I found it. I sighed, releasing all the stress that I had the last hour or so I guessed. I started to jog because right now I couldn't wait to get home.
It didn't take me long to reach my house and I got inside fast. Closing the door behind me and leaning against it, I slid down slowly.