"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."
It was a average day for John Egbert, he believed it would be. He had a date with a woman who had only recently became acquainted with. He knew not much of her other than that he liked her. He expected it to be an average day, rather. He awoke and went on with his business and commute, all as he would normally. their date was rather early, the sun still shone upon his face as sat in the bus he took everyday. It was in a Forrest beside some mountains, secluded from the town and rarely known to visitors. It wasn't the location they would have wanted, yet they chose to meet here, as if driven by fate itself. John put on his hat concealing his dome that seemed to shine with a glare that rivaled the sun. The sun had descended slightly as we waited for his date. Could she not arrive? John thought to himself. He reassured himself knowing he was early and he believed she would show. Or he wanted to believe, rather.
As the sun fell darkness filled its absence and further stirred his anxiety. He waited. "Waiting could only do so much," He thought. He reached into his pocket for his phone to call her, but he couldn't find it. "It is in my other pocket," he thought. He got his phone and called her. It rang. a minute has passed. he continues to wait.
He called again.
No answer.
Out of fear or maybe desperation he decided to go to her house. He wasn't sure what happened but he believed it was his burden to help her. he began to leave the Forrest, as he looked at the place where their date would have been he wondered what happened to her, he remained optimistic. He left the Forrest, and was within the lights of a stop sign on a crossroad that has rarely seen traffic. It connected two parts of the city with two roads that led out of town. John was unfamiliar with the towns that those roads took you to. He only passed that crossroad when he went to the other part of town. As the dim light made the vaguest of outlines and silhouettes visible-
She called him. He picked up.
"John, its me. I was just about to call you. I'm here, where have you been?" She said.
"Wait there, I'll talk to when i get there." John said.
He thought he would have seen walk past him if she was just late but she may have took a longer way around. John went back to the location. as he finally got their he found a strange rock on the floor.
"I wonder what that could be," she asked.
He didn't give it much thought and decided to keep it.
"What happened Rose?" John asked.
The night continued as normally as the day had, despite the unusual events that unfolded before John and Rose.