Chapter 10: The Woods
After a couple minutes of driving. They reached the town park woods. It was a big area full of trees. Sammy and The Shadow Walker had no idea how long the forest was. The Shadow Walker got out of the car and walked to the other side to help Sammy get out of her seat.
"Thank you. Your a real gentleman."
"Your welcome. My mother always said she raised a gentleman." he happily replied. He looked over to the trees and watched in amazement of how tall they were.
"Wow, these are the tallest tree's I have ever seen." he said.
"I know right. Have you ever climbed a tree before?" she asked
" I have many times, but never this tall."
"So you ready to go?" she asked as she walked towards the forest and looked back to him.
"Lead the way." he said as they began to walk together into the woods.
After minutes of walking, Sammy explained more about the spot in the woods that she said was a great and beautiful view. He liked listening to her. He noticed that the more and more time they spent together, the more and more she would open up to him.
"Which now that I think about it. I never really gotten this close to anyone since-"
"Hey Shadow Walker look at this!" He stopped to look at what Sammy was pointing at. It was tree with deep claw marks on it.
"I wonder what made this? What do you think Shadow Walker?" She turned to his direction, only to see him standing there without moving. His eyes were blank, still, and they didn't even blink at all. Sammy was getting scared and worried about what was wrong with him. She slowly walked up to him, she waved her hand slowly across his face. He was still focused on the clawed tree.
"Shadow, say something." She touched him on his right arm. This seemed to snap him out of his stillness. He shook his head and looked around confused.
"Sammy….." He felt a little dizzy.
"...What...What happened?"
"I don't know. You looked like you saw a ghost when you looked at the tree."
"I did?" he took a second look at the tree, but nothing happened.
"Well whatever it was. It's gone now." he told her calmly.
"Oh I'm just glad that you're alright." She said softly.
"Well let continue our walk." Sammy agreed and continued walking. The Shadow took on last look at the tree with the marks. He shook his head and followed her.
As he made it to her side, The Shadow Walker asked Sammy something.
"Um Sammy?"
"Yes?"
"Um..Is it ok if...I could hold your hand?" This made her stop as her eyes widened.
"You...Wanna hold my hand?"
"Well after the thing with the tree, I felt like this place may not be the safest place. I think it would be better if we were holding hands. But if you don-"
"No! I mean, I do. I would like that a lot." Sammy happily said as she reached her left hand close to him. He slowly took her hand and covered and wrapped it with his hand.
They both smiled as they continued to walk together.
After walking some more while holding hands, Sammy finally got to her spot in the woods. It was a beautiful cliff with nice and soft grass, tall trees around them, and it had a great view of nearby mountains and the beautiful sunset in front of them. The two of them released eachothers hands.
"I must say Sammy, this is a great spot." She smiled after hearing him.
He lied down on the nice and soft grass. Sammy sat chriscross next to him. He took a deep breath and exhaled in relaxation.
"This feels so great. I can just lay here forever. Well not literally but you get what i'm saying."
"Yeah, me too." She giggled.
"How often do you come here Sammy?"
"Mostly on weekends. Sometimes me and my friends hang out here. But I mostly come here by myself."
The Shadow Walker didn't mind how independent she was.
"Looking for some peace and quiet?"
She looked over at him. " How did you know?"
"I look for the same thing whenever I don't fight crime and give the police some time. But spending time here with you makes relaxing better." She blushed as she turned her head to the sunset.
He didn't notice her blushing a lot. But whenever he did see her blush he would smile under his mask. He thought whenever she did that was very cute.
"If fact, getting to know her is very fun and interesting. Maybe…" He thought to himself as he sat up.
"Hey Sammy." she looked over to him. He saw her next to the bright sunset's light. Her hair and eyes were so bright and beautiful in the sunlight.
"Yes?" she said softly.
"Would you like to play a game with me?" She was getting interested in this conversation and turned her body to him.
"What kind of game?" she asked.
"A "Getting to know each other" kind."
"Like we ask questions about each other?"
"Exactly. There's no winner or loser. But you do win with more things about each other."
"Any rules?" She asked shyly. He took a few seconds to think.
"How about the only rule is that you can only ask personal questions unless you let them." Sammy was glad he made this rule.
"So Sammy, you wanna start?"
"Yes, you can ask me first." She said in a excited voice.
" Ok, I'll ask you a easy question first." He said as he was preparing to ask her the first question of their game.