Chapter Three
Present Day
Fae squelched through the muddy field next to the Woods. It was nice to squelch again, like she did when she was younger, not worrying about getting dirt on her shoes. The Woods looked like something right out of a horror movie. Fae grimaced. She didn't want to scare herself and end up chickening out. She wondered if Chelsea was still there. Waiting for her. She told her parents of seeing Chelsea. They believed her. The doctors didn't though.
Fae walked up the path to the Woods, not surprised at how overgrown it had gotten. Even the neighborhood kids wouldn't go in here on a dare. People didn't hunt here either. It was said that not a single animal had ever been caught by a human out here. Every time a hunter or someone would try to kill it, something bad would happen. Some say the Woods was cursed. Others, like her parents, said it was the faeries. And yet others, like her tutor, thought "Everyone in this hick town has gone nuts." As he put it. Fae had to agree with him though. Well, not entirely. There was still the thing with Chelsea, and the voices. The voices you could hear echoing through the forest on cold lonely nights. Fae sometimes wondered though, if she hadn't made the whole thing up though. A child had a wild imagination. Anyways, with the dress Chelsea was wearing, how did she know Chelsea was wearing it the day she disappeared? Fae walked along,
Listening to the whispers in the wind. It was quite calming, actually, to walk along an overgrown path leading into dark, haunted woods in the night. Fae had been thinking of the faeries all day. All month actually. She couldn't seem to get them off her mind. She would space out during class, contemplating whether or not faeries were real or not. She was starting to wonder if she was crazy. She had been in one of those dazes, where you don't know where your going or what you are doing, just that you have to do it. She was starting to snap out of it. Realizing her surroundings. Starting to notice that she was in a dark forest at night without a flashlight, proper attire, common sense, rationality.