Chapter 9: 5 months later

(5 months later)

It has been 5 months since I have left, since I have abandoned my old life. Winter is here, which is the sign that the national Yordle holiday of yodelingmas is near. This will be the first year I will have missed the event but does it matter to me any more? Not really. My life was taken away from me many months ago when my dad was killed everything to me now just seems like a blur. Why am I even choosing to stay alive? I don't know, I'm just going day by day and night by night. But ever since that day that I decided to leave my old life behind, I have found some type of peace. I don't know how, but I just moved on, and ever since then I just continue living and that's it.

Today was just another normal day, isolated ever since my life changed. Gathering plants and food, eating, sleeping and thinking. Especially thinking, in fact this is probably the most I have ever thought of in my life. Almost half of a year passes and this is what I am doing with my life, nice isn't it. But like my ever-changing life it will change again pretty soon.

When I was out in the woods gathering berries I heard voices from a distance. "Who could this be?" I whispered to myself. Curious to find out I dropped my berries headed in the direction of the voices and they continued to get loader as I got closer. When I finally reached the voices I saw what looked like a road. 'It must be one of the Yordle land roads' I thought 'and people must be passing by'.

I hid in the bush so no one could see me. As the Yordle's passed I looked to see who was passing by I noticed a black haired Yordle along with 5 other Yordle's. At first I thought it was just a normal Yordle but then I looked closer and then I swear I recognized him. Who could he be that I recognized? I got a little closer to see. "His name is at the tip of my tong I whispered. "Br" but then I made shuffling noises while going through the bush and the black haired Yordle looked over to the bush where I was at and he asked "Who's there?" he asked. I immediately started running in the opposite direction to my camp I had set up near the plains. I heard voices behind me shout "hey come back" as they were chasing behind me. 'Why would they want to chase me?' I thought.

When I got to the camp I went into my makeshift shelter I built months ago and hid under my leaf blanket. I continued hearing the voices for a while shouting and asking for me to come out but I persisted in staying under my makeshift blanket and eventually the voices disappeared and I think they gave up the search.

I eventually built up the courage to come out of my blanket and come out of my makeshift home. No one else was there and it was quiet. I reluctantly decided to skip dinner that night and go straight to bed being scared of being caught because from this point on I wanted nothing to do with other Yordle's and humans.

(The next day)

I woke up in the morning refreshed but hungry as I ate nothing last night. So this morning instead going to the nearby river to wash up I went immediately to the woods to gather more berries, roots, and plants. As I was doing this I felt a strange presence almost like someone was watching me. I constantly looked behind me but no one was there except one time I swear I saw shadow or something. I brushed it off and continued gathering.

When I gathered enough supplies I went back over to my camp and put on a fire so I could boil the roots and leaves. But then the feeling of being watched intensified and I could swear someone was right outside my makeshift shelter so I shouted out "If someone is watching me I know your there!" All the sudden I heard shuffling noises so I went out to investigate and before my stalkers could disappear I caught them out in the open in plain daylight. The black Yordle and the 5 others were all there.

"What are you guys doing spying on me?"

"Well" said the black Yordle "we were first going to see if you were any danger to us but then I noticed you and then my objective changed".

"Noticed me? I think I might remember you, your name was bu, bu"

"Brian" said the black haired Yordle.

"Wait I do remember you, you helped me escape the assassin's".

"You do remember me Teemo? You remember me from Bandle city, and you remember me visiting your house trying to comfort you? And then one day you just disappear without even a trace. What the hell Teemo! ALL THIS TIME YOU WERE OUT HERE WORRYING US TO DEATH!"

"I can't go back to my old life, sorry".

"BULLSHIT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T GO BACK TO YOUR OLD LIFE!"

"I just can't the pain would return".

"TEEMO I WILL STRANGLE YOU!" said Brian as he ran up to me. I got scared and scared and closed my eyes but instead of pain, I felt comfort. Brian was around me hugging me. I couldn't resist but to start crying and hug back.

"Teemo please back" said Brian "We miss you so much and me and all of your friends have been looking for you months and months".

"I'm sorry I can't" I said for the third time.

"Please I know it's a lot of pain to go through but we will help you through it".

"The pain will eat me alive and even possibly make it worse then it is now so please it would be helpful if I just stayed here for the rest of my life".

"But, what about your shop. All your regular customers don't know where to go now that your shop has been closed for 5 months now".

"No one took over?"

"No, no one wanted to take over because it just wouldn't be the same without you or your dad".

As soon as Brian said my dad a huge pain washed over through my heart and the agony finally came back. I started to moan which made Brian gasp.

"Please I'm sorry Teemo I won't bring that up again it's just..."

"Please just go away" I said. I then turned around and walked back to my makeshift shelter and went straight to my makeshift bed and hid under it and started crying.

I also heard Brian and the others sigh and walk away.

(Many hours later)

It was finally evening everything was quiet. I was so hungry because I haven't ate earlier , but I could not possibly eat especially since Brian brought up the topic about my dad.

Any way's I was finally done with my emotional scene and I stopped crying. I finally convinced myself that I should probably get some food before my stomach starts to growl.

I took the food that was cold in the pot and reheated it over a fire I made. As I cooked the food I thought to myself 'I can't stay here much longer and expect to survive. Maybe I should have listened to Brian. I could maybe put up with these living conditions for maybe a couple more months but I would eventually get very weak and die. Plus even though I feel mentally better now that I'm away from all my bad memories It still isn't mentally good for me to be out to long'.

"Oh what am I thinking?" I said to myself. "I will be just fine by myself" but I was totally wrong because little did I know that the events tonight will influence the rest of my life and make me who I am today.