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Chapter 2: Encounters

-I was just playing, this was awesome, I don't think I've ever seen a place more…- I rolled my eyes across the amazing extension before me, in search of an adequate word to describe it, felling it to be impossible to capture all in simple letters, I signed- Magical…

Amber smiled happily and nodded content with my answer. The guys at school had been planning this trip for weeks now and me being the new one, and Amber being my only real friend, had invited me to come along in hopes to get me out of my shell. I don't know which were her final conclusions about this, but I was sure this was a great achievement to her.

I came from a much warmer place, in fact, another country, and it was really hard to adjust to a life style you could barely remember. I was born in México, raised there for about 3 years before my dad decided we needed a change, then we moved to USA, my dad got us there since he was already an American citizen and applied for green card for all of us, 4 kids and wife. We stayed in Houston for 5 years until my dad decided he'd had enough of the American dream and yearned for his land.

We'd been there ever since, until things there got bad and we moved back.

My dad got a job as a truck driver in a furniture factory in Seattle which received its material from a little town named Forks, and seeing he'd have to go from Seattle to forks and back anyways, he decided we might as well live in a quiet little town than a dangerous and big city.

When we got here and got into school I'll admit, I had it easy. My little sisters didn't know a word of English if it wasn't an insult; they'd been to young when we last lived in Houston to remember. So… long story short, moving here had been hell for them, and me… well I don't really have an opinion about it. And that is what Amber was trying to change.

My hair whipped my face when a new current of wind hit our camp, making the long locks slam into Amber's face, which se wrinkled beyond recognition. I couldn't help it, I laughed. Hard.

Grabbing my hair and putting it in my jacket before pulling the hood on to avoid its escape I laughed while Amber frowned resentfully at me. Me knowing she wasn't really mad I laid my head on her shoulder in apology, still laughing under my breath. Amber pushed me playfully away but the log was to small and I fell butt first in the wet sand and my jacket pockets vomited my money into the air.

Amber giggled and I joined her a second later, that is, until I noticed the green flashes in the sky.

-Amber! My money! I said while jumping to my feet.

Amber's laughter died and turned her head towards the heavens, where a couple of green papers soared like lost eagles heading to the beach. Amber got up and started running after the dollars.

-Come on Cory! She yelled while catching one of the dollars that flew low enough. I followed her in a heartbeat. We got pretty far away from the camp, as far as not being able to see it anymore but we kept running after the money until the wind started to die out and the green papers fell to the sand, in the water and some got caught in the trees.

Amber quickly got the ones lying on the sand and went after the ones still resisting on the trees while I went for the suicidal ones in the water. Thankfully the ocean seemed to like me as much as I liked it and returned my money in soft waves.

I saved all of them and shuck them gently to get the excess of water out and folded them inside my jean pocket. Turning towards Amber who had successfully retrieved the dollars but kept struggling with one on a high branch, something in the woods caught my attention. A giant shadow crept near Amber, too big to be an animal but to graceful to be a person.

I forced my eyes to see thru the thick darkness of the forest and got a glimpse of silver that suddenly got somewhat smaller and undeniably human as it got closer and closer to us. I took a step closer while the figure advanced lightly and dangerously close to Amber, who finally captured the last rebel dollar.

-Got it! Exclaimed Amber with pride, showing me the printed paper wiggling her eyebrows. I gasped in horror making Amber turn to her back and freeze in place.

A copper skinned man with the height and mass of a mountain was approaching us with a slightly wobbling step, a face of pure amazement and completely and utterly NAKED.

Amber was the first to break the silence and screamed bloody murder but stayed frozen in place. I didn't…

-Amber run! I yelled as my feet launched forward with adrenaline pumping in my veins while not knowing what I could possibly do to a man who was at least 2 heads taller and a truck full in muscle, it seemed as if he had pure steal beneath his bronzed skin.

Amber snapped out of her shock and started running back towards me. This seemed to get the man back down to earth and notice the chilly wind. His hands flew to cover his privates and when it proved to not be enough he ran back into the woods.

I got to a weeping Amber before she tripped face first in the sand. Holding her up I started pushing her in direction to the camp. Thinking it was over my head had time to think and remember a certain something I had in my other jacket pocket. When I had put it there I thought we wouldn't need it, or if we did, it wouldn't be to attack an American native. Still my hand searched for the cool metal in reassurance while comforting and pulling Amber away.

In the middle of a soothing phrase, the man popped out of the forest again, now in a pair of cut off jean shorts and in a full blown sprint towards us. Another blood chilling scream from Amber and my body sprung to life, I don't think I would ever be as fast as I was in that moment. My had took the blade and threw it with a skill only acts of reflex can achieve, the long steal dug into the sand just inches from the man's foot was and stopped with a look of utter shock.

Amber and I ran as fast as we could back to camp but half way there we found all the guys running in a stampede, faces from worried to scared and excited. Then no half naked Indian guy was after us. I signed, relived.

We got to them and one of the typical lider type guy, Jamal I think, stepped up.

-What happened? He asked as Amber flung herself to his arms, sobbing terrified. I shook my head and let them guide Amber and I back to the parking lot. Only then, surrounded by teenage boys, did I dare look back. The beach was desolated. The place that I'd thought had been captivating was now covered by a veil of mystery and horror, as if is it was a set prior to the filming of a scary movie.

My body trembled, I had made it out now, I wasn't so lucky before…

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