The night was young. She was so exhausted. Still there was much time left before she was done for the evening. She smiled politely to the employee who had come to her with a complaint. She worked as a department manager within the Maine Company. The pay was amazing but she had to deal with idiots who sort to make her life difficult. She rubbed her head to ease the beginning tension of a stress headache. She missed those days when she would wander through Europe on her backpacking adventures. Those had been wonderful times. Now she was twenty-one years old. An accomplished adult with a great paying job but she did not feel fulfilled. She was restless at night. She wanted something but she couldn't figure out what.
Her last relationship had been over three years ago and had lasted no more than a month because of the stress she was under. She had not had time to be with anyone. With the death of her grandfather, she and her mom had had to go straight to work to make ends meet. Finally she lived on her own. She had a nice little house in suburbia and she was quite proud of it. She had great friends. Her family they were wonderful, but she needed more than that. Maybe it was the physical contact of another maybe, she just needed to get laid. She smiled at that thought as she continued through the night with complains. The fact that she had never been with anyone made the thought even more ludicrous
For the billionth time her eyes drifted to the clock. Time was literally crawling by. She yawned tiredly. She was so exhausted. She wanted to be home and she was counting the seconds away as she dealt with every little petty problem that came her way. With a sigh of relief she rushed to her office as soon as the lock struck nine. She wanted to be in her home. She needed a nice bath that would soak away the days hardships and labours. It wasn't that there was anything bad about her job. It was just that there was no challenge in it. She was bored. She needed something to do, something that would take her mind away from life's mundanities.
Saying goodnight to the security officers, she stepped out of the building with a cheery smile on her face. She stretched on the top steps of the building she worked at. It was so big. She arched her back to look up at it and nearly fell over with the distance. She giggled feeling silly and started the walk home. It was a good twenty minutes. She liked the walk, as it was a great way to exercise. She did ten-hour days and she didn't get the chance to work out so the walk was her only way to keep fit.
There was something wonderful about the night. The wind circled her as if whispering dark secrets to her. Her hair flew all around her at the gentle touch of the night breeze and she smiled. She felt so wonderful. It was always the same when she left. She felt like skipping and singing. The freedom she felt leaving that building was impossible to understand. She thought about the day's events and made plans for the next. In two days the weekend would arrive and she would get to go home to her mothers. She had promised that she would visit. Maxwell was a man now at least practically and they had made plans to go to the town's carnival that weekend.
She was so comfortable with the walk. She got lost in her thoughts. She remembered her friends. Her friends from a country seeped in history, which she should have never been able to visit. She understood that she had been needed there though. Her initial visiting had been not of her choice but it had changed. Things had changed so dramatically. She'd fallen for a half Guardian named Valenciel only to have her heart broken when he'd chosen another. She had begun to realise that she did not love him. She had realised that it was the longing for love that had made her seek his affections. She had slowly gotten over it. She had had to concentrate of defeating the fallen malevolence of Mikiel. A Guardian who had succumbed to the seduction of the sins of man. That had been her only care and she was more than happy to go through with it. Mikiel had been a menace to the world and she had known that had she not tried the world, she knew now would not have existed. She smiled
Her smiled died away as she remembered years of therapy where she was told that it had only been a dream, a fantasy. an escape from reality. Yet she knew absolutely that it had happened. As the years flew by however, that certainty began to fade as well as the events themselves
Her last day in that wonderful country had been a wonderfully great day. She had parted with Valenciel as friends. She'd hugged her friends Zaya and Raki and had asked them to look after her pet tiger. She missed them immensely. In this time when they were already dead she couldn't help feeling sad that she would not have been with them everyday but she comforted herself with the knowledge that they had lived without the influence of Mikiel's corruption. She thought of them everyday. They had been a family to her and she would have lied if she'd said she did not miss their company. But times changed. You lose friends and you make new ones.
She got to the part of the walk that she hated the most especially at night. She had to cut across the park. It was really big a wide-open area surrounded by trees. If she took the route around the part it would take her almost an hour and a half but it was so dark in there. One never knows what lay in the dark so every night when she walked there, she was worried, but crime rate in the city had gone down drastically so she felt mildly safe and taking a deep breath she continued her stroll home.
She felt a chill touch her body as the wind rustled through the trees. It made an eerie sound that had her quickening her steps. She did not know why but walking there always brought to mind scary thoughts. Simple innocent sounds of nature became the most frightening sounds on the earth. She almost sighed as she got to the last part. It was a five-minute walk through that part and in less than a minute she would be home. This was the part where she walked through the trail of trees and then she would be again in the lit streets of new york.
She sighed almost with relief until she heard a snap to her right. It sounded like someone or something had been walking through the trees and had stepped on a branch or something. She felt her heart pick up. She had already been scaring her self with all those thoughts and she couldn't help the fear that coursed through her veins.
'Why didn't I just take the bus?'
she thought as she looked behind her. It was probably nothing but right now she was so frightened she did not care.
With a sigh she turned back in front of her, as there was no one or nothing visible. She felt silly. Her heart slammed into her chest as she caught a glow. It was a pair of red eyes and they were looking at her.
'Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!'
