*~* Author's Note *~*
Here's Chapter 3 Part 1! This one started out as another shorter encounter and spiraled into something longer. Part one is as about the same length as Chapter one. It includes mycophilia, which means having a sexual attraction to mushroom or other fungi, in my use it'd be sex mushrooms.
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Valerie woke up the next morning refreshed. She glanced over at the alarm clock expecting to see she'd slept the morning away but the alarm clock insisted it was 9am. Usually if she woke up anytime before noon she would still feel tired, she was a night owl after all. The sun shone through the windows cheerfully, warming up the room. Valerie slipped out from under her covers, realizing she was completely nude. Why was she nude? She thought to about the night before, how she had finally finished unpacking and decided to take a shower before bed. Had she forgotten to get dressed after her shower? Valerie shrugged and walked over to the dresser, enjoying the warmth of the sun on her bare body. Sometimes its the simple things that make your day. She opened the chest of drawers and looked over her clothes. What to wear? Valerie thought to herself. Maybe I'll head out and check out the greenhouse today. She pulled out a slightly ratty pair of black jeans. The bottoms were a bit torn and frayed from various jobs, white spots and streaks of paint covered the faded black denim.
She slipped on a pair of dusty, scuffed up black sneakers are picked up the small dark green bucket of tools and stepped out on to the back porch. She took a deep breath of fresh forest air and smiled to herself, it was a good day for the garden. She knew the greenhouse was a few minutes walk deeper through the trees and started off, following the overgrown path she began to wonder how long the house had been empty before the lawyer had found her?
The path began to open a bit and she could see a brightly lit clearing up ahead, something seemed to gleam in the sunlight. She picked up her pace, her strides long and quick. She was almost there when she suddenly found herself falling. She hit the ground face first and groaned.
"Ugh. What the hell. Graceful as always huh Valerie?"
She coughed and spit some dirt out as she tried to get up but found it harder than expected. She sat up and looked down at her legs. Valerie's face hurt and she felt something trailing down her cheek. Wiping at it with her hand she realized what it was, her fingertips came away smeared with blood. It didn't feel serious but it did sting. She wiped at her cheek with her arm and turned her attention back toward her feet. They seemed to be tangled in some kind of thorny bramble, looking around her found her fallen bucket within reach and grabbed the gloves and gardening clips. After slipping on the gloves she began snipping away the bramble tangling around her ankle.
How did I get so caught up in this patch of bramble? For a moment she became very uncomfortable and couldn't figure out why. Something told her to run but why? Run from what? She took a slow, shaky breath and exhaled. There's nothing but trees and dirt, what is there to be afraid of? When she had learned she would be inheriting this place she did a bit of research and found that it had never been a bear or wolf problem area. She finally got her foot untangled from the bramble and got to her feet, dusting herself off before retrieving the rest of her tools.
She continued her way up the path and stepped into the clearing. The glass of the greenhouse gleaming. Valerie expected the greenhouse to be full of dead plants to clear out, especially with the path being so overgrown, but that was not the case. She began to stroll around the outside of the greenhouse, trying to get a peek inside but all the way around plants grew taller than herself right up next to the glass. How had they grown so well? Maybe just the plants near the glass thrived, absorbing the rain from outside. Something just didn't feel right but she shrugged it off. It looked like she had a lot of work to do.