“Sutton come back she yells. When will she get that I don’t want to see my step dad. I don’t like him, never have I and I know I never will. Ever since they met everything’s been different. For one thing me staying out of the house is a huge change. Before him I wouldn’t leave my room but now that he’s here he took away my TV, my games, and my cell. Ugh I hate him. Since last year I’ve been running to this one beautiful place that no one else knows about but me. I remember the first time I ran out of my house and into these woods. It was a winter day, the trees and ground were covered in snow and lucky for me it was snowing heavy that day so my footprints where being covered otherwise I know he would have found me. Anyways I was running and I happened to trip over a rock or a stick, I don’t remember but I fell and tumbled into a bush and I ended up face first in some kind of open field. At first I thought it was private property but after I looked around I didn’t see any signs claiming it to be. Than I noticed all the little foot prints that where being hidden be the falling snow. I was happy and sad at the same time. I did’t want to scare away the animals but I couldn’t leave because I heard his voice calling for me , he was close to where I was hiding. Hoping he wouldn’t notice my prints or any bushes disturbed I sat there in the snow waiting for him to give up. After what felt like hours of just waiting scared he might find me I started noticing how beautiful and peaceful this field was, I instantly fell in love with it. I liked seeing the animals scatter along the field playing with one another and searching for food. What felt like dinner time I decided to go back home. He was mad at me and my mother worried sick. I didn’t care how mad he was, I only apologized to my mother. When he asked me where I went I just told him into the woods far away from him where he couldn’t find me. That made him more mad so he sent me to my room. After that night I decided to make that my second home but without disturbing the animals. I started leaving the house in the mornings and didn’t come home till I got hungry. I’d sit out here for hours and hours on end. It’s been a year now and I still come here by myself and neither he nor anyone else has discovered this place. I did get lonely out here the first few months so I brought books to read until the animals decided I was no longer a stranger but part of the place. They became used to my presence and started moving closer to me until they basically play on me and mess with me. That is why I have decided to bring you here Thomas. I want you to know about this place because we are all we have out here in this empty country. I trust you and if you trust me than that makes us friends. The greatest of friends, I don’t want to be alone anymore and I know you don’t either.”
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