Man… what a shitty morning.

That’s all I could think about at the moment, things were going so well before I opened my eyes; A comfy bed and a warm little body beside me, to boot some nicely sized… maybe a bit modest but in no way bad, breasts, big enough to hold and have a good time playing around with, she had a slim waist leading down to a nice and firm buttock that more than compensated for the lackluster face and personality, a nice catch if I say so myself.

The name of my last night’s exercise partner was… well… this is rather uncomfortable, it’s not like I forgot it, Nara, that’s her name, shit, no... it wasn’t, it started with an L, I think? Probably. My mind was a bit all over the place at that moment, I had just woken up after all, rudely so if I may say so myself.

Now, what to do? Should I go back home? No, I should wait a bit before doing that, the baldie and his friend are probably going to complain to mom once they get tired of looking for me.

I was thinking about what my next move would be as I rested my weary body, I felt something rising from the bottom of my chest each time I took a breath and thought I would eventually spit out my lungs as things stood.

what’s his problem though? Just because you found a man in your daughter’s bedroom you gotta chase him out with a shovel?

What had happened was… a normal? Occurrence for me, sadly, the thing is like this, I’m a heavy sleeper and after a nice workout I’m always overcome with the need to have a long, nice nap, sometimes I get kicked out once we are done but umm, Laina? Whatever, The She, in question, wasn’t like that, a kinder soul than some of the other young ladies in town, maybe it was due to her lack of experience but in the end, I ended up staying the night.

A big mistake that was.

I didn’t wake up before her parents, and who could have guessed her dad was the type of man that would enter his daughter’s bedroom in the morning? With no warning even. I woke up because he started hitting me through the sheets

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! I’ll FUCKING kill you motherfucker!”

I think something might be wrong with a baldie, but I digress, it wasn’t the first time this happened to me, but most times the parents don’t get mad, or at least not THAT mad with me, he really wanted to kill me, I’ve had a few disgruntled fathers trying to beat the shit out of me before, but this guy is on another whole level, I will definitely not talk to that girl again, at least not for a while.

I rested until I felt I could walk again without having my heart give out on me and once my joints stopped burning, I stood up using whatever was at hand as leverage, I felt terribly tired and wanted to sleep right then and there but the idea of having bugs anywhere close to me kept me awake.

Murder attempts aside, this was a beautiful morning, the sun shone bright and not a cloud in the sky, the temperature was cozy, warm, but not hot, accompanied by a light, gentle, breeze. Not the kind of morning I would waste having a stroll in the forest but what could I do? I had a few names of things I would rather be doing, like Elisa and Rae. I could be having fun with whatshername right about now if it wasn’t for baldie’s tantrum.

I will have to admit that even if I would rather be doing something else, this isn’t so bad, I remember I used to hide in the woods when I was a kid, I walked deep in until I could not see town anymore and play by myself until night came and I had to go back home, he would beat the shit out me for that but at least it was just once a day. The old fucker.

Strolling down memory lane I ended up losing myself inside the forest, no worries though, the entire zone is much safer than it used to be thanks to the boss’s arrival and hunting taking off in the last few years.

After a while, I started to recognize certain landmarks, like fallen and broken trees or huge slimy and cracked rocks I used to pay attention to in my childhood to get around without losing myself.

It’s amazing that they are still here after so much time has passed. Wait for a second, if this thing’s here, then that means I’m close to the "dry-fall", could pay a visit since I’m here.

Some individuals from Hillside, and I count myself among them, share the idea, that a river once ran through these parts, long ago, and for some reason or another it dried up; I once found what I thought was the ultimate evidence of this, while on one of my many runaways from home I came upon a place deep inside the forest, to get there I had to follow a depression on the floor that reminded me of an empty river or more so a crudely made path carved in the densest, thickest, part of the forest, guiding me towards a new discovery inside the belly of the beast.

“Uh?”

The place was the same as I remembered… actually, the whole journey here was exactly the same as it had always been as if time was a foreign concept to these woods. The path leading me forwards just ended a few meters away, the day I found it I was really surprised to see something like that, it felt as if the world had just come to an end, the path forward was cut by endless darkness, I couldn’t see the end since the sheer amount of trees on this part of the forest made it really hard to see but it couldn’t have been more than a hundred meters, given it was possible to see the forest stretching forwards to what looked like infinity.

This has to have been a waterfall once So I called it Dry-Fall… yeah, I know, but I won’t accept any smart comments, I was a child.

However, this wasn’t what graved my attention, but the thing sitting on the ground just a few meters shy, dangerously close to the edge of the darkness was a child, one I knew fairly well, even if it was from a distance.