Forest of Faith

Chapter 1: The Black Coated Stranger


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Emmy
Last updated:
2005-11-17 00:00:00
Chapter 1
The Black Coated Stranger

Great, it was Monday morning. Ashley laied on her sunflower decorated bed. It was so soft and compfy, that she couldn't even wake up.
"Dee! Dee! Dee!"
It was the alarm clock. Lazyly, she slapped it on the off button and turned it off. She stood right up and walked out of the comfortable bed. What should she wear to school today? She grabbed the yellow t-shirt that she always loved at the side of the closet. Ashley couldn't wait to meet the new student at school, well, she couldn't even concentrate at her schoolwork, how could she even get to concentrate on him? Ashley is usually daydreaming of herself in a beautiful place with great friends she travels with... She slipped in the yellow t-shirt and took a pair of star-rimmed socks. Then she put on the jeans she picked yesterday. With a yawn, she walked down the hall to the washroom. After Ashley finished cleaning her teeth, face, and hair, she went to the kitchen and stared at the fridge.
"Hey Ash" Whispered her little brother Preston.
"Hi"
"Can you get breakfast ready for us both? I have a spelling bee today, and I don't wanna loose it.. I'm going to study again, Thanks."
"Kay then" Said Ashley in a kind-of tired voice.
She slipped in two loafs of bread in the toaster machine.
"Ka-ching!" The toast was ready.
"'You want strawberry jam or peanut butter?" She called to her brother.
"Any, anything." Preston shouted back.
She took the knife and covered his toast with strawberry jam, since it was fat free and good for a 10 year old.
Preston was staring at a big dictionary, facing at the window of the living room. He looked really interested in the dictionary,which made Ashley a bit worried. Would her little brother become smarter than her one day?
***
At school, her friends made that thought sink into 'the not thinking of' Part of her head.
"Lets hangout together at recess" Amy, her nice friend whispered.
"Kay" Whispered Ashley back
Soon, as the day began to get dark, the bell rang for school, whiched meaned school was over. Ashley sighed as she walked out of her classroom. She spotted a shadowy figure at the corner of her eye. It was a stranger. He had a black coat on, which looked like it was made out of leather. Ashley looked to his face, it was covered with a cap, (But only covered the eyes)But she could still see his mouth shape the words
"Follow me!"
She couldn't do anything than do what the stranger told her to. She took at step forward, then another.
"Ashley!" Shouted Kevin, a cute guy in class.
But Ashley couldn't hear him, there was something strange with the stranger. She kept taking little steps until she was at where the stranger leaded her to. It was the back of the school. The stranger raised his hands, right into the air, and Ashley was back to herself again.
"Who are you?" She said in a loud voice.
"I...I am the... I cannot tell you."
Ashley didn't want to talk.
"I could make your dreams come true, just look into my eyes..."
She didn't. She just stared at the strangers mouth. She was to afraid, while she stared, the stranger began to make a colourful ball. It was filled with plenty of colours, it was too much, she could count how many. The ball was cloudy and foggy, she took a step forward to it to have a closer view.
"I have to do something, don't do anything when I'm gone" Says the stranger.
She nodded; slowly.
As Ashley kept staring at the ball, she couldn't stand it, just standing there. Her right leg began to move, then her left, one after another. Finally, she was right beside the dusty, colourful ball. A hand raised from her arms and felt the warmness of the wonderful ball. She stepped in.



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