The Tale of Fear

Chapter 2

            In her childhood Neith was quiet and different but not just that she looked different from all the other kids, her hair was such a dark brown it could almost be black and she was very pale, always dressing in darker colors or occasionally white (like Wednesday Addams). The fact that she was different all the kids in her small town did not play with her; they thought she was strange and would make fun of her for being different. But when the kids would get confronted about this they would say that Neith did strange unexplainable things, which at the time was not true. For a while she tried to make them her friends but eventually gave up and decided that she would just accept her fate. She would spend her free time in the woods which all the other kids were afraid of, this way she wouldn't get teased or made fun of instead she got to have fun in nature exploring the great unknown, as long as she came back home before dark. She was a smart girl who always did as she was told and never really made a fuss of things but no matter what she was outcasted in her hometown. This went on for years until one late summer evening when she was 17 or so, someone new moved to town.

              A young boy the same age as Neith. He was tall and tan, a little masculine for his age, he had dark dirty blonde hair and green eyes with brown at the rim. His name was Bain. When he came to town he was also singled out for being new and different. So he knew how Neith might feel, but he did not understand why such a beautiful girl was pushed away. So after a lot of thought Bain decided to figure out what had happened to make everyone in town not like Neith. He had only been there for 2 weeks so he decided just to see how people act when she's talked about or near her. For a week he tried talking to people but they didn't really want to talk to him since they were not fond of the idea of new people. Two weeks later he was talking to a group of boys and they all said that Neith was a ruthless cold hearted girl with no soul. This surprised Bain since she always seemed so nice, he asked why she was what they said. The boys replied that they would often find her talking to animals and they would talk back, they also said it was mostly snakes. This outraged Bain that no one would say anything nice about her but also make up stupid reasons that were completly not true to dislike her.