𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 | 𝐭𝐬𝐮'𝐭𝐞𝐲

III. OUT AND GETTING SAMPLES

Adela stepped out, looking around the nature that they were in. The overwhelming inner peace, fills her. She smiled a bit that felt like for the hundredth time already. Adela started walking in, letting the others just coming and following once they got what they wanted. Adela wanted to head before they do, so, she always like coming out here when ever her mother took Adela out, it was nice to come out here. Especially when the school use to be up and running years ago. It was nice back then. Adela heard their footsteps coming closer to her since she was walking slow. "So, how will they know we're here?" Norm asked.

As they walked further into the forest. "I'm sure that they're watching us right now." her mother tells him. Adela looked over to see the small hut, that use to be the school. Now it's just 'storage' her mother likes to say. Adela stepped foot into the school for the first time in years. Memories start coming to her. One's with her, Adela's best friend. "This was our school. Now it's just... storage" Grace tells them. Walking over to the table in the far corner, seeing a bracelet on the table, Adela picked it up. Remembering that Sylwanin made this for her. Adela must've forgot to get it the last time she was here.

A small smiled formed on her face, putting it on her wrist. Adela was trying to find this everywhere, and it was here the whole time. "The kids were so bright. Eager to learn. They picked up English faster than I could teach it," Grace continued. She put the book back on the shelf, the others looking around the school. "So, we'll take a couple of those Ph monitors," Grace pointed out.

"Alright" Norm said.

"And a soil probe" Grace continued her voice more quiet than before. Adela watchs as Jake looked over on the other side of the wall.

"What happened here?" Jake asked. Adela's mother looked over to him than back to what she was doing.

"Are you going to help us with this gear? We've got a lot to do" Grace tells him, dodging the question that Jake asked. He looked over to Adela thinking that she was going to answer the question. But today she was not ready to talk about it. Not yet. So, for now she just gave him a weak smile, heading out of the door, as she was outside waiting for the others. Adela felt eyes on her. Watching her every move, Adela looked in the direction she felt that the eyes. As the both of them locked eyes. Adela felt a familiar warmth in her chest, like she knows those eyes. Like Adela have seen from somewhere, like she knows those very vivid eyes of theirs. Tsu'tey, was the name that all she could think of.

She wanted to go to home, her body begged to be moved, to go to him, to hug him tightly and tell him how deeply sorry she was. She wanted to, and by the way his eyes soften slightly, she knew that it was all over her face. Adela could go to him, because he was just right there, a few branches up and a few trees away, she could go to, while they were busy. But instead of her going to him, he came to her. The man she had loved at a young age, not fully knowing what true love was just yet. The man she had wanted to hold and say sorry for what she did not do that day years ago. Bile comes to her throat, just as she was to talk.

But her eyes was telling him everything that he needed to know. Adela didn't see the anger, the resentment that she hoped to see in his eyes, when they first meet again, ever. But she did not expect for him to look at her like he was a concerned mother. He placed his hand on the side of her face, letting her head tilt onto him. "I'm sorry." her voice cracked, bile in her throat, but she didn't know why she was sorry. She did not what else to say but saying that she was. And some how he knew that he didn't know why she was sorry. The knowing look. Like he see right through her like all those years ago, when they played together.

"There is no need to be sorry for anything, My Flower." Tsu'tey spoke in a voice, that sounded mature, and deep. Not the voice that she was so use to, when they were kids, but they weren't kids anymore. They were grown ups. "Your just as beautiful as the last time I saw you, Flower." his comment left her cheeks warm, because she did not expect him to say something like that. "Adela! Let's go, we need to get the samples before dark out!" her head shots back to the cabin, hering her mother's shout from inside. "Alright coming!" Adela calls out to her as she looks back to Tsu'tey. Seeing the expression of longing, another look she did not expect to have from him, ever. "I'll see you soon, Stoic." She smiled like she had always had with him, a smile of mischief and teasing.

Adela looked away and walked back into the school, with a smile placed on her lips, like for the first time in years, she had felt a weight off her shoulders, and off of her heart, knowing that one person had not resented her for the deaths of her friends at the school.

She trailed off to see the plants around her, Jake following not far behind Adela, pointing the gun in every direction. Adela sighs through her nose. "Can you not point your gun at everything. Not everything is a threat you know," Adela told him. "Oh, she talks" he joked. Adela rolled her eyes, as Grace and Norm were taking the samples, while Adela walked with Jake. Then Adela looked over to these spiral plants coming out of the ground, she walked over to them and touched it. And she did. It shrunk to the ground, having a small smile on her face.

Not seeing these types of plants in years, Adela and Jake did it to a few more others, they both laughed a bit. But then the whole lot went down, then to a screeching sound filled their ears, that left a ringing in not only her ears, but also in Jake's ears as well. Seeing the big native animals in front of us called Hammerhead Titanothere.