The Road to a Better Life

The Lake of Mystery (Edgar's POV)

I was furious with Yvonne, sure I went to do some ballet but that was before I even hit puberty. Well I think, I don't really remember. Anyways I climbed on to a moto taxi and saw Bocho running my way. "Wait a minute." I told the driver. He agreed to wait and I waited here to see what Bocho had to say. "Yvonne said she was sorry, and that she wanted you to see her perform. She really wants this, Edgar. I think you should go support her with me." Bocho told me.

I looked at el centro and back at Bocho, I gave him a look of understanding. But that quickly changed to a look of anger and annoyance. "Step on it." I requested the driver. He did as he was told and made his way down the road. "So where to, bud." He asked me. I looked out the open doorway and saw a dog eating an empty chip bag. "Somewhere where a man can think." I replied.

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The man pulled over by a little area, I got off and paid him his fee and left a little tip as well. I said my goodbye to him, since he's my friend's cousin. I went off into the charted area and into some weird area. I searched around and saw nothing but trees. I was about to just turn around and walk back, but I heard some weird noise. Like if a water source was near by. I wondered even more, my curiosity was killing me.

I saw some weird perfectly alined bushes, as if some one actually planted them. I moved them aside and there it was, clear, crisp, and healthy lake of running drinkable water. "Wow." I said in awe, no lake here was this clear or clean. It was really amazing, I could see the rocks and small plant life within it. "Just wait until I tell them about this." I told myself, referring to Yvonne and Bocho of course.

I heard a branch being cracked, my eyes shot wide open. Was it an animal? Was it a monster? Was it a person? These questions race through my mind as I blankly stared off into the forest. My heart was pumping rather quickly, I gulped in nervousness. I turned around and saw nothing there, I turned back and there was a little girl. "Oh, jeez, you scared me there." I said, panting. The little girl starred at me blankly, creepy as a matter of fact. Somehow I felt as if she wasn't just a little girl.

"Um, are you okay?" I asked the girl. No response, of course. "Noon." She said, strangely, curiously thinking what she could possibly mean by noon. She pointed at something behind me, being the curious character I am, I peaked and saw nothing there. "I don't see anything." I said, looking back only to see she was already gone. "Hmm... Noon." I thought to myself, I checked my watch and it was already getting dark so it probably meant nothing.

After all Mexico is full of some pretty creepy stuff so this was just probably a little girl trying to scare away people who ended up here. Anyway, I made my way back up to the charted area, planning to make up with Yvonne.