The Legend - Watty Awards 2012

Chapter Fourteen

Tyler lay back on his bed in his room and gazed at the ceiling thinking about yesterday. Whatever Jenna had told him about all the weird incidents happening to her seemed so weird.. so unrealistic.. so impossible and yet he knew that she wasn’t lying. And then there was that guy at the station. Who was he? And why had Jenna run away from him like that?

He wanted to help her. But he just wished that she would open up to him completely and tell him the entire story. He knew yesterday that there were times when she was holding back and not being completely honest with him. But he needed the truth to help her. Not secrets and not lies.

Jenna stopped her car and looked around. She had driven to the address that Michelle had sent her but all she could see around her was empty land and a deserted barn like structure. She wondered if she had somehow reached the wrong place when she heard someone calling out to her. She saw Michelle waving out to her from one of the barn windows. Parking her car, she headed inside.

“Hey Jenna! I am so glad you made it!” Michelle exclaimed as she rushed over and hugged her.

“Hey there!” laughed Jenna. “You seem awfully  happy!”

Michelle laughed and both of them plonked down on to a stack of hay.

“What is this place?” asked Jenna looking around.

“I used to come here ever since I was a kid. I don’t think anyone comes here apart from me. It has been abandoned for decades. It used to be a part of the estate that belonged to the original owner of these lands. But as years passed, Bedhill developed and this part sort of got neglected. So I like to think of it as my private castle of sorts!”

Jenna lay back and closed her eyes. The smell of hay was oddly comforting. It reminded her of her grandparents’ farm that she used to visit when she was a kid.

“Are you hungry?” She felt Michelle shaking her arm.

“Little bit.”

“Well then follow me!”

She followed Michelle through an opening that she hadn’t noticed earlier. It led them into another smaller room.

“This is used to be where the stable boy slept years ago.”

Jenna looked around and suddenly noticed a small picnic blanket spread out on the floor near one corner of the room The blanket had lots of food spread out on it and hay was piled at one corner as if to form a back rest.

“What is all this?” She asked Michelle puzzled.

“Well, I cooked a little something and thought we could enjoy it here. You don’t like it?”

“No! No! It’s not that I don’t like it. It was just a little.. unexpected!”

“Please sit down. I hope you like what I made. I remember you telling me the other day how much you liked Thai food, so I made some coconut flavoured Thai curry for you. And you like cheesecake right? I made a blueberry cheesecake especially for you.”

Jenna looked at Michelle as she blabbered and wondered what had gotten into her.

“Michelle! What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you acting this way? Calm down! And why on earth are you sweating?!”

Michelle turned a bright shade of red. She slid closer to Jenna and held her hands.

“Jenna, I’m sorry,” she said softly. “I don’t know what is happening to me.”

And she suddenly leaned in and placed her lips firmly on Jenna’s and began kissing her.

At first Jenna was too shocked to react and then she pushed Michelle off her.