Nyctophiliac🌙

1 | History

"The feeling of darkness starts to creep,
warmth and serenity begins to thrive.

At night when most people are sound asleep, it's the time when I feel most alive."

I read the words inside my mind, altering it to a soft spoken poetry I loved. I felt peace and content as I sat under a sycamore tree. My hands grazed over the dark grass and tiny dandelions under me, feeling each and every detail of it. As the chirping of night birds fascinated my ears and the wind brushed past my soft hair, making it dance with the wind. As I stared up to the sky, where the sky was as dark as my soul, and the stars as bright as my eyes.
I felt acceptance as I gave away my mind and heart to the darkness of night.
Darkness was where I belong.

My hands groped my bag, searching for snacks to satisfy my growling stomach. But I couldn't find anything. I realized I had brought the wrong bag. I quickly grabbed my stuffs and started to walk back home.

But then I stopped. I heard movements behind me. I quickly looked back. My eyes roamed everywhere to look for anything suspicious. Nothing. I shrugged my shoulders and continued my way through the dark woods.

We lived in a small town called Crimsonville. My house was far on the edge of the town, just outside the Crimsonville woods. Our town was hidden and undiscovered from the rest of the world. Quiet, deserted. Although because of that, our town was peaceful and harmless. There was no crime nor problems.

Even though our town was completely safe, mother never let me go to the woods at night. She always insisted that I could only go to the woods in daylight. But the woods at night and the woods at daytime were completely different. I didn't like the woods at daytime. I hated daylight in general. But night?
I loved night.

In fact, mother never let me go anywhere. Not without her following me around anyway. Not even to my friends house, let alone to the park or a shopping center. That was basically why I didn't have much friends. The only ones I had in my previous school were Amy and Polly. And that was eight years ago. It was always just me and my mother.

My mother never treated me like other sixteen year old girls. I never had freedom to spend time with friends, well, not that I wanted to. Whenever I asked why, she always repeated the same words. "Because you are many things, Crystal. But wasting time with useless teenagers isn't one of it." She shook her head in disapproval. Although, deep down I knew it was so much more than just that. I always thought mother had a rough childhood, and she just wanted to keep me safe. But all I ever wanted was to be free when night time comes.

I barely slept at nights. I couldn't. Night was too beautiful and precious to waste, I couldn't miss it by sleeping just like any other people. I always slept at daytime, and enjoyed life at night. I wasn't normal, people at my last school bickered. School was hard, because since I started to spend my energy at night, I felt sleepy at school and couldn't help myself but to sleep in every classes. So I dropped out of school and started online school instead.

On the night of my fourteenth birthday, I had asked my mother to grant the only wish I ever wanted. To be set free at night. I should've known better. She got really mad, so I ran upstairs and locked myself in my room. Since mother left me no choice, I had to take action into my own legs and be bold for once. I sneaked out from the window and ran to the woods. That day, I found the spot, the Sycamore tree. My sycamore tree. I sat there for hours, letting my mind wander into places I had never explore before. Since that night, I started sneaking out to the woods every past midnight. Luckily, mother never once caught me.

As I sat there with my thoughts,
reality sank in.
I really was different.
I was a human form of night owl,
I was a ncytophiliac.
And the nyctophiliac was about to find out that she wasn't the only creature lurking at night.

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