I stay low to the ground and start to make my way toward a small group of deer.
They don't see me, so I sneak around them and find a small dee, alone, about five yards away.
As I start to walk towards the deer something moves in the underbrush to my right. All of the birds go silent.
"Great now the deer are going to run away".
So I freeze and waited for the whole herd to go running into the underbrush. I waited, and waited, but they didn't seem to even notice the bird's silence. Why are they so calm today?
I stand up and looked around. This has never happened before. The deer looked at me and didn't seem to mind.
Are they all stupid or have they all just lost their minds?
They look back at something in the underbrush to my right. Then some of the deer start to run. Something is really wro-.
Boom
I feel a sharp pain in my leg.
All of the deer run and my world starts to spin, I fall to the ground, as I fall I see an orange dart in my leg.
I can still see, but I can move.
What is going on?
I lay there, motionless.
I see a figure appear near the underbrush where the deer were looking. Its a man, he is carrying a dart gun, and a net.
As he walks, he swings the dart gun over his shoulder and looks around. It seems like he is looking to see if anyone saw him shoot me.
Is he a poacher?
I need to get out of here. I NEED to get out of here!
Calm down Nicole everything will be fine once you can move.
I take a deep breath and try to slow my heart rate.
When the strange man gets to my motionless body, he takes out a phone and punches in a number.
I hear a muffled voice on the other end say
"what do you want Shawn"
The man in front of me who is apparently this Shawn guy says " I got one over in the north meadow".
"sure you do just keep dreaming, bring your imaginary wolf to the loading sight, we'll check it out there."
" oh shut up Adam, I have one, just get yours to the loading cite and I'll meet you there"
Shawn angrily ends the call and looks down at me.
Smiling, he wraps my limp body in the net and carefully slings me over his shoulder. Walking back towards the underbrush he says " I'll show him you'll be the healthiest wolf we've got!"
When he gets to the underbrush I see a jeep and a cage in the back of it. The jeep is a dark green and the cage is a bright silver.
How did I not see the silver cage? I'm so stupid.
When Shawn reaches the cage he puts me on the ground and takes a pair of keys out of his pocket.
He unlocks a pad lock on the cage door and gently takes my limp body and sets it on a blanket in the cage.
I let out a weak growl as he closes the cage.
"It's ok girl". He says as he walks to the front of the jeep with a spring in his step.
I hate him, I hate his happiness, I hate his success, I hate the numbness drug that he put in me.
When he turns on the jeep the radio blasts " I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard I love, all I wanted was to break your walls, all you ever did was re-e-ek me"
As this song plays I hear a sound like a dying deer.
O my gosh it's Shawn, please stop, this is so painful, STOP.
I whimper and growl and he immediately stops and looks back at me.
"Am I really that bad of a singer" he says. " Yes you are, I would rather cut my ears off than listen to that horrible singing ever again" .
The rest of the ride is music sung by real singers most of them were pop hits.
After about fifteen minutes I fall asleep to the swaying of the jeep and the music playing.
