Simple Awakenings

Chapter Three

You can see me. A voice asking if I can see them? This makes no sense whatsoever, but whoever said that is behind me. So I turn around slowly and to my surprise it's him.

The man that ran into me while I was getting the mail earlier and ran after that Mrs. Myens didn't see.

The man was about my height, maybe fairly taller. But if he didn't have red eyes with the honey gold hair I wouldn't be judging him as much as I am now.

"You ran after me earlier today. You weren't suppose to." He states. Wait, I wasn't? What? "You aren't even suppose to know I am here."

Okay, scratch that where is my damn pepper spray?

"What do you mean I'm not suppose to know you're here?" I ask in a whisper since Josh is currently off in his own little dreamland. "You're obviously here. In front of me. Physically."

"But I'm not suppose to be. You won't understand!" He yells and I shush him.

"Be quiet! My brother is down the hall sleeping!" I yell whisper.

"Your brother can't see me. No one can see me! I'm not human!" Wait what? "I'm a faerie. I've been exiled from my home to the mortal lands. Mortals can't see faeries."

Faeries.

What the actual fuck?

"Faeries don't exist." I tell the strange man. "They're just myths." Like the ones I'm learning in English next week.

"No we are not myths. Do you want proof?" He asks. Great he's asking me if I want proof of if he's actually a mythical magical creature and I don't even know his name.

"Can you tell me your name first so then I can call the police?" I ask ready to reach for my phone.

"Well first, if you call the police they will think you are crazy." The weird man states, "Second, my name is Servdon, former caretaker to the King of All of the Realms."

Servdon. That's an odd name.

"Well, Servdon, I'm Ellie and I want you out of my room." I point to the window where he came through.

"Well, Ellie, you must come with me if I leave." He sits on my bed.

"What do you mean?" I ask cocking my head to the side.

"You can see me, and you're a mortal. Which means something has happened with the collaterals and I have to take you to the high lord of the lands. He knows what happened."

That was when I take a step back from Servdon. "I am not going to this land of yours if it even exists in some god damn afterlife. This is all total bullshit!'

"You really don't believe me, do you Miss Eliese?"

"How do you know my full name?" I never told him that Ellie is just my nickname and my full name was Eliese.

"That piece of paper on your bulletin board. It has your full name." I turn around and look to see that the admission certificate to the college I'm attending next fall does have my full name on it: Eliese Isabella Ardet.

"Alright Mr. Stalker, will you please get out of my fucking room!?" I was just on the verge of yelling as loud as I can and waking up the entire neighborhood and maybe even the neighboring development.

"Alright fine. As you say, Miss Eliese." He says as he snaps his fingers. Suddenly, as if I had blinked in the middle of the finger snap, we are in some kind of forest. I'm looking around at the trees and the shadows that were glistening from the shine of the moon.

"Where are we?" I ask in a total state of shock but I'm talking in my normal voice again. I turn to Servdon. "Please take me back home. I don't care where the hell we are, I don't care if we are in the field of the church next to my high school just take me back home!"

"I already told you that if I leave that you come with me. The high fae court needs to know that a mortal can see faeries." He grabs my wrist and starts to drag me with him. "Oh, and we are in the field by the church near your high school." He points ahead of me and I see a view of the church that I definitely know is near my school because when we had an evacuation last year, we had to go to the pavilion.

Don't ask me how that went.

"But why are we here?" I ask once again.

"Because the entrance to my home is just over there." Servdon responds as he leads me to the woods in front of us. "Just trust me on this, miss Eliese."

I was about to say a rebuttal but I think I lost the chance to as we enter the forest and what I was greeted by a few moments later.