Unexpected

Finally

After parking the car the two went inside the theme park. It is already 6 pm so the lanterns with different colors are already shining while swinging back and forth on a long wire connected to a pole on each side of the sidewalk.

The date is November 18 which means Christmas is just around the corner. The trees in the middle of the lake are already decorated with Christmas lights that reflect on clear water.

There are already a few Santa Claus' standing by the big stage at the middle of the park where street musicians often perform.

The delicious scent of foods floating around the theme park, children playing tag while their parents are silently watching them with a smile on their face, the acoustic music being played over the speakers throughout the theme park and the beautiful scenery by the bay.

The bay is only a few walks away from the theme park so this theme park is often visited by tourists who pass by.

"What place is this?" December asks while looking at her surroundings

"This place is Forest of Dreams." Clark answered

"Really? I heard the name multiple times from my parents but we never visited the place because my parents are really busy and sometimes we just forge to visit." December says, "Why is it called Forest of Dreams though?"

Clark gestured December to sit beside him at the comfy grass overlooking the lake, "The nanny at the orphanage when I was young always tell us the story about this place so I know it up until now but I will only tell you a summary. It is called Forest of Dreams because before this was just a normal forest and a lake. Then a traveler stayed at this place for shelter so during his stay he encountered some problems but whenever he comes back here it disappears."

"I still do not know why it is called Forest of Dreams."

"I'm not done yet, December."

"Oh my bad. Please continue."

"You see the using all of the gold that the traveler earned throughout his adventure he slowly build a fence around the whole forest which took him years because of how big it is and then as years pass by the fence become a brick wall then the brick wall turned into guard posts and it goes o and on until it turns into this. He spread the word through out the people he met on his travels about how this particular forest grants wishes to everyone who goes in there. Some believed it while some don't. Then one day a blind man ask the traveler to guide him to this forest he speaks of. So they went to the forest and the blind man stayed at the cabin the traveler built, As years goes by the blind man was able to see again. The non believers believed when they saw the blind man. The statue of the traveler is built under the tree by the lake. It is said that that is where his coffin lies."

"That does not make any sense. How did the blind man finally see?"

"That I don't know but some say that the blind man was a fraud. Some say that the blind man is in the process of being cured before he even knew of the forest. We will never know the truth."

"How about you? Do you believe in it?"

"Yes because I experienced it." December sat properly on the grass and listened attentively to Clark, "When I was still in the orphanage our Nanny brings us here almost everyday of the week to the point that the stray animals and guards stationed here already became our friends. Here I always daydream of seeing my friends in the orphanage being adopted into happy families and for them to live a happy life with their new family. It happened. One by one all my friends got adopted and I heard that all of them are now graduating in highschool same as me while the youngest among us are graduating in grade school."