Mend Embraces

When I'm alone, doing nothing, only me and my consciousness, I tend to remember all that I have gone through, memories start flooding in my mind, recapping all the scenes and making me remember all that I so hard try to forget everyday.

To be honest, that is worse than sleeping having a nightmare and then waking up panting, cause here you are up and not sleeping, so noway to stop the nightmares by pitching yourself, you need to stop it yourself but..yeah, easier said than done.

In those moment, I find peace by sitting under trees, looking at the sky, or crossing that lonely big green forest on the other side of the city, it is far but.. worth the ride.

I'll never get used to this forest, it's so mesmerizing. As hard as I tried to keep all it's features in my head, to keep some of its calmness in me to bring it where ever I go, when I come back.. I just realize that I really didn't take anything.

As much as I know, I am the only lurking person in this deep forest, all the other people are scared to get lost inside, or say it is haunted, or got spiritual powers.. well, for that last part, it does have spiritual powers and her effects are falling on me very clearly every time I come here. Plus, I'm not scared to get lost in a forest, but mostly lost in my mind.

Peaceful, loneliness, silence, these are the things that I seek and the only place where I found those is right here in this---..

Her thoughts were interrupted by some step sounds on the grass and the snaps of branches.
She turns her head to look behind, her brows knitting slightly in confusion, seeing what she didn't expect to nor awaited.

"Hey." said a voice in a tone that sounded like 'I didn't expect anyone here'

She paused, thinking 'Wasn't I supposed to be the only one lurking around here?', but all she could let out, which seem the logical thing to say; as her gaze was locked with the person's eyes and vise versa, was...

"Hey"