The ground damp ,the trees dark and the evening was beginning to break. It was the kind of darkness where you could just about still see your hands,I rode through the forest remembering the route not needing to think at all ,I came to a Holt and there beside me waiting were Manfred and Lukas my two best friends ,my name is Audwine ,I am from the Black Forest in Germany. "How about we go for a hike tomorrow after school? "Lukas suggested "Yes the Handel would be great we would have to leave early tho reminding myself how quickly it became dark then nodded in agreement and rode off in different directions I lived in Gengenbach and others were from Baden-Baden,we always travelled by bikes ever since we could walk,soon we would be twelve years old and starting secondary school,it was much bigger than the primary which only has 200 hundred students,still it is growing as the nursery has more and more babies by the month. When I arrived home my older sister Galiana and younger brother Selik were already home. My mother was making Beef brats sauerkraut,the sizzle of fried potatoes sprung in the kitchen as I opened the door "Mum the potatoes are burning" I yelled,Selik who was two years old grinned at me amused at almost everything these days "We should trim your hair" I mumbled pating the infants blonde curls,I had learnt how to cut hair last year as Gali is wanting to become a hairdresser shes seventeen and is in her second year of collage,ive made quite an improvement as last year she would only let me practice on her dolls,now im able to just about do Seliks,normally he would be wiggling all about the place but today sat quiet as a mouse the kekes had calmed him down and it was our secret as we werent ment to eat sweets before dinner.