Kynan

I am cold, I am alone and it is dark. I hate this. This was a mistake. I should have skipped out on Samhain. I should have waited for next year.

I don’t even know what to do when I see another person in the forest. It could be a fellow guy chasing down a girl. I would be so embarrassed if I catch another guy instead. Or what if one of the guys thinks I am a girl and catches me?

What if I do see a girl? She won’t be limited to just walking. She can run just as well as me. If she can run faster than I can, she’ll escape me. Unless she is someone who is desperate to get a husband. Then she is going to catch me and force a Samhain child out of me.

But I am not ready to become a father. I am not ready for any of this. I should have waited for next year. I feel like I just want to sit down and cry.

I don’t care anymore. I’ll just return home and say I got unlucky. I turn back and hope I am moving in the right direction. Fortunately, it doesn’t take very long until I get back to the river. This time however, I am going to take the bridge. No way am I going through these cold waters a second time.

But just then, I hear something behind me. I turn around to see who or what it is, except I am too late. The person already barrels into me and has me in a bearhug while announcing “gotcha!”.