Trahern

I don’t want to admit it, but I am quite simply too old to still make it all the way to where the girls are dancing. I may be only a little tired now, but I am sure that if I went all the way there, I would be so exhausted that I won’t be able to chase after a girl, let alone perform once I’ve caught one. It’s too bad though. I was actually looking forward to it.

Brea and I were only 15 years old when we fell in love with each other. We were too shy for anything more than kissing and handholding at first. It is only when both of us became 18 that we started touching each other’s privates.

Sometime after we became 18 but before we had our first Samhain, the elders decided that if Brea was married and with child, she could inherit her father’s bakery. The inheritance was a bit of an issue. Normally it are the sons who inherit and Brea didn’t have any brothers. Which means the bakery would have gone out of the family. This was worrisome for both of us. While we didn’t think as highly of the Samhain event as some other people did, we at least wanted to experience it once. But Brea’s father was in ill health and the inheritance meant a lot to her. So, we decided to get married before our first Samhain. That of course meant that she was no longer permitted to join the bonfire, and I could no longer join the guys in chasing the girls.

We did decide to preserve our virginities until Samhain itself. On that Samhain evening, when the spirits of the ancestors were visiting our village, we went to the orchard together. It was just us two there. Other people were either in their homes, or in the forest. That is when both of us stripped nude and Brea made me chase her a bit between the trees. We later joked about it being our own little private Samhain. We also had sex for our first time then and there.

What many people failed to notice, is that Brea got pregnant shortly after, and that Glenton was born at around the same time Samhain children are supposed to be born. Nobody recognized him as a Samhain child, because we didn’t have the exchange of necklaces to prove it. But Brea and myself see Glenton as an ancestor that we helped get reborn into the world. He is our secret Samhain child.

Unfortunately, the good times don’t last forever, and Brea eventually got sick. Last year, in spring, she eventually died from her sickness. Before she died, she made me promise that I would not stay alone and that I would remarry. It took me a whole year to mourn her passing, but this year I am finally ready to move on. I am finally ready to officially have my first Samhain. I will just rest here, gather my strength, and wait until one of the girls comes close by. Then I will grab her and from there, I will see whether she and I are a match or not.