My Journey

Running, faster, faster will I catch her this time? my paws pounding into the earth my heart and lungs on the verge of exploding, I see her the giant black wolf I chase every night but never catch I don't really know why she comes to taunt me every night. You see I live in a cabin out in the wilderness with my mom and dad, We only go to town once a month to get books for my school work and supplies for the month then it's back to isolation. I wish I could go to the school where there are other kids; I long to have someone other than my mom to talk to but my dad always refuses saying it isn't safe they will poison my brain and I'll be as good as dead my mom just looks at me with a strange glint in her eyes an apparent look of sadness overtakes her. I can tell my father wasn't always this way but I have never heard the story of what changed the mountain of a man into a paranoid creep. Mom and I cook and clean, while dad and I tend to have more of an aggressive bond, he makes me train with him everyday before "school" and after. I barely have time to do anything else. Back to the wolf. This has been a cat and mouse game for me for the last two years I have been dreaming of her this beautiful wolf and her mesmerizing golden eyes. I don't know why but I'm physically drawn to seek her out but the rational side of me says it's just a dream to stop being foolish. Today is a special day for me we are going to town mom promised she would bake me a cake for my upcoming birthday. I am excited about this birthday I'm finally turning 18, I don't know why but I feel like this one is going to be the best one yet. After Training with my dad for 3 hours my mom rounds the corner of the house her grabbing my father's attention in the middle of us sparring and I land a lucky punch to his jaw putting him in a daze. I step away knowing that this won't be pretty when he comes to he hates it when I get the best of him. I've always wondered why mom and dad don't look as old as the people in town and why we don't get injured when our training sessions are so brutal. When I say something my mom always says it's because we live on the mountain and mountain air changes the way you grow. yet there is always a twinkle of mischief in her eyes when she says it. My father snaps out of his daze yet never stops staring at mom finally I turn to look at her and am entranced myself. My mother standing at a beautiful 5'7 wearing a dress that in one light looks blue and in the shadows looks black her long Auburn hair reaching just past her waist she's wearing jewelry I've never seen, my father and I just stand and stare mouths slightly a gape, she finally speaks. Boys are you quite done? Remus(my father) you promised to take me to town today. That seems to snap us out of our temporary paralyzed state my dad's eyes seemed to change color for a minute as he stared at mom. Her face became pink as they looked at each other you could see the love and adoration they held for each other even after all these years. I pray one day I'll find a woman to love me the same way, they love each other. My father finally looks at me and says Your mother and I are going to town, you know the drill. Yeah dad stay in the cabin don't wander the woods alone stay inside read don't go past the boundaries I've heard it every day since I was five. Good man we will be back before nightfall. Stay safe son. We love you. Feeling slightly depressed that I wasn't offered to go to town with them, I understand that sometimes couples just need some time together. I have read enough of my mom's goofy romance novels to know. Sad to say I've read every book in our small but impressive library probably twice. I stand on the porch looking no where in particular as my parents drive off in our jeep towards town.