Little Secret's

I woke up feeling terrible, I looked around, and Lauren wasn't in the room. I figured she must have already gotten up. Getting up, I walked to the bathroom to get a look at my face which was red around the eyes. Stripping the clothes off my body I started to run the bathwater, baths feel ever so comfortable.

After having a peaceful time in the bath I went downstairs where everyone was eating breakfast. They looked up at me, I could tell they didn't know what to say. I was surprised when Lauren called me over to sit next to her, I complied with her. First, I went to the kitchen to get some cereal, then went to sit beside Lauren.

Nobody asked me what was wrong so I figured they must've already discussed and concluded not to ask me. I did not want anyone worrying about me so I said, " I'm fine now so don't worry. I'm over what I was crying about yesterday, so act normally," what I said was a half-lie, but also a half-truth.

They didn't question me, When breakfast was over Lauren and I went over to the practice area I set up in the forest. There were Logs set up to the average height of a man, you could tell they've been heavily used, with the scuffs and cut marks in them. I had an obstacle course set up to push myself, it helped with my balance and endurance.

This was the first time I've shown anyone this, so Lauren was surprised. " How did you even set this up?" she asked looking at the scenery, " I'm strong, ya know. Don't tell my parents, they don't know I have this place. When I want to be alone I come here and train," I said with a smile on my face.

" There's a giant cave way down the course too," While walking with my practice sword in my hand I took a stance swing the sword, fast enough to where you could hear the wind going around the wooden blade. The shock from hitting the solid standing log used to make me drop the sword the moment they collided. However, with practice, the tingling grew lesser, to where I could only feel a sting in my hands.

I slashed three more times in succession, I felt a sting in my wrist, but that could be offset with changing how the blade was swung a tiny bit.

" Why don't you show me around, then. Now that you've shown me this place, it's my secret too," Lauren walked past me to peer into the course. We were in the forest and there were trees everywhere surrounding us, finding a small clearing like the one I found is pretty lucky. Walking over towards the course entrance, I said, " Then come on then."

Waling into the course, you could tell that it's been run many times due to the grass and leaves nowhere to be found, it was like a trail path. the path was up sloped slightly so we were always going up. Lauren complained saying things like' how do you even do this'. Of course, someone who doesn't exercise would have trouble after walking uphill for a mile. After around two hours of walking, we arrived at a river with a fallen log over it, if I were to estimate the distance across I would have to say its near two hundred meters.

When Lauren looked at the log and looked around to see there was no other path, she was frightened: " Sera, I am not crossing that. Are you a lunatic or something!? You do this often, why the hell are you not dead?" While she was ranting and raving I walked behind her, I swooped her off her feet princess style and proceeded to walk to the makeshift bridge. Lauren struggled until I told her if she didn't stop we'd both die.

Walking across did take some time, and Lauren clinging to me with a death grip it made getting across quite difficult without being fish food. We got across, but Lauren wouldn't let go or open her eyes. I caressed her soft-fluffy hair until she calmed down. She was mad at me, Like really mad:" Are you an idiot? Why did you do that, huh? " she didn't seem to be letting up so I walked along the path and said, " You coming?"

She chased after me with unbound energy. " Do you think you have enough energy to walk three more miles," I asked Lauren who was to my right side, She looked up the hill we were on and plopped to the ground. I take that as her answer then. I pulled some water and snacks I had in my miniature backpack. After a short rest and a bunch of complaining.

The journey to the cave took around an hour and a half with stops in between. When we arrived at the cave entrance, Lauren exclaimed," It's so big!" The cave entrance was twenty feet tall and eight feet wide. I walked into the cave and turned on a switch. The entire place lit up, there were lights on the ceiling, after walking in, I saw Lauren still by the entrance to the cave. I invited her in again where she said," I'm not going get surprised ever again by anything you do. So, why are there lights her and how do they work?"

" Last Christmas I asked for money instead of a gift. I made an electric generator system that uses propane." I went over and showed Lauren around. the cave was bigger than it looked< but this was only the entrance. I went over and flipped the switch again so it was dark. " why'd you do that!"

" Can't waste the power," I grabbed Lauren's hand and told her to follow me. We were soon in front of the door. I opened the door and we went inside. I flipped another switch and the lights came on, inside there were tables chairs and even a bed. I walked over to a cabinet that had ice in it, I pulled out all of our snacks and put them into one of the multiple drawers inside.

I took a map from a table and showed it to Lauren, she looked at it for a moment then she said, " Is this a map of the path," I took the map and said, " Yes, as you can see the path continues and will lead back to the training ground, the way back should be around four-five miles. Also, there's a path that I've been making that heads to the mountains."

" Oh," that's all she had to say in return. " I told my mom we'd be camping out tonight. We'll head back in the morning," I told Lauren and also, " Sorry, I forgot to tell you."

We hung out for the rest of the day and I showed her a pool of water surrounded by smooth rocks. we stripped our clothes beside our underwear. We took a swim in the water since it was the middle of May, the water was warm. We stayed in the water until our fingers and toes started to wrinkle. We walked back to the cave where we set our clothes to dry. We walked around the forest wandering around the forest after our clothes dried.

Something felt off while we were walking, the forest was eerily quiet. I pulled out my sword the glade gleamed in the little sunlight that could pass through the enormous trees. Lauren looked at me and said in a low tone, " What's wrong?" I took a step closer to her: " Shh..."

Sweat rolled down my forehead and hit the dry earth below us. A pack of wolves lept in our direction. I took action fast, shoving Lauren to the side and sprinting at the wolves. Fear overwhelmed me, but I won't ever let my self lose to fear again. I slashed at one of the wolf's neck beheading him in an instant. The other wolves attacked at once, they were barely overwhelming me. I lopped off one of the legs of one of the six wolves, now five since one of them is in a pool of its blood. The wolves hesitated because they didn't want to end up like their compatriots, the one who got his leg cut off was about dead already from blood loss.

I sprinted at the remaining few with a speed that didn't belong to a twelve-year-old girl. Hacking away at them, the corpses slowly fell to the ground, I was covered in blood, the white shirt and blue shorts were stained and my face wasn't any better. Two left where did they go, I turned around to see one running in Lauren's direction, I 'lost my shit'. I sprint at the wolf catching it right when it reaches in front of her, cleaving the wolf in half. I was behind the wolf but when I passed through in front of the wolf his guts and innards spilled on me. The smell was atrocious, and it was hot, ew-.

In my stupor I forgot to notice an important factor, I've killed only five of the six wolves. The final wolf came up behind me biting my forearm. trying to hank me to the ground, I dropped my sword that was being held in the arm that was bitten. I took my delicate looking fingers grabbing the thought of the wolf, a resounding crack could be heard, then the wolf fell limp onto the hard soil.

Lauren looked at me with fright, The blood that covered my body so I tried to wipe some of it off. Lauren process's the scene of what just happened in front of her, she gets up and hugs me without caring for the blood that got all over her. We walked back to the hideout I had set up, we stripped and cleaned our bodies, the wound on me is gruesome, you could see to the bone. I had bandages and extra clothes, we got changed after we dressed my wounds. I don't know if you could call it taking care of it. We cleaned the wound with water and put a bandage to cover it up.

I bolted the lock on the door, I doubt Lauren would want to go out again after we experienced. With my one free arm I lit a fire in the stove, the smoke went out pipes that lead out of the cave. Setting up my personal home took some effort, but I'm proud of myself. Lauren tried to do these things, but I know better than that; she's terrible at cooking or anything house related.

We ate some soup I had stored in the cabinets I carved out of wood. The food wasn't great, however, it was filling. I needed to devise an explanation for when I had to show my parents my arm. We laid on the bed and looked at each other.

Lauren spoke, " Sera where did you learn those moves, and everything else," I thought about telling her about my past but thought better of it, for now. I heaved a sigh and said," I'll tell you in the future. I don't even know how I have so much strength and speed," Lauren gave me a stare then pulled me close into a hug making sure she didn't touch my arm," Okay."

We fell asleep later after talking about the events of the day. When we woke up the next day I felt worn out but otherwise fine. Lauren took off my bandages and when she got them all off, she breathed in deeply. My arm was healed, you could still see small scars where the bite was initiated. Lauren said," Your a monster," I looked was just as surprised, I expect to see a disgusting scene.

We walked along the path back home, continuing on the way I designed, The second half was easier, the hill went downhill. We went quickly, I made Lauren wear a pair of my shorts I had lying around and we did a light jog. We had to stop and walk many times and had to walk because Lauren got wore out. We heard the river gushing, I said, " You know what's coming," Lauren looked pitiful.

When we got to the log bridge I carried her across like last time, but this time it didn't feel like she was trying to kill me with her grip. We got back home where mom was waiting with little Raelith, we had a nice lunch. Lauren left to go back home when her parents came to pick her up.

What's wrong with me, these pains and my abnormalities. I wonder if I'll ever know.