Chapter Three

I was forced to wake up because my stomach growing like a mad lion, lazily I went to my bathroom and did all my morning routines, went to the kitchen and make my favorite black coffee and some muffins, went out to see my garden, the beautiful morning the sun is shining slowly, the birds happily singing, the wind blew cold morning air. I smiled. This is the life I want: simple yet beautiful with the trees and peacefulness. I decided to water the seeds I planted yesterday. Watering them carefully and not drowning them is my mission today! 

After all the chores in the front yard, I went to the kitchen to drink a glass of water, glancing at the living where the book, photo albums, and other things are arranged. Suddenly I remembered the piece of paper with clues written in it. I hurriedly went to the living room to find the piece of paper after several times finding it. Finally, I saw it. The first clue is Book #1- birthday, I glance the all the eight books with a book #1 written on it, the piles of books giving me a sign it wouldn’t be easy finding the hidden word in the clues given, from the word birthday I need to find out who’s birthday I’m using, mine or my fathers birthday? After debating a lot with myself I will use both birthdays, 17th of June and 25th of March. 

The first book page 6, I found a underlined words, “Even Gardening” and in the page 17 I found the underlined word “Your mother used”, the second book contains “and calmly ” and “Simple wedding”, the third book contains “Your Mom and I ” and “used to live here”, the fourth book contains “ loved” and “content living here”, the fifth book contains “ we held our” and “Baking and”, the sixth book contains “we lived here” and “living peacefully”, the seventh book contains “to”and “After”, the eight book contains 

“ were happy and” and “ cooking”. The words are simple and brief so I can build a sentence from it. I trust my instinct when constructing the sentences.

“ Your mom and I used to live here. We lived here after we held our simple wedding. We were happy and content living here, living peacefully and calmly. Your mother used to loved coking, baking, and even gardening,” the result of the of the clues that I have collected made me cry, even a bit of information involving mom made my heart flutter, even it's a glimpse of information, I know what my mom loves to do when she’s alive, my eagerness to find other clues about my mother, I hurriedly get back to and searched the words that underlined with my fathers birthday.

I started with the book I where I found the first word the page 3 contains “ we lived “ and page 25 contains “heart”, the second book contains “calm and ” and “ beautiful soul”, the third book contains “ she has a sweet and bright smile” and “inside the”, the fourth book contains “looks like you” and “our days as”, the fifth book contains “ your mom” and “ we lived ”, the sixth book contains “ happily” and “of the forest’, the seventh book contains “of the forest” and “loving”, the eight book contains ”she has a” and “care-free and happy”. The words are complicated to solve but I trust my instinct.

My tears started to roll down my cheeks when I read the constructed words formed in my paper “ we lived happily inside the heart of the forest, we lived our days being carefree and happy. Your mom looks like you, she has a bright smile, loving calm, and she has a beautiful soul,” my heart beating faster because of the words my father decided to describe my mother, I loved how my father lovingly describe my moms traits, this information's slightly fill the gaps that my mother can only fill. After working hard finding the words my stomach growl for a moment, I only felt hungry after all the happiness I felt, I stood up and went to the kitchen to cook my meal, after I cooked my meal, I sat down began eating, i can’t stop myself in smiling, baby steps I can finally meet my mother based on what father describes my mother, after I read the phrases my father wrote to describe my mother, my heart flutters so much, I can feel the sincere love of my father for my my mother.

A pair of eyes watching aimie as she eats her meal, a smile appeared on his lips.

I can’t erase the fact that my father left hints on how to feel my mothers love. I felt guilty that I blamed my father for letting me live alone in this forest, nothing by my side, nothing to see, no one to talk to, alone and scared. I only see the huge and massive trees covering the forest. I can hear the wind blowing because of the quietness of this forest. The birds singing in the morning helps me recover from being lonely in this forest.

Little by little I overcame my fear of being alone with the help of cooking, baking, and gardening. The birds wake me up every morning with a beautiful song, the sun reflecting in my window is the best way to wake up. After trying and failing to cook and bake I know now how to cook and bake. Everything is going in place but there’s someone who is not part of my plan. I can’t help but think that everything is not a coincidence that he actually has a part in my life or he knows my parents. A lot of things and theories enter my brain, the ideas exploding and bursting in my mind. Why does Mr. Miller always pop up like a mushroom? Can’t help to think that he’s spying over me, fear crept in my whole system the ideas entering my mind is scary, scary that I run to the tools and grab what I need to secure all the looks of my door and windows and I even put triple locks to be secured of intruders wanting to harm me. The best thing to do is be prepared I also put hammer in a small compartment of my sofa so that I can use it whenever there’s an emergency or someone wants to broke in my house, I must be prepared I scattered all the things I can use escaping or for self defense, we won’t know when there’s danger around us its better to be prepared than sorry.

I felt tired thinking about everything and doing all the mystery stuff. I felt like my body wanted to rest and sleep. I just arrange the books that I used and separate it from the others, it might mix with other books that weren't thoroughly inspected. After that I went to the bathroom to do my usual routine and change into comfy pajamas and went to my bed, switched off the lights and dozed off to sleep. 

“You think so much baby, I’m here to protect and love you,” Laughing quietly of what the girl is thinking, while watching her sleeping peacefully.

“You’ll know me when the time is right, I’ll be here watching you from afar. I love you my baby,” smiling like an idiot after muttering the sweet words. 

Someone taps his shoulder, he looks at him disgusted. “Please stop being cheesy, you love sick dogs, she doesn’t know you,” the other said with a smirk on his  face.