An adventure would be nice, I thought to myself. It's been years since I ever laid eyes on my girlfriend. How I wonder what is she truly like! Every time I think of her I get this tingling feeling throughout my entire body. I honestly do not know how deeply in love I am.

I get weak thinking about her, even in marriage! Laughing to myself! Marriage, that would be a heart warming moment, I thought out loud. Oh well! I'll be on my way.

My first stop was to see my cousins, for some reason I like how crazy they are. We always seems to play with some dangerous things or some dangerous games.. If I can remember clearly, when we were younger each cut we got from playing, we would get some beating from our grandma. Though we always started laughing after we are finished crying.. We were definitely strange...

Will what's up! Will is my second oldest cousin, he's sweet, humble and well, well will loves to eat, but strangely he never gets fat.. You would think someone who eat so much meals one time would look like a pig, but he never was and still he didn't look any different.
What's up cousin, he asked. Oh nothing much, I'm just thinking I would go on an adventure in the woods, likely by myself. I don't have a reason why I want to go by myself, but I just do.

Before will could replied I heard my name being called. More like scream. CHINO!!!!!.... Oh brother! Here comes my overly joy big brother Glendon... Chino is one of many nicknames I have. One of my aunt call me chino, they said I look like a Chine Man. Hey bro, what's up, I asked him.. Oh nothing,do you want to go to the beach with me, he asked.

You see Glendon always like to bring me with him to different places, and he always put his clothes on me to not let anyone look at me in any form of way, especially boys.. Funny right! My brother was always overly protected of me, but for good reasons. I do not like to attend the beach with him when it involves me going in the water. When I was younger he had brought me to the beach , he put me on his back as he walked into the water, it was really deep and I could not swim. Not that I can swim now either.. But what he did had me in tears to almost having a heart attack. He left me out in the deep, hanging on to a tree branch, while he swim his way back and kept shouting for me to jump off or else he's going to leave me out there. I remember crying so hard that I feel as if I'll die if I touch that water. I did not know if he meant what he had said when he said that he'll leave me if I didn't swim my way back. I saw him gathering his clothes and I began to panic more. I jumped off afraid to be drown, afraid for him to leave me there, which was worst though!!! But when he saw me jumping off, he dive back in the water to get me, he laughed at me as he hold me. Despite his craziness in teaching me things, I love my brother with all my heart.

No I told him. I'm going on an adventure in the forest. He smiled. We talked and laughed for sometime, before I went on my merry little way.

The forest seems creepy, but had a calmness to it, little areas in which the sun peeks through. Sighing, for some reasons I'm feeling a love depression, if there's such wording. I keep thinking about her, my girlfriend. What would it be like to see her, how would I react! I mean, I never met her in person before, we had met over some social app and she left here before I even get the chance to meet her. We had been talking ever since. Got engage over the phone, had a lot of ups and down over messages, but strangely I love her a lot. I had been in love before , and I never thought there would ever be a time where my feelings would over power any and everything for someone like this, especially someone I had never met before.

Deep within my thoughts, I had mange to come across a part in the forest that has a wide opening where the sun makes everything looks sparkle. I admire it I was captivated by such beauty. Suddenly a man seems to appear beside me. Taking a good look at him, I notice he's my cousin father. Where did he come from, I thought to myself but just brush it off. We talked and laughed, until we came across a path with rocks. I did not want to follow towards it, but my cousin dad did and I just follow him.

Going closer to it we had just climb over a few rocks. Surprise by what I was seeing behind these rocks. It was a lighter path of the forest, less trees, and everything was bright. I saw two girls, for some odd reasons I feel close to them. My cousin dad seems to disappear, I must be out of my mind. The two girls seems like they liked each other but when I got close enough one walked off, she was brown, short, all her hair was cut off and her skin seems like she's sick.

When the other girl had turn around I recognise her. She was someone I know. Suddenly I broke down. I started crying, telling her that I don't know if I'll ever get to meet my girlfriend.. She looked at me, but she's here, she said. I took awhile to understand, but I was still a little confuse. She's right here, she was the one in front of me, she said. I felt someone hands on my shoulder from behind, as I turn around it was the same girl I saw that walked away. I was beyond shocked. She was not who I expected her to be. I mean over the phone she seems way different with hair and taller , but here she was everything feels so real. I hugged her tight, like I was afraid she would disappear. Telling her how much I love her. I didn't want to let go, but she removed herself from my embrace and walked away, while I stand smiling at her.

Jumping from my sleep, I thought how real that feels. But I was in my bed, laying down, with the feeling of someone presence beside me.. Sighing it was only a dream, Strangely with some of my childhood memories.
© Tenisha Sterling