Fan Fiction ❯ Living at Night ❯ They'll see me! ( Chapter 2 )

I read one of the old books that had sat forever on the dusty bookshelf as my grandmother cooked dinner. The smell reminded me that it was getting time for her to come. The sun had set...yes, she should be here any moment now.

I heard knocks at the door, that was her. Setting the book down, I let her into the house. She sat down across from me in the small living room and smiled. She looked funny with her pretty features and long straight hair, wearing one of my grandmother's handmade dresses. It was an older one, had been kept in a box with the old quilts. Blue patchwork and black buttons. It wasn't too long, just a little loose.

"I thought of a name," she said. "I've been thinking of it the whole time. No one else knows that this is my name now, so you'll be the first to hear it."

I looked at her, getting as into it as she was. "Go ahead, I'm anxious to know now."

"Snow," she whispered.

"Snow? Is that what you picked?" I was kind of surprised, but as I looked at her and thought about it, it did fit. "It's perfect," I told her.

"Really? You like it?" she asked, making sure the name was okay.

"Yes, perfect. I don't think that anything else would do," I said.

She answered with a happy and innocent smile. She looked to be around my age, but when she smiled like that, it was hard to tell.

After dinner, and after my grandparents went to bed, we stayed up and took a walk outside. It wasn't as cold as usual, it wasn't even snowing, but we still needed coats. She wore the usual brown one, and put on my Grandmother's warmest leather boots.

Outside, the clouds were gone, and every star watched us as we walked slowly down the road and talked. It seemed like only an hour or two, as we talked about the stars and she showed me constellations, but it had been much longer. The sun was starting to show and the moon had been chased away.

"Oh no," she gasped, taking off the coat. Then she sat down and started to unlace the boots.

"What are you doing?" I asked, completely confused.

"I can't stay, they'll see me!" she looked at me as if I should know what she spoke of. Of course, I had no idea.

"Who will see you? No, you're unlacing them wrong, here," I put the coat down and she waited as I unlaced the boots for her. As soon as they were off and in my hands, she smiled sadly at me and said goodbye.

She ran then, off the road and through the trees. I yelled to her, but she was gone.

I went back to our small country house, and as soon as I was inside I collapsed onto the couch. I immediately fell asleep. Luckily it was a dreamless sleep, since I'd be thinking about her all day, I needed the rest.