Slowly Dexter gain consciousness he opens his eyes but was dazzled by the strong light of the sun coming from the window. He looks on the other direction and try to figure out where he is. He sees the wall made from light materials, the floor made from bamboo and the door leading to the kitchen. He figured it out, he is inside a small hut. But he wonders who brought him there? On the other hand, he is very thankful, someone helped him. Someone takes good care of him in the worst part of his life.
He tried to move, to stand up, but he is still very weak, he again falls back where he lies before. He can only move his hands and his head to look around. He can hear from outside, the singing of birds from the trees nearby. He remembers, he is in the forest. Good there is a hut in the forest, meaning someone is living here, the one who helped him. But it is located in the middle of the forest, in very remote place. Who is that guy who decided to live here?
A foot steps comes from outside the house, after a while, it come upstairs toward Dexter. He try to see, who he or she was. He moves his head and focus his eyes toward the direction of the steps. To his surprise, she was a young lady, with long hair, dark eyes, heart shape face, slim body, white brown complexion, wearing white blouse and dark skirt. She is beautiful and cheerful, proven by her communicable smile on her red lips. She comes close to Dexter.
“Are you feeling well today?” she asked him.
“I am quite ok but still weak and still cannot stand up” he answered
Dexter wonder, why and how in heaven’s name there is a beautiful lady here in the forest?
“Are you the one who carry me here inside the hut”
“Yes, I found you lying on the ground helplessly”
“Thank very much for your help, if not by you I am dead by now”
“You are too young to die, I feel obliged helping you when I see you yesterday”
“Are you alone, on this hut? It would be very dangerous for you”
“I can take care of myself, and I am strong more than you can see” then she smiles to Dexter.
Dexter presumed the lady is just kidding, how can she be strong more than a man? Possibly her family is just around busy doing business along the forest. No woman at her age can live alone in this place, he is very sure of that.
“May I know the name of my Savior, whom I owe my life”
Like any man Dexter become poetic in front of a beautiful lady like her. She is pretty charming and worthy of admiration to any man. He is not yet feeling well, but he is man in the presence of a woman who can arouse physical sexual attraction.
“I am Shayne, and I live in this place my whole life”
“Have you not wished to move somewhere else, away from here”
“No, I am this place, we are but one and the same”
Dexter speaks poetically but the woman in front of him, speaks idiomatically. She is not just ordinary woman; she is a woman with wisdom ang great understanding of things around. Shayne helped Dexter sit down leaning his back at bamboo post on the wall of the hut. Then she hands over a cup to Dexter containing something.
“You better, take this, so you can regain your strength in no time”
Dexter sees, it is a juice of something he does not know, a forest medicine. He is not in position to refuse with the kind hearted care of his host, he drinks it straight, even it does not taste good at all.
After taking the medicine, the lady gives some food and water to Dexter. Hungry for not eating almost two days, he ate all the food. Shayne leaves him afterwards, the cool breeze coming from the window make him sleepy and forget everything. He is tired and sick and his body actually needs a lot of rest.
“We left him behind because it is getting dark” Jake told the mother of Dexter. “Why you did wait for him a little longer?” “If you are on his position, I am sure he will wait for you” she continues. ‘” We wait for him, we only leave the place, when it is getting dark” “We are still here at the foot of the mountain” Jake added.Jake is the leader of group of hunters, where Dexter belongs. He talks to the mother of Dexter in the cellphone. He reported everything to her. She
Dexter is still weak and cannot walk, but he can see and hear the men, who passed by near the hut, where he is lying. He wonders why they cannot see the hut or hear his shout. He can hear them talking to each other. They were very near to him. He can even recognize the face of some of his friends. He knows they are looking for him. He is very happy in that thought. But it seems they are all deaf and blind. “Hello, I am here” he keeps repeating it while they passed by.He sees some of them even look at the direction of the hut, but why they did not come for him?He hears them, talking they are looking for him, but why did have not seen him?Why they did not hear him shouting for them? If only his rifle is near him, he will make a shot to call their attention. However, he did not know, where are his things. Possibly Shane put them all in a safe place.
Back home, the family of Dexter found themselves the need to move. Three months have passed, no news, no clues, no explanation why he was lost without trace. “Let us offer a mass for the soul of Dexter” the mother of Dexter said. “That is good, this the third moths he was lost” his father replied “Make a call to Annie, she has the right to know our plan” the brother of Dexter batt in.Annie is the girlfriend of Dexter, they have been engaged for more than two years. They are planning to get marriage, in the month of June, that exactly three months to come, after Dexter was declared lost in the forest. Their longing was beyond words can describe, most e
Dexter was very sad, he expected that his companion will going to rescue him, that day, but all of them failed to see him. It is already dark, he can move a little but he still weak, he cannot come down to the hut. It is good thing, his host, is giving him everything he needed. He cannot complain with the food offered to him, it is a good one, and sure in short time he can regain his full strength. Most of the time, they are wild fruits taken from the forest, like banana, jack fruits and the like. He wonders who gathered them all for him, it must be done by a man, and in that whole day, he can observe and see Shayne is alone.After dinner, Dexter wonders where Shayne will be going to take rest. The hut is small, and there is only one bamboo bed, how the two of them occupy it? He is planning to sleep in the floor and offer the bed to Shayne.“You may sleep on the bed, I will lay down on the floor, I will behave well”“No, you take the bed,
Dexter has gain strength, and he walk around the place trying to familiar himself with it. Shayne is still busy with the deer, the two seems inseparable to each other, while the birds are still around them. If he has not talk to Shayne and seen her before, he will immediately presume that the woman is a fairy tending the animals in the forest. But he is now starting asking himself, that question, is she a fairy or or just an ordinary woman who has tame the wild animals around, because she just here on this place every day seeing, interacting and communicating with the them. She is actually one of them. One thing he is sure, Shayne is beautiful, very beautiful and kind. She did not doubt helping him, someone she does not know, suppose, he is an evil man, she will put herself in a terrible danger and she will be terribly sorry for helping him later. Shayne is a woman who have a heart for the needy. He adores her for that, more than her beauty, he has seen and meet severa
Dexter reach the hut, he sit down in the chair near the window. He hopes those people who are looking for him, may pass again near the hut, as what have happened in the past day. He can now shout louder than before to them and he can even walk towards them, even he is not totally recovered his strength After an hour of more Shayne, come back, she is so fresh and her hair lay down at her back, wet. She is wearing light green blouse and dark blue skirt. It makes her a fine woman. It makes her an adorably attractive woman with pure feminine looks. It makes her very attractive to the eyes of any man
The dark veil of darkness slowly covering the forest, together the cool breeze of the wind blowing from the east. In the upper part of the mountain the mist is visible and becoming like cloud bands hanging above the trees up to the peak of the mountain. The place never stops introducing itself as untamed and unconquerable by men, where the unseen hands of nature works and reign forever. Different birds call from all direction fills the air, as they preparing themselves to rest in the branches of trees where they live. Some other noise of some other animals can be heard, making themselves present in the quire of echo reverberating in the slopes of the mountain from one side to the other. This becomes an everyday ritual in the forest after sunset before the night fully conquer the forest. Dex
It is a beautiful day, the sun is rising brightly in the east, the birds and animals in forest started their morning chorus giving off, different sounds reverberating in the mountain slopes through out the forest. Birds of different size and colors flies over the canopy of the trees, coming and going to different directions. The pulse of life is heard, seen, and felt all around. Dexter feels so lazy in rising up, although he is already awake early in that morning. He was troubled by so many thoughts coming up to his mind one after the other, totally uncontrollable, triggered, by what he had seen last night. Is he going to pursue his love to Shayne, beyond their differences, or the right thing to do, is to leave this place, and forget everything about Shayne? Dexter don’t know what to do, but he wants to see Shayne, he cannot explain, the happiness, the enjoyment he has in the pres