Chapter 2
With the knife in my hand, a safety precaution I always have pepper sprays now I have better and bigger one, I took it from the kitchen knife set. It looked little stupid to me coz I’m not gonna kill anybody and pepper spray is the best, from a distance we can spray it to the enemy’s eyes.
Moving towards the back door, I stretched my hand to the door knob slowly in one hand in the other I positioned my weapon in the direction of the enemy could possibly attack. With all guts I opened it and swayed my hand forward like stabbing a person, as I expected nobody is there.
The back yard is full of dried leaves and twigs from the pine tree and maple leaves all over the ground. I heard Chloe barking so went around the house entered the living room and unchained her. I again went to the back to double-check the place. I locked the front door before leaving the living room to the back yard with her. Behind the yard it’s woods, that area is prohibited to go all people. (3)
[3] Don’t worry it’s not any kind of a movie to be scared of its just a woods, they restrict it to avoid kids get lost inside the vast wood land and they get bite by some kind a poisonous insects or lizards. It’s a usual common reason. No big deal.
There’s nothing I found so far; I was suspicious since I entered home (no one is home, strange noises, strange shadows appeared over the window glass, sudden shutting of a back door but no one is there).
All of a sudden a guy of my age or maybe elder to me showed up from the fences around my back yard. I almost freaked out.
He looked me in surprise. “Hi! Are you new here?”
“Sort of“. I smiled back, “I am Ervine Miller”.
“Pleased to meet you miller I’m……., He interrupted me “just Ervine is fine”.
“Okay”, “I’m Jessica Turner” and greeted him with a hand shake.
“So you are that Twittie girl of Jane”. I felt embarrassed. I nodded my head. He knew me already but I’m not that aware about my parent’s neighborhood.
Good looking beard and slight mustache both were trimmed regularly it seems as per his name he is handsome. He has warm skin tone, a turquoise eyes sparkling in the shiny sun rays, chestnut colored hair. He looked genuinely a nice guy. (4). He was wearing a white round necked t-shirt Denim, American flag painted in it which is circled by tiny stars, with a faded jean, cool snickers with one hand tucked inside his pocket.
[4] Good to all, no tricking anyone, enjoy helping others and stays in good books of others.
He invited me for the party that has been arranged. It’s a house party.
I felt like joining him but something blocked me at that moment I couldn’t decide so I nodded my head like a YES, but I should think over it.
He petted Chloe lightly by rubbing and scratching her head smoothly, she too waved her tail and the back here and there with a tail in a horizontal position when we are conversing. So I guess he is a friend from a neighborhood and we as a family know him and his parents (known person and looked harmless). I know him by myself, when we were kids but there’s been a break or a gap. I went Canada to do my studies and for my career meanwhile everything changed. His face gets mature and totally handsome.
He waved his hands towards me. “Be there by 10:00 P.M” and left.
It’s almost evening it started chilling though the sun is still lurking from the horizon. “Chloe get in” She was crouching for the squirrel on the ground. As I called her she turned her head and ran towards me and entered into the back door of the kitchen.
I served her some dog food in her bowl and I went to the refrigerator opened it, scanned all over the door and I found something interesting to eat I made some salsa and got some dry bread at the store room. I treated myself good.
Suddenly, I remembered about my phone call. So I went upstairs to my room and saw my undone bed, I found it. I forgot what happened in the morning, I sat in the working table pulled the chair closed to the table opened my Toshiba (grey shaded sleek laptop) to check mails and messages. None I received just bunch of bullshit ads and sales offer mails.
I cleared all the unwanted mails opened some picture folder from my drives and started looking them. I went back to my high school fun filled memories. I’m missing my friends and the fun we had.
It’s too cold out and it entered into my room and filled through the open window. The window remained open but I feared to go near the window to shut it, I can’t leave it open all night.
I slowly kept myself together and picked all my luggage and gadgets from there and left the room rushing through the door, locked it and dragged a heavy table from the side of my room and set it straight to the door.
I settled down in a canopy chair (modern canopy chair hood above our head little cozy to relax) near by the heater, the cold started filling everywhere I turned on the heater. I kept my luggage in the living room and planned to stay in the couch.
The couch is going to be my bed tonight; I sniffed like I got a running nose its bcoz of the cold. It stuck my finger I stretched my palms near the heater some inches away from it.
Chloe too sat near my foot on the floor, she sniffed my hand her snout was cold; she rubbed it in the rug and sat quietly, raising her brows looked at me sitting on the floor. Its evening 8:00 P.M. I remembered the party which he (Ervine) asked me to join.
I don’t know what kind of party (5) it is so I didn’t stressed myself much in choosing what to wear. But I need to go presentable. I can’t wear too formal or too casual; I don’t know who are all invited i.e. elders or our age people. But I finalized with a conclusion as it must be our age party.
[5] Usually people throw different kind of parties like costumes party, Halloween party, farewell party, birthday parties, bachelor’s party etc.
I went to my luggage opened my travel suitcase trolley type purple colored with the airport tags on them. I scanned all the dresses, I drew them out of the bag and it was strewed, Chloe watching all this stuffs. ”I don’t know what to wear for the party, Chloe” as she heard her name, she raised her head a little and gave a look, at once she backed to her position.
At last I decided to wear a pepe jean ankle length but not ripped, with reddish -pink top black buttons down collared.
I went to the bathroom in my mom’s room kept the door open I took a quick bath. Wearing the throb, I dried my hair with the hair dryer, combing it will help to set; I roughly combed and left it loosely. I went to the living room where my outfits are, I sat a while in the couch relaxing myself.
Then I’m all dressed up, hair is done it’s up to shoulder golden beige blonde, combing it once again and curled them at the bottom a little and left some scattered fringes on the fore head it touched my eye brows, sprinkled some perfume on the sides of my neck and to my wrist, wore a pair star shaped grey Bakelite stud, glossed my lips a little, went on snickers. Everything’s done, neat and clean.
I was almost ready, except one thing I can’t go empty handed so grabbed some beer case from the refrigerator and was ready to leave. When I reached the door step Chloe came along. “Sweety! Stay home until I return” petted her scratched a little near her ears and left the home.
When I was at my house door step I heard people’s noise of oohing and aahing. I reached his house door step, ringed his door bell and waited.