For You.
There are then, the days where you are empty. Sometimes I write all the beauty and fluff out of my life, gushing out what is great then I’m left with the void afterwords. I had a one of those days recently, I felt like a failure for reasons most wouldn’t understand.
A friend called later and we decided a walk would be just the ticket. Pouring out the waterfall of thoughts kept pinned back, we walked away from it all. Then we were at the end of the trail and stopped a minute to stretch out all the muscles tightly wound. And it was almost dark. Miles away, I began to get worried. Dallas made me paranoid, I was sure there were creepy rapist people hiding in the bushes, waiting for two stupid girls who didn’t think Fayetteville was a dangerous place. Every crackle, crunch and snapping twig made me jump onto my friend in fright. We giggled nervously.
Closer to the beginning of the trail I noticed a dark shape in the middle of the path, too small to be a creepy rapist person, so I relaxed for a minute being that is wasn’t human, but then animals can be just as unpredictable as humans. Was it a skunk? Raccoon? No, the meowing sound indicated it was a very large cat. I was fine then, but briefly. My friend is scared of cats so she stepped off the trail, the cat was confidently coming toward us. I then noticed a smaller dark shape in front of it. A kitten? I squinted. Then chaos erupted. The smaller shape began running in circles near us, over the trail, back and forth, the cat in full sprint behind. I think I was screaming. Is it a bird? I think it may have gone in a circle around us, but I’m not sure, it was so fast. Then everything stopped. The cat had cornered it’s prey, and it started crying out. My friend looked at me in horror, it’s a baby rabbit! I started to chase the cat now, the bunny was running in circles, I was trying not to step on it, the cat was very nonplussed that I was stomping after it. But I saw it was hopeless. They were running in the thick, dark forest, then back. It was a game to the cat.
We had to give up, I didn’t know if I was laughing or crying or both. The rabbit was screaming again, I felt slightly hysterical and loudly said “I don’t need this right now!!!” towards my friend, but mostly at the sky. We began to sprint away from the horrible sound of nature. I am not a sprinter but we ran fast and hard until I felt I was going to throw up. From more than the running, but I couldn’t hear anything anymore. The fake glow of the street light greeted us as we exhaustedly made our way into the parking lot.