Hello, my lovelies! I greatly apoligize for being slow with the updates, and shit, but what with school, PewDiePie, WoW, and family issues, I just haven't found the time to organize my thoughts. It also really doesn't help when you suddenly lose the inspiration you had for the stories you were writing. No lie. I had it all planned out in my head, and then- BOOM! Lost it. It got replaced by new ideas, and other things like that. So, those who are following Awesome Times and/or Lovino Romano Vargas, I'm sorry! I won't be updating those for a while, at least until I can work my way out of this funk. Until then, though, here is my new story!

"Mama? What's going on?" My nine-year-old self asks her. I was scared. Mommy was crying. Why was she crying? She picked me up, quietly shushing me, as she set me in our wardrobe.

"We're going to play hide-and seek, okay? Only this time it'll be different," Mommy pulled out a sheathed dagger, her prized one, and handed it to me. "I want you to take this. Stay in here until I come to get you. If anyone else but me opens this wardrobe, I want you to use this dagger, and drive it into their heart, and I want you to run. Run as far away as possible, into the woods. Remember everything I taught you. If I don't come back, I still want you to run."

"But Mama, why?" I ask her. " are there bad men after us?"

She nods, and grabs a satchel from a nearby chair. She throws it in to me.

"This will help you. I've gotten everything you'll need to survive on your own for a while, as well as some money, for when you absolutely need it."

Mama then pulls me into a tight hug, and kisses my forehead.

"Stay quiet, be strong, and remember that I'll always love y-"

A series of loud knocks interruped her. Her eyes widened in fear. She put a finger to her lips before shutting the wardrobe on me.

Everything that occured between my mother closing the wardrobe on me to when I found myself deep in the woods was blacked out.

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6 years later

I sighed, mentally preparing myself. I always do this when I was about to go into town. I hated going into town, or any crowded places for that matter, but I needed fabrics for new clothes, candles, and I needed to sell some of my hand-made trinkets.

After I had finished preparing myself, I flipped the hood over my head, and took the path leading directly to town, my bag clinkin with coins and aforementioned trinkets. I walked slowly, trying to savor the woods before I had to leave to the civilization nearest me. At least I get to return.

I entered town through an alley connected to the merchant-filled streets. I immediately made my way to the cloths, and purchased a few earthly tones. I thanked the merchant, and hurried over to the next street, where I sell my trinkets and buy my candles. I find an empty area, and immediately take off my robe and set it on the ground. Once I positioned it correctly, I opened my bag, and took the trinkets from it, arranging them carefully on my robe. Within minutes, all of my trinkets had been sold, mainly to other merchants, and I packed everything up, setting my robe back on and flipping the hood back up. I quickly bought y candles, and left town.

Due to my acute hearing, I could tell someone had begun to follow me. I sped up a bit, half-hoping the person would get that he/she had been found out, and leave. The person just matched my pace. I stopped, and without turning around, grabbed my knife from it's hilt and threw it behind it. After I heard the thud of it hitting it's mark, I turned to face my stalker, who I had efficiently pinned to a near-by tree by his, I could tell now, sleeve.

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