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" see, i am only doing this for my dad. if not,I wouldn't have been stuck here with you in this God forsaken forest, urggg! It stinks all over"


" Just admit it Jason, you are only doing this for the money. Have always known you to be so selfish, that's why, you can never be my friend"


"As if I cared to be"


"You are mean"

" And you are crazy for thinking I would want to share in your boring world"

" hahaha! You are funny Jason, everyone knows too well that you would marry money, eat money, bath with money and even breathe money, in fact you have no world, no friends.

Come on, who is living in a boring world here?.Without friends; life is so lonely, your Mondays becomes mourning days, Tuesdays as torn days, Wednesdays; worried days, Thursdays as thinking days, Fridays as frustrated days and even Saturday, Sundays won't be happy days for you"

" I don't need friends, stop giving me reasons to have one. I have to make my dreams come true without distractions"


"It is alright, I don't want to pick up a fight with you right now, my mom needs me more than ever. This is so frustrating, I wonder why that old woman can't stay at home,relax,eat,rest and maybe do something else that doesn't require her going out to the forest,but she is different, she loves sight seeing, the birds of the forest, tall trees and everything about the forest. Mom, this is just too much, I can't for the second time, go through this stress; searching for you"


" Just shut up,so we don't end up spending the night here.You talk too much"

" that is because you hear nothing,see nothing and understand nothing. Your Dad had to practically force you to go with me by calling off your business proposal to GSR till we find my mom and return with her to the estate. You family owns this forest and you know ever nook and cranny of it because you normally came here for birds hunt with your older brother and am sure you know the exact place my mum is at the moment, from the discription she gave on the phone. If not, your Dad wouldn't have asked you to bring me here but, as always, you were reluctant till he " pulled the bull by his horns"; "money" your greatest weakness. If you do understand things you would have brought me here willingly"


" Bravo! You do know much more about me than I thought,but still, you know nothing about me,so just keep your words to yourself, let us find your mum and get out of this forest"


" just as I thought of you "heartless", you know I never asked for your help, I can find mum myself"


" No! No!! Not so fast, you can't survive in this forest without me, you are aware, I know everywhere in this forest and just so you would know: there are goblins in the forest too"


"Goblins! That is not true, are you trying to scare with that crappy belief that Goblins do exist? Am not a kid ok,and this is not funny at all"


"You know, I am selfish and won't bother what happens to you next, I will just sit down here on the branch of the falling tree and wait for you, that is if you would be alive to return"


" You are not joking right? "

"Of course am not a joke.... Mariam watch your back.... "


"Aaaaaaaaa... zombies,Goblins,bush dogs no!!!!!!"


"Hahaha..I thought you are not scared of Goblins? But that is just the evidence to prove the hidden fears, you kept covering up. You claim to be this strong lady, self confident and independent but, it is a pity, you are not, you are just scared of everything"


"That is what you think,but the truth is that,I have learnt to Live " just the way I am" never ever going to forsake God. I will always do what makes me happy and never going to be found where i am not needed, "Life" has taught me alot from the orphanage till this very moment with you.

"My world" had always the most painful stories in it,biological parents died in car accident,she was thrown into the waste bin by her uncle, so she could die, rescued by a police man and sent to the orphanage home, then after three years, was adopted by the same police man, who became her foster father and the wife her " foster mother". Dad left us years ago, his demise, I can never forget. Mum is all I have left, please just this once, help me find my mum, I can't also lose her"


" Humm! You should have told me this a long time ago. Am not really what you think I am; wicked, selfish and all that, I can also be a good friend. Have been so arrogant to you because, I thought you are the "scavenger" type person but, you have always proved to be different, yet my ego wouldn't let me. Have always wanted to be your friend since then, and now I truly want to say "I am sorry Mariam", for all my actions in the past against you, am truly sorry. I just hope someday, you will say yes! to be my friend"


" Wow! You are about to make me cry, can't you are said that for real. Am also sorry and hope I will be a good and perfect friend to you"


"So should we call it the beggining of our friendship"

"Oh! Yes"

"Hurray! Come give me a huge, friend"

"Yes! Chubby face,now our mondays will become meaningful, Tuesdays; trustful, Wednesdays; wonderful, Thursdays; tactful, Fridays; funny, Saturdays; successful and Sundays; special"

" It is amazing how we are becoming best friends. Can you remember,all our fights in the pasts, even at the moment we arrived here,Everyone knows we never get along"

" Yeah! Our families are going to be surprised"


"Am so happy right now....Hey, we are going to celebrate this later at the estate, it is getting darker, let us go find your mom, I think I know where she is".





May 06, 2020 21:27

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Micah Lewter
01:31 May 15, 2020

I like the story frame. All dialogue is a different way of telling the story. There are a few missed words, so you might want to make sure to give it a read through, but the I like the creativity.

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Gift Victoria
12:08 May 16, 2020

Thank you 🤗

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