Written by Veluan, Fri Jun 5 12:55:25 US/Pacific 1998
Part 2: The secret place
You can't stop friendship, so Mack and Helena continued seeing each other for years. Only not on the lawn where she could see them, they went to their secret place. It was an ordinary place, but to them, the water, the small beach and the trees, it was a mighty secret place. The old woman knew it, but she didn't mind, but sometimes, when Helena saw the little red dots in her mother's eyes, she did mind.
As the years grew by Mack and Helena got older and their friendship closer. They spend wonderful summer evenings at their secret place. The stars were bright and the air was still hot. They lay aside each other, sixteen years old and they looked up to the stars.
"Do you know that the..." Mack turned his head towards Helena, but she was already looking at him and suddenly her face was very close to his.
"...that the..." Mack stomach tightened.
"...the..." Somehow he never really saw Helena as an attractive woman, always as a friend, until now. He completely forgot what he was going to say.
"That...you are very beautiful..." He suddenly said it.
She smiled. She moved her head closer to his, their noses almost touched. She opened her mouth and he opened his too. Suddenly he turned his head to the stars again, eyes wide open. She giggled. Those days were wonderful, no worries, pure innocence.
Then one day, Helena's mother came to her and said, that it was time for her to begin the study.
The Gedde estate
"I don't know what the study is about." said Helena with a tiny voice, she saw that the red dots were beginning to grow.
"You will, you will." said the old woman while she sat down in an old chair. They were both sitting in a small room where Helena was never been before. "Don't be afraid."
Helena's mother tilted her head and whispered "Please God, forgive me."
The candles in the room changed color but quickly returned into their original. The old woman slowly moved her head. Her pupils were bright red.
"Well, what a pretty, young woman." a strange voice said. Helena backed away in her chair.
"Don't be afraid." the voice said. "Your mother told you about the study didn't she?"
Helena nodded.
"Good, well this is the beginning of the study. You will learn more important things here than you will ever learn at school."
"Where's my mother?"
"Shh, hush hush, your mother is all right. First I will tell you a story that will explain everything, it's a story about a woman who was betrayed by a wicked man."
The secret place
Mack sat with Helena at their secret place. Helena had become more quiet lately. When he asked why she always said "Can't tell, it's about the study."
With a small branch she made a weird symbol in the mud.
"What's that?" Mack asked.
"What?" suddenly she saw what she was doing and quickly erased it with her shoe. Mack looked at his shoes. "I don't like that study thing." he said.
"The study is very important to me." Helena suddenly said very annoyed. Tiny red dots appeared for a moment in her eyes, Mack didn't see it.
"All right, don't get angry, you're touchy today." Mack replied started to get angry too.
"You don't understand!" Helena stood up.
"Of course not, you don't tell a thing about it!" Mack yelled. "Fuck you." she said and walked away with a quick pause.
Mack mumbled and kicked a little stone in the water. He sat alone at their secret place for a while. That study thing was really messing Helena up.
From a distance an old man was looking at the two. He had a long cape and it waved slowly in the wind. He had long white hair, it gave a contrast with his black cape. He had red eyebrows. They moved when he frowned. He seriously investigated the events. He nodded and walked away. Neither Mack nor Helena saw him. He was very good in not being seen.
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