What She Saw

    By: John Doe

The forest was dark and quiet, the only noise was the light footsteps of a big buck walking through the woods. They didn’t see the deer at first but they heard the leaves crunching under its hooves. When it came into view they could see it was a ten pointer.

  “Look, it’s a big one.” Emma whispered.

“It’s a ten pointer, get ready to shoot it,” whispered Bob.

Emma aimed right behind the shoulder and was interrupted by another noise so she turned around and saw… she couldn’t see anything, It was dark. She woke up to the voice of her father saying,

“Emma, wake up!”

“What happened?” Emma asked.

“You fell off the tree,” said Andrew, her boyfriend.

They walked back home and Emma sat down on the chair. Bob was about to walk out the door but before he did Emma said,

“What was the noise I heard before I fell?”

“What noise?” Said Andrew.

“The sound of someone walking behind us.” 

“There was no noise Emma.” Bob said

Then Bob walked out the door and went hunting again. Emma and Andrew stayed behind and Emma went to bed. She had a terrible dream where she was hunting again and heard that noise again. She turned around and saw… Then she felt herself falling again. She woke up the next morning and couldn’t remember what she had dreamed about. She walked upstairs and her dad was up there.

“How do you feel this morning?” He asked.

“Fine.” She said.

“Do you want to go hunting again today?” Said Bob.

“No, I don’t think I will at all this year.”

“Alright.”

Bob left to go hunting and Emma sat there trying to remember what her dream was, but she couldn’t. Andrew came over and asked her how she was and then made her some breakfast. She started to eat and then she remembered something about her dream. She remembered turning around and seeing something but she couldn’t remember what it was. Then she remembered falling and hitting the ground. 

“Did you hear that noise yesterday?” Emma asked.

“No. What do you think you heard?” Andrew said.

“I don’t know but I definitely heard something.”

“What did it sound like?”

“It kind of sounded like someone or something walking behind us.”

“Are you sure you weren’t just hearing things?”

“Yes, I’m sure.”

That was that so they continued eating quietly. Emma kept thinking about her dream and kept trying to remember what she saw when she turned around. She just couldn’t remember. All she could remember was falling off of the tree. Her dad came back in and she said,

“When can I go hunting again?” 

“I don’t know, probably tomorrow,” said Bob.

“Ok.” said Emma.

She spent that whole day trying to remember what she saw right before she fell out of the tree. She couldn’t remember what she saw. That night as she started to drift off to sleep. She felt like she was falling and she was. She was back in the dream so she turned around to see what was over there and she saw… She woke up and couldn’t remember again. She got dressed and ready to go hunting again. She walked upstairs and her and her dad Bob walked out the door and got to the tree stand and stopped. 

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Bob asked.

“Yup.”

They climbed up the ladder and sat in the tree stand. Emma kept looking behind them to see if anything was there. She didn’t see anything or hear anything  until they were about to leave. She heard the crunching of leaves like someone was walking towards them. She ran back there to see what it was but there was nothing there. 

“Emma, what are you doing?” her father asked.

“I heard it again! That crunching noise!” she said.

“What  noise Emma, there was  no noise.” Bob said.

“Yes there was, it was like someone was walking towards us and before you say anything there was a noise I heard it the other day and again today.” 

“I think it’s time to go home,” said Bob.

So they went home and Emma went straight to her room, she knew she heard something and she needed to know what it was. So when everyone was sleeping she snuck out and went to find out what it was. She walked down to the tree stand and went to look around behind the tree stand and she saw something hiding in the grass. It was a baby deer with a cute button nose and white on the tip of its ear. She couldn’t help but smile, she had been worried so much about such a little thing. A little and cute thing. She walked back home and woke up the next morning happy and she remembered what she had seen last night.