Chapter 3

The summer holidays felt like a eternity. It stretched like a zip wire being puled along a park. Every day James wandered through the shady forest and emerald field’s he knew the like it was his second home. The city had become distant he didn’t miss the crowed city roads that once he called home. Unlike the city, the countryside had green scattered every where there was color every were: scarlet roes, popping primroses and ghost cowslips.

At night, James woke up silently and wandered into the woods (by the tallest hill which stretched for miles) where he would play with Ruby. But sometime they would sit in her cave surrounded by darkness and observe the animals that lived in the forest. They would watch the stars follow the moon every so often Ruby’s ears would jump up.

The one thing that James worried about was someone stumbling across Ruby. In the light hours she would stay in her cave in camouflage areas. She would stay in the darkest depths of river cove sleeping in the thickest places were the shrubs offered safety. In the darker hours she would stumble over to James with a shy face.

It happened though. One night at the end of October James herd a scream covered by a growl. He recognized Ruby’s call he rushed over shoving bushes out of the way until he saw Ruby scared with her readied teeth and getting ready to pounce but then she backed away. He stood shocked when he found ​ Skyler a few feet away, With a pale face “J..J…Ja….”she stammered as she took a step back. Keep still James hissed catching a glare of Ruby. As he advanced he stuck his hand out to Ruby to calm her down. Skyler followed James to Ruby.

The secret had been kept for so long now it is out. Mrs hill and James were talking about moving Ruby “we should move her to a safer place.” To keep he safe from the world.