The day is still young, feeling bored of doing nothing, Dexter, informed Shayne, he will gather fruits in the forest, so that they may have food to eat. Shayne object but he did not change his mind, as a man, it is the role of him to do this hard work. She wants to come with him, because she knows well the forest, but he wants to be alone, he wants to prove to her, he is a man, she can depend on.
There is no path way to follow, in exploring the forest floor, one should simply need to follow his own hunch and judgment where to go and how to go. Dexter just tried to remember, where he came from so that he can return back afterwards. He prays and hopes, he would not encounter fierce wild animals, because he has no weapon to depend himself. Shayne has not given him his gun, possibly she will not give it to him anymore, otherwise, he promised her, she will not hurt any one of her friends. He wonders, how many wild animals are her friends? How she able to tame those wild animals? Shayne is really a mysterious lady, and she never stops amusing him every day. But he loves Shayne no matter who she is. It is the reason, why he is not yet planning to go home and leave the forest even he is ok by now. In his count, this is his fourth day in the forest.
He continues exploring the area, hoping he can find and see fruit bearing trees with ripe fruits ready to eat. The problem, he does not know what are those trees, whose fruits are edible and safe to eat. He is just looking for established known fruits safe to eat, like bananas, guavas and jack fruits, if he does not know the fruit, he will not get it. He has with him, his survival knife only, there is nothing he can bring from the hut. He continues walking on and on forward. After sometimes, luckily, he found banana plants below the hills, in a savannah. He enters in the area where banana grows, it is a wide area, he looks for the fruits, for the ripe fruits, when he found one, he cut it away from the stem and go home. He feared he may go very far away and again, may lost his way. He wants to look for more fruits as possible but he found out it is not that easy; he needs to scouts a large area to gather more.
Before he has able to leave the wide grass land, he heard the honk of a pig, it becomes louder and louder, as if it is following him. He is easy to follow, he is making a pathway in the grass, he leaves his smell in the grass, as well as the smell of the ripe bananas he is carrying with him. It will actually attract wild boar who will come close to him. He can recall the story of hunters who have had encounter wild boar, according to them, it is fierce, there are some stories about a man that was killed by wild boar. Dexter walks fast as he can, later he run and run, when he looks back, he has seen a wild big boar following him.
Again, he feels his life is in danger, in the second time around. He must do something. He enters the woods and look for the tree who can carry his weight, in an instant he jumps up on its branches and climb up. He is safe. He still carries the bunch of ripe bananas with him. When he looks down, he found out the wild boar is actually there, it is after him. He told himself, he will just come down once, it is away. He did not expect what happened next. The troop of monkey notice him and the bananas he was carrying. They become noisy, their chatter, and gibber becomes louder and come close to Dexter little by little
Dexter cut small branches of tree and ready to hit anyone who will come close to him. But they are so fast, and they come in group, he has no match with them, in the branches of trees. It is their playground. The worst thing, if he lost hold up there, he will fall down, in the waiting wild boar. In a short time, Dexter got so many scratches in his arms and legs, and the banana he is holding is almost gone, but the monkeys did not stop attacking him yet, he is still in danger.
He remembers, Shayne told him, to call her once he needed help
He calls for Shayne in a loud voice
“Shayne! Shayne! Shane! Help! Help! Help!”
His voice echoed in the forest. The birds feeding in the trees nearby fly in chaos.
In no time, Dexter sees Shayne standing down at the foot of the tree where he is climbing.
“You better watch the wild boar is at your back, climb immediately” Dexter cried down to
Shayne.
To his surprise Shayne walks directly towards the wild boar and she touches it in the head.
“How are you my friend, I have not seen you for long time” she talks wild the wild pig.
The wild pig become tame like any other domesticated pig; it wags its tail honking going around Shayne. Dexter notices it is not alone two more pigs come up, hiding from the shrubs nearby, all of them come closer to Shayne. This woman is wonderful, she can come along with almost all animals in the forest.
“You come down; they will not be going to harm you” she calls her down.
“These monkeys are also pestering me” he answered back.
Shayne waves her hand to the monkeys, as if she is greeting them, they make terrible noise, but all of them also climbed down, and come closer to Shayne. She puts her hand to the monkey, one after the other and they all accepted her like one of them. Dexter climbed down and come close to Shayne, who is very busy with the pigs and the monkeys around. They all recognize her and happy with her.
“They are all my friends; they know me well” Shayne told to Dexter.
The monkeys are crawling around them, they are all behave now, in the presence of Shayne, a while ago, they where very mischievous, most especially when they are up there in tree tops. They become very different, like the wild boar who chased Dexter, it behaves likes a domesticated pig. Dexter asked himself, who is Shayne? Why she can tame almost all wild animals?
“I don’t have the fruit, anymore, that monkeys snatch them all to me”
Dexter is like a little child, complaining to Shayne about what the monkeys has done to him.
“Don’t get mad at them, actually they are kind” she smiles at Dexter
“You take the bananas of Dexter; you get some for exchange” she ordered the monkeys.
The monkeys obeyed her, they climbed up in the trees and was lost in the dense forest. After a while they return back carrying bunch of bananas and some other fruits. Dexter is beginning to know Shayne more and more as the days past by. The woman who has tamed his elusive heart, is also the woman who can tamed all animals in this forest. They know and obey her as if, she is their master. It is very clear, Shayne is the ruler of the forest.
They go home together, that is mid-day, Shayne prepares their food for the lunch, in the hut, it is because he is still adamant to enter his castle although she allows him to come inside. Dexter becomes used seeing Shayne doing house hold chores for him, he enjoys it, in the thought that someone is taking care of him. “Launch is ready, let’s eat” the sweet voice of Shayne that he always wants to hear. “Thank you very much, I pray you will not get tired of looking after me” he sincere on it Shayne smiles at him. He reaches her hand and pressed it, the small soft hands that is nice to hold, he always wants to hold this hand, if possible, forever. They eat together, once in a while stopping and having conversation of something not so important,
It is nightfall, and the two of them are inside the hut, they have taken a rest; they are now having a luxury of time for each other. Fresh fruits are on the table, together with the single oil lamp, that gives light inside the hut. Mesmerized by the new found love, the two lovers become inseparable. “Where are we going to sleep now” Shayne asked. “Here in the hut” Dexter answered. “But the bed is not enough for the two of us” she protested. “I think it would be better, if you will come with me in the castle” 
When Shayne wakes up that morning, Dexter greets her with a sweet kiss on her lips. He waits long for her to wake up. Shayne was surprised a little, seeing Dexter is watching her to open her eyes. “You are waiting me to wake up?” she asked. “Not actually, I just wake up a while ago”Shayne fixed her self and the two of them come out of the room. Dexter wonders why, a while ago, he cannot move or pass away from that door, and now with Shayne, they pass it forward without any problem. Is he actually still drunk? What he remembers, he only takes one shots of wine. He is sure, he will not get drunk in only one shot. He has been drinking wine in the social gathering, and with his friends, before.&n
Dexter walks with the first store he has seen, he asked for help, he told them he was lost in the forest in a few days, and he is now back. The people there look at him, started figuring out who is he, where came from and why he is dressed like that. Darkness has started pushing the light away and here it comes a stranger in their midst. He started calling the attention of the people around, because he has long hair, his mustache and beard are growing wild, and he has hunting gun with him. The commotion was noticed by the policemen in the nearby police outpost. They come close to know what is happening. “What is that?” one of the policemen asked the people around. They just pointed out to Dexter, and told to the policemen what he has told them.&nb
The case of Dexter was extra-ordinary, and the authorities don’t know how to handle it, because it is very complicated. He was declared dead and now that he reappeared, that declaration must be withdrawn, including some other papers. Morning the next day, everybody is busy, most especially in the police post near the forest where Dexter is taken care off. They have sent report on their headquarter, about Dexter Enriquez, who was declared dead, and now reappeared. Their advisory, validate this care thoroughly, investigate properly the person, who claimed he is Dexter Enriquez, check the personal information about him, do not relay only the IDs he carrying, cross checked everything and make it sure he is telling the truth. The policemen have done this before their superior give them instruction, the only discrepancy they have found out, in the blotter, this person has been declared lost
The family of Dexter, where very happy he is back and alive, most especially his mother. He was happy, finding out, that his mother is ok, after those tragedy, that have happened to him, his lost in the forest. His friend and companion, almost cannot believe, he is back and alive. They even told him, the hardship, they have encountered, in looking for him, in the forest. They even, blame him, why, he has not turned on his, radio, so that, they can find him. They do not believe him, that he desperately calling them, several times, on his radio transceiver, until it runs out of battery. He even told them, that they have seen them, passing by, near the hut, he called them, but they never heard him, nor seen him, as if, he was completely invisible to them. They got hard time explaining each other, what have happened in those faithful time, he was lost, and they come back looking for him. Hi
When they go home that day, all of their neighbors are waiting for them, they are all very eager to hear, what have happened to Dexter, in the hands of the Faith Healer. They want to know every detail, as if they are expecting extra-ordinary thing is about to happened there. Dexter does not want to talk to them, for he knows, in their eyes, he is different from them, until he has proven, he is not. Dexter is uneasy, and at the same time, he is tired, very tired, for what the faith healer has done to him. He has been tortured physically a while ago, and now, among his neighbors, he is being tortured mentally. He does not know, what they want to happened with him? Is he an evil spirit?Every time, they look at him, or talk with him, he can sense, they are trying to figure out what is something wrong with him. They are trying to know, if he is really the Dexter, they come know befor
After all day ordeals both physical and mental, Dexter has able to have a peace of mind at home with his family. For most of us, family is our comfort zone, our hiding place, family is everything to us. Dexter simply wants to be with his family, after all those nasty things that have happened on his life. He wants to be with his mother and younger sister, he wants to see them in good health, in good living condition. That night they eat dinner together happily, they have spent long time in the dining table, because, most of the time, his mother asked him, to tell them, what really happened with him in the forest. They are still amazed, with his story, that a beautiful young lady, in the name of Shayne, save his life, and take good care of him, while he is still sick and weak. They want to hear, how she looks like, what she wears or what kind of dress she had and the house she used