The Neighbor

I have not seen the blue light outside my window for many days now. I still wonder about it and all, but recently I have had many other thoughts going through my head. I meant our so called neighbor. I say "so called" because they live way far away from our house basically in the opposite direction of the apple orchard through a small dense forest that sort of surrounds my uncle's apple orchard.

It is really interesting in one particular part of the apple orchard because it will hit the forest and seem to inter twin with the trees of the forest. When I come to this part not only do I feel the normal connection to the apple orchard, but I feel another connection like the woods are trying to talk to me as well. This spot as become my favorite place to spend hours eating apples, reading and watching the wind go through the leaves. I even sometimes school myself here in all different subjects. I teach myself math, science, and what ever I can get my hands on in my uncle's library of books.

I never met my neighbor till now because I have never before explore much of the forest or even traveled that far plus my uncle never said anyone else lived this far out of the main town before. One day I just had a sudden feeling to go run out into the forest. I seemed to have ran three miles or so when I ran into a dog. The dog had collar and ran up to me. I knelled down to pet it and check its collar as I did this it attempted to give me kisses. I was very curious to know where this dog came from because we did not have one and at the time I did not know any one lived way out here. Soon I heard voice calling "Roger"  which I figured was the dog name since it was on the dogs collar and for other obvious reasons. Dog perked its head and a boy about my age appeared out of the forest the dog ran to him. He said he was out exploring when is dog ran off. He told me his name was Tay as he explained that he found it quite odd that his dog ran off, but seeing me explained the this happening since his dog loves people. We began to talk and became almost instant friends. Tay knew about Zev, but did not know anyone else lived with him. I explained to him that he was my uncle and how I became to be living there.

Now I have never seen his house nor as he been to my place just ever day we come to what I think is most likely the half way point between our two homes. Here we visit read books, play in the in the woods, explore and talk. Everyday though he as leave right around the same time I assume to go home for dinner or something like that, but I do not really know much about were he lives or his family. I mean I have gone on and on about my family, but never once has he talked about anything personal other then his dog. I have asked him, but I do not Tay blows off the question with a twist. He as a knack for listening and talking a long time about nothing particular just interesting subjects about the world and the forest. And with that a talent to turn any topic into something he would prefer to talk about. And Tay love talking about his dog and the forest.

I have not asked my uncle yet about the neighbor, but I plan on it.

Something that brothers me about where Tay lives is that there is only one road that goes out this far from town and it dead ends at our house. I mean something feels odd, but maybe it is just me. There could be another road I assume.