The scared girl

She used to spend too much time at home. Really, she was a kind of non-social person as she has always hated feeling observed by people. And that was strange, they parents thought, as she has been living in Tokyo since she was ten years old, probably the most crowded city in the world.

Now, she worked in a laboratory as investigator and spent almost every day there. But that morning she was feeling different. Her workmate had asked her if she wanted to go to the cinema and to a restaurant afterwards. At the beginning she was a little scared because she had never been in a similar situation, so she didn’t know what to do. How was she supposed to act?

As she woke up, she began to feel more confident. She had just to let it happen. She looked through the window and realized how wonderful and sunny the day was. “Maybe I can have a walk” – she thought.

The city was as crowded and noisy as usually, but it seemed she didn’t care. That morning she wasn’t frightened. Truly, she enjoyed so much the walk as she could watch the birds flying and feel the heat of the sun in her face. Furthermore, people weren’t staring at her! They were just walking and thinking on their own.

Now, she didn’t remember why she had started feeling scared of people and crowded places, but, indeed, she didn’t care anymore.