Entry Eight: Nature Walk

This might be difficult without any adjectives, but here it goes....

I walk out the main door of my friend's apartment and as always I'm slightly overwhelmed with how dark it is. Her apartment doesn't really have street lamps and when I leave at 10:30 at night there isn't a whole lot to illuminate my walk to my car. Luckily tonight, the moon is my guide and as I click the unlock button on my car, that anxiety heightens in my stomach just a little bit. Shadows kind of creep me out, especially when I'm not sure is casting them and the lack of sound is so deafening that I wish her usual party animal neighbors were outside going crazy right now. The grass crunches under my feet from the cold air, that consumes this place as soon as the sun goes down,. I get into the front seat and turn on my car, turn up the Taylor Swift CD that is permanently in my player and wait for my car to heat up. As I pull out of the parking lot, the anxiety in my stomach begins to subside. The stars are lighting the streets ahead of me and I see a couple pushing a stroller along the sidewalk. I think to myself, "What in the world are they doing walking their baby at this time of night?" as I momentarily pass judgement regarding the couple's decision for their own late night nature walk, I'm blinded by the brights of a truck that looks as if it could demolish my Camry. I turn onto my street and pull into my parking, turn off my car and walk to my door. The eerie feeling is still there as I watch the same cat walk across the parking lot that is there every week. I walk into my apartment and lock the door, leaving the eeriness of the night behind me.