Katrina Chester (Kasee)

Julie Hough

Hair: Dk. Brown, long and wavy

Eyes: Green

Height: 5'5" Weight: 135 lbs

DOB: 8/21/1981, in St. James, NY (small town on northern Long Island)

- Mother drowned on 7/14/1990. Cause unknown, declared accidental drowning by police, due to no evidence of foul play. Moved in with her Aunt Molly, who is her godmother, on 7/30/1990. Aunt Molly raises long-haired tortoise-shell cats, and lives in Raleigh, NC.

- 2/29/1992 Kasee goes into New Age shop and buys amethyst crystal ball that she is drawn to, which starts her studying the occult, crystal powers, etc. She is followed home by a black cat, whom she names Eclipse.

- Spring 1993 Kasee starts to find odd places in the woods, where the colors seem brighter, and she sees things move out of the corner of her eyes.

- Spring 1994 Kasee starts to actually see fairies in the woods. She also discovers she can tell when the cats are pregnant, or have hairballs, or are sick, just by petting them.

- Summer/Fall 1994 Kasee’s garden is spectacular! All of her vegetables and gorgeous and huge, and the envy of the neighbors.

- Winter 1995 Kasee begins to realize there are some really creepy people out there, and that others either don’t notice or don’t care or don’t say anything. She prevents a friend from hitting on a vampire that was eyeballing her in a movie theater, by saying how creepy he is. She however, does not realize this guy was a vampire, just that he was really creepy.

- Summer 1995 Kasee sets up her room as a sanctuary, because she likes to be alone a lot, and she likes it when people can’t find her, makes her feel safer from all of the creepy, scary stuff she is discovering that no one bothered to tell her about before.

- Spring 1996 Aunt Molly buys Kasee a computer, and she starts surfing the web, and discovers there are others out there with her beliefs on nature and the fairy world, though a lot of them seem rather shallow, like they believe it but have never experienced it. She avoids those people.

-September 1996 Kasee discovers NC State has an outing club, and joins.

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I’ve been living in Raleigh about a year now, and I still can’t believe mom is dead, and they never even bothered to investigate. I mean, she was a good swimmer, and there were no signs of foul play or anything, at least that is what the police said. An accident, yeah right. These things just don’t happen. Now I’m living with weird Aunt Molly and her billion cats. Long-haired tortoise-shell cats, no less. Great. And I thought I liked cats. Oh well, at least school is kinda interesting, though everyone calls me a Yankee. I mean, get real people, just because I’m from New York, I’m a Yankee, sure. Stupid hicks. They all say I have a funny accent. They shouldn’t talk, and I wish they wouldn’t. Never knew an ‘I’ could be that long!

Well, I finally got up the nerve to go into that New Age store I have been walking by every school day for 2 years now. I am really glad I did! I never realized how cool the stuff is! I got a really neat crystal ball, it’s an amethyst, and when I looked at it, I felt almost like it was calling my name, and telling me to buy it. Weird. So I bought a book on crystals too, hopefully it will make sense of why I think a rock was calling to me. Then, and here’s the coolest part of today, a black cat followed me home after I left the store. Aunt Molly isn’t amused though, but tough. I’m sick of her tortoise-shell furballs, and this one obviously likes me. She said I have to get it fixed though, so as not to "contaminate her gene pool." Ha! Like it could get any more contaminated. Stupid furballs. Anyway, I’m going to read some more.

I went for a walk in the woods today, and came across a glen that was kinda, I don’t know how to describe it, different. The colors were brighter, and I swear I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye, but whenever I looked, nothing was there. Maybe all the New Age stuff I have been studying is paying off, and I am seeing fairies or spirits or something. I’m noticing too that my garden is looking really great, better than any garden I’ve had before. And so are the house plants. Guess my mediating and purifying is paying off.

Today, I definitely saw fairies in the woods. It was really cool. I didn’t try to talk to them, because I have read that can be dangerous, but it was really neat to actually see them, and not just out of the corner of my eye. And it was weird, I was petting one of Aunt Molly’s cats, and I suddenly knew she was pregnant! Aunt Molly doesn’t believe me, she said she never noticed she was in heat, so how can she be pregnant? With all the yowling cats around here, how can she tell? I still swear she’s pregnant, guess we’ll find out soon enough. Eclipse has a hair ball so hopefully the stuff I gave him will help.

Aunt Molly wants to know when I got to know her cats better than her. That cat was pregnant! And Eclipse barfed up his hairball on Aunt Molly’s bed.

My garden this year was spectacular! Aunt Molly can at least cook, and she used the fresh vegetables from the garden to make the best food I’ve ever had. The neighbors keep asking for my secret, and I just tell them tender loving care. they don’t believe me, they think I have some secret stuff I put on the garden, and they are convinced it has to do with cat feces. Yuck! Why would I want to put cat poop on my garden? I get enough in there as it is. Aunt Molly complained I spend too much time alone in the woods, so I told her the fairies keep me company. Boy, did I get a funny look for that comment! Guess she doesn’t spend enough time in the woods, so the fairies hide from her. Seems a lot of people don’t see them, but I think they are shy, and don’t want just anyone knowing where they are. Makes sense I guess. Sometimes, I like it when no one knows where I am.

I guess some people just don’t notice the differences in people as clearly as I do. Tonight, Jennifer and I had gone to a movie, and she saw this cute guy looking at her, and she wanted to go talk to him, and I told her she was crazy! Jennifer, he’s creepy! Can’t you see it, he just kinda oozes creepiness. She thought I was nuts, but he had looked away, so she complained about missed opportunities or some such. I swear I thought he was some sort of fairy or something, but I’ve never seen fairies in the city before. So I figured he couldn’t be a good fairy, and I’ve learned to trust my instincts when it comes to things like that. But I know Jennifer wouldn’t have believed me if I had told her he was a fairy. Why some people are oblivious to the occult world around them, I will never know. Eclipse has another hair ball. I hope he doesn’t barf on my bed tonight.

Aunt Molly has decided I need to stay inside more, instead of running about in the woods all the time. Some people. My friends’ mothers complain they don’t get outside enough, that they should be more "like that Kasee girl," and here my Aunt is complaining I don’t stay in enough. Drives me nuts looking at tortoise-shell all the time. Anyway, she got me a computer. It’s a cool one too, has everything. Glad I took that intro to computer class at school. She got Internet access, so I can surf the Web. Wow, are there some weird things out there. But it is cool, too. I’ve discovered there really are others out there with my beliefs and interests in the occult and fairies and crystals, but a lot of them seem so shallow and clueless. It seems a lot of them believe fairies and other creatures exist, but they have never seen them, so they aren’t sure, or else they make up these wild stories that can’t possibly be true. Oh well, it’s still pretty neat reading all the info, and occasionally chatting with people.

I looked up NC State on the Web, and looked into their clubs, and they have an outing club, that goes hiking and canoeing and stuff, so I am going to check them out. Says anyone can join, so it might be neat going outside with other people. Maybe I will find someone who appreciates nature like I do, or maybe the fairies I always seem to find will scare the crap out of the group. Guess I’ll just have to go find out.

The Outing Club is pretty cool. There is this guy, Daedalus, who is pretty cool. His real name is Mike, but he doesn’t like people to know that. I can understand the feeling. I hate it when people call me Katrina, so I just don’t bother telling them my real name. It’s Kasee, really. He has a really cool bike. And he has been showing me rock climbing stuff, which is fun. I think he is a computer nerd though, because he always seems to have a computer or beeper or something, and wears these mirror shades all the time. Must make him feel cool or something, but he doesn’t look anything like the cool people I’ve seen. Oh well, he gave me a ride home on his bike, so I guess being a computer nerd isn’t all that bad. And maybe he is cool, just a different type of cool.

Tom Brady <tabrady@mindspring.com>

Last modified: Tues Dec 24 15:10:00 1996 by tabrady