The Fog

Chapter 8

We started walking into the woods, it was still dark as the sun hadn't risen yet. We walked for several hours when we stopped to take a break.

"So how'd you get those scars?" He asked pointing to the burn scars left from the octopus monster.

"A monster attacked me a couple days ago, kinda looked like an octopus and it grabbed me and left these burns. Well scar now but they were burns, I killed it of course but it was harder than I thought." I told him as it suddenly started to burn a bit again. I dropped to the ground in pain and Michael rushed to my side.

"What's wrong?" He asked with worry in his voice.

"It....burns...." I barely managed to get out and he immediately went in his bag and grabbed a tube of something. He squirted the substance in the tube out and started putting is on the scar, I immediately started to feel relief as the pain went away.

"What was that?" I ask him as he puts the tube back into his bag.

"That is special medicine from my home, that should completely stop your scar from burning." He said turning to me and reaching his hand out. I take his hand and he pulls me up. We rest a bit more and start walking again. Soon the sky starts to get darker as night is coming

"We should stop and take shelter," he said looking around, "that cave over there should do." We walk over to the cave and find a nice spot to make camp. Michael walks back outside to get firewood while I grab some food in our bags to eat. After 15 minutes he comes back and we get a fire started. We eat a can of greenbeans and some canned chicken. We laugh and joke while we eat. A cold breeze blows in the cave and I shudder. Immediately Michael moves closer to me and puts his arm around me.

"What are you doing?" I asked confused.

"You seemed cold so I was trying to help you stay warm," He replies with a sincere look on his face "it's going to become a lot colder tonight so we should probably sleep close to each other to stay warm." As he said this you could see him blush a bit.

"Well that does make sense and it is pretty cold already." And with that I turned to my side and got comfy. A couple minutes later I felt a hand around my waist and something laying behind me. I turned a bit and saw Michael behind me, I blushed a bit and he must of seen it as he chuckled a bit and pulled me closer to him. I quickly fall asleep. I wake up with my face buried in Michael's chest and his hand around my waist still. I blushed a bit but didn't move, it was pretty cold out still and laying with Michael was warm. I nuzzle closer and close my eyes again and fall back to sleep. I wake up a little bit later and saw Michael looking at me.

"Am I just that interesting to watch?" I ask him teasingly.

"No, you're just really cute when you're sleeping." He replies.

I blushed and quickly get up. I grab some granola bars out of my backpack and toss a couple to him. We quickly eat and get ready to leave for the day. We soon head out and have walked for about 2 hours when Michael shouts "get down!" He quickly pushed us down and put a finger to his mouth signaling me to be quite. I nod and look around trying to figure out what was wrong. I suddenly heard a low growl right in front of us and grabbed Michael's hand. I heard footsteps coming towards us but not for in front of us but everywhere. I looked at Michael and we immediately knew we were surrounded.