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Walking through the woods, Carson wraps her jacket more around herself.
"Allison, when you said you were gonna stop for an errand before we went shopping... A five mile hike in the woods was not what I was expecting," Lydia complains.
"Yeah, I don't like the woods. It's dirty and there are bugs," Carson looks around.
"Well, you made me spot you in a 3 hour workout last week," Allison responds.
"You like working out!"
"Not for three hours! Anyway, I wanted to ask you something Lydia," Allison says.
"Jackson asked me to the winter formal."
"Did he?"
"Oh boy," Carson smirks.
"Yeah. Just as friends but I wanted to make sure you were okay with it first."
"Sure. As long as it's just as friends."
"Well, yeah. I mean, uh, it's not like I would take him to the coach's office during lacrosse practice to make out with him or something."
"Wow," Carson mouths, slightly amused by the confrontation occuring in front of her.
"Or like I would know about this incident and keep it a secret, right?" she directs to the much taller girl walking five steps behind.
"Uh, of course," she bites her nail.
"We'll make it up to you," Lydia looks pointedly at Carson, who seemed ready to argue.
Stopping at a random spot in the trees, Allison pulls out a weird arrowhead.
"Are you gonna shoot us?" Carson hides behind Lydia.
"What is that?"
"We're about to find out," Allison responds, shooting it into a tree. It explodes, shooting out a white light.
"What the hell was that?" Lydia gasps.
"I don't know," Allison stares at it.
"Well that was fun. Anymore lethal weapons you'd like to try out?" Lydia teases.
"I hope not, I'd like to get to the mall alive," Carson jokes, before they hear a snap.
"Hold this," Allison hands Lydia the arrow, which was probably the wrong decision.
"W-What? Why?" she asks.
"Because I thought I heard something," Allison continues to look around.
"So what if you heard something?"
"Allison, we're in the woods, of course you heard something," Carson groans.
