Never Forever

Chapter four

A long eight hour drive later Alannah and I are hiking through a dense wood in a peacefully type silence that is so typical of the two of us. I swear sometimes the pair of us can go years without talking and just pick up the conversation from where we left off one day. Either way hiking through the woods crumples the last of my anger from the smell of pine, tree sap, and freshly cut grass, the birds chirp along to one another high up in the trees, and the small breeze up against my bare skin untouched by my short sleeve black work polo shirt.

Although I do have an inkling about where Alannah is taking me but I don't want to spoil the all out surprise I know she would have gone out of her way to do. Besides I could do with an all out surprise right now to bring back at least some of my sanity back for a moment away from the whole mother problem. Branches snapping underneath my feet brings small groups of birds burst out out of a number of trees swooping down a bit way down into front of us and bolting away back in to the tops of the trees.

"So are we going to walk through the woods for the rest of evening in the dark?" The simple flips out my mouth before I can resister that I have even thought about saying something like that. Flying my hand up to my mouth in horror Alannah just giggled at my revelation and continued to skip ahead of me like nothing is wrong and all is right with the world.

"Don't even think about turning back now. We aren't that far now from our destination and it is just over just this small hill here to be able to see it from a great advantage point. Before we are a mile pr two actually away from the said destination."

"Ah man I thought we would have been there already and my feet won't kill me so much anymore."

"Stop being a whinny baby Sabina we aren't that far away and once we get there we can sit down for the rest of the evening to eat as much as we can get out hands on. Wouldn't it be nice to top it off with a bottle of wine or two."

For the next twenty minutes or so of the two of us arguing back and forth between one another in a banter sort of way only for it to lead on to fun little punches and kicks here and there along the way. Reaching the top of the ridge Alannah was just talking about, the view blew my mind a hell of a lot more than what I thought it would do. With the lake resting on the horizon to our left and the river running not running very far behind the lake which runs across the whole length of my view of the horizon.

Surrounded by miles of forest smack bang in the beautiful is the one place I didn't think I would be seeing again for such a long time. Partly demolished in places and pretty much abandoned for a long period of time my childhood summer camp site looks like nobody has been here to keep the maintenance up to a good standard. As much as it looks beautiful with how Mother Nature has done with wrapping up a lot of the buildings up in so much foliage. Some of the plants are even displayed with bright beautiful colours from a range of pinks to deep purples to bight a bright orange.

At the bottom of our hill there is a thin line of trees spanning the space of half a miles before Mother Nature has taken up the wired fence circling around the edge of the summer camp site. Creating an eerie look of the camp being trapped inside such a space that people could have been trapped inside for a long period of time and weren't allowed to get out. Until something had them fleeing out of the camp leaving the large space to be over thrown by nothing by greenery and bright coloured flowers.

Although from up here I am only getting a wide shot view and struggle to see the details of it all. Seeing this version of something that I have a set image of how the summer camp once looked around me in such a different light. It kind of sparks a flame of curiousness to race down there and see for myself how much it has aged over the years.

"You wanna go and have a race to see who can get down to the front gales. Though I think they may look like a wall of foliage instead to be honest when I first saw them from the road side view."