Mountain Trails with Love

Four against one

After a long night of putting clothes in closets, sheets on the beds, and photos on the walls, Max, Mallory, Summer, and Plu fell asleep around 4 am. As morning arrived, summer was peacefully sleeping in her big, full bedded bed until A sudden nose comes from Summers phone that was sitting next to her bedside. *Ring Ring* As time went on the ringing got more aggressive. *RING RING RING*  Finally, Summer woke slowly from her foggy dreams and picked up the phone. Summer saw it was her alarm clock, she turned it off aggressively, as then her phone went to the main screen to show the time, it was 11:02 am.

"MAX, MALLORY, PLU, WAKE UP! WE SLEPT THROUGH OUR MEETING WITH KENT THE LANDLORD! GET UP NOW, THROW ON YOUR CLOTHES, AND MEET ME DOWNSTAIRS WE HAVE TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT." Summer yelled and she was jumping out of bed as she was throwing on anything she could find in her woody, log cabin style closet. 

"What is all the yelling about?' said Plu, as he rubbed his eyes and walked down the hallway from his room to Summers. Summer yelled at Plu out of frustration and explained how late they were running. Plu saw the time, his eyes got all big, and he dashed down the creaky stairs and out the door. Plu forgot all about summer and the group, as well as the fact that he still was in his Spiderman pajamas. "Oh Plu, I should follow him, I do not trust him alone in Spiderman pjs, thought Summer as she went down the stairs. She grabbed her purse and sunglasses while walking out the door to chase after Plu in misery.

After a long walk for Plu and Summer, they finally arrived at Kent the landlords cabin. Kents cabin was very small, but it had fresh cut grass, well taken care of tulips in the yard, and a fresh- painted porch with a big white swing that creaked as the wind blew it.  "Wow how old is this guy, did he ever get married or anything" said Plu. "He is old enough to have grey hair. Kent is widowed, I heard him say something about it when we spoke on the phone" replied Summer, as they both stood at the end of the driveway in intimidation." 

Before Plu and Summer could get any more words out, the front door was pushed wide open. There stood a 5"5 short, chubby man with grey hair and a red plaid shirt. Plu and Summer stared at him for a good ten seconds. There he was, Kent the landlord staring dead cold at them, with his eyebrows squinted, and face frowned. 

"Sir.. hello my name is Plu.. it's so nice to meet you." as those words came out of Plu, his voice trembled and hands got sweaty. Kent continued to stare at them after those words came out of Plu mouth.

"Your late..get in now" said Kent in a deep, low tone voice as he turned around and walked inside. Plu tried to run, but Summer grabbed him by the ear and pulled him inside with her. Summer and Plu uncomfortably followed the shady man into his small cabin. Kent gestured the two rowdy young adults to sit on the couch. Summer and Plu both were thinking the same thing, that they were going to die on their second day in Tennessee, while Kent sat down in front of them.

"So, you idiots know why I brought you into my house? Asked Kent in a firm tone" Summer and Plu smiled in a pleading manner, hoping he would forgive them of whatever it is, and send them on their way. As Kent was about to continue his speech, the door bursted open.

"I'm here, I'm here don't worry, I know I'm late but I got cookies from the corner store on the way", said Mallory as she very dysfunctionally sat on the couch next to Plu and Summer. This made Kent even more mad. He began to stand up and look down on the teens. Kent yelled at the three for a good ten minutes about how the bear got in the trash, how disrespectful they were, and then he even got into yelling about his dead wife. 

Summer started getting teary eyed, Mallory wiped her tears away and got angry. If anyone hurts Summer, Mallory had the motherly instinct to stand up to whoever it was. 

"Listen here you fat, chubby, rusty, Mr Crab looking man. No wonder your wife died, she had to deal with you." Kent stood in surprise, his eyes got all big as he sat down in shock. Kent sat there for a couple minutes, as Plu signaled them to walk out. Kent sat there with a sad, face full of disappointment and watched them walk out.

The walk home with Mallory, Plu, and Summer was very quiet. They all prayed Kent wouldn't yell at them, or worse, kick them out. They arrived to their driveway and walked up in relief. As Summer walked up to the door, she fiddled the key in her hands to find the right one, she eventually opened the door.

 They all looked in the living room to see Max, sitting on the couch with a bowl of ramen, watching Sumo wrestling. Max looked back at them as the thought came in his head that he did not come to the realization that they left.  

"Hey guys, um, how are you today.. want some ramen..haha" Said Max, as the rest of the group stared at him like they where about to kill him. The three, all then ran and jumped on Max. He spilled his Ramen all over himself, but Plu, Summer, and Mallory had no regrets