Dresden's Haunted Forest

Story

DISCLAIMER: "This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."

Hello there! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Reinhardt Hitzlsperger, and I came from Dresden, Germany. Eleven years ago during my teenage years, I had a rather interesting experience that I will never forget in my entire life. The story starts in my school where I was a wimpy kid back then despite I modified my appearance trying to be like other cool kids. Back then I describe myself as having a medium height but scrawny body, a blonde messy spiky hairstyle, and for my outfit, I used to wear a red t-shirt with black sleeves, dark blue jeans, red and white sneakers and a chain necklace. I was frequently bullied by other kids due to my scaredy cat like attitude.

"Hey scaredy cat! How is it going?" asked a jock who used to bully me in the school hallway while I was checking my belongings in my own locker. I describe him as a muscular but unattractive person due to his freckles on his face, having a ginger buzz-cut hair, a green-and-white letterman jacket, light blue jeans and brown sneakers.

"Nothing much, please get out of my sight. I need more privacy." I politely asked him to go away. However, he refused.

"Gimme your lunch money! I need it to eat something." said the jock as he brought his lackeyes.

"You asked me for my lunch money again? Why don't you take someone else's lunch money? Right now I don't have enough." I replied angrily.

"Awww poor thing, I don't believe in you." the jock sarcastically mocked me.

"What do you want right now? Please give me some time to have a break."

"I refused to go because you're a liar. I know you hide your lunch money somewhere. Let's settle this mano-e-mano by playing arm wrestling."

"And if I refuse?"

"Then I will find your lunch money no matter what and took all of it while me and the boys broadcasting your top 10 most embarrassing moments that we recorded from our video recorder."

I initially refused his offer. However, I had no choice but to comply with his wishes because of the embarrassing moments that I had such as getting scared by a black cat, drowning in the swimming pool thanks to those ignorants pushing me, getting stripped half naked after I rejected the jock's offer from the previous time, and so on. Those moments were recorded by this buffoon and his cronies and he used it for threatening me. Not that my reputation was stellar or anything, but I hated to tarnish myself even further down to the abyss.

"Very well then, I will play your game. If I win, please let me have some privacy. But if I lose, you can have my lunch money all you want."

"Sounds like a fair deal, all right! Meet me at the cafeteria and we'll settle this mano-e-mano."

As I went into the school cafeteria, I complied to the jock's wishes by playing an arm-wrestling game with other people in the cafeteria watching the game, seemingly supporting the jock. However, I predictably lost to the jock because of my scrawny body.

"Ha! In your face loser! Now give me all of your lunch money as you promised."

After my lunch money was stolen thanks to that idiot jock, I ended up becoming penniless and hungry because I hadn't eaten anything yet. However, one kid decided to help me and listen to my plight while praising me for my efforts on the arm-wrestling match despite I lost at the end of the day. He was actually my childhood best friend, Heinrich. I describe him as an always cheerful fat kid wearing a red glasses, short blond buzz cut hair, a dark green shorts, a white and blue striped shirt and red and white sneakers. I always called him Heine as a nickname for him.