The society of failure

|Lost & Found|

          I just got lost in the woods, I do not know what way I came from or which way to go, so I just went backward. After a few minutes, I started to wander into what looks like after investigating I think it is a town. As I walk in people are all getting, I think yelled at.

I start to find a cabin or something to stay at, and I do! I sign in and order a room, it was 30% off since I was 'new around here.' I see a couple of people walking up to me, most likely to greet me but I digress. As I thought, they do. But it seems like they aren't very supplied so they find me as someone who could find food?

They go tell the other townsfolk about me. I get worried cause they are whispering about it. They are telling me to go and get some sticks for tonight. I say, "alright I'll be back before dark!"

I started walking out and couldn't find any sticks. I got back and people are celebrating. I go up to someone and ask, "why are you celebrating?" and they say back "You failed! Great job!" and I'm just so confused at this point, so I just continue going to my cabin.

After a bit when I get back to my cabin, I hear someone, their yelling at someone, and I hear them yell "WHY DID YOU GRAB THE STICKS BEFORE DARK!? YOU IDIOT YOU KNOW NOT TO UNTIL DARK OR NOT COME BACK WITH ANYTHING" "I SWEAR YOU CAN'T DO-" I shut the window. I search for the bedroom, I'm unable to find it though so I decided to just sleep on the living room couch.

I wake up around 10-11 and I am freezing, and I realize, it's snowing I only brought a coat and boots, so I decide to go to the store to get some snow pants, hat, and gloves. I walked out with my boots and coat. I went out to find the winter store, it took me at least 30 minutes to find it.

When I walk in there's a price label and that was only 10c for a full winter outfit so, like any rational person would I buy it. I've decided to stay here till' winter is over.

About 30 minutes after I got to my cabin, I got something slid under my door. I grab it and open it. It's a list of chores to do by the end of the week. Well, the tasks are simple like: Dust your cabin, take at least 2 showers, suck. But the thing that surprised me was that it said to flip over onto the back. It says something I wish I never read; it makes me want to leave faster than ever so I decided to see when it normally is a bit warmer but that's not going to be for 2 months for it to get over 40 degrees at most, and so I realize that I might get stuck here awhile.

A few days after I get a postcard, I read the back first this time and so it says "Welcome to the Fezalo Town, Population 1000, we have a few ground rules if you want to see and read them follow these instructions below: walk outside your cabin, find a blue-ish pink-ish cabin, to the right of it is a lemonade stand looking thing, the flyers are up there and only 1c per flyer."

I decide to go check them out and so I look for the colored cabin, once I find it I look to the right, nothing there, I look to the left, I find a small wood lemonade stand but with flyers so I grab one of the papers put a cent on the table then walk to my cabin

On my way back I found one of my old friends walking into the place, I ran up to her to give her a warm welcome, but she just disappeared. I'm devastated so I run back in my cabin almost to the verge of crying, but something doesn't let me. Then I see her again in the process I decide to ignore it, but pretty soon she's running up to me, and in which I realize, in a stroke of happiness that's it's really her, she comes up to me and yells (I can't tell if it's in excitement or not) "ALICIA WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?"

I'm confused and so I say, "here but, how'd you get here, Jamie?" And she explains on and on about how she got yelled at and almost got killed coming here and how there's a search for me and so on and so on. From then on there I realize since there's no bed in my cabin, and I only bought one winter suit I ask her "Where are you going to sleep?" and she says responding back "Oh! Uhm... Well, maybe at you cabin?" "But there's no bed and only a couch... Did you bring any cash with you" I respond.

She said she didn't, so I go "Fine I'll buy you a cabin.! Here is the cash for it (I give her 10 dollars) and say go up to the lady at the front and ask for a room, it should be $10. If not come back to me."

After about 5-10 minutes she comes back with a key in her hand and says, "I GOT A ROOM RIGHT NEXT TO YOURS!!!" I concerningly say, "What?" "YEAH!! IT WAS THE LAST ONE THEY SAID!!"

I start to explain to her that I hadn't seen one by mine, she to think we just got duped so we decided to look around the cabin I have. Once we start searching, we find something.

The door creaks open lousily. She starts to question what room we just found. It looks just like my side of the cabin but flipped so the front door is in the side of my part of the cabin. rats rush along the floor "AH!" screams Jamie due to all the rats " This place looks old." "Yeah... I can't believe they left it without maintenance for so long! You can even see the rat droppings... We gotta clean this before anyone lives here." I respond back while getting cleaning supplies.

I'm hoping I don't have to clean it since it's not my room and hand it to her, she just gets straight to work on it without question. After around an hour she BEGS for help, but I ignore her until she wakes me up the next day. She starts whining and whining that I shouldn't stay here for any longer and tells me we should go, so I have to tell her my plan. She doesn't seem to like it. She say's she's leaving tomorrow and I can't change her mind. We decide to go shopping before the leaves.

The walk there was quiet and bugged her. Once we got there, she chose to act like everything was so expensive even though I'm paying for everything. She ended up getting food, water, tents, and a bike. She says she got two so " When you leave you'll have some stuff too. " She seems to act like I'm going with her. It's almost depressing, but I have better things too do, like trying to find or buy a charger from somewhere so I can call family. Currently I have found two options, 1. Is a 10ft charger snuck in by some humans 2. Is a portable one that (with a little magic) can't run out of battery. I think I'm gonna chose the second one, maybe I could. Call for help or find out how I got here, who knows but I'll buy it and see what I can get. But from what I know there's a chance that I won't be able to do anything on there because I won't have internet.