I awake, the loud obnoxious beeping in the room making my head throb in pain, my body sore and bruised.
As I look to the foot of the bed, my mother and father rushes over and hugs me close.
“Camron!What Happened To You Sweetie?!?” she screams, followed by her sobbing.
I lay there still, my mother crying into my chest as I recounted the horrific events that ended me up like this.
Me and my friends rush around the park, running and laughing as we play around chasing each other and jumping off things as boys do
After tiring ourselves out, we all group back together and drink some soda as my friend Josh speaks out about an idea he has.
“You guys wanna go into the woods and climb or something?” he exclaims excitedly, standing up on the stubby rock
Nathan, the short blonde objected to this “our parent said we aren't supposed to go there”
We nod in agreement to his statement, fearing something might actually happen, but josh insists, and we follow him into the crowded trees
We make it in deep, and we run around playing on rocks and climbing on trees on end for hours till the sun starts to set
Zack suggested we play one more game before we leave to go home, and we all agree as Josh pipes up again
“Let's play hopscotch!” He shouts excitedly, a mischievous grin on his face
We agree, and as we set up the hopscotch board with sticks and nest, We find and use a flat pebble as a lagger
Josh goes first and then the rest of us in a line going back and forth the sun, leaving us more and more as time goes on
as I take my turn, I hear something crack in the trees in front of us, and I back away as our brave leader grabs a stick and checks it out
Joshs walks towards the source of the sound cautiously until he disappears from our sight.
We tense up as we hear his voice yelling for us frantically. And as we approach the trees , blood curdling screams are made as he screams for help
Zack runs in as we try to stop him, but it's too late
Me and the other book it running away from their screams
We get far enough and stop to breathe as Nathan yells at us
“We have to go back. They could be hurt!” He yells loudly, tears streaming down his face as he panics.
I try to calm him down. As Kenny yells at him to stop overReacting
I try to break it up, but a loud Ear piercing screech is heard not too far from us, and we start to run again
We run out of breath and hide behind a tree as the screams become louder and louder, closing in on us as sticks and branches can be heard snapping.
Josh's voice can be heard telling us to come to him, and Nathan stands up and comes from behind the tree to talk to josh
He stands. There still is not moving as if he paralyzed in fear as he stares past the tree to whatever he's looking at
I try to whispers to him, asking what he sees, but he shushes me as he makes his mouth agape as he tries to get out of his words
His breathing was heavy and ragged as he looked over to us, subtly clenching his jaw shut, tears running down his freckled face.
“That's not josh.”
Soon after, he pierced by something behind the tree as he screamed out, gargling on his own blood
We get up and run, his screams still Echoing through through forest as I trip and get my shoe caught
I start to cry as I beg Kenny to help me , as that thing continues to chase us
He looks down at my tear stained face and shakes his head and continues without me as I begin to cry louder, trying to get unstuck
I untie my shoe and get loose. I crawl towards a bush and hide in it as that thing catches up with Kenny. As he starts to scream
I out of the bush and run around frantically trying to find the way out ,tears and snot, covering my face as I call for help
I ran for hours , the sun gone now and I lost deep in the forest with this thing that killed my friends after me
I grow tired, but I keep on knowing if I stop now, I'll be mauled like the rest
come to a halt at a stump and gasp when I see light far away in front of me
I tear up in joy as I start to run towards it, but I hear that screech again, and I take off ruling away from whatever it is
I get to another tree stump as I crawl inside it, hiding as that thing searches for me
I hold my hand over my mouth as I hear Nathan's voices
“Cameron I'm ok. Come out, please, so we can go play Hopscotch again.”
I start to cry silently, trying to control my breathing, and I hear zacks voice
“Come on, dude, we're not playing hide and seek, come out of hiding.”
I stay quiet as I try to peek out and see where it is as I hear jokes voice in an annoyed tone
“Cameron, come out now! i'm hungry. Let's go home”
I hold my ears trying to block out this thing, manipulating the voices of my friends ,each one becoming more and more distorted and aggressive. The more I hide.
It goes quiet as I hear loud sniffing as this monster starts to sniff the log I'm in
I freeze up completely, holding my breath as it peeks inside
I look at it, and I almost want to vomit teeth ,Eyes and skin that don't belong cover its disfigured and slender body
I let out a breath as it goes away, and everything goes quiet. As I peek out the log again, I hear another voice
“Is anyone Out there?.”
I get out the log and rush towards the voice
“Yes!, yes!, help me!.”
I stop as I look ahead of me and, in the darkness, a figure laying on the ground, staring at me, waiting for me to approach.
I back away as I run the other way , looking for the light I saw earlier. And it lets out another screech as I hear its heavy steps behind me
I get closer and closer to the light , running into bushes ,rocks, and branches, but I don't stop
This thing roars as the voices of my friends combined yells and screams, play over and over again
My eyes blurry with my tear and a flash. Of light appears as I run out of the woods
I look to my right and see a car coming right towards me.
and my world goes dark.
I snap out of it, and I see my parents' worried faces as my tears run down my face
“Cam, please, what happened!” My mother shouts
My body starts to feel weak and heavy as I lay back down staring at the hospital ceiling as that beeping becomes louder and faster, the nurses rushing in as I start to lose consciousness again.
“hopscotch.”
And my world goes dark again.
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