We were going to split up. Peter said it was clear from the note, from the line moving along together will be ceased. How it was known that we were more than one creeped me out. Maybe we were being watched? Yeah, that freaked me out even more.
“Larry and I go together, Michelle and Tanya go together,” Peter suggested as we all sat outside the shed eating from some of the canned food and some fruits we found. I took a swig of water from my bottle.
“What if you're wrong?” Tanya asked, picking at her nails.
“Then it's as good as sitting around here like this.”
“And at least we're doing something,” I added with a shrug.
“But you guys know that this is crazy right? And that we're supposed to be finding our way out of here, not trying to solve some stupid clue.”
“We are finding the way out,” I started with a mouthful of berries and then paused. “Sorta. Michelle could be very right. Solving these clues might be our only way out of these woods.”
“But that doesn't make any sense.”
“What the fuck makes sense in life? Does anything ever make sense to you?” I snapped. Her mouth hung slightly open as she stared at me.
“Sorry,” I murmured, scratching my head. “But what do you want us to do now? What do you want to do? We've tried but we haven't found a way. And now there's this…look it also feels crazy to me and I'm sure, to all of us and it might be, very possibly, a joke but it's the only thing we got for now. So please just cooperate. Please…”
She kept staring at me with a poker face but then her features softened and she looked down.
“What if we get lost?”
“Ah, come on, Michelle's with you. She probably knows this place like the back of her hand.”
She looked up at me.
“And I recall you saying you liked plants. You two wouldn't have a problem.”
“I just know stuff about plants. I'm not an expert in navigating through trees I've never been to before dummy,” she replied with an eye roll.
Before she looked away I could have sworn there was a small smile pulling at her lips for a split second. I barely caught it because as soon as it came it had vanished and her face was back to its resting poker face.
“Where are we going?” Michelle asked.
“Yeah, we haven't discussed that part yet,” I pointed out.
“Right,” Peter said with a sigh and took the note out of the pocket of his dirty hoodie.
"So I was thinking–"
"Gosh, when do you not not think?"
"Tanya..."
"Sorry."
“So these two lines, what you will need would be found in the east and but will only be worth it when you go west, I think they are sort of clear. And they're the only lines that have anything to do with direction so…”
“So, we just go east and west? In search of what?” Tanya asked, getting up.
“Like before, I don't know. We just go.”
“Just go, wandering aimlessly?”
“Yep,” he said with a nod and got up, stretching. “Larry and I go west and you guys go east.”
One of Tanya's eyebrows was raised at her cousin.
“Alright fine,” she mumbled in resignation. “When do we leave?”
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Fall in San Diego
AdventureHaunted by the death of his family that he caused, Larry cuts himself off from the world and relapses into depression, subconsciously craving anything that would make him happy. He finds himself lost in the woods after his swirling emotions forces h...
