The Picnic

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Not far away from our house is a river. We were going to have a dinner/picnic. It was a hour dive and when we got there we were alone. We found a nice little spot next to the water. I unpacked our stuff and everything looked good. We ate and drank until we were full and then Johnny got an idea.
Johny thought it would be a good idea to go swimming. I said he was crazy and it was way to cold. All of a sudden he jumped into the water with all of his clothes on. He dived in and didn't come up. I made out his figure under water swimming to the other side of the river. He stared to get back on the other side of the river.
He started to run down the river I screamed out his name and asked him what he was doing but he just kept running. All of a sudden he took a quick left and went into the deep forest. At this point it was freezing cold out and almost dark. I could barely make out a bridge Down the river. I got into the car and started to drive the car to the other side of the river.
I was finally there but the road was a dead end. I called out Johnny until my voice was tired so I started to walk into the woods to find him. After about ten minutes of walking and calling out Jonny I finally saw him or something running towards me. I asked "Johnny is that you?" There was no answer. I started running away from whoever or whatever was running towards me. All of a sudden a deep voice say "I'm going to get you!" Then I saw Johnny's face. He was the one who had been chasing me. I started to cry as I ran and I tripped. He stopped and then he started climbing a tree. He was so nimble as he jumped from branch to branch. I was so scared I couldn't see him. I got back up and started running again. I only ran for about a minute until I saw Johnny sliding Down a tree in front of me. I started to run in the opposite direction. I didn't know which way I was running anymore. It felt like I had been running for forever. I thought I outran him and he didn't know where I was so I sat down and rested. I turned around and he was just standing there I screamed and then he said it again" I'm going to get you." I didn't think I could run any more but I still did and he just stood there watching me struggle and be in pain. how could he do this to me I thought. And then he ran in the opposite direction. I was in so much pain I could barely breath it felt like no matter where I run he would find me so I hid. There was a small log that was hollow and I crawled into it.
I was in that log for at least an hour just sitting there and waiting. I didn't know if he had lost me of if He was on top of the log waiting for me But I eventually fell asleep tired and in pain.

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