Secrets

Chapter 3

I don't know how i ended up where I did. I just went where my legs carried me. I felt the stones underneath my bare feet as a ran down the road and then felt the stones chance to leaves and fallen tree branches but paid no attention to them digging into my feet.

I was in the middle of a forest, I thought this forest was miles away from my house but it obviously wasn't because I got there in like 5 minutes and I had never been a fast runner no matter how hard I tried.

Although I may have kinda got myself a bit lost, I mean I have been in this forest before but only ever down the trails and I wasn't even sure if there was a trail down this part. Because the forest was so big they only ever put trails in one half, and I was definitely in the part were there were no trails to help me get out.

I looked up and stared at the canopy of leafs above me, I could see the sky slowly change from light to dark as the sun set and the moon and stars came out. It was peaceful. I shoved my hands in my hoodie pocket and went and sat against a tree.

After a few minutes I remembered that I had my phone in my pocket so I tried calling one of my friends to help me out of the forest. Only to find out that I had no signal.

"For God sake!" I said under my breath.

Why now! Why did I have no signal when I actually needed in?! I slipped my phone back in the pocket of my skinny jeans and rested my head against my knees. I didn't realise I was crying until my vision started to blur and once I started crying I couldn't stop and the tears just kept steaming down my face. I was thinking about the words I said to my mum and how I shouldn't have said them. I also thought about my dad and all the happy memories we had together, which made me cry harder.

My favourite memory is when we used to go get ice-cream together, it would just be the two of us. We would go every Saturday to get ice-cream at the shop which was around a 15 minute walk from the house. Nothing ever stopped us from getting ice-cream we would go in the sun or the snow it never mattered. It was mine and my dads thing, we never went with anyone else and that why I loved it, it would just be me and my dad. As I grew older I think my dad thought I would grow out of it but I never did and even now as a 16 year old we would still go however I knew that we would not go this Saturday or if I did dad wouldn't be coming with me and that made me cry even harder than I was, I didn't think I had ever cried that hard before.

I got snapped out of my though when I heard some leafs crunch like something walking on them but I told myself it was just the wind. Until I heard a tree branch snap, the wind couldn't make that happen.

I slowly stood up and kept my back to the tree, I could hear what ever it was get could. All I could think was its a bear and I'm gonna get eaten and even when I told myself that I'm in Wales, there aren't any bears in Wales but still I couldn't stop thinking that I was gonna get eaten.

I stayed frozen holding my breath, not making a sound or moving a muscle. I had never been so scared in my whole life. When the crunches of leafs got even louder, I couldn't take the pain of waiting anymore so I ran, I know stupid when its a wild animal but I would rather die trying to get away instead of stand there and wait for my death.

I ran in the direction that I thought was home, I was ready to go and apologise to mum about my harsh words and to pack my bags and leave for a few years for school. The more I thought about it the more I realised how stupid I was, mum was only trying to help and I had been totally mean to her. My mum had always been a reasonable person and it probably was best if I go away from all the memories that I had with dad in the village.

As I was running I could hear the thing that I had heard before, it was chasing me I could hear the foot steps except this time they sounded a lot heavier and closer. I pushed myself to go faster and get away from the danger but it wasn't working no matter how hard I tried I couldn't make myself go any faster.

Suddenly I felt a pair of hand grab onto me, I went to scream but one of the hands covered my mouth so my screams were muffled.

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