"I think we should turn left." Rebecca stated as she scrutinized the map under the dim car light. I glanced at her and she looked at me crestfallen.
"I don't know why she even came." Isabella mutered before grabbing the map.
She scooted to the middle and placed the map in the light.
"We're right here." Isabella mused while placing her finger on the paper.
"Oh. Rebecca's right. Turn right." Isabella snickered at the irony. Rebecca brightened up and sat upright in her seat.
"I don't know Izzy... I don't see any place where we can turn right." I turned my head to look at the rear view mirror, but I couldn't see a cut in the road.
"Wait! Back up!" Rebecca shouted while her face was staring out through my window. Startled by her voice, my feet slammed the brake and I stared at her deliriously.
"You have got to stop doing that." I muttered.
"No, V I saw a dirt track exactly at the point where the map says we should turn right."
I snatched the map from Isabella and traced our path. Placing it on my lap, I backed the car a few meters. Although it was pitch dark, the side of the road seemed to split into a path separating the dark, looming trees.
"I don't know V." Isabella muttered. I could hear her thumping her leg on the car's floor, obviously nervous. The atmosphere in the car turned from calm to a bag of nerves in a few seconds. I glanced at Rebecca, silently asking her opinion. We all stayed quiet for a minute before I decided to break the silence.
"When we left the Diner, we knew what we were going to get into. We just had this map." I said, while lifting it up. "And we have no idea where it's going to take us. I don't think we can stop now, especially when we have gotten this far."
I didn't need them to say anything, I could see they silently agreed with me. Isabella grabbed my hand and Rebecca's. As if it was a reflex, Rebecca clutched mine.
"We always promised we would stand next to each other and help one another out. Didn't we?" Isabella said in a deep voice.
I smiled. "We sealed that oath with licorice rings."
Rebecca left my hand and rummaged through her backpack. After a few marshmallow packet's being thrown at Isabella's head, she brought out a packet of dark licorice.
"I always knew we would need to do this again."
Laughing, I grabbed the packet from her and grabbed a string of sweet and sour licorice. In my other hand I grabbed Isabella's hand and tied the licorice to her ring finger.
She extended her hand and examined. "You cheap stake. I'm high maintenance babe. Go big, or go home." I slapped her arm and put a string of licorice on Rebecca, before stuffing two in my mouth.
"Imp lurbve twoyou hugys." I replied, while cringing at the sour taste.
"Sure babe." Rebecca said before placing licorice in her mouth. "Just drive."
After a lot of licorice and marshmallow's later, the three of us were on a sugar overdrive. I swerved the car onto the dirt path, but I couldn't help giggling every minute. Isabella was the worst. She placed her fingers between here lips and moved it up and down very quickly making a really funny sound. Rebecca tried to imitate her, but she sounded like a cat throwing up (You be glad, if you've never heard that before). She ended up trying to touch her nose with her tongue.
"Your tongue-" I was interrupted by a swift movement on the road a few meters away. I switched on the bumper lights and was brought face to face with a blurry image of an animal, with it's bright yellow eyes glaring at me.
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