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I walked away from the people still resting and hide myself from their view. Seeing someone pissing is not exactly relaxing, so I made sure I stayed clear off their view as much as possible.

I've come to a stop in a nearby oak tree, or at least I think it's an oak tree, and decided to do my business here. After I'm done I zipped up my pants and started walking up to where we stopped.

But I had another idea. I started rummaging through my bag and open a pack of cigarettes that I tuck in the secret space.

I've promised Thomas and Corey that I would try and quit smoking but that's easier said than done. So I've been trying to hide my cigarettes from them. Sometimes they are worse than my parents.

I ventured even further from the people, worried that Thomas might start looking for me and catch me red-handed. So I started walking until the voices of hikers became much softer.

I plop down on a huge rock that over-looked the whole city. I checked my phone and it's already 10:32 am. The sun had illuminated the city. It was a beautiful sight. 'Marvelous' as Corey would say.

This is the perfect spot.

I grab one of the cigarettes and light it with a lighter. One hit and I've already felt calmer than before. I sighed contently at myself. My phone buzzed with a message from Thomas.

Thomas: Where are you dude? The guide said we need to go!

Me: I'll catch up. I still need to sit for a while

Thomas: You sure?

Me. Ye, just tell me where to turn and shit

Thomas: Fine. I'll keep you updated. BE CAREFUL!

Me. Yes DAD!

I put my phone on my lap and finished my cigarette. I tossed the cigarette butt in the air and watched it fall down on the cliff, all the while hearing the tour guide's voice 'Do not litter the mountain!'

I fished for another cigarette. I took my phone and snap a couple photos of the view. When suddenly somebody whisper-yelled behind me

"What are you doing?" I was so startled that I dropped my phone and my cigarette in the cliff, I saw it hitting a few branches of trees. I turned around, I'm sure fumes are exiting my ears.

"What the HELL!" I said to the stranger in front of me. "Look what you did!" I outstretched my arms wildly towards the cliff.

He raise his thick eyebrows at me. "Look what YOU did!" he said shoving me to the cliff and pointing a finger to the tiny ashes left by the cigarette.

I shook my shoulders of off his grip and pushed his hands away.

"Seriously? I don't care about some stupid ashes! You just made me drop my phone!" I said clenching my fist while staring straight at him.

He didn't back down. "It's not my fault you were stupid enough to sit near a cliff while holding your phone." He said as his face hardens.

"Didn't you know that it's not right to litter on someone else's property?" He said raising both of his eyebrows at me.

I didn't respond.

I looked at the cliff once again and spotted my phone, caught by a branch of tree. If I could somehow get down there while hanging from other branches I could maybe, potentially get it.

"It's not going to work. Whatever you're thinking, it's not gonna work." He said sighing, like he was the one exhausted and exasperated.

I ignored him and started to grab onto one of the branches near the stone I was sitting on, I used it to lower myself down.

"Whatever, not my problem." I hear the stranger say, as I heard his footsteps scuffling on some gravel.

What a douche! He's really leaving me here.

I took in a huge breath and swung towards another branch, successfully hanging on to it, I'm getting closer, just one more branch and I'm go----- My hand slipped from the previous branch and I started to fall down. I managed to grab an unstable patch of grass and I knocked the branch that was keeping my phone steady, I watched as it fell down, I could hear the crackling sound of the screen as it made its way down the hill.

Shit.

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Noah's random ig :

This is what he posted just before his phone fell.


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