Into the woods

Chapter 5: Some Weird Creepy Monster Thing

   The beast carries us to a cave, or lair, or something, and it wraps me and April up in sticky, gooey stuff. I can barely see because it is so dark. I try to use my senses and find out where we are. I smell, a damp cave and, SMOKE? I am pretty sure I smell smoke. If there is smoke, there is fire. And where there is fire is nothing good. I see a faint light in the distance. It must be the fire. But it is too far to tell where I am. I do not even know if I am in a cave! I could be in someone's cave-like house in the middle of the woods! Then, I get an idea of what happened with Summer.

  Summer must have been taken by this big, huge, scary beast. There might be a chance she is here now! I try to move, but I am stuck. Like in some giant spider's web. Like they are about to eat you. Wait, maybe, there is a giant spider that wants to eat me! I have got to get outta here! shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot, I think. What resources can I use? Feeling! I can feel what it on me. That won't do much, but it can tell me some. 

  So, I try to feel around where I am. I feel cold spaghetti. No. Yes. It is cold, why would someone or something wrap me in spaghetti though? Foodie? I don't know. I feel the wall behind me. It is rocks. Like in a cave. Maybe I am in a cave. I use taste, to taste so-called, 'cold spaghetti'. It does not taste like cold spaghetti. I instantly regret trying to taste it. I cough it up. Then I hear someone. April.

"Winter! Is that you?" she asks.

"Yeah!" I reply.

"Where are we?" 

"I do not know!" I say. "Use your night-vision skills!" 

"All I see is a cave!" 

"Do you see a girl, brown hair, black eyes?" 

"Who? No," 

"Summer. I was hoping I would find her here. Maybe the beast we saw took her." 

"I am sorry to say this but, if she was here, she would probably be dead!" 

"I guess. But I can't give up hope!" 

"I see something coming!" whispers April.

"What?" I ask.

"I big, large, creepy, gooey, monster thing!" 

"Ew!" 

"It has blades for hands and it is very tall!" 

"We are gonna die!" I say.

"Yeah, probably," 

 I see a torch light up. Now I can see so much better! When I get a real view of the beast, my eyes just want to run out of their sockets and hide. I scream. It roars. April screams. I look away. Then it speaks in some kind of monster language. I dare not to speak. It speaks a bit loader. And scarier. Maybe this will be how I die. While I have the chance with light, I look around. Yup. Just as I suspected. I am in a cave. And the monster. He (or she) is so scary. Blades for hands, no eyes, blade legs, huge mouth.

 I am sure he is going to eat us. I say, "April, what do we do?" 

"Try to break out!" she replies.

I guess the monster can understand English because he roars. At us. I look at what is keeping me to the wall. They look like long, sticky, worms. This is seriously gross. I scream inside my head. Oh dear lord someone please help me, I think. No wonder it tasted bad when I tasted it. It was worms after all. 

  The monster beast blade thing leaves the cave out into the darkness. "April," I whisper.

"Yeah?" she asks. 

"Do you see anyone else here?" I ask.

"I  cannot tell, because there are things that look like mummies, I can't tell if they are humans, animals, or just decor." 

"I say, humans," I wish me and April never went into the woods. I wish me and Summer never went into these woods. If none of that ever happened, Summer would be here and my life would be boring. I would rather have a boring life than live without my best friend in the whole world. 

  My head decides it is time for bed, I am tired, so I decided to fall asleep. On the worm things. In the monster's cave. I want to sleep, I just cannot. I have too much on my mind. April, Summer, Mom, monster, cave, worms, woods, Mr. Natale, Ingrid, McKenzie, and even Dad, who I don't really think about often. Besides, I am right side up! On worms in a cave! I mean seriously! You know, the night of a big test, or special day, you can't sleep? That is how I am feeling inside. Except it is a bad thing, not a good thing. Finally, I clear my mind and fall asleep.

  I got a very realistic dream. Like I was dead and watching my family handle it. Like I was a ghost or a spectator, watching over everyone like a creep. I can't control that! I mean, I am dreaming! I am watching my family at the police showing pictures of me and Summer. But wait, those are the creepy men who showed up at school yesterday! My mom is crying and my dad does not seem to want to sit by my mom. He is so annoyed. He looks like he does not even care at all. Like a child that is forced to go somewhere with their parent and they do not want to. This makes me a bit sad, to see my dad like that. I thought he loved me! Then, I drift off into the awake world.