A Compilation of Some of My Short Stories

Lake Repé-At

It's that time of year again, the time where all of my friends fly off to foreign countries while I am left here going on a dreadful camping trip, to the same place every single year. We always go to our local camping site as my parents say it is the 'cheapest around'. I just wish that I could go somewhere different for once. I would even make the food for a week if I just got to go! It was the last day of school, the day before I go away camping. I had just arrived home after our school's leaving party, it was hard to believe that a year was finished at our school. I walked in to my parents talking about our holiday, they said that they were going to go somewhere different this year. At that point it was hard to hold in my joyousness! I just couldn't believe my luck, all of my prayers since last summer came true. The next day, while in our Ford Focus 2017, my parents announced that we we're going to Lake Repe-At. I had to pretend that I did not know and went with the flow. The camp was 3 hours away from our beat-down bungalow in Aberdeen, Scotland. Later that day, we arrived and I was told to do the laborious job of setting up the tent. I would have complained and shouted for days on end if I wasn't so happy about the holiday. My parents both decided to go scavenge for wood in the nearby forest because they wanted this trip to be 'authentic' and we could get closer to 'nature', so I spent a few minutes looking at the view which was being obscured by some fog. The lake went on for miles on end, it was murky and it seemed as if this area had never been touched by a human soul. The area around us was quite mountainous and I wished I could've stayed watching it all forever but alas, I had a job to do.I set up, unpacked and did everything I could do by myself but there was still no sign of my parents. They were both of the jokey kind so I thought that they were trying to make me scared and go searching for them but I didn't...For a while at least. It took me five minutes to decide against their pranking, I would rather they be safe than being worried about a prank. I headed into the forest but can I say, it was one of my worst decisions that I had ever made. It had been twenty minutes of me walking and searching in the forest and I was about to turn back when I heard a sound behind me, I stopped for a few seconds and tried to analyse the crunch of the leaves, I decided against that and turned around to be met with the reddest of eyes I have ever seen, I saw no body but I was scared to my core. It took all of my will-power to run. I ran and ran but I could see no end until...I saw a camp. I ran to it to seek shelter from the red eyes and to see if my parents were there. I saw a person that looked so familiar to me from behind but I couldn't put my finger on it. I started walking over to them when I realised, the area where this camp was looks exactly like ours. I stood there is shock and then I saw the person I was watching walk into the forest. I started to chase after them a few minutes after they left as I was somehow mesmerised by the water in the lake. I started walking after twenty minutes and finally caught up to the person. They turned around and I realised who the person I was following was, they were...Me! They started running away and I started to chase them, I wanted to know how they looked exactly like me. I was running and running until I come to another camp. I had a sudden sense of déjà vu and decided to look around. The forest that I had just came out of had disappeared and I was back in the camp from before, staring at myself.I would say that by this point I am 24 years old and I am still living this over and over again. I have tried so hard to walk away but it is like someone is forcing me to do this. I don't even think of what I am doing anymore, my body just moves whether I want it to or not. I do wonder what happened to my parents though...