Trail

Chapter 1, part 2

"I really hope he learns his lesson...Had he calls you yet?" Jessie asks. I—I once got bothered by him when he called me. But that was long ago, the ringtone is heard and I realize it is my favorite ringtone. I answer mine.

"Hello?"
I ask in a question matter. Then I heard his voice, a masculine, cheerful voice I indeed heard.
"Hey, (mother's name)."

Back to the forest...

"..."

Two shadows immobile in a far distance, but I observe more and—one of their mouths is moving. The another is not. Maybe it is the angle. Their height is so different from each other; one big difference about height is— one of them has the same as mine. She or he might be eight years old too... Same height and age as me.
Go back to the party...
I should ask for help from them—

It is too dangerous...
You must run for your life...
I had seen it.

You must save yourself...

I run in the direction where I had come from, and I quickly guess during that time.

I am getting closer, closer, and closer when laugh and squeak became audible. The party is still going; that what I think for my last thought. The light; it is reachable. Then my foot shoot pain, tiredness is also weighing me down. I see black tentacles as well as crackling; the noises go everywhere and it begin to hurt my hearing. Some spots of black cover my sight indicate I am losing some conscious.

I survived. My mother looks pretty unsettle while her friends and Jessie run up to me. The children stop what they are doing and look at me...
"Are you alright, sweetie?"
"What are you doing in the woods?!"
"Why are you inside the woods?"
"This is so dangerous; you could get lost in these woods." One of my mother's friend lectures me about these woods; she definitely lectures me to death, but she treats me as one of her children. I forgot...that monster—is the monster following me? Is the monster gone?

Is the monster going to finishes me off?
We have to go. Now.
"Mom, can we leave?"
"But the party is not over, I mean we have not try out the cake..." The same woman (who lectures me from minutes ago) speaks honest since all adult and children do not have any slices from Kade's happy birthday cake.
"(mother's name), is it okay if you stay for a while?" The same woman inquire as the other women went among with her saying. They had not seen my mother for a few days because she been took cared of me.
"We can stay here for longer..."
I look back to the forest where I came out from. Could the monster not gets me from here? Because of surrounded people?
"Yay." The same woman clapped her hands when she say it. I had a doom facet when I thought:
'The monster will gets me at my house.'

The worst part had came so fast. We bring some leftover cake from Kade's. I and my mother are inside our car; my mother is driving while I sat in backseats plus with our seatbelts on. It is very silent and this is our normal routine. When we enter into our neighborhood, my mother starts off a conversation with me. The rear mirror in our car; her (color) eyes stare at me very closely like detectives would.
"I am grateful for my friend who lets us borrow a dress..."

"..." I did not bothered to answer back to her for agreement. The dress is kinda girly, but whatever. I may or may not like it...
The forest around my neighborhood is sending me these frightening vibes. He is here.

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