Hey there all you Mystery fans and you, Chuck the invisible clown. It's been a few days since my last post, sorry about that.
It's been really really hot. Plus I couldn't think of anything to write about till a few minutes ago. It happened a few weeks ago. Right at the beginning of summer. It was still hot. I went to my friends house. (To hide her identity lets call her Jess.) Anyway, Jess is this really sweet country girl who shares my love of hiking and being outside. She decided she had to take me to the creek a few miles away. Since it was a hot day and it wasn't that far, or so I thought at the time, we grabbed some water and snacks and headed on our way.
We biked about 3 miles or so then turned down a dirt road which turns out to be someones drive way. The conversation kind of went like this,
Me: "Who's house is this?"
Her: "Mr. ***** (I don't remember his name.)"
Me: "Are we going to get shot?"
Her: "No Crystal. They are nice people. They aren't going to shoot us."
Me: "How sure are you? Because this seriously looks like we are in a scene from a horror movie. I can see it now, Two girls riding their bikes through the woods. A man with an axe runs out and tries to kill them. But one girl jumps off her bike and starts beating him with it till he runs away crying..."
Her: "I seriously doubt that you can beat a killer off with that bike."
Me: "Me? I was talking about you. I'm gonna get that axe away from him... Or just run away."
Her: "Why don't we both just run away?"
Me: "Cause your going to sacrifice yourself to save your friend. Little children will sing songs about how brave you were. And I will write a best selling book about you. See? It all works out in the end!"
Her: "Except I'll be dead."
Me: "Why must you look on the bad side of things?"
After leaving our bikes near Mr. *****'s house, we started back into the woods. This is when Jess said,
"I think it's this way."
NOTICE: She said THINK. We went that way. There was nothing there. We turned around and went the other way. More nothing. After an hour we see people. After scaring them, because it was 100 degrees or over that day and we had been walking through the woods for an hour... we looked like monsters, we asked them for directions. He told us there should be a trail behind Mr. ****'s house that would lead us to the creek. We thanked him and left.
Back at Mr. ****'s house we looked for another hour for this trail... We were almost out of water and we still had a long way to go. So we tried knocking on their door. Nothing. We seen a very nice welcoming water hose. They won't notice if we fill our bottles up. We found the end of the hose and Jess held it out, I turned it on. It spit out mud and leaves. We thought "Oh it just hasn't been used in a while.." We were wrong. Piles of leaves and green water came out. After a few minutes she remembered that some of the people had their hoses hooked up to a nearby pond. We gave up on the water. We finally just sat on his back porch and sadly ate our snack. She finally called her Dad who gave us more directions. After 30 more minutes he called us back telling us supper was ready. We went back to her house and collapsed in the floor. Her parents starred at us: Muddy, smelly, twigs in our hair (Who knows what else!), and tired. Her Dad was confused how we couldn't find it so he went over the directions with Jess again:
Him: "You went three miles to the big curve in the road?
Her: "Yes."
Him: "Now tell me what else did you do?"
Her: "We went to the dirt road and went straight and-"
Him: "What? Why did you go straight? You're suppose to take a left."
Her: "But we were at Mr.*****'s house!"
Him: "No... Jess, who's house did you go to? You know what Mr. ****'s looks like."
Her: "They looked similar. Ok?"
Me: "So now how sure are you that we wouldn't be shot?"
So we took baths and ate. After our big adventure we didn't feel like staying up late or doing much of anything. But we did play twister with her little brother.
The next morning we decided to try again really quick before my ride got there, since I've yet to get my licence. We took the left this time. And we found it within 20 minutes or so. But we couldn't stay long. We got back to the main road as my ride got there. we waved him down and put the bikes in the back. He tried not to laugh to hard as I told him what happened. After we dropped Jess off and got my bag, we went to eat sushi. And that is how I got lost in the woods on one of the hottest days of the year.
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