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Chapter 16 - To the Tree

She opens the window. I didn't care about anything. Honestly, all I wanted to do was sleep. For eternity. There was no purpose. I swing out of the window, almost forgetting it was two stories. I slip and fall all the way down. It was kind of euphoric. I fell on top of a bush.

"There was a ladder for a reason," she laughs, "that works too I guess."

I get up slowly. I grab my arm.

"Are you ok?" She asks.

"I'm fine." I state coldly.

"We have to hurry before sundown!" She blabs.

We started running into the middle of a forest. I'm getting cut by thorns. My shoes are all muddy and I just feel terrible. My eyes get heavy and I feel like passing out.

"How much farther?" I beg.

"Almost there!" She cheers.

Jeez, how much energy does she have? She leads me to a ravine over a stream. There is a ginormous tree. You could stand 4 men on top of each other and still not reach the top. It's the same for width.

"Aww," she said, "come on."

"You didn't reserve it," a girl yells from inside the tree.

Fay flipped through the paper stapled to the tree. "Neither did you!"

"Oh shut up," the girl comes out from a trail. She was cute. She had dark curly brown hair covering a potion of her eyes. "What are you looking at?" She spits near my shoes.

"She's new here," Fay continues, "everyone is a shiny new toy."

"Oh shut up," I smack her playfully.

"Please, Carly," she whined.

"Ugh," she walked away.

"You didn't have to scare her off!" I joke.