“So.. wanna try to find a way back or keep going?” I asked Bernice.

“I really have no idea,” she said sleepily.

“Well,” I yawned. “We should go back. God, imagine how crazy our parents are right now!”

“Don’t remind me,” she muttered.

I turned around to see the direction we’d be going, but the path was not there. Spinning around to try to see some way of going back the way we’d come, I couldn’t see any, just like yesterday.

Only the path in front of us was still there.

_{~When we had to stay in the woods that night, I don’t think either of us slept at all. I was too busy listening for anything that may have been approaching us, and I knew she was awake the entire time by the way she flinched from even the tiniest of sounds in the night.}

Whenever she noticed that I was still awake, though, she would stop moving, stop freaking out.

She didn’t want me to know how scared she was.

She didn’t want me to be scared too.~