Fear forest

Three months ago, on March 15th, I decided to go out on my own for the day to the forest of “Fear Town”, the biggest forest in the country. There were myths about that place, it was said that anyone who got inside of it could never get out. It was also said that the temperature of the forest was always very low. There was a rumour which said that one student had gone there and never came back. I told my friends that I would go and come back whithout any trouble. Some said I was a liar, others that I was going to die. And finally, the girls said that I shouldn´t do that because it was not necessary for me to prove anything to anyone. I said that because I was the most popular guy of my class. And I thought that if I wanted to keep like that I would have to do something that anyone could never do. My best friend, Michael, told me that he would come with me, so we decided to go there as soon as possible. Two days later, we went to the forest. It took about 25 minutes to arrive there. There was an announcement which said “WELCOME TO FEAR TOWN”. My friend and I looked at each other and I felt a chill. It was getting dark very quickly. We walked there for some minutes looking at the trees and plants around us. The temperature was coming down. Fortunately, we knew all the rumors about that forest and we took some precautions. I had a pack with coats, flashlights, one compass, a photo camera and two army knives. Michael had a special pack were he carried a tent.
We stayed there for some time taking photos to prove we had been there, after that we just sat there waiting for something to happen, but nothing turned out. We were relaxed because we thought that something strange or dangerous would occur. But when we decided to get away from there, we heard a strange sound, like a scream. I was very afraid and I told Michael that we should investigate it. We ran towards the place where the scream came from. We didn’t find anyone, but we found somo old dirty clothes on the grass. We picked it up and after that we heard that strange sound again, but this time it came from where we were standing before. At the same time, I felt as if an evil presence would be watching us from the trees. I told that to Michael and he said that he thought he had seen a shadow moving on the branches. I was shocked and confused about everything; I told Michael that I didn’t want to stay there to discover what was happening. So we decided to leave that scary forest. We looked at the compass to see where we had to go. But the needle of the compass was spinning around. As soon as we saw that, we couldn´t control our fear and we ran towards the direction where we came from. But we appeared again in the first place we were before. We were running in circles.
Suddenly, I came up with an idea. I took one of the knives and made some marks on the trunks of the trees around me. After that I took the clothes and I put them in the middle of all those trees. Then I told Michael to run in the same direction as before but that this time we would have better luck. He looked all confused and scared. But he made exactly what I told him. We ran and ran and this time we saw the exit.
I kissed the announcement which said “WELCOME TO FEAR TOWN”. Michael cried when he saw it, I didn’t know if it was either happiness or pain, but I didn´t want to ask him. We looked at each other and smiled. Then I took the photo camera and saw the pictures we had taken. But instead of a dark forest we saw two terrible eyes looking at us from behind the trees.

Pen-name: Octopus
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