The Forest by M.D.

I was going camping with my family in Becker wood forest and when we were all set out to go when my idiot brother Robert had to go to bathroom. We waited ten minutes and then I volunteered myself to go and see what was taking him so long so I went into my cold house in the middle of the city where the stink of clothes was lying in a ball in the middle of the kitchen waiting to be attended to.


I heard the noise of the bathroom light going on so I went right up beside it and clenched my fist and banged it against the wooden door and waited for a response and all I heard was the toilet flushing and I knew he was done I backed away from the door then to see that the door swung open and to see my brother with a tear of snot hanging down from his nose and he walked out the door and I sighed and followed behind him.


When I walked out the door to only realise that I have forgot my phone upstairs beside my desktop computer so I ran upstairs and saw that it was lying there waiting for its owner to put it in its pocket. I walked towards it picked it up stared at it as I was going down the stairs then to find my dad waiting there at the door for me with a annoyed face on him and I knew if I didn’t get into the car quick he would be even more mad. I went out the door into the car where I saw my brother playing his small red Nintendo and the volume on loud. I closed the door with a bang I then swung my arm to get the seatbelt hanging their casually and brought it a crossed my shoulder down towards the clip at the bottom of my seat and then saw my dad’s footsteps coming towards my door but the avoided it and climbed into the driver’s seat and turned on the ignition and started the car and since this was early in the morning of November I couldn’t see one thing out my window because it was too fogged up.


Along the way of the journey the numbers of cars passed by our car got lower and lower and as we came up to a stop sign. Dad turned his body so that he face was looking towards the both of us and said it not that far now. So we passed by the stop sign and went up a road that led us to a roundabout and we took the 2nd exit and then we all saw the sign now as it became small drops of water staying in the same place. It was saying that the next turn was for beckerwood. So as I swayed to one side as the car turned as and as we turned into the entrance there was a big wooden sign with the beckerwood in big bold letters and when we turned a park ranger was in a desk waiting for my dad to pay the fine to enter the woods .my dad hurried as he put his hand into his pocket to only find the soft leather and a 2 cent coin he slowly brought his hand out of his pocket and to ask any of us do they have a tenner so I rembered that I had a tenner in the pocket seat of where I was sitting because I rembered when back two weeks ago when I helped my next door neighbour help her lawn her back garden and I remember when I did it she gave me a glass of lemonade and a ten euro paper bill and I then never came back and I never did that lawn again so I reached into the pocket that was in front of me and felt all around inside the pocket to find the crunched up ball that was my tenner so I pulled out and straightened it and gave it to my dad which by now the mom nearly had a tenner in change but I got ahead of her and gave dad the money to pay the man so when he let the gates open there was a large squeak of the the gates opening it was as if going through an abandoned grave yard there was worn off benches to have your lunch there was litter everywhere from past people coming in and left the rubbish on the ground there was a taste of gone off pizza in and around the car park and a taste that as if we weren’t welcomed.


There was no sun shining past the big oak trees that stood either side of the road that led us up a hill where there was another family getting their gear on them to go hiking so we pulled up 2 spaces beside them there was also 2 other cars that were empty the both are seem to be as if they were brought here and left their to be eroded by the wind. When we got out of the car there was a taste of animal flesh going around me and all I could hear was an often sound of a sparrow squawking into open air and the flapping of wings as they parachuted through the air into another branch of another tree.


When my dad got out of the car he peered at the other family unloading their equipment then when both of the family’s looked at each other so then my dad made a hand gesture and went over to the other family and greeting them so then we were left unloading the car and the stuff we needed for hiking so we sat down at the boot of the car putting on out hiking boots and putting on our jackets on so we don’t get cold and then when we had the car unloaded my dad introduce the rest of our family to the family next to us. They were called the Donovan’s they’re family was taller than us there were 3 boys and no girls they’re dad and mom was also tall so the 3 names of the boys were Ben, Zak, Elliot. my dad decide to head off before it’s to late then we started ahead of the Donovan’s and we started trucking up the hill then the path led into a big wild long length of bushes and as we were stamping through the weeds of grasses that were in our way I heard… a noise. A noise…. That I don’t like hearing it came from my right side then I hear a crackling of a small twig off a tree from my left side so then I started to catch up with my family till nearly I tripped into a bush then I tried to get passed my brother but he was blocking up both ways to try and get to where I can be protected by my mom and dad but as things started to get creepy I saw a silhouette of a man on the on the other side of me beside a tree in the distance then I thought I was being paranoid and believing that this was real so I put my hands on my face and kept saying to myself this isn’t real this isn’t real.


I opened them again to find that it was real there actually was a man beside the tree probably lost or waiting to kill me. Then I went up past out my brother and went to my dad and he said that it was nonsense and I was a lunatic. It was midday the I couldn’t see the brightness we were too far into the forest and there was nothing stopping my family finishing the hike so then I just had to pretend I didn’t see him and he didn’t see me and I would be fine but I secretly wasn’t fine I just wanted to home.


I continued on the journey casually trying to go faster so that we can finish this stupid thing. I was always 10 steps ahead of my family so I could be the leader that will be at the top first but hen something crackled in a bush that was blocking my view I was beginning to shiver I got all shaky so then I had pretend I didn’t know about this crackling and had to go past the bush but be very weary I was then head on beside the bush and then a man appeared from behind the bush he was wearing a black suit and he had a mask on so that I couldn’t see his face but had long unusual hands that picked me up and carried me towards a big long length of bushes and as I was being carried into bushes I squealed as hard as I can so that my family and other people could hear me but I knew they wouldn’t keep up with the masked man. The man knocked me out.


I was in a cave I woke to find that my hands were tied together exposing that I could be sliced open in the neck so I heard footsteps and then appeared to be a slender type man in a morph suit that had scythe in his hand brushing the metal around with a napkin and then I heard voices from the outside of the cave then appeared my dad with a several garda policemen with dog hounds and then my dad ran to me as if everything is going to be okay but before he could reach me slender man sliced my neck and I was dead their I could see the last glimpse of y family for one more time and I had a tear in my eye so then everything went soggy glimpse and then I bleed out quickly and slender man was then arrested and my dad ran to me to try and stop the bleeding but I didn’t work there so much blood gone they couldn’t help me. I was then brought to hospital in an emergency ambulance and then died in hospital then they gave me the best funeral ever in my opinion. The end