“1 mississippi…2 Mississippi…3 mississippi,” and so on he went counting down the clock. “HERE I COMEEE!!!!” He screeched at the top of his lungs. I sprinted towards the decaying trees. Fall time is always my favorite. We had the radio on talking about the football game. Steelers vs Chiefs, and we knew who was gonna win.

Around 10 minutes later I wondered, “Wheres the seeker?” Either I have a really good hiding spot, or they’re really bad at seeking. I think it’s both personally. I hid in a bush quietly, until I heard a bang on the wish tree. I tilted my head at the tree and saw a small dent, like a head hit it. The sound was hollow and quieter than expected. I felt a cold drip on the tree through my spine. I turned my head round the tree again to see some red like consistency dropping from the tree to the muddy ground. I sprinted farther in the forest, not being able to hear the game anymore. I remember being by approximately 10 trees and them all dropping trees.

I woke up in a hospital 10 days later, I got a major concussion from tripping down the stairs. I don’t think I did, but the doctors said my mother replied to them with that when they asked what happened. I now know that didn’t happen for a fact. My mother was in Maryland, we were in Louisiana. She could have never knew what happened to me. My father couldn’t have told her because he was drunk on the couch.

I thought? I tried to stand up from the hospitals tilted bed, to realize I was paralyzed from the waist down. Realizenetment filled my eyes as I remembered the only person I had saw that day was my best friend and his girlfriend. His girlfriend, Amanda, was sitting on the porch of the house across the yards away we were. I felt the cold air from my elevated window. The floor was creaky and cold. There were dents shaped as squares on the floor.

I stared outside the now covered in soaked leaves window, at the brown concrete overgrown on by weeds and grass. If that doesn’t give you a perfect definition of how people treat their world, I don’t know what will. I decided to try drawing on the napkin they gave me earlier today and the pen by me.

I don’t what I’ll do for my life now, but now I can’t play hide and seek….and hunt them down.

Maybe in another life I will, depends on if they do.