No! It happened again. I went out hiking with my best friend of three years, Ami, and little did we know we had gotten lost on our trail without even realising. I feel like an absolute moron right now, you would think after the third hiking trip we’ve gone on together, and had gotten lost in these very same woods we would remember to bring a map, or a compass, or something to help us, but no! We’re now both lost in this sea of trees with every path we turn to looking the exact same no matter were we looked or how we look at them. I’m just so annoyed with myself right now and so is Ami, how could we have been so stupid to get lost again for the fourth time this year. Now we are going to have to walk around in hopes of finding something that would help us get back to our starting point, or to help us get back home at least, or maybe even someone to help point us in the right direction. I just hope that it won’t take too long, I mean it’s getting dark out already and I don’t want to be camping out here all night with barely any supplies and with who knows what in these empty woodland areas.

It’s been almost two hours now, two long and extremely exhausting hours, and me and Ami still haven’t found anything in these woods besides from just more trees and plants and other non useful things. Don’t get me wrong, nature is beautiful, but not when you’ve been forced to look at it for two hours straight when your stressing on how to get out of it and back home! We’ve drank all of our water, we’re both so tired as well as hungry, and our feet are killing us so badly that I can feel the blisters forming at the back of my heels. Wait. There’s… something up ahead. A roadside! Yes! Finally, something that would help us a bit to try and get home. Now all me and Ami have to do was hitchhike a ride back home, which were hoping won’t be a problem, I mean loads of cars drive by all the time, right? All we have to do is stand by the side of the road, like this, and hold our thumbs out in hopes a car would drive past and see us. And hey, look, seems like we two aren’t the only ones who are hitchhiking out here. There’s someone else up ahead doing the exact same thing we’re doing, they had there back turned to us though so we couldn’t see their face, but they did wear a nice red hoodie with jeans and a backpack. I was soo jealous of that hoodie, and so was Ami, I mean it is freezing out here in these woods, and with it growing late and more cold. That definitely was not helping. The wind just kept continuing to pick up and it was just growing colder and colder by the minute, god the one day where we didn’t dress appropriately for the occasion and decided to go for looks over comfort. We’re practically freezing out here and my body feels frozen from the tip of my toes to the top of my head.

I’m so tired of just waiting here on the side of this god for saken roadside, it’s been almost fourtie five minutes and my arm is killing me due to how long I’ve held my stupid thumb up and out in the road. I’m just so ready to quit doing this stupid-. Wait. A car! Ones driving past! And, yes, it’s stopping for us and the other person wearing that red hoodie. Who was actually a guy that looked to be in his twenties or late thirties. Me and Ami are so relieved because it has gotten so dark and cold out here that it was actually getting rather eerie since we were beginning to hear all kinds of noises in the woods that were emerging. I got in the car with Ami and the other guy, and wow, the car is so warm and inviting. It even smells good too, like a freshly baked pie or something. I’m glad this guy stopped and picked us up instead of some greasy haired weirdo with some unkept car that would have probably smelt like the inside of some construction workers old and sweaty boot.

Ok…. Now that was odd, I just told the driver the location me and Ami wanted to get dropped off at an he just… smirked at it? Same with the other guy with the red hoodie on and with his backpack at his feet, he just sat there in the middle of me and Ami and when I said where we wanted to get dropped off at, he also smirked at it. Not to mention now that I realised, the guy in the red hoodie next to us is rather strange. I mean I don’t mean to be rude but he’s not spoken to me, Ami, or the driver ever since he’s gotten into the car with us, also his clothes and backpack is really dirty now that we’re able to get a closer look at it now. Like he’s been working with dirt all day since he had it all over his hands and under his fingernails. That was strange to say the least, I’m just glad the the driver agreed to drop us off at that location, which was just at the roadside of mine and Ami’s original starting point of our hiking journey. From there me and Ami would be able to walk back to our cars and drive home, were we can both just wined down for the rest of the night, and talk about how stupid we were to just go out on another hike without even thinking of bringing a map or even our phones to help us get out of the woods yet again. Looks like we really need to plan for our next hiking trip that’s for sure, god my mom would be so disappointed in my lack of thinking and preparation skills right now. And honestly I wouldn’t blame her.

This guy has been driving for a while now, which is weird because I don’t remember the starting point being that far away from where me and Ami got lost at. Maybe we did go father than intended and just hadn’t noticed it before? But I don’t remember it being this far. And I swear the driver and the guy in the red hoodie is starting to act even more strange than before. The driver isn’t answering me whenever I’m asking when we’ll get there, and the guy in the red hoodie is also not speaking to either me or Ami, their just sitting there in their seats in the car with those unsettling smirks on their faces. It is slowly starting to freak me and Ami out, and I can’t shake this feeling off that something is off about the driver and this stranger in the red hoodie, very, very wrong….