Author's Note: First Over the Garden Wall fanfiction! Hope you like it, and don't decide it's terrible and should be burned!
"I can't believe you got us lost… no, scratch that, I can completely believe that, Adelaide Ramos. You are always doing things like this!" I shouted at my best friend.
"You should talk!" she shouted back, tossing her long dark hair. "Anyway, I never get lost, it's you lot who are always getting us turned around!"
"Addie, you were the one who said you had a place to show us," Whisper said, crossing her arms and shooting her twin sister a pointed glare.
"Okay, okay, everyone just calm down," my younger sister Sunshine tried to mollify us. She was always the mediator of the group. "It's no one's fault, and if we keep arguing we're never going to make it out of these woods."
"I agree," Addie said.
"Of course you agree, it's your fault!" I exclaimed.
"No, your sister is right. We need to keep our heads on straight," Enoch said with an air of finality. "We aren't going to survive the night in these woods otherwise."
Okay, so I should probably give a quick explanation. My name is Asher Emerson… or it was. I don't know if it is anymore, but for simplicities sake, let's just say it is. My best friend Adelaide Ramos had told me and the rest of our friends that she had something really cool that we had to see, and taken us over a wall in a graveyard, and when we tried to cross the river on this shabby raft, the currents pulled us off course, and landed us here, in these woods. Not fun.
"Okay," Enoch said. Enoch usually came up with the plans for our little group. He was good at it too. "So, Asher, you still got that lantern?"
"Yeah," I say. "I managed to hold on to it, but the flame's out."
Enoch shrugged, and held out his hand. I tentatively handed him the lantern. He smiled. "It's a miracle. There's still some oil left. Whisper, you have matches, right?"
Whisper rolled her eyes, but unzipped her jacket pocket and pulled out a slightly damp pack of matches. "Can you even light damp matches?" she asked Enoch.
"Yeah, just a sec, I have a flashlight," he told her. He then did something or other, I wasn't really paying attention, with the flashlight, and the match lit. He lit the lantern with a smile, and handed it back to me.
"Nice," Sunshine complimented him.
"Thanks," he flashed his teeth at her.
"Okay, break up the love-fest, her brother, aka ME, is standing right here," I cut in awkwardly, causing them both to blush and protest that they had no interest in each other. Yeah, sure.
"What now?" I asked Enoch.
"Well, look down."
We all looked down. Whisper was the first to put it together. "It's a path, isn't it?"
"If not, then it's a very inconvenient natural occurrence," I say. "Paths usually lead to civilization, don't they?"
"I think so," Addie shrugged. "What would be the point of a path that lead to nothing?"
So we followed the path.
Now, before you start reading the story rest of our story, you should know three things:
One- we were all kids, in high school except for Sunshine, who was in the eighth grade.
Two- we shouldn't have followed that path
Three- this isn't a story with a happy ending