Chapter one: Lost
Ava sat in silence, staring wide-eyed at the beautiful forest on either side of her, tall dark trees, fallen moss covered logs, bright colored mushroom's and flowers peeking up everywhere. A squirrel sat, perched on a branch, nibbling at a nut, and staring.
Then she looked down at the beautiful mare she was riding. It was a palomino, with a black mane; the glossy sandy colored hide almost shimmered. The horse had deep blue eyes and a small black shaped star on her forehead. It was a tall, lean horse with black around its hooves. The smooth mane fell gracefully down its neck and over its forehead.
She smiled, and looked to her right, where Sam, one of her fiends, was sitting atop a tall white stallion, with a shockingly dark mane, and black spotted legs. And, admittedly, she resembled a sack of potatoes. She seemed to be lost in thought, her glasses were sliding off her nose, and her black hair, now grown long once more, fell freely down her back, black as her horse's mane. Sam was a tall, (around 5'11") paler girl with a few freckles, and brown eyes. She loved the color green, and you could tell, at the moment she was wearing a bright green t-shirt, and jeans, green earrings and a necklace, also in green. She was often hyper, loved candy, writing, and al things squirlly-penguiny-cheesey. she was madly in love with Sirius, Daniel Radcliff, and Yuki Sahoma.
Ava turned a bit in the saddle to see Mel, right behind her, also slightly potato-sackish on her chestnut mare. The glossy brown hide, and dark mane, and big brown eyes gave the mare almost a doe-ish look. Mel smiled and waved as Ava turned around, and she returned the gesture. Mel was on the shorter side, around 5'4" with brown hair, which was in a neat ponytail, and blue eyes, and pale-ish freckled skin. She was usually more the thinker, she was great at math and devoured books like candy. Also she tended to be the more serious, sarcastic type, who loved to hug. At the moments she wore a purple t-shirt with the phrase "Those who think they know it all, annoy those of us who do" printed on the front, some jeans, and a long purple pendant.
On her right, finally, was Dale. Dale was about Ava's height, more in the middle at 5'6" or 5'7" ish. She had a slight Korean look to her, dark skin and hair, that was now just past her shoulder blades Also hung loose. Dale was a great artist, and loved to write, she also loved all things cameo, moshing, harder rock, Kyo, Remus, and werewolves. She wore a cameo tank top, and a pair of brown cargo pants. Right now she seemed to be muttering things to her tall, graceful and sleek black stallion.
Ava was a tallish 5'7 ½ " girl wish pale skin, some freckles, and blue green grey eyes. Her ashy-blonde hair was up in a messy ponytail. She loved music, acting, reading and writing, the fact that she may or may not be good at any of these things is irrelevant. She was what some called "funny" and other called "corny" or perhaps a strange mix of the two. At the moment she was wearing a dark blue Roxy t-shirt, and a pair of dark stretchy jeans. She wore a silver and blue necklace, and dark blue studs. She had ridden probably more than any of them, considering she lived around them for a large portion of her life.
Ava, Sam, Dale, and Mel had been friends for a long time, and this summer, Ava had hauled them with her to her summer home in Idaho. After spending a few weeks lazing around her house, watching movies and generally getting fat, they decided on going for a trip and this horseback ride through the Clearwater woods in Idaho. Their guide, a tall lanky girl with braided light brown hair, and numerous freckles sat gracefully on her light brown mare ahead of them. Numerous other tourists filed in front and behind them, a man with a bright yellow button up t-shirt, and large set woman with frizzy brown hair and a large camera around her neck, a snot-nosed 9year old with a buzz light-year shirt, and a tall gawky 8 year old girl with stringy blonde hair in pigtails, two missing front teeth and a "I love Idaho" shirt were only a few.
After about an hour of riding, the group stopped for lunch. Another guide, a tall, skinny blonde haired guy, who'd been bringing up the rear, stood by the brown braided girl, and together they shouted and instructed the group to "tie up their horses on a strong tree, give their horses space, please, do not walk right behind the horses and to line up to receive the lunches they paid for from the guides saddle bags. And please do not litter, pick up all trash at place it in the provided sacks tied to the guide's horses, please do not pick the flowers, or feed the wildlife….." it went on and on.
Finally after everyone was settled with a lunch the guides disappeared a little into the woods for a long and aggressive session of tonsil hockey. Sam, Mel, Dale, and Ava walked a bit away from the group to eat their lunch, Ava and Dale both sat on a recently-fallen log, and leaned against the trees on either side. Mel sat on a nearby boulder and Sam simply sat in the soft grass in the center of them all. They talked as they ate their sandwiches and munched their chips. They talked about How the guides were seriously snogging, and about the horses, and overall the lameness of the passengers and the pace. They all longed to let the horses gallop at least, and Ava especially, who'd ridden a lot, wanted to run.
They finished eating way ahead of the rest of the group, stuffed all their garbage in the brown paper bags, and, crumpling them up tossed them in the trash bags. Ava sighed and looked around
"well this sucks" she announced. Sam sighed deeply. Mel nodded and dale mumbled something dark. They waited around for a bit, staring at the tourists, and making faces at the little boy. Soon though they got amazingly, retardedly bored and finally, dale could take it no longer.
"Come on these people will be eating for hours, lets explore or something, I'm going nuts!"
"No way." Mel said at once "were going to get lost."
"Awww common Mel" Sam whined "we wont go that far."
"Ya" Ava agreed "come on, if I have to look at that florescent yellow shirt any longer I'm going to go blind."
"Hello? Haven't you guys read those books where the kids go exploring and get lost? Its so cliché."
"Exactly." Ava prodded "and that's exactly why its not going to happen."
"If you don't come willingly, I'm going to drag you." Dale said grinning evilly.
"Fine," Mel consented finally "but we're not going far."
"Of course not!" Sam said half heartedly, grabbing Mel by the arm and grabbing her by the arm and dragging her along with the rest of them. They walked for a ways, into the shady forest, the birds sang, and those funny woodsy things made those funny woodsy noises. The group talked and laughed, and soon, they lost track of time. Finally Ava stopped. The others slowed and loosed back. "Hey guys," she gulped "does anybody know where we are?"
Mel's mouth dropped open, and she began to say something when Sam shouted "LOOK! A DEER!" and galloped off into the forest. Dale, Ava and Mel stood, speechless for a moment, before reluctantly running after her. They raced farther and farther into the forest, just barely keeping sight of Sam. The green of her shirt, though bright, was still green and was hard to distinguish. Sam ran amazingly fast. They struggled to keep up. Finally, Sam slowed, and finally stopped, panting for breath. The others came running up panting and wheezing. Between breaths Ava gasped
"What……the…..frap….made…..you…do…that????" she collapsed in a blue heap on the leafy forest floor.
"Idiot…" Dale gasped, falling besides Ava. Mel collapsed besides them and Sam stood, leaning against a tree for support. Finally when they all caught their breath, Sam stood.
"did you guys see that deer? It was HUGE!" she grinned and sat down beside them.
Dale simply raised her head and glared. Ava, who had been in the process of raising her head dropped it with a groan. Mel sat up facing her,
"What were you THINKING Sam?" she accused. "Now were amazingly hopelessly lost in this huge forest, and its all your fault."
Sam, taken aback cried "What? My fault? We were hopelessly lost already, thanks to DALE" she glared at the heap of cameo.
Dale raised her head "Ya well we wouldn't even BE here if it wasn't for Ava!"
Ava, just stared, her mouth open but not working. The idea just wasn't sinking in. they…they were lost. In the amazingly huge Clearwater woods. Alone. With no supplies. She couldn't believe it she expected to wake up. The faint din of her friends arguing just didn't mix with the peaceful birdsong. And soon, she started to panic.
"What.. What the heck are we supposed to do?" she asked, scared.
"How the bloody hell am I supposed to know" Sam shot back. Who was also staring to freak.
"Guys…we've..we've gotta get back before they leave" Ava was getting really frantic. She wasn't cut out for this. She couldn't survive in the woods. They had nothing. And that's worse than a lot of kids on books. At least they have things like tents, or hatchets.
"We know!" the yelled in union
at once they all stood, and ran in separate, each now in full panic mode. Sam was running in circles, shrieking. Mel was running about frantically around a large tree mumbling,
"Moss.. WHERE THE HELL IS THE FLIPPEN MOSS!" and Dale, running right and left, jumping vainly to see was cursing in an increasingly loud voice. Ava ran about murmuring and attempting vainly to climb trees, she finally succeeded in one and scrambled up its top limbs searching vainly for a hint of the trail they'd been on. They each went about panicking in their own ways until they finally exhausted themselves. Ava climbed down from the tree. They three ceased their running and all of the fell once again the ground, feeling utterly helpless. Finally they crawled to each other and sat in a circle
"ok." Mel said in a much calmer voice "now, we can't panic-"
"too late." Ava cut in, sighing.
Mel glared at her before continuing "anyway, we've gotta stick together, lets try to retrace our steps."
Dale, Sam, and Ava agreed and they set off in the direction they most agreed on. They walked for hours, in silence each hoping, at least to find the trail, so they could walk back. But it was not to be. They ended up even more lost. They slowly stopped each one of them knowing it was no use. They were lost in woods. And it was getting dark.
A.N. lol i know a little chiche, but it will get diffrent, you'll see! please R&R