"We're lost." I said bluntly, I looked around the forest, a part of one I was not familiar to. I brushed the dirty blonde hair out of my face and turned to Kaiden, my boyfriend. I gave him an unforgiving stare. "…what?" Kaiden said, just shrugging, "You're the one leading the way."
I sighed and looked around again, there were no leaves on the ground just dirt, yet there were no leaves in the trees above, the trees were so tall and straight.
"And we're not lost." Kaiden said, walking forward, wrapping his arms around me and hugging me from behind. "Then what would you call it?" I asked. "We just misplaced ourselves in the world." Kaiden said, pulling me closer to him.
"Oh yeah, and that's so much better." I said, walking out of his grasp and forward.
"You know, it really isn't that bad." He said, catching up to me, putting his arm around my waist as we walked.
"Uh huh, and how do you figure that?" I asked, annoyance in my voice.
He stopped suddenly, and in one swift motion, turned me towards him, wrapped his hands around my waist and pulled me close. "Just you and me… alone in the woods, we could be lost for days if we felt like it." he said smoothly as he began to play with my hair.
I wasn't one to ignore affection from my boyfriend, but I wasn't in the mood for this, what with being lost and all, and the fact that it would get dark soon didn't help either. I quickly pushed him away, "Kaiden, quit screwing around, my parents are going to be pissed if I'm not home soon!" I said angrily. I didn't mean to, but I couldn't help it, I always had a short temper. I turned and kept walking forward.
"Hey, settle, settle." He said, grabbing my arm firmly. He always did this when I got mad, and I'll never know why, but it always worked. I sighed, "Can we just get home please?" I said softly. "Don't worry, we'll be fine," He kissed me on the forehead and walked ahead, "we'll be home in no time."
We walked for what seemed like hours, and this strange forest seemed like it had no end. Then suddenly, Kaiden stopped, with a look of realization on his face. I turned to him.
"Something wrong?"
"It's just… doesn't this place seem familiar?"
"Kaiden, if it did, we wouldn't be lost, now would we?"
"No I mean, I feel like I've seen this place before." He walked on.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, he didn't answer. "KAIDEN!"
"Come on!" he called, his walk quickly turning into a run.
"Damn it Kaiden!" I said, running after him, and keeping up with him was no easy task.
He finally stopped in the center of a circle of trees, and I finally caught up to him. I panted hard, trying to breath, "What the hell was that all about?" he pointed out and said, "Look," in an awe stricken voice. I looked and I could believe my eyes.
"It can't be.. it's impossible," I whispered to myself, because what I saw in front of me was a circle of trees, thicker than the others, each of them had a holiday symbol on them, and I remembered, and I then knew what Kaiden was talking about. This place was familiar.
"There's no way in hell that this is real." I said with doubt, though I secretly hoped that it was.
"But what if it is?" Kaiden asked, smiling devilishly and raising an eyebrow, as he stared at the door that looked like a jack o' lantern. "Kaiden, lets me realistic here." I said walking towards the door. "You're telling me that if I grabbed the nose, twisted it and pulled, at it would open?" I said as I did the motions, "It's impossible…" I turned towards the door, it had opened. My jaw dropped. Kaiden walked towards the door, and stuck his head in. I grabbed him and pulled him back, "What are you doing?"
"Going in." he said as he put one foot in, I pulled him back, "No you're not." I said crossing my arms across my chest. He turned to me and was about to say something, when a gust of wind from the tree grabbed Kaiden and pulled him in. He grabbed my hand, and we both fell down into a dark hole, and for the longest time, all I could see was a swirl of autumn leaves and a scarecrow.
