I emerged through the last bit of trees... ...And was met with the worst sight I had ever seen. There on first beach, was the cult. And with them were the two people I never thought I'd see there. Seth Clearwater was playing with them and Leah, his sister, was sitting on the sand watching them. I froze. Leah looked up. Like the idiotic daredevil I am, I snapped. I marched up to Seth. "What. Happened?" He sighed, not meeting my eyes. "A lot." I waited. "Are you gonna do-"pause. "I have to." "Remember that promise I made you and Jacob?I still haven't broken it, because unlike five to seven people here who are currently staring at my back with guilty looks on their faces, I don't break promises, and I'm not going to break them." He cringed. "Don't worry, the pain will be enough to stop me thinking about this for a while. When Rees finds out she'll probably do it herself." He looked a teensy bit scared. His arms were starting to shake. "Oh, and Jacob, you might wanna call your girlfriend. She starting to jam the phone. It could be Rees calling to tell you its your death day. Trainings going well too. And just so you know, the only person who stopping me from committing suicide is Rees. You might wanna thank her. So Seth, you gonna say it?" He whimpered. "Whatever. I don't like people who lie, anyway." I walked away, flipping open the phone in the process. "Ree, it's happened. First beach. Need breakfast." She was there in five minutes. I waited by the road. Soon, I decided to go to my place. My place wasn't my house. It was my clearing. I walked along the beach, to the way up the cliff. I heard footsteps. "Go away person following me. I'm going you probably know where." "Do I?" "Hey Rees." My best friend of ten years put a hand on my shoulder. "Let's go." We broke into a run. Every time I'm upset I go to my place. For Rees it's her tree. When we got there, I went straight to my rock. I hardly ever cry. The only people I cry around are Jacob and Rees. Not even around Seth. Probably because I know that Rees would never do what they did. Rees, in her own special way, would leave them. She was the loyalest, coolest, best-est friend anyone could have. Just then we heard a twig snap. "Go away people of betrayal." "How did you know it was us?" "That's basically the easiest question anyone could ask me, Jacob. Who else would come so far off the trail?Besides, only about five of you know that this place exists. And you and Seth are the only ones who know that this where I come when I'm hurt, lied to and/or betrayed, all three of which have happened to me." "She talks a lot, doesn't she?" "Yes, Paul, I do." Silence. "Let me guess, y'all are all standing with your mouths open staring in the direction of my voice?" "How do you do that?"Jake muttered. "I wouldn't tell you, dear brother, even if I wasn't having to face every promise you ever made me being broken right in front of my face." "Is she always like this?" "No Sam, I am not. I'm hardly ever like this, so if you want to know, I'm usually quite the opposite." "That's true." "You doubt me so much?" "Soph-" "I know, it's 10:00." I headed into the trees, Rees following me. What's at 10:00?" "Good luck with that one,"I called into the clearing. He's gonna need it. "He's so totally gonna need it." I grinned. When we got home, I headed off to my room to get ready for my 12:00 training. Only a few people knew about it. Rees, Jake, Seth, Leah...most of who were in the cult. When I was ready, I cracked my knuckles and went down to get Rees's bike. When I had my helmet on, I got on the purple bike, waved to Rees and headed off to pick up Malory, my fourth best friend and shopping partner. I parked my bike halfway there and stretched. I had food to eat. I took off my bag and took out food. 30 minutes later I set off again. When I reached Mal's, I parked my bike and went in. Mal's brother was Jared. Ree's brother was Embry and my other two fourth best friends were Paul's and Quil's sisters. Mal was outside. "Hey, Mal. Ready to go?" "You're enthusiastic today." "Yeah, well, it happened so I wanna get as much pain in as possible." "Good for you, girl." "Ask Jared how his day was. I'm pretty sure he'll lie." We set off. It went pretty well. We were back at Mal's at about 5:30. "Best training session ever. It really hurt."

"You wait until the finale. Just think, standing there on that stage, crowd cheering, medal on your chest, our brothers and friends right there in front, running to hug us..."that image in my mind was the best one I thought. My moment. The one memory I could remember forever.

But it was soon spoilt, very badly.