Chapter 2: Hiking isn't so fun

"I am hungry, tired, and really not in the mood for this," Felanie removed a branch from her tangled and dirty hair, "tell me why I agreed to this again?"

"You sound just like when we're doing math work," Angelina giggled, cupping her hand to her mouth.

"To explore the unexplored!" Lea turned back and yelled maniacally. She was the leader of this troop of girls, and couldn't care less whether they were tired or hungry- a bigger task was at hand-she wondered how they could even think about eating at a time like this.

"I think that all this wilderness, "Angelina tightened her backpack straps, "has gone to Lea's head."

"Tell me about it," Felanie rolled her eyes.

"We have to see the scenery! I heard that the next episode's going to be awesome! Learning some crazy secrets about Dean or something," Olivia gasped for air as she trudged behind them slowly.

"I heard Sam's going to die in this one!" Danielle raised her hands above her hand, waving them dramatically.

"No way!" Felanie's stomach squirmed at the thought-or maybe it was just hunger.

"Sammy absolutely cannot die," Angelina squealed, pinching her cheeks, "He's too cute!". "Besides," she added in, "Where would the show go without him? Those are just pitiful rumours…"

"Yeah," Lea waved the thought away, "Sam can't die! No chance."

"What? Do you have any better ideas?" Olivia mumbled.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do!" Lea said scornfully. "But why make up stuff now, when seeing the whole damn thing is so much better??"

"Yeah…" Felanie sighed, dreamily, "-I'm still hungry though."

"Just a few kilometers more! Then we can sit down and rest," Lea said with determination.

"I really… can't." Olivia said as she caught up with them. Olivia looked behind her back, "I don't think they can either." She pointed her thumb behind her toward the five girls that were looking completely worn out, they hadn't even said a word the last hour or so.

Danielle was walking next to Olivia, humming to herself merrily.

Felanie and Angelina were dying of hunger, though Angelina hadn't admitted so. As they followed behind Lea, who was looking just fine considering they'd been hiking like that for hours on end, they began to neglect thinking of hiking all the way out here.

In total, there were 10 girls walking, each with a backpack on her back. They had all ran away from home, or had one excuse or another for being away. They'd made it this far, they couldn't turn back now.

Lea sighed as she bowed her head, "Okay, I guess we could make a quick pit stop- but it'd better be quick!"

"Thankyougod," Felanie mumbled under her breath.

"We'd better have lots of food left!" Angelina exclaimed.

"Uh…" Olivia sputtered.

"What?" Lea barked.

"I kind of…" Olivia was the one carrying all of the food.

"WHAT?" Everyone yelled in unison, they were really hungry.

"The backpack ripped," Olivia leaned into the sitting, huddled group, to show them that there was a tear on the bottom right hand side.

"Are you telling me there is no food??" Felanie cried.

"Well I am definitely not going back from the way we came!" Angelina looked through the forest and the trail from which they'd come, and shivered when she noticed it was getting darker.

"It wasn't that big! There's still something left," Olivia searched through the bag, pulling out two sandwiches, a fruit salad, and a green apple.

"Are you kidding me?" Felanie slapped her hand to her forehead.

"Oh my god," one of the five girls who had been quiet up until now, spoke up, "That's it?"

"I…I guess so," Olivia couldn't bear to look at their fearsome faces.

"Well I for one am not hungry," Lea crossed her arms over her chest.

Olivia gave Lea a glance to show that she appreciated it.

Lea looked away disapprovingly.

"Unbelievable Olivia…" One of the other girls mumbled.

Danielle tried to look at the bright side, "Oh well, at least we have some left."

As the girls huddled in their little circle, eating what was left of their food, Lea stared into the dark woods, wondering if they were ever going to get there, when she felt eyes watching them from somewhere in the dark. She shrugged it off and turned back to the troop.

"What time is it?" One of the girls asked.

Lea raised her sleeve to look at her watch, "Late- we had better get going."