Look! A new chapter for you guys. I know I say this every time but thank you so much for the lovely reviews and suggestions. When you guys review this story, I just wanna write faster to give you guys the next chapter. So without further ado… Chapter vire:

"Are you sure we are going the right way?", Riley asked for the fifth time in less than an hour.

"No, I'm not sure. I have no idea where we are but we have to keep moving.", Lucas answered back, trying to keep his spirit high.

"Why can't we just sit and wait for someone to find us?", Riley continued, tired of walking for hours. She just wanted to get home and sleep in her own bed. She had slept horribly, her hair was a mess and all the bugs were starting to annoy her a lot.

"Riley… we've went through this multiple of times already. We can't just wait for someone to find us because that might take even longer than actually trying to find our way back. Don't you wanna get home?", Lucas asked.

Riley nodded. She understood why they were walking but they had been walking for at least two hours straight and her feet were starting to ache. She just wanted a small break and by the looks of it, Maya seemed like she could use a break as well. Riley glanced at her best friend, who looked even more tired than she did.

Maya tried her best to keep up with her friends but it was getting harder and harder for her to keep up the mask. Her lip was starting to bleed, since she had bit it too hard and all she wished for was a short break but she knew they had to keep moving.

Maya noticed that Riley kept glancing at her but Maya didn't want to worry her friend even more so instead, Maya kept looking anywhere but at Riley.

Riley walked up to Farkle, who was a few feet in front of her.

"Have you noticed that Maya has been acting weird lately?", Riley whispered to Farkle.

"What do you mean Riley?", Farkle asked confused. He hadn't really noticed anything weird about Maya's behaviour. Yes, she wasn't walking as fast as she used to and she wasn't really talking to anyone but Farkle thought that it was just Maya's way of dealing with the situation.

"Something just feels a bit off about her…", Riley continued, she was clearly worried about her friend.

"I think you're worrying too much Riles. She's probably just tired. I woke up at one point during the night and she was still awake. I mean, you look tired and you've slept all through the night", Farkle replied.

"You're probably right.", Riley answered, still not convinced. No, there was something off about Maya but she just didn't know what it was. Every time she tried to talk to Maya, she looked so lost in thought or said that she was fine and that Riley shouldn't worry but Riley just couldn't help it. She was worried about her friend and she wished that Maya would just open up to her.

Lucas looked back at his group of friends. They all looked tired. Maybe Riley was right, maybe they should've just stayed at the camp side and wait. No, Lucas thought, doing nothing would not help them at all. Maybe they all just needed to rest for a while; they had been walking for hours anyway.

"Okay, anyone who's up for resting a bit?", Lucas asked his friends.

"YES!", they all replied with a relived yell and immediately sat down on the ground.

"So do we have any idea on how much we have to walk before we are out of this place?", Maya asked. Her sprained ankle started aching just by the thought of continuing and every time she moved, the cut on her side kept complaining. Maya was starting to feel a bit weird or sick, she didn't even know herself. It was probably just because of her lack of sleep and not enough food, she thought.

"Yeah, when will we get out of this place? Tonight? Tomorrow? Next week? In a year?", Farkle asked. He was getting real tired of the woods. It was dirty, there was no computers or phones, and the ground was not very comfortable to sleep on. He would rather go on a date with Smackle than spending another night on the ground.

"I don't know..", Lucas answered silently, it almost came out as a whisper. He started to look around and felt relive, when he finally got an idea.

"I could climb that tree", Lucas pointed at a big tree, probably the tallest in the area.

"Lucas, how can climbing a tree help us getting out of the woods?", Riley asked confused.

"If I climb that tree, I might be able to see a road or something and then we will know in which direction we have to walk in.", Lucas said, eyes still on the tree, hoping that his friends understood his plan.

"Ohhh. Good idea Lucas", Riley said in her usual enthusiastic voice, looking like a little kid on Christmas morning.

Lucas smiled at Riley and walked over to the tree. He knew how to climb trees, he used to do it a lot when he was younger but he hadn't climbed a tree for years and this one was quite tall.

As Lucas started to climb the tree, he began to wonder if this would actually help. Maybe the only thing he would be able to see is trees. No, he couldn't lose hope this fast; especially since he hadn't even gotten to the top yet.

Maya looked at Lucas climbing the tree. He reminded her of a monkey since he climbed it so fast. Her side started to hurt again and yet again, she felt a bit sick or weird or whatever it was. So she decided to look at Farkle and Riley, who was cheering on Lucas. Yes, she just had to think of anything else than her injuries; that usually helped.

Maya looked at Farkle. He had grown a lot over the last year and not only in height. He was starting to get muscles after have been going to the gym with Lucas. Yet, Maya still looked at him as the little bird she had to protect. Nothing would ever change that, even though he had stood up for her and Riley, when some guys were trying to hit on them. No, was a bird to her and hopefully that would never change.

"GO LUCAS! You're almost there!", Maya heard Riley cheering. Riley with her always enthusiastic, happy-go-lucky attitude and innocent self. Riley was like a small puppy. She was always happy and even when Maya wanted to be annoyed at her, she just couldn't. Riley was just someone everyone loved, just like puppies. Maya still wished for Riley to keep her innocent self, even though she was getting a bit more rebellious. That was Maya's fault. It began after Maya let Riley sneak out with her to visit the college party at NYU. It wasn't that big of a deal though. It was just smaller things like staying up later without her parents knowing and occasionally sneaking out once a month to something that had now become a tradition for the group of friends; once a month, they would all meet up at the park and spend most of the night there, talking and eating junk food. Maya liked that tradition, even though they would always end up being dead-tired in school the next day. She didn't remember how it had stared but she hoped that it would never stop.

Lucas finally made it to the top and luckily he could see more than just trees. He had picked the perfect tree, he thought to himself.

"Can you see anything, Lucas?", Farkle yelled from the ground.

"I can see a road!", Lucas yelled back. "I'm coming down now.", Lucas continued and started to climb down to his friends again.

Lucas was more than thankful that he actually could see a road and it wasn't even that far away.

When Lucas made it to the ground he was greeted a very happy Farkle and Riley. Lucas wondered where Maya was but found her sitting exactly where she was before he started to climb; she hadn't moved a bit and she looked very distant.

"So how far?", Farkle asked.

"Well if we keep moving in the same speed we were before, we should be able to reach it by sunset.", Lucas answered with a big smile.

"Sunset?! But it isn't even noon yet. Do you really expect us to walk for that many hours?", Riley asked, obviously shocked about the fact that the road was many hours away.

"Well if you wanna sleep in your own bed tonight, then yes.", Lucas answered.

"Okay then, let's go. If we make it to the road around sunset then there's a good chance that I'll be able to watch the newest episode of my show tonight.", Farkle said and began to walk.

"You coming Maya?", Riley asked her best friend, who was still sitting in the same spot as before.

"Huh?", Maya said confused. She had been so lost in thought that she hadn't even noticed that Lucas were on the ground again.

"I asked if you're coming?", Riley repeated.

"Oh yeah.", Maya quickly replied and started to get up. She quietly hissed in pain when her foot touched the ground and her side was protesting against the moving but like before, Maya ignored it and followed her friends.

*Some hours later*

"All I'm saying is that I don't get why all women suddenly gets a craving for chocolate or ice cream once a month..", Maya heard Farkle saying.

Lucas didn't respond to Farkle but just put his arm around his shoulder and laughed a bit.

Riley kept glancing at Maya. She was now 100 % sure that something was off about Maya. She looked paler than before and she wasn't talking at all. Riley also noticed that every once in a while Maya would bite her lip hard and Maya obviously looked like something was bothering her.

"Okay enough. Rest time everybody!", Riley stopped and yelled to all of her friends. She wanted an explanation and she wanted one now.

"Why are we stopping?", Lucas asked. "Do you have to pee again, Riley?, he asked with a slight annoyance in his voice. That girl really had a small bladder.

"No I don't have to pee… well okay maybe I have to but that's not the reason we are stopping this time.", Riley said with determination in her voice.

Lucas and Farkle looked at each other; both of them were confused.

"Maya, what is wrong?", Riley suddenly asked.

"What do you mean?", Maya replied, confused over Riley's sudden mood change.

"Something's off about you right now and I want to know what and I want to know now.", Riley said.

Maya knew what she was referring to. She had noticed Riley's glances and she knew Riley well enough that she knew that Riley could see something was bothering Maya. Maya was wondering if she should tell her friends about her injuries but she remembered why she hadn't told them before. Maybe this was the time to tell them.

"I think I sprained my ankle in the river…", Maya said. Well they didn't have to know all of it and they didn't have to know that she wasn't feeling very well at the moment.

"Maya, you think you sprained your ankle and you didn't bother to tell us?", Lucas asked with a mix of hurt and worry.

"I didn't tell you guys because I didn't want you to worry about me.. I feel bad enough that it is my fault that we are lost. I just couldn't slow us down further.", Maya said. She was feeling guilty about the whole situation and she hated that she made it worse by being hurt.

"Let me have a look at your ankle.", Lucas said and went to check it.

"Maya you know you can always tell us stuff. It's not your fault and you shouldn't feel guilty about it.", Riley told Maya. She hated the fact that Maya was feeling so guilty that she would walk on a sprained ankle and not even tell anyone about it.

"Yes it is defiantly sprained. You shouldn't be walking on it.", Lucas said. Back in Texas he would often sprain his ankle or hand and he knew how painful it was.

"I know I shouldn't be walking on it but I wanna get home… preferably by the end of today..", Maya said and looked down at the ground. She didn't want to make eye contact with anyone. She was in a position where if she got eye contact with anyone, they would be able to see right through her and know that she was in a lot of pain, more than she let on. No, she couldn't slow them down even more. They all wanted to get home, preferably today. They had to keep going. No matter what. She wouldn't slow them down any further, that was something she promised herself.

And that was chapter 4. I know it was short but this was also just what I consider being a filler for an upcoming event that will happen soon; so hope it's okay.

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