Past

Kuki POV

The sound of birds chirping outside of my green tent was my alarm for the day. I sat inside a green sleeping bag as I looked at my watch.

"It's only nine." I let out a low groan as I made my attempt to get up and exit the tent making sure not to wake up Abby who was sleeping soundly. Blocking the rays of the sun from my face as I left the tent I was greeted by a vast forest that surround the campsite. Walking over to the rather small picnic table I started to make myself some coffee to start my day off. Waiting for my morning drink I started to wish that I brought my sketchbook this place was beautiful. I heard the sound of rustling coming from the tent next to mine. Emerging out of the blue tent was Wally with his hair a mess and...without a shirt! 'Oh for the love of!' I screamed in my head.

"Morning Kooks you're up early." He said between yawns.

"Uh...uh morning Wally." A blush started to form on my face. he came up to the picnic table and pouring himself a cup of coffee as well.

"Man today is going to be a great day." He says as he stretched. Wow look at that toned body and that nice blond hair...no no Kuki get your act together. I quickly busy myself by setting up breakfast. I walk over to the cooler where all of our food were ziplocked and sealed. Coming back I saw that both Abby and Hoagie were awake, their hair's frizzy and a mess.

"Morning everyone." I greeted. Hoagie replied with a yawn while Abby gave me a small nod. Everyone sat around the wooden table, a little sleep still in their eyes.

"So what we gonna do today?" Abby asked pouring herself a cup of coffee.

"Man wood you look at that," Hoagie said looking off into the forest, "leaf it to nature to...ow!" Hoagie couldn't even finish his sentence.

"Abby swears if you make some stupid forest pun Abby's gunna smack it to ya." Hoagie raised his hands in defeat and quietly ate his sandwich. "So sugars what's the plan for today?"

We all turned to look at Wally who was facing the forest.

"Well ma dad use to bring me and Joey here all the time," Wally took in a deep breath and let out a small sigh, "There's a place where I want to take all you guys."

We finished our breakfast and prepared ourselves to venture into the forest. Abby and I packed snacks and some water while Wally and Hoagie packed the tents and the rest of the camp gear. A few minutes laters we were deep in the forest bags behind our backs with Wally leading the way, Hoagie was all the way in the back taking deep breathes. He was carrying three bags causing him to fall behind from all the extra weight.

"Why am I the one that has to carry all the crap?" He whined.

"Because you're the one who lost the bet." Wally yelled. Hoagie let out a small grunt as he continued to slowly follow behind us.

"Hey Abby help me out here will ya?" I looked to see Abby walking next to Hoagie causing his face to light up in hope. As if she was going to reach out to take a bag, but to Hoagie disbelief she patted him on the shoulder.

"Sorry sugar but a bet is a bet," she said, "better not fall behind sucka." With that Abby ran off in a fit of laughter.

After an hour we decided to take a break to Hoagies relief we set our bags down and took a seat on a large rock. Hoagie laid down on the rock as if it was his own bed. The rest of us just sat either on or around the rock.

"How much longer til we get there Wally?" I asked. Looking back at me, Wally gave me a sheepish grin.

"Well uh we should've been there about thirty minutes ago." I looked back at him with a look of disbelief.

"Wally what are you talking about thirty minutes ago?" He started to rub the back of his head a small blush on his cheeks.

"Boy would you look at that tree it's a pretty thing isn't it." He said trying to change the subject. I glared at the aussie blonde who wasn't making any sort of eye contact with me. "Hey kooks you wanna see something cool?" He asked.

I let out a sigh in defeat at the idea of us being lost and just shrugged my shoulders. I walked over to where Wally stood, for some reason reason his hands were cuffed together.

"What is it Wally?" Making a small hole himself he peeked inside.

"Wow this looks amazing." he said. This got me curious, I leaned in closer to see if I can a good look at whatever is is in his hands. I didn't notice the cheeky grin that formed on his face. "Hey Kooks have a better look." I didn't have time to react. Out from Wally's hand was a giant brown beetle. To make matters worse, he tossed his hands up causing the beetle to jump in the air its insect like wings buzzing in the air.

"Ahh get it away! Get it away." I screamed. Oh god I think it got into my hair. I started to shake my head in response to the idea of having that large of beetle in my hair. I just notice Wally laughing himself to kingdom come watching my struggle. "Wally this isn't funny." I said. I didn't get a response from him since he was still laughing his ass off. Finally, knowing for sure that the bug wasn't in my hair, I looked down at the still laughing aussie. Slowly picking himself back up, he wiped away some stray tears.

"Hehehe sorry Kooks, but that was too funny." I puffed my cheek and without reason started to hit Wally in the arm. Of course the hits had little effect on him, but he still lifted his arms up for some kind of defence.

"Alright Kooks I'm sorry jeez." He said, but that didn't stop my nimble assault on him. He started to make a run for it. I followed along, he was actually running more like a few back steps to try to keep some distance between me and him. I didn't really pay attention to where we were going, noted that I was still very angry with him. He made a quick stop, taking a look at his surroundings. I bump into him with a loud ~thump~. I fall back on the ground landing on my butt.

"Ow..." I look up at Wally and notice him smiling. "Wally?" Without Warning he made a dash into the forest. "Wally!" Quickly picking myself up, I made a mad dash into the forest trying to catch up to him. 'My god why does he have to run so fast' I whined in my head. I see a clearing, noticing a tall figure. "That must be him." I started to pick up my pace. Finally out into the clearing I lean down and my hands fall onto my knees as I take deep breathes. "Wally ~gasp~ why would you ~gasp~."

"I guess it took an hour to get here." Was all he said.

"What are you?" I didn't finish my sentence, looking up I saw a small waterfall with a few small ponds here and there and little beach with a couple of bushes. I look up at Wally who smiled at the scene. "That's it?"