They had been walking for hours trying to find where the other campers had gotten to.
"Katie, look!" Sadie exclaimed, "The tree with the fork in it! That's good, right?"
"No," Katie replied, exasperated, "That's not good. That's the same tree we passed three hours ago! We just walked in a gigantic circle!"
"Ugh! You don't know where we are, do you?"
"Yes! Okay, no. But it's so not my fault. Have you ever noticed that all trees look the same?"
"Ooh, I knew I should've known better than to listen to you!"
"What, you don't think I'm smart enough to find the others?"
"Well, you're not exactly the best with, like, directions."
"Yu-huh I am!" Katie said indignantly.
"Nu-uh! Apparently, you're not because we're L-O-S-T. Lost!" Sadie stalked off further into the woods. Katie stormed after her.
The two had gotten separated from the other campers and had spent the past few hours wandering the unfamiliar woods by themselves trying to find the others, or better yet a way back to camp. It was beginning to grow dark and there was still no sign of anything but trees. The two self proclaimed "BFFFLs" were growing frustrated, and that frustration was starting to manifest itself towards each other. As they wandered the unfamiliar woods, the two girls began to bicker.
"Well at least I know how to drive, you...you...Have-to-Walk Girl!" Katie spat, "Now who's smarter?"
"Trip to the beach last year ring a bell?" Sadie retorted.
"Oh, I can't believe you're bringing that up. I did have a totally fetch bikini on that day though."
"You drove my mom's car into a snack shack!"
"It was totally in my blind spot. Whatever. If it wasn't for me you'd be riding the bus to the mall."
"Well, if it weren't for me you wouldn't be able to find your way to the mall."
"Oh, I know my way to the mall."
"You lean on me. If it wasn't for me you wouldn't have half the friends you do now."
"You're just saying that because I'm prettier than you are."
Sadie gasped. She couldn't believe Katie actually said that to her face. "I knew you thought that!"
"It's true," Katie said, turning her back on Sadie, "Everybody thinks so."
Sadie felt absolutely crushed. Just hours before the two girls had been telling each other how pretty they were. Katie was supposed to be her Best Female Friend For Life. How could she say something like that? "That's it," she yelled, "When we get back to camp we are so splitting up as BFFFLs!" She turned her back and walked away.
"Fine," Katie yelled, following after her.
"Double fine!"
The two walked in tired, frustrated, heartbroken silence as the woods around them got incredibly dark. They both wanted to apologise but didn't know what to say. They'd never fought before and they didn't know what to do after. They were so used to being practically the same person that this was entirely new territory for them. The pair of girls wandered through the woods in deadening silence for quite sometime before the loud hooting of an owl woke them both out of their thoughts. At the sound of something else out there in the woods, the two girls both shrieked and ran off. They had no idea where they were going to go to until they spotted a cave and both had the idea to take cover there.
"We'll be safe here until morning," Katie huffed, trying to catch her breath.
Just then, a bat swooped down towards Sadie who screamed again and ran off to the far corner of the cave to take cover. She pulled her knees close to her chest and muttered to herself "We're going to die here," over and over until she eventually fell asleep.
