We got up the next day and begin our search for the lodge. We walked about forty-five minutes and still nothing.
"We couldn't have walked that far from the trail," said Syd sitting down.
"Maybe they took the arrows down," said Bridge looking around at the trees.
"No they wouldn't do that. Not until all the student were back from the hunt. Especially now that we're lost," Sky said wiping the sweat from his head.
Just then I remembered my back pack and that I had water bottles in it. I pulled out the bottles and hand them to Sky and Syd. They drunk some and passed them on.
"Come on guys, we got to keep moving if we want to…," Jack started.
"Oh my god, do you see what I see," I said looking at a bunch of trees in front of me.
"What, what do you see," Syd said walking toward me.
"That," I pointed. Everyone looked in the direction that I was looking in and saw it. In the trees was a star. Our mouth was open wide. Sky started to reach down deep in his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. He opened it and struggled to read what was written on it. Jack move toward the star and pulled it off the tree and walk back toward us.
"I can't read this," Sky yelled. "Can anyone remember what was on the list."
Everyone thought for a minute to remember what was on the list.
"Well, don't ask me, I never seen the list," Syd said looking at the others.
"I remember a bone on the list," I said.
"Yeah, and I heard you guys say something about green peas and a butterfly," said Bridge.
"Oh and a lily pad and a pine cone," said Jack.
"And a star," Sky said.
"What about a picture of a baby," said Syd.
"What," I asked.
"A picture of a baby, see."
Syd pointed to a piece of paper with a baby on it. We all ran to it and pulled it off.
"This is it. By following the clues we can get back to lodge," Bridge said excited.
We began to follow a little dirt trail from the last clue we found on the tree. Shortly after the last two clues, other clues start to show up. Once we found the bone we celebrated.
"I can't believe we're almost home," I said laughing.
"Warm bath here I come," smiled Syd.
"You guys look," pointed Bridge.
We all face Bridge and up to where he was pointing at. And there in one of the trees was a brown arrow. And on another tree, not that far from it was another arrow. Our celebration grew louder.
"Come on guys we're almost home," Sky yelled.
We ran as fast as we could following the arrows. We came up to a split path and stopped dead in our tracks.
"Which way should we go," Syd asked.
"This way," said Jack pointing at the path across from them. He looked back at Sky and he nod his head. We ran down the path and then we could see the roof of the lodge. Our feet quicken at the sight of it. As we got closer to the lodge, we could hear sirens and people talking in the distance. We finally reached the lodge and cops and reporters were everywhere. The reporters spotted us and ran straight toward us. We were completely surrounded by reporters. All of sudden I felt someone grab my arm and pulled me toward where them. I looked up to see who it was and it was Kat.
"Kat," I yelled as I went up to hug her. " Jack, Jack over here." Jack looked over to where I was and pushed his way toward me. He saw Kat and hug her tightly. I looked around to see where the others were and saw them. They were with their parents and family. I smile at them and focus my attention back at Kat and Jack.
"Come on lets go home," Kat said wrapping her arms around us as we push our way through the crowd.
After we left the lodge, Kat took Jack and me to the hospital just to make sure we were okay. After our check up and the doctor told Kat the we were okay, we went home. Kat cooked for us a big meal and we ate it like we never ate before. They other kids in the house were looking at us strange but Kat told them to go play so that Jack and I could eat in peace. After we ate and took a warm bath, Jack and I stayed up to watch television. The phone rang and I answered it. It was Bridge.
"Hey Bridge, what's up."
"Nothing much, except that we're stars."
"What?"
"Turn it to channel three."
I took the remote from Jack and turned it to channel three. And there on the news was us.
"Yeah, we're stars alright."
"You think this will change anything now that we are on TV?"
"I don't know. I guess we'll see tomorrow."
"I guess so, bye."
"Bye."
I hung up the phone and looked at the news for a little bit and then turned it to MTV. That station got boring so I turned it and watched a little more TV on some other channels. We went to bed after twenty minutes of turning channels. The warmth of my bed made me fall asleep quick.
The next day Jack and I walked to school. Once we were inside, everyone was looking at us.
"I guess they watched the news too," said Jack walking off to his locker. I made my way to my locker and saw Bridge standing there. I smiled at him as I made it to my locker and started to unlock it.
"So do you think we're star quality," I asked him.
"I don't know, let me check."
He walked over to a girl wearing a cheerleader outfit and started to talk to her. They talked for a little bit then the girl walked away.
"I'm sorry Bridge," I laughed trying to sound sincere.
"It's okay. Beside she told me to call her after school."
It took me by surprise.
"What," I asked.
"Yeah," he laughed. "She told me to call her and that we could make a date for Saturday."
"Well, good for you," I said patting him on the back.
We made our way to first period and Mr. Cruger was writing on the board. I looked around to see if Sky or Syd was there and they were. They were talking to their friends. I turned and looked at Jack and he just shook his head. Mr. Cruger turned his head from the board and looked around the room.
"Well, well look who we have here. The five missing students, finally gracing us with their present." Everyone started laughing.
"It's nice to see you too," Jack said .
"It would be nice to hear about your two day experience but today isn't the time or place, so we will go on with today's lesson." Everyone groan and got out their textbooks and turned to whatever page Cruger told them to look in.
