I raised an eyebrow at him and he ran off, flailing his arms in a ridiculous manner shouting something incomprehensible.
"Joe! You get back here right now!" I shouted at him and rather than seeing him turn around he disappeared in to the forest. "I'm going to count to ten!" I started to count out loud "One… Two… Three… Four… five… si, shit!" I shouted as something jumped at my back. Of course, being me I fell over. I slowly picked myself back up and saw Joe's inanely grinning face bent over mine. "What kind of a wonderful idea was that?" I growled at him and his smirk, if possible, got even wider.
"Oh, that wasn't the idea, this was" He said as he pushed me slightly to the side, yet again I lost my footing but this time I fell further than I had expected. Then in pure Hollywood style, I fell backwards in to the river creating a huge tidal wave type splash. I lay on the bottom of the river bank, feeling the water rushing over and around me until my body informed me that it actually did need to breathe so I sat up, spluttering and splashing in the most ungraceful manner. I looked up on to the bank and saw Joe laughing hysterically.
"Oh, so you think that this is funny do you?"
"Yep" I glared at him, pushing my drenched hair out of my face and then hauled myself on to the river bank. He was still laughing too hard to pay attention to what I was doing and so I snuck up behind him. I jumped on his back and although my force only pushed him forwards a few steps, stupid strong person, I was still getting him soaked.
"Eww, eww, eww" He shrieked like a girl and I clung to him as he ran around in a circle. I smirked before hopping down and shuddering slightly. His back was cold. "That was mean"
"Yeah, well next time you might think before pushing me in to a river!" I replied, shoving him again, and again he didn't move. "You are far too strong you know" I whined at him as we wandered forwards in no particular direction.
"Yeah yeah" He said, in an absent minded tone as though he wasn't actually listening to what I was saying at all.
"You sound distracted"
"Awfully sorry, I shall give you my full and undivided attention from now on then" He replied in a much more posh accent than normal and then turned to me and stared. I continued walking and he carried on staring without blinking.
"Cut it out now, you're scaring me"
"What so first I wasn't paying enough attention and now I'm paying too much, god! Make your mind up woman!" He huffed in a mock offended tone.
"Honestly, melodramatic much?"
"Melodramatic monkeys?" He replied with a grin
"What the hell?"
"Ah, don't worry, all in good time my friend, all in good time" I raised an eyebrow at him and he just smirked with an 'I'm going to irritate you with this' look.
"Fine then" I replied and turned back to look at our surroundings, everything seemed to have a thicker coating of moss around here, as though everything had remained completely untouched for hundreds of years. The floor was littered with leaves and twigs but grass and moss was poking out in places where the light was shining through the thick canopy of trees.
"Hey, can you see the light?"
"Ummmm, no, should I?"
"Oh, well I think there's a patch of light ahead, we might actually be about to get out of this forest!" He stated, hey, maybe he's almost getting as fed up of the trees as me. Hang on, go in to the light? Oh dear.
"What, like dying?"
"No, not going in to the light in that sense." He said, lightly swatting my arm.
"Come on, you can't honestly say that the thought didn't run through your head too"
"Okay, so you have a point" I giggled and he smiled his angelic smile that I was now starting to get used to seeing on the person with such a personality such as his. "You know, your smile doesn't really suit your personality"
"Oh really, and what would my smile be like to be deemed so unsuitable?"
"It's kind of angelic, like a child's smile, whereas all of your thoughts have such a morbid tint" He started laughing at this and I couldn't help but join in.
"Okay, so my smile is angelic. Well, to be fair, my thoughts aren't all that morbid, I just find things around the topics considered gruesome most interesting but in my head I'm sure you'll find some normal teenage things"
"Sure" I replied, shaking my head slightly and rolling my eyes.
"Hey! I'm going to take offense at that!" He complained and I just smiled up at him, I swear everyone here in England is so much taller than me.
However, by looking at him I made the basic mistake of not looking where I was going and so unsurprisingly fell to the ground. My fall was a little more dramatic than normal and I started rolling down the hill that we had just reached. I flailed my arms, trying to stop myself from rolling but kept sliding anyway. Eventually I rolled in to a log and came to a stop; I am so going to have bruises tomorrow. I looked up to see Joe laughing insanely halfway down the hill but when I got up and turned around I was faced by an unnaturally circular clearing with the river running through it.
Okay, it took longer than i was hoping to get this chapter up but i've been insanely busy recently
I thought that i just wanted some light hearted stuff, just to show that they are still teenagers and everything you know
I'm going to be incredibly busy over the next couple of weeks or so as i have a concert, a grade 7 french horn exam, tech coursework to finish and i'm helping coach at an all day rugby tournament all day tomorrow.
So effectively, i probably won't write as much as normal if i don't get much support as i'll be finding it harder than i'm used to to find the time
Please review!