Time frame: Ellis was 17 and Keith was 18 (senior year of high school)
POV: Ellis
Main event: Keith's inability to rescue people
This one time, me and Keith were part of a volunteer search group. See this special needs girl we went to school with went missin and her family was pretty sure she got lost in the woods on account of her likin to go do there in the spring to see all the new forest life forming.
Keith and I were out in town, about to go to the arcade when some people said she was missing and Keith was ready to jump in right away. He says, "Come on, El. Nothin we have planned today would be cooler than savin a girl." Keith knew this girl, was real nice to her. See she was a cheerleader…kinda hung around the girls' cheer coach and she didn't get bullied much, the other girls were cool and wanted her to join up. So since Keith and I were both in sports, we got to talk to her quite a bit. I was relatively hot back in the day, but this girl was the only cheerleader that would even notice Keith was alive. So he had a soft spot for her. Plus she was so funny, made us laugh all the time with the shit she'd say. There were only 2 girls that were ever mean to her and she sassed the shit outta them.
So we are goin around in the woods lookin for her as evening sets in. It's about 6pm and I turn around and suddenly Keith isn't in sight. I heard him one second, and the next second, nothing. So I was now lookin for two people and I didn't find neither. I was startin to get worried that somethin might have happened. Keith HATED being in the woods after dark unless it was just him and me, but being separated I was sure he was gonna flip out.
Well, when I got tired and it got too dark, I went back to the place where everyone agreed to meet up. And there they were, Keith and Carolyn, both laughin and talking to one another.
See, it turns out Keith fell down a real steep hill while we were lookin and that was why I couldn't see him. The brush was so dense that I couldn't see the bottom of the hill and he was unconscious so he couldn't hear me. Well, Carolyn must have heard me callin for them and she showed up but she couldn't see me or get up the hill (it was almost a cliff instead of a hill). But she found Keith and he woke up to a badly sprained ankle and dislocated shoulder. Keith told her where they were supposed to meet up and that girl lifted him off the ground like goddamn Superwoman and crutched his helpless ass all the way back, following the sound of people callin her name.
Turns out that girl could handle herself. People were out tryin to rescue her but she ended up rescuing my best friend from a scary night alone in the woods. They stayed friends after that.