A Tiny Hideout Fiasco

We had been walking for a bit now, Ever so often a cool breeze would hit my skin bestowing a tingling sensation, I could hear the birds chirping headed off to their home calling it day most probably because it was now 5 pm.

We Stopped occasionally at random places. Lena took lots of pictures of the beautiful view as well as ours.

"There!"

Arthur yelled pointing at a distance, we all followed our gazes to where he was pointing and stood with our mouth ajar. In front of us was a stunning sight of a lake.

Of course, the lake we saw on the map.

Tall trees besieged the clear stream of water from anyone else's eye, only to be found if only one was curiously looking for it.

In a blink of an eye, Arthur scampered towards a fallen tree that had made a bridge over the running water, and carefully took a seat, earning a gasp from all of us at the quick action.

"Stay right there let me take a picture!" Lena yelled.

"click" "click" "click"

"ugh! be done already!" Shawn whined,

"fine, I'm done!"

"who wants to take a swim?" beamed Lena.

"oh me likey" Arthur beamed back.

"ooh ooh me too, Shawn too!" Anne volunteered.

"what about you jade? Hayden?"

"Na-ah I'm good"

"what why?!" Anne whined.

"I told you guys I'm not getting in that water without my swimming gear"

"yea I agree, besides what do you guys think? we're gonna walk back to camp soaked ?" Hayden asked.

"damn your right" Shawn agreed as well.

"fine but from now on this is our hideout" Arthur declared.

We all agreed, after that Lena got her bag and pulled the snacks me and Anne had been waiting to eat.

It was so fun, we sat and ate. Splashing water at each other, literally played tag, and let's say it just hit different playing tag in the forest obviously we didn't go too far. we stayed near our hideout.

"guys! It's 6:45" Shawn alerted.

"k cmon let's go," I said.

We started walking back to the campsite when guess what?...chad and his goons stumbled upon our way.

—just great—

"oh wow o wow what do we have here?"
He said with a dumb smile on his dumb face that somewhat reminded me of a soap holder.

"what do you want chad," Shawn asked already bothered.

"Woah someones in a bad mood, what happened man? Did ya girl choose someone else over you?"

He smirked looking at Anne and then back at Shawn, who was now clenching his jaw. Sensing the tension Anne instantly put her hand on his shoulder.

"calm down, he's just messing around you know he has a habit of barking around"

"what was that hun"

"you heard me"

"Whatever I'm not here to see to you" saying that he turned his gaze to me.

--um what the hell?--

He threw a slay smile at me.
"I've been observing you jay"

--did be just call me jay?--

"you have gotten quite dazzling over the years, you remind me of a wild rose"

--is he being for real right now? --

All of us are standing here in an awkward silence and he decides to charm me?

—out of every other girl, me?--

"it's quite cute to see you trying to fit all your vocabulary in just one sentence, and to be honest you remind me of something too....a diaper, self-absorbed and full of shit besides where's your other bimbo?
You got no one else to hit on so you think out of all the girls in the world you were gonna charm me? I wouldn't even spit in front of you and yet alone be charmed by you"

I sniggered whereas his slay grin fell into a scowl.

The silence wasn't awkward anymore at least not for us but for him and his goons it got pretty awful.

"cmon we gotta go, we're already getting late," Hayden said grabbing my hand which I appreciated.

"don't worry if they ask... well tell them, we, unfortunately, stepped in some trash on the way" Shawn snickered.

I turned around to look back at the now shook boy who that he was the shit. He still stood right there staring at me, his fists clenched which made me smirk.

We reached back at camp just in time followed by chad who showed up 20 minutes after us.

"Alright, guys! Very good you reached here right at the time!" Mrs. Abby said cheerily.

"now time for FOOD!" Mr. Jones excitedly announced.

Some of the students got the food from the huge freezer trunk thingy because yes our school brought hot dogs for the first night here. Some kids Started the campfire.

After we were done eating and it was surprisingly delicious. We all gave our attendance to make sure everyone was around.

It was time for bed and every single person went to their tents, the voices of soft chatting slowly faded out as everyone fell asleep.

It was currently 2 am, I laid in my tiny share of the tent, sleep not coming to me due to chance in my surroundings.

I could hear the chirping of crickets, the rustling of the leaves as a gentle breeze would hit them, the crackling of the wood that still burned, radiating an amber glow, keeping us safe from any sort of dangerous creature that might be lurking in the dark and I could hear the unzipping of...

—wait unzipping?—

I quickly got up unzipping the little clothe door and saw Arthur.

"Arthur, why are you awake?" I whispered.

"I could ask the same"

"I couldn't slee-"

I was gonna answer back when both of our heads snapped towards the sound that came from one of the tiny cabin, followed by the sound of a zip being undone.

"you guys ain't sleeping?"
Shawn popped his head out of the room.

"yea and what about you?"

"didn't feel like sleeping"

"I can't sleep either"

we all looked at the now, fourth source of the sound, and of course, it was Anne.

"seriously are any of you even sleeping" I whispered amused.

"yep," said Shawn popping the "p"

"Listen," he said.

we all hushed and heard soft snores coming from one of the rooms. I already knew who it was by the familiar noise and smiled.

"Hayden. He can literally sleep anywhere in a blink of an eye"

"Yea Hayden ain't the only one look,"

Anne said and slightly undid the zip of another cabin and found a passed out Lena.

"We all should probably sleep too," said Shawn.

"or I have a better idea" smugged Anne.

"what?!" Arthur asked excited a glint of mischief in his eyes.

"let's go to our hideout!" whisper to yelled Anne.

"what no are you crazy, if we get caught we'll get in trouble!" I whispered yelled back.

"since when did you become such a wuss?"

"I'm not being a wuss!"

"then let's go!"

"fine then!"

"ok you wake up Hayden I'll wake up Lena"

"okay"

With that Shawn grinned at Anne then deliberately got out of the tent in a hunched position looking around for any sign of anyone else but found himself alone.

"I'll get the flashlight"

Arthur scurried into his little compartment and looked through his bag and pulled out two flashlights.

I made my way to Hayden's room and slowly unzipped the clothe door and looked at the boy who was peacefully wandering in his dreamland.

"Hayden! Hayden gets up"

"Ugh!" he squinted his eyes.

"cmon quickly get up"

"what! What happened?!"
he said, now awake.

"nothing dummy we're going to our hideout and I'm not going without you"

"what? Now? What time is it?"

"it's 2 am now get up!"

Before he could say another word I grabbed his hand and rushed out, everyone else was already outside.

We started walking towards our hideout that would take a good 20 minutes to reach. But finally, we're here.

"Anne, you got the swim gear?" Shawn asked.

"sure do"

"let's have a swim shall we?" Arthur slid his hand around my waist playfully.

"you guys are soo cute"
we heard a familiar voice from behind the trees, everyone went dead silent.

And surprise surprise guess who again, dumb face chad made his way towards us with his bunch of lunatic friends behind him as well.

With bitterness in my voice, I spoke "chad what are you doing here?"

"I would ask you the same babe"

"How did you even know we were here?"

"simple, we followed you"

"and what exactly do you want?"
Shawn asked aggravated.

"wasn't talking to you"

Arthur who was still stood next to was pretty pissed too his hand was still on my waist, which chad noticed shortly.

"seriously you rejected me for this git?"

"What did you just say?" I gritted my teeth.

I could feel Arthur tensed next to me, ready to swing at the poor excuse of a human that now directly stood in front of me.

"seriously thought you were better than this but you're just a whor-"

Before he could complete his sentence. Arthur ran up to him and grabbed him by the collar, his fist colliding against his jaw.

Chad stumbled backward before he could regain his balance Arthur held him again.

"I better not see around again," he said through gritted teeth.

Everyone was frozen in their positions looking at the sudden rise in tension followed by the punches that were being thrown at chad.

Just then one of the chads goon came towards Arthur to punch him but before he could Shawn punched him.

--seriously can things get any worse?--

Now chad and his friends were in head to head fight with Arthur and Shawn.

Hayden was trying to calm the situation down but sensing that things might get out of hand I yelled at him.

"We gotta go! Now! Get them!"

He gave me a nod but seeing no one's listening, he pushed back chad, with one forceful punch he fell.

"Let's GO!"

He yelled at the top of his lungs and prayed Shawn away from the other guy.

He then joined us while holding Shawn and Arthur by the shoulder as if they might just run back to beat the life out of chad again.

Anne gasped looking at Shawn's slightly bleeding lip and took out a tissue and placed it on his lips.

we were just about to head off but suddenly a loud harsh sound blared through the wide night sky,

--it was... a siren?--

"what's happening?!" Anne asked scared-looking up.

"shit!" Hayden said his facial expressions falling into dread.

"what!? What is it?!" I asked with an uncomfortable knot tightening in my stomach.

"it's an air raid siren"

my heart dropped.

--yes. Things can get worse.--

"We need to go faster!" Hayden screamed grabbing my hand and started to run.

"what's an air- raid siren?" Anne yelled as we sped towards the campsite or were we?

"a storm coming! It's a warning so we can get to shelter" Shawn yelled back.

"Not so fast!"

I heard Chad's voice from close by followed by fast footsteps and then I felt a tug at my hair and let out a painful scream.

"let go of me!"

He pulled me back so hard it made me slip and fall, my back first to the ground.

I felt a sharp pain shoot through my lower back, something pierced through my skin making me let out a cry.

In all that running Hayden just now noticed that my hand wasn't in his anymore.

He looked around, his eyes aggressively searching for me, that's when he heard a scream. My scream.

"JADE!" He yelled taking an abrupt turn and saw chad standing there with a shocked look on his face he followed his gaze to see me on the ground weeping.

"CHAD!" He yelled, his fist made contact with Chad's jaw. This time he didn't hesitate to pound full blows at him.

His fist that was now covered in blood was ready to collide with his fist for the fourth time, but then he let him go.

"Get lost," He said somewhat calmly letting him go and quickly made his way towards me.

"what happened jade, are you okay?!"

"m-my back, help me up"
I said trying to keep my voice stable.

He held my hand and helped me get up, a sharp was sent through me

"ahh!" I gasped in pain.

"shit! It's bleeding" he said looking at my back.

"forget about it we need to run"

This all happened in a matter of minutes. I was right, we didn't realize that in a haste we ran in the wrong direction.

We both were still running just behind the rest, I couldn't see them but I could hear them. They were a bit ahead of us.

The siren was still blazing out its loud cry asking everyone to get to shelter, with every step, the pain in my back intensified, and was Hayden firmly holding my hand.

"jade! Hayden! Where are you?!" I heard Lena yell through the short distance that separated us.

"don't worry we're right behind you!" Hayden yelled back.

In a few seconds, we almost bumped into Lena and Arthur that stood there along with Anne and Shawn.

"jade what happened?!" Anne almost screamed as she made her way towards me.

"chad happened."

"that piece of shit!"

"leave it I'm fine!"

"guys," Lena said getting our attention.

"W-Where... are we?"
she asked with a glint of fear in her eye.

We all looked around there was nothing but tress and trees that encircled us.

--Were lost--