Backwood

Written by: CMH

June 13th, 2015, my best friend died, no one knows how but I know what happened.

It all started in September when I was walking to school, but before I get to any detail, I’m Zak and I know that's a boy name but still, It’s my name. I was starting my first year in high school and was on my way to school. I grabbed my bag and rushed out the door with my bright blue headphones on my head and with my black thrasher sweatshirt in one hand, I eventually slowed my pace and calmly walked down a path that was a short-cut to the back of the school..I came upon it while I was exploring my new home, neighborhood and street, none of the kids there seemed interested in me, so I stayed my distance. The moment I got half way on the path I heard something get thrown, I took my headphones off and looked around at the forest around me and saw nothing, there was only a doe standing there, staring at me in curiosity. I continued to walk but I didn't put my headphones back on my head, as I got closer to the school I heard footsteps behind me, they sounded close so I wiped around to see a boy with the same thrasher sweatshirt on and the same headphones, he noticed I stopped and was looking at him so he took his headphones off his head and seemed confused. I scanned him and his body structure, then I blurted out “Did you throw something at me earlier? Do you think throwing crap at new kids is funny?!”

He looked around thinking I was talking to someone else, he looked back at me and had a cross look come upon his face, “I didn’t even know you were new first of all, and before you get all pissed off at me, how about you ask me calmly, if I threw something at you, and FYI, I didn’t” He put his headphones back on his head and proceeded to brush past me and continued to walk to the school, I watched him walk up the hill and as he faded over the top, and he was gone.

I made my way up the hill and went through a bag check, I guess schools everywhere started doing this, sensing that one kid shot up a school in Colorado. When I eventually got through the bag check, I had gotten swept through the halls by the crowds of other students. I got to the office finally and they just told me to sit down and they would set me up with a person to show me around this “fine” school, which in my opinion, it was full of snobby rich kids or the rude ghetto folks. I waited forty-three minutes for them to call someone to take me around this school, and finally someone walked through the door of the office and was greeted by all the office helpers. It was the same boy, i thought to myself, i constantly glanced at him and every time he would look my way, I quickly looked back at my phone. Moments later he waved his hand over my phone and i looked up at him, his eyes were golden with hints of black, I shook my head and took my headphones off and stood up, putting my hand out “ I’m Zak, Freshmen, I’m fifteen years old and I’m new here” I said ending with a bright smile. He shook my hand “I’m Lonnie, sophomore, sixteen years old, now we will be going to the west wing and heading upstairs to your first class.” he said, walking me out of the office and leading me to the left hallways and heading outside. I stopped at the door, not realizing where he had taken me, it was a back door and it led back to the same path I came from after I confronted him. “Where are we going exactly..?” I asked as calm as I could, he scared me. I didn't like how cute he was, or how coldly he looked at me. He turned around, pulled me outside, and shut the door behind him “Are you skipping?? Ohhh that's not good, i’ll have to report you to the headmaster..” He said as if he was teasing me, I shivered, it was cold outside and my nose started to turn red, I left my sweatshirt in my locker when I found it earlier. “Lonnie! This isn't funny..i'm freezing, let me in, now!” I placed my hand on the glass, I could feel the heat from inside. He chuckled and placed his hand exactly where my hand was but on his side he could feel how cold it was outside where I was. “Your bossy, If you say please maybe i’ll let you in” he smirked and drew a smiley face where his breath on the glass was. Lonnie heard heels walking in his direction and ran in a closet beside him. A teacher noticed someone standing outside the door and opened it, “What are you doing out here?!” She must have been one of the older, more strict teachers, from the way that she yelled at me. I went to explain why I was outside but she stopped me before I could. She saw cigarette buds on the ground and for some reason assumed I was smoking, “Were you smoking out here!? Young lady, I am calling your mother and you are going home! You reek of cigarette smoke!” She grabbed my arm and dragged me down the hall to her office, where she called my mom to pick me up and take me home. When my mom got there she explained that she smokes at home and that's why I smelled that way, the teacher let me off with a warning even though my mom explained and later called Lonnie down and lectured him for letting me out of his sight. She stated that I could have ruined the schools reputation. She sent him out and he grabbed my hand, dragged me down to the other side of the school and pulled me into a smelly closet. “I’m sorry..I got both of us in trouble with Ms. WormWell” I thought to myself, that's a perfect name for that woman, she is a mixture of worm salt and well water, I laughed softly and Lonnie stopped and stared at me “You think I’m playing around right now?” I looked at him and frowned, “No, not at all. I’m sorry your highness but I really should be going to my locker and going home..have a good day” I said bowing to taunt him and i walked to my locker got all my stuff and walked right out the front doors and went home the long way, about fifteen minutes later someone grabbed my arm with force, i swung around and punched them in the jaw, turns out it was Lonnie, again. “What the hell..do you have a death wish?” he rubbed his jaw and stood up straight and held out a piece of paper, “Here, it's my phone number. I uhm want to be friends and get to know you better.” And that's when I made my first friend in this hell hole of a town. I agreed to his friend request and we walked home together that afternoon, sense the first day of school, he's been constantly over at my house and I've been over at his house, my mom considers him as part of the family and his parents adore me. Even his little sister likes me, and little kids never like me.

One weekend we decided to go explore the woods and we were out there for about 4 hours just finding random stuff, we found: a couch, a book shelf, pictures of people from the 90’s, and an old abandoned house. Ooooo spooky I know, I didn't want to go inside but he did so he chose to drag me inside this house that looked like it was going to eat our souls and drag us to hell. When we got inside we saw that the inside was perfect, untouched, completely not abandoned. It was weird, how can the outside of this house look so dead but we get inside and the lights and heaters work. Something wasn't right, I turned around to leave and there stood a guy, he looked to be about eighteen or nineteen and he had his hoodie up on his head, so I couldn't see his face completely. I held onto Lonnie’s sleeve and he could feel me trembling, I was scared, I didn't know who this person was, let alone if he was going to murder us, or actually be a cool dude. Lonnie pushed me behind him and started to move back towards a back door, he flipped his hood on so the person couldn't see his face, then put my hood up over my head and grabbed my hand, “We’ll leave, this is a nice place of yours, and I think it's time that me and my sister got home..” The guy flinched when he said sister, and he started to walk slowly to us. Lonnie tensed up, I could feel it as his hand got a tighter grip around my hand, I saw the guy start to reach for something and I dragged Lonnie out the back door of the weird house and dashed home, the moment we went into my house, I started to cry. We were home alone also, my mom was at work and his dad had friends over, probably getting drunk, his mom worked with my mom at this fancy restaurant about 25 minutes away by car, if we ran there it would take us almost an hour. When Lonnie saw I was crying, he hugged me and pet my head. He is the sort of guy that will be cold to you if you're cold to him but when you get to know him he's actually very nice and is a huge softy. He picked me up and took me up to my room, sat me down on my bed and made himself at home like always. I wiped my face and laid down and hugged a pillow, “ what the fuck was he doing there and what was up with that house?” I said kicking off my converse. Lonnie sat on the bed and took his shoes off as well and scooted back against the wall “ ….Zak, if we didn't get out of there..what would have happened..?” he stared at the ceiling, i glanced at him, his eyes were still golden with the black hint and they always calmed me down, they reminded me of my pet snake, Sammie, he's a albino ball python, but it's weird because he still has very pale yellow marks, in the sun he sparkles, Lonnie hates snakes so is never up to meeting Sammie but Lonnie’s eyes always sparkle. My mom and his mom got home around 12 at night and both wondered why the house was so quiet, sense they both were at his house ten minutes ago and zero sign of either of us there. They looked around and finally mom looked in my room and called Mrs. K to see what she discovered, Lonnie and I had fallen asleep hugging each other for safety, they shut off the light and shut the door, not knowing what had happened that unlucky day.

This was Part.1 of Backwoods, If you liked this please contact me I will create the next part. Thank you, and as always 🖤STAYYYY CREATIVE🖤

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The story Will be updated! I promised, I just never had time when school was in session, but now that the whole Carona thing has happened I can help you all out and update like usual, The updates will be mainly on Mondays and Fridays because of me still having online school, I hope you all are safe and once again 🖤STAYYYY CREATIVE🖤(❁´◡`❁)