The Woods

I was walking in the woods, very thick trees everywhere you turn. The sun was just rising and over the creek I could hear a gust of wind. When it stopped and the leaves stopped waving. I could see a house right over the creek and the sun was just over it. It’s that one beautiful moment that you get to look. I walk my way to the house and I am on the front door step and can hear the rickety of the stairs, someone is coming down I am thinking, I hear him load a shotgun. I start running he shoots the door off and he sees me, I look at him he is a old man with long white hair I keep running and now he is chasing after me. I hear him shoot again I see a pellet go off the tree next to me. I keep running as fast as I cannot looking anywhere except for straight in front of me. I trip over a branch and fall he come right up to me, puts the shotgun on my head, he said "don't ever come back or I will shoot, and tell all your friends not to come back either no leave". So I did what he said. But they denied me and they set up cameras so the world could see him. He found them and took them he told us if we to were even take a step in the wood he would shoot all of us. He would do his yearly robbing of a grouchy store and get the yearly supply of food and that is just his warning and if you do come in the woods he will shoot everybody in the store. We are all terrified, we just ask ourselves what do we do.  Then over in the corner David says something no one can really hear him he isn’t that smart and doesn’t talk much but we said say it louder. He says “This time why don’t we just call the police”. We start whispering to each other people are blurting out they won’t believe us then other are saying we have to give it a chance. So we find my dad’s phone and we slowly dial 911, it felt like it was years before I finished dialing. We tell him everything that happened and of course he won’t believe us but we are pleading but still nothing and he hangs up.So we sit down again and think then this time no one came up with an idea, we just got headaches the longer we thought. But finally I think of it, why don’t we sneak up behind his house and light it on fire, he will get out and have to move houses. So we are walking in the woods, but there is something different this time but we don’t know what it is. We are behind the house and we got the gasoline and the match, David climbs up a tree and drops gasoline on the top of the house I have the match. I light it, he comes out of the house and I throw it the house starts on fire he shoots and hits Michael we keep running. We look behind us the whole woods is starting on fire. The man isn’t even trying to shoot us anymore he is just running. He is blaring in horror, the fire got him it’s just me and David running we realized what was different the fence he put up around the woods we have to jump it. We are coming closer up to it and we jump at the same time. I make it David got his pants suck on it I turn around and rip his pants. But we just keep running, we can see the road if we make it there we know we are safe. It feels like it is taking years to get there but we did.The police find the two bodies burned down to the bones and they found the house. The police man we talked to said he was sorry for not believing us. Michael parents also came up to us and said that you should have let us know that we were going to take a walk in the woods at least she needed to know that, at the time she was balling her eyes out.  The next day they both had their funerals, there were so many people that the parents didn’t even know but the man’s family was there and they told us that he had been missing for years and his name was Ryan. The forest was replanted and the house was rebuilt for no reason except for remembering of those two brave men it said these two courage’s men were killed in a forest fire in these woods one of the men lived in this house that was burned down and rebuilt in the same fashion.