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"Who's on water duty again?" Mr. Nikolas spoke, massaging his pounding temples. "Do any of you have a phone to check for signal by chance..?"
"Who's on water duty again?" Mr. Nikolas spoke, massaging his pounding temples. "Do any of you have a phone to check for signal by chance..?"
Pine jumped and stood up quickly, shoving his hands in his pockets. "No! We're just… Being supportive, is all." He blushed even more and turned away, making a lame excuse about needing to use the bathroom and dashing out into the woods with his poetry notebook, recently discovered in his luggage.
Finding a hollowed out log, he sat and began to write. He knew of no other way to truly express himself.
Our world is collapsing,
But I won't let you fall….
"I already tried." Cassie told him. "It didn't work."
“I collected some water. It’s boiling over the fire in an attempt to sterilize it. As for phones, mine was broken when I found it,” Callie said.
"Mother[fudge]." He muttered, looking up at the sy through the arms of pine tree branches.
(XD i hope you all appreciate my censoring tactic, haha )
Cassie was appalled at her teacher. He never cursed. "Ummm…………………………" She didn't know how to ask him to stop without being rude.
Callie was taken aback by her teacher’s crude language. She decided to just ignore it (she’s heard it multiple times, just not from a teacher), and she left to look for people one last time before calling it a night.
Kirsten turned a blind eye to her teacher's language and walked off, grabbing a decent-sized rock and searching for any kind of food.
"I'll… I need to step away for a minute." The teacher dismissed himself, voice tight and brinking shakes, and left to try and figure this out. Well, it wasn't much to figure out— but he needed to calm down before panic ensued. When would his wife hear about this?
Callie looked around and saw nothing: no people, no wreckage, and practically no life. Everything was still. Not even the slightest movement came from the smallest grass blade. Callie just wanted to sit down and watch the rest of this sunset. She took her journal out of her pocket and began writing everything that has happened. She thought to keep track of all their supplies. She looked up and noticed it was already dark. She turned back around, going to tell her classmates that she found nothing. What she saw was not was expected. A black bear stood over her.
Callie’s first reaction was panic.
”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHK!!!!!!”
Of course the scream of one of the kids Mr. Nikolas knew gripped him with cold, stattled terror, "Callie!?" He yelled brokenly, from being both torn from his thoughts and scared to death and back.
Pine looked up from his feet from where he had been pacing aimlessly and searched desperately through the undergrowth for Callie, the source of the scream. "Callie!! You alright?"
Kirsten was in the middle of the forest when Callie screamed. She looked up and started running through the undergrowth, weaving through trees and jumping boulders. "Callie! Where are you? Callie!!" she shouted.
Cassie heard Callie's scream, but unfortunately couldn't do anything about it.
Callie’s screaming only seemed to anger the bear. It growled at her with ferocity. and she fell backwards in fear. The bear moved towards her slowly. She stood up, nerves shaking her. She remembered her 5th grade biology report on black bears: ”Black bears are omnivores. They eat various plants and prey. In order to eat these, they must be good swimmers and climbers. Even from being a cub, they…” Tree climbing or swimming was not an option. She couldn’t outrun a bear either. She didn’t know what to do, so she grabbed a stick and whacked its nose.
“Help me!” she yelled as she tried to find more things to hit it with.
Pine followed Callie's shrill voice through the bracken, but to no avail. "Callie! Where are you?"
Kirsten heard the second scream. She changed direction and ran towards Callie. She got to the clearing and stopped at a tree, watching as the bear advanced on Callie. She started hyperventilating, but collected herself. She scaled a tree, her boulder still in hand. She threw it at the bear, hard. Hidden in the canopy of leaves, she prayed the bear wouldn't know where she was.
The teacher seemed to have easier and faster access than the others. He recalled— quickly— that black bears were intimidated by loud noise, so he opened his mouth to yell very loudly, a foreign noise from the teacher, waving his arms to appear bigger.
Why is everyone screaming? Pine thought to himself, panicking.
Wait.
Bears hate loud noises.
"Hey!! Is it a bear?" he yelled.
No reply.
We're saying it's a bear, then.
Pine had his iPod tucked safely in his pocket but took it out and cupped it in his hands, making a makeshift megaphone, and began playing My Chemical Romance through the speakers and shrieking the lyrics to Sleep at the top of his lungs.
Through all the mayhem, Mr. Nikolas did find Pine's tactic pretty amusing.
(the one time a teacher will ever find MCR to be useful :P)
XD! Lol. )
(this is so cool guys!)
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(JOIN US PLEASEEE? dang i can beg :P)
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