The Trees

THE TREES
It was at the end of a fun day I always wished would come, it was such a waste that it had to end so soon.

My friend came home from a 3-year work in Germany, it seemed longer than 3 years. Hearing that our friend was coming back home, we arranged a camping in the mountains since our friend always liked camping.

We talked since 1p.m but now it’s 8p.m, sigh, how time pass by so quickly when you need it the most. Since it was already night time, we had to sleep, he still isn’t used to the time zone so he needs a bit of rest.

I couldn’t sleep so I just stayed there starring at the sky looking at how many stars there are, after a few minutes I walked around looking for anything interesting to do, i wandered around for a bit, but when I looked back, the camp wasn’t there anymore. I walked around to search for the camp, I thought to my self “This isn’t possible, I just look around for a bit and I didn’t even walked that far.” “But how come I’m already far enough to not see the light?”. I marked a weird tree that seemed like it had a face with a mouth and two eye-holes, seemed to attract my attention so why not put the mark there so I would know when I accidentally came back to that same area.

I began to walk as straight as possible towards the higher grounds of the mountain, but to my surprise, I seem to have accidentally walked back into the same tree I marked, it seemed even weirder because I was surely on a higher ground than before, it had the same mark, the same holes and the same branches, I denied the thought of ghost and stuff like that since I’m alone, so I just thought “Maybe I’m just a bit too sleepy.”.

As I continue to walk straight for about five to fifteen minutes, the same tree is there again, but now it’s mouth is open wider, I continued walking denying my fears, then I tripped, but when I looked up, I see the same tree again, but now it’s looking straight at me with an evil laughing-like face, it scared me so much that I ran. After running for about another three minutes I tripped and hurt my knees, it bled so I couldn’t run, I looked up, and I see the same tree right in front of me laughing, looking at me with it’s eyes bleeding, it moved, It MOVED! Before I even notice it, I was paralyzed by fear, my head was shaking and I asked myself uncontrollably “AM I GONNA DIE?” the last thing I remembered was it’s hand in my left eye, and I saw my own blood from the right eye to my left eye.

Then I woke up in the camp, but now it’s morning, so it was all just a dream….. at least what it seemed like. I went to the tent where my friend is in, I tried to wake him up, but as I opened his tent, he was sleeping sideways with his right eye bleeding and the blood drips to his left eye, and his legs are broken as if he tripped…. The same way I tripped in my dream.