Dirt from the branches and leaves I rammed through glued to the sweat on my forehead as it dripped down my face; it stung my eyes and blinded me as I ran through the maze of trees. Despite the pain, dirt wasn’t going to stop or slow my sprint from the scene I had just encountered. “Right at the river, left, straight,” I murmured to myself, looking down at the path of transparent blue rocks that my sister and I had laid down earlier this summer. We figured that if we ever couldn’t find our way back through the woods to our house, then we could follow the colorful stones that we stole from our other sister’s fish tank. But, the sun was seemingly tired and getting ready for night time, so the blue began to blend in with the dirty pebbles around them.
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Her blond ponytail bobbed up and down and the only sound that echoed in my ears were kick, crack, pick, pack, kick, crack, pick, pack from the sticks she snapped.
“What if that guy can hear us? Shart, what if he’s right behind me?” I thought, as I raised my knees to lengthen my stride. Scenes of that mysterious man grabbing my ponytail and yanking me back to the fort he had taken played over and over in my head. Tears full of the grime from my eyes began to creep down my cheeks. My heart tightened and I shivered as I quickly opened my hips and cranked my head to the left to scan my surroundings. “Thank
Her blond ponytail bobbed up and down and the only sound that echoed in my ears were kick, crack, pick, pack, kick, crack, pick, pack from the sticks she snapped.
“What if that guy can hear us? Shart, what if he’s right behind me?” I thought, as I raised my knees to lengthen my stride. Scenes of that mysterious man grabbing my ponytail and yanking me back to the fort he had taken played over and over in my head. Tears full of the grime from my eyes began to creep down my cheeks. My heart tightened and I shivered as I quickly opened my hips and cranked my head to the left to scan my surroundings. “Thank