The Trip

by Jasmine Hedgepeth

     One bright and early morning James decided that he wanted to go on a         camping trip to the woods. He called his cousin Anthony to see if he would like to join him.

“Hello Anthony. This is your big cousin James.”

“Hey big cousin how are you?”

“I’m doing well; I just wanted to call to see if you wanted to go camping with me.”

          “Yeah that sounds fun! When and what time were you plan on going?”

          “Well I planned on leaving tonight but if you’re not able to go then I understand.”

          “Yes, I will be able to go with you tonight, just give me an hour to pack.”

          So they hung up the phone and continued packing all of their items. They met up around 8pm and got on the road. They began driving and realized that there was a lot of traffic. So they sat in traffic for two ours, irritated and hungry.

          Finally the traffic started moving, and all of a sudden the police were behind them with aching sirens.

          Anthony started yelling at James telling him not to pull over.

          “What is going on?”

          “I have warrants. They have been looking for me for the past four months and I’m trying to stay away.”

          “Why didn’t you just tell me that before we drove away? I’m not trying to get in your situation so I’m pulling over.”

“I need you to help me get out this situation” Anthony said.

James looked at him and said,

 “How in the hell do you expect me to do that?”

“Well when we come back from our trip can I stay with you for a little while?”

“Dude no way. I’m pulling over now.”

James turned to Anthony and said, “Why do you have warrants, and what are they for.” Anthony said.

“Well one of them is for violating my probation, and the second one is for refusing to take classes for rehab.

“Why didn’t you just go? It would have prevented all of this.”

James stopped the car and next thing you know police assaulted.

Before looking back both dodged the police and ran into the woods.

Anthony looked on his left side and told James, “Thank you for running with me.”

James looked and said, “Whatever, you just make sure when we get out of this mess you turn yourself in.”

So they walked through the woods and came across two elderly men.

          “Hey youngsters. What ya’ll doing down this way?”

“We ran away from the police and now we are trying to find shelter.”

                   The elderly men offered them to come and stay with them at their cabin and they both agreed.

They walked with the men to their cabin and when they got there everything didn’t quite look normal. There were thousands of spider webs everywhere, the couches were all dusty, the kitchen had no refrigerator, and there were no beds.

“Excuse me sir?” James said. “How are we going to eat and where are we going to sleep?”

“Don’t you worry about it. Everything is going to be alright.”

They took their word and talked for the rest of the night. The men said that they had to go run a few errands and told the boys to stay put. So there they were. Just the two of them sitting with nothing to do. The night passed on mysteriously things started to happen.

          The toilet started running non-stop, there was an annoying dripping sound from the kitchen sink, glass windows started opening and closing and a black cat came from the corner in the empty room from the left.

          They both got scared and ran out the cabin. As they walked down the little dirt path they saw a stray dog. The dog made eye contact with them and immediately started chasing him. They ran up huge tree breathing at a heavy pace.

          Finally the dog went away and the boys continued their journey. As they       walked they saw one of the old men that invited them over.

          He asked,

           “Why did you boys leave”?

          James said, “Well we were hungry and wanted to search for food.”

 The old men stood there and said, “If you boys were hungry then we would have made you some food.”

 They took a double look at both men and continued walking in the woods.

          It was a dark night and a lot of strange creatures. While they were walking into a road they saw a group of men surrounded by nightlights. Anthony recognized one of the men so he approached himself.

          “Hey you in the blue, wasn’t I in jail with you?”

          “Oh yeah, I remember you. You were in there for murder.”

          James busted out and said, “What the hell you mean, why aren’t you telling me these things. I think it is important for me to know.”

Everybody looked puzzled until Anthony said,

           “I don’t want to be here with you anymore. I’m rolling with them.”

At that moment James continued to walk by himself. Later on that night, he no longer cared about what Anthony was doing but he sure did wish somebody was standing right beside him.

          The whole time he was walking he felt like someone was following him.

 His conscious was right. Anthony and his gang were following him.

 He immediately started running until he saw a dark pathway.

          He ran down the path way and all he discovered was dead bodies.

 He was trying to figure out who would do this and the only thing that was running through his mind was Anthony and the boys that he left him for.

          While he stood there looking puzzled Anthony came and admitted to killing those people in the woods.

He said “This is the reason why I am on the run”.

 James looked at him and said “Dude I’m leaving without you and when I get to a police station I’m going to report this.”       Everyone stood there in awkward silence until they heard dogs barking and police sirens. They wondered if they were coming and if they did Anthony was going to make sure that James wouldn’t tell. So Anthony grabbed James by the neck and started to strangle him.

          The boys was yelling at him telling him to stop but all Anthony yelled back was, “ Either you shut up and help or you leave”.

          So there it was. Anthony killed James with his bare hands. The boys ran and made a pact to go get the police and tell what happened. They finally came across a police officer and told him what happen.

 “Excuse me officer, but there is a murder being committed in the middle part of the woods”.

The police looked at him like he had no since into what the boy was talking about.

“Our old friend from jail is killing his cousin. And there are a few other discovered bodies that he has killed as well.”

“Okay boys! Let’s go take a visit at this scene.”

So they walked and when they got to the woods they realized that no one was there.

          The police asked the boys if they were making things up or were they telling the truth.

“No disrespect officer but yes we are telling the truth. If you would like we can go to the police station and run his name down. I have his social security information and I know his whole government name.

          So they went down and got all of the information they needed. Days later they received a call saying “someone killed an elderly man in front of a liquor store.”

 Police hurried and got over there and when they arrived there it was, Anthony with a knife in his hand with blood covered all over it.

 The police arrested him, and he was given the death penalty.

 James was excited and went home with a happy spirit. He told himself never to bring a family member with him anywhere without knowing anything about them.