Narrative

I was late, very very late. Mum’s gonna kill me, she always worries when I’m not home on time.  Maybe if I take a short cut I will be able to get home before her.

“Tevita hurry up, we have to go”, he finished tying his shoe and jumped up, “Ready”, he said.  I started walking ahead of him, “What do you reckon, we take the short cut through the forest.  It’s only like a rugby field long, we could do it” I said. Tevita stopped walking in shock, “The forest, are you crazy?  There’s a monster in the forest, no one walks through there and comes out the other side”.

I stopped to think about it, there was a story that all the kids had heard about.  If anyone walked through the forest the monster that no one has ever seen would get you and eat you, leaving your bones on the ground where you stood in shock and gasped your last breath.

I shook my head, “Nah that’s all rubbish, we’ll be sweet. We are both fast, no one could catch us”.  Tevita said “Trudat, we pretty fast, yeah let’s do it.  Then when kids ask us about it we would say it was easy as’.

We made it to the opening and looked down the dark scary road.  There was a light at the other end, this is going to save us like half an hour, we got to do it.  We looked at each other, I nodded at him and he raised his eyebrows.  It was go time, we tightened our bags on our backs so they would flop all over the place.

“Ready” I said, “Ready” he said, “Okay, ready set go” I screamed.  We started running, looking from side to side to make sure there was nothing there. It was all good, I was getting tired but we couldn’t stop.  If we stop then who knows what would happen.  

We are halfway now, we are going well.  Tevita started to slow down, “Don’t stop, don’t stop”, I puffed out.  “I don’t think I can make it” he shouted. “Keep going, keep going”, I said.

Then we heard a noise, we both stopped in our tracks.  “What was that?” he said.  “I don’t know”, I said.  We both looked back, there was something coming towards us, I couldn’t tell what it was, but it was coming fast and making a big rattling noise. We looked at each other and at the same time and screamed “Arhhhhhhh”, we turned back around and ran as fast as we could.  I didn’t think my legs could be this fast, but this was my life, I’m too young to die.

We were close to the end, the light was right there.  Just a little bit more, we are going to make it.  Then right before we made it we both tripped up and landed straight on our faces.  It was sore, a pain like no other. We slowly got up, the noise was right behind us. Oh no we are stuffed, we both looked behind us.

“Errrrrrrttt”, then dirt flew in our faces. It finally cleared. “What you fulla’s doing, why were you running so fast” Zane said.  I was racing my bike down here cause I saw you run into the forest”.  Tevita and I looked at each other and started laughing.  We were so scared we fell over, that was so crazy.

We brushed the dirt off ourselves, and we starting walking again, out of the forest.  We all turned back at the forest, “Monster, what a joke” I said.  “Well better get home before I get into any more trouble”, we all laughed.