Tears rolled down their red cheeks as they ran at each other for a big long hug. They were acting like they hadn’t seen each other in years,but it had only been an hour! I just watched on as their sobs became louder and louder. I stifled a laugh as I visualized what had happened earlier. We were all extremely bored,even my Mom. My twin cousins,Liz and Jacqie, were over as well as my neighbor Malina. We had just finished playing Just Dance on the Wii and we were all tired. Consequently,we all sat around the living room drinking water. I laid on the couch,waiting. My Mom was going to take us to the Haunted Forest ,it was like a haunted house,however in is in the forest. I did not want to go,but did anyone ask me? Probably. However,did they care about my answer? No. I sighed angrily at the thought of wasting my night at some dumb forest. I don’t do scary things. …show more content…
It’s not my thing, however the twins were all for it. “I can’t wait! It’s gonna be so much fun!”Liz exclaimed. Before I knew it,we were outside in the chilly,dark night. We were still waiting for my Mom so we went to Malina’s garage to find some glow sticks. Her dad,Mr. Vic, had a box of glow sticks in his hand and passed them out to all of us. “I’ll wear this one!” Malina said,putting on a giant,plastic,flashing glow stick around her neck. “You don’t want to wear that! They’ll scare you the most with that one on!”Mr.Vic said and we all laughed. Therefore, she decided against wearing it. The twins,my Mom, my sister Reagan, and I got into the car and Malina and her Dad went into theirs. We drove through the night blasting the radio with the windows all the way down. The wind whipped through our hair. It was chilly out,but I didn’t mind that much. The twins talked through the total car ride thus I stayed remarkably quiet. First when we arrived, my Mom invited my other cousins to come,but they declined. Than we made our way to buy our tickets.There was an extremely long line to reach another extremely long line! Really,why do you even need two lines! In the second line some kids working for the Haunted Forest went around creeping people out. They frightened the twins a ton,but I wasn’t scared. I looked at them and gave what I assumed was a tough glare. They didn’t bother me as long as I didn’t act like I was scared. The twins couldn’t help but act terrified and they got scared even more. They were a very excellent target to scare because they freaked out yelling and crying at almost everything. “I don’t want to do this Miss.Tina! Don’t make me go!”Jacqie said almost breaking out in tears. “Yeah! Let’s just go!” I said getting excited. If they didn’t want to go maybe we could go home! I couldn’t help but be nervous. The forest looked extremely dark and you could hardly view anything past the entrance. It was a ‘black pit into the forest of doom’ and I could hear the screams of its victims clearly. “ No! We’re going to do it. Stop being babies!” my Mom replied with a smile as we approached the front of the line. “But I don’t want to!” Liz exclaimed. “I don’t care what you want!” my Mom replied obviously aggravated. I was forced to be in the front.
Why me? Everybody else was too chicken! For instance, Reagan had her face in my Mom’s jacket, Liz was silently crying and hugging my Mom, and my Mom could hardly move with two kids clinging onto her. It genuinely wasn’t that scary. I had determined earlier that I would be scared or petrified with fear,but this was a joke! You walk along the path and in little buildings or in the forest people would jump out and try to scare you. It obviously didn’t work…..well on me. I led my group through a little path with only one guy on it. The path was barely illuminated and the man looked out of place there. He was just a regular guy, there was nothing scary about him. “Hello.” he said. He was holding a long stick and had a huge grin on his face. “Hi.” we all replied. “So you see this stick. It’s called the ugly stick and I think you’ve been hit by it a few times.” he said to my Mom. We all busted out laughing…….everyone except my Mom. “You more than me.” she replied. “I don’t know, have you looked in a mirror lately?”he said. “It takes one to know one.” she said and we walked
away. I marched on leading my group to freedom.We had made it back to the start of the forest. Reagan and Liz both had tear streaks down their face and my Mom looked really tired. Now she was probably wondering why she wanted to do this. We walked through the last stretch of the forest and were greeted by light. We waited at the exit for the others and Jacqie’s group made it out a little bit after us. Jacqie was crying too! Looking at Jacqie crying made Liz cry even more. As a result the twins ran to each other for a long embrace. We all went home a while later. This was beyond doubt a meaningful experience considering it made us all laugh. The ‘ugly stick’ is an inside joke now and this was one of the first things we did with the twins. It was a positive,entertaining memory we all share.
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