“Damian, stay with me please.” Beth sobbed.
Damian groaned.
“I…called the police, they’ll be here soon,” Beth promised.
“We need to get out of these woods, just hang in there.”
“Where is Richard?” Damian blinked rapidly
“We lost him, I don’t know where he is,” Beth said her voice thick with tears.
They went silent, their heavy breaths filling the night air. Beth so hated the woods she just wanted to scream herself hoarse.
“Your phone rang,” Damian said.
Beth gasped.
“It’s the police. They want to know where we are.”
“We need to get to the highway.” Damian struggled to stand; he had sprained his ankle real bad.
“Can you run?” She asked.
“I think so.”
She took his arm and draped it over her shoulders to help him ease his pain.
“Lean on me a bit. You are pretty heavy too.”
“Yeah, yeah”.
They went silent as they made their way through the woods searching for any sign of civilization. They were lost.
“I am never ever going hiking again no matter what you say,” Beth vowed fiercely under her breath.
Damian laughed.
“I heard that.”
“You heard me. It is your fault we are lost and messy and it’s not funny.”
“It’s all for the fun Betty and the adventure.”
Beth shook her head and rolled her eyes.
They walked on some more, the sounds of the night and the woods and each other for company.
“Water.” Damian groaned.
“Yeah, we need water.” Beth agreed.
“Do you hear that?” Damian whispered.
“Sounds like a river.”
They rushed hurriedly towards the sound. It was a small strip of clear water. Beth gasped happily as they made their way down as fast as they could.
The moon was bright and full and the stars twinkled in the sky. It was beautiful.
“Beautiful, I tell you,” Damian said with a sigh.
Beth nodded.
She let out a tiny gasp suddenly.
“What?” Damian asked.
“Did you hear that?” She asked.
“Hear what?”
“Shhhhh! Listen, I heard it again.”
“I heard it too.”
They both got up and hurriedly made their way through the branches and the trees and the bushes and finally, they could hear it loud and clear. The sound of the police siren.
Beth screamed happily.
“They are here!”
She took Damian’s hand and helped him climb out of the bush.
“Over here! Over here!”
They screamed and ran towards the police vehicles as they slowed down.
The end.
This story is inspired by this week's prompt which is "They are here". Thank you for reading.
This story has a lot of promise.
There was something that didn't quite make sense to me (but perhaps I misread it?).
It seems from the opening sentence that Damien might have been unconscious (Betty tells him to "stay with her" and also tells him that she called the police. But then Damien tells Betty that the police called, asking where they were. When did Damien answer Betty's phone? Where was Betty? In the story, she doesn't seem to have left his side.
Beth gasped.
“It’s the police. They want to know where we are.”
That is actually Beth's line. I'm sorry I didn't indicate.
As for the opening line, it seems Damian passed out spraining his ankle in the process.
I'm sorry I did not indicate that too.
Thank you for reading. 😊
Ah, that makes more sense!
Some nice imagery in your story.
Well done. :)
Thank you very much. 😊
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Thanks!
What a sad story. My joy is that they made it out in the end. Hiking isn't bad is just that it didn't went well that day
Exactly. It didn't go as planned.
Nicely done. You establish the scene. You quickly fill us in on the circumstance. Someone is hurt. Someone is missing. They are lost. Fortunately, the phone works! Great use of the prompt.
Thank you for sharing this story with the Ink Well community. We appreciate that you engage with other writers.
Thank you Inkwell for reading my story. 😊
Getting lost and surviving through that is really a great adventure.
Well written!
Yes it is. Thank you for reading. 😊
It’s my pleasure.
This is an enjoyable survival story, @stellageorge. You created a great dramatic situation, and it resolves well in the end!
Thank you very much for reading. 😊
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Such a shame that they weren't prepared to go hiking and got lost instead as hiking through the forests one of the best things ever.
So lucky that they had phone reception and were able to call the police!
Soooo, what happened to Richard in the end???
LOL. That remains a mystery.
Thank you for reading. ☺️
Interesting story. You kept my imagination awake!
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for reading. Your sister has a very beautiful name.
LOL. Thank you for reading.