The First Night
Today... was a good day, since today was the day I was going camping with my friends. It was a long drive from my apartment building, the first building I lived in without my family next to me. Though I had heard bad stories about camping, and how people didn’t like the great outdoors,that meant nothing to me. I loved the forest, and everything that came with it- the animals, predators and prey alike. Well, besides the bugs, that is. Mosquitos are a nightmare to me, and there is nothing I can do to make them go away. Bug Spray is a lie. Modern technology doesn’t work either. Those machines that use signals, and bug zappers, only serve to attract bugs,amely mosquitos, closer...
Sorry, sorry. I got off topic.If I continued complaining about mosquitos, we’d be here all night.Back to the trip. Though, it was going to be a long drive, I was super excited. Yesterday, my friends and I had started out this journey by going to superstores for supplies to last the four days we’d be camping. We got hot dogs, spicy chips, cookies, lighters, knives, tents, new clothes, and lots of other things, too many to keep track of. We went back home in order to rest for the travelling we were going to do tomorrow. Well, I went back home. My friends came to my house to pack, due to the fact that we were going to drive in my vehicle.
Now, back to today. I probably didn’t need to tell you about yesterday, but I wanted to. I’m kind of freaking out right now, and wanted to get some of this fear off my chest.
Today started out with my friends and I putting all of the items we needed for camping into and onto my van. It was super crowded. We had to rearrange the trunk due to lack of space, and still had things hanging off the van. It would take around 4 hours to get where we were going and it was bound to get uncomfortable.
As we travelled, we got hungry like all people do when travelling in a car for a few hours. We stopped for some lunch. Happily spreading out the food and eating was joy itself. Though, the food was disgusting. I didn’t care. When you are driving, you wouldn’t care either if you hadn’t eaten for 3 hours.
Then we set off again, this time making it to the place we were heading which was…
NOT, the campgrounds.
The first place we were headed was the beach. I mean... What’s camping without swimming, right?
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Right? I mean, I’m not going crazy, am I?
Na, I’m probably not going crazy. If I was, then I’d be going sane, not insane. I’m already cuckoo in the head.
Near the beach was a theme park, and naturally, we as tourists decided to enter it. We wanted to getsome thrills before heading back out onto the road.
The first thing we saw as we went into the theme park was a bumper cart ride, one of the classics. Of course we had to give it a whirl. I was lucky and figured out how to drive quickly. XBlood, one of my older friends, got stuck going backwards. KK and Kris had to ride together because there were a lot of broken carts. They got stuck after crashing into the corner and were unable to figure out how to get unstuck. Aurora did amazing. She immediately realised how to drive the kart. After turning the steering wheel to the right, she went forwards, and after turning it to the left, she went backwards. Then she could drive correctly. Izy did pretty well, but never figured out how to go backwards,so whenever he hit someone, he kept ramming until they got away.
Afterwards, we went on water rides and some roller coasters, one of which Izy threw up on. Though, I don’t know how. Maybe it was because of the food we all ate that made his stomach upset.
After running out of tickets, we left satisfied, as we had been entertained for quite a while. Looking at the clock in the front dash of the vehicle showed we had been at the beach and theme park for a few hours. We were all hungry and it was close to dinner time, so we looked for a restaurant to eat at. The first place we found had a relatively expensive menu, so we decided to find another place to go.
Finally, we ended up at a smokehouse with much cheaper food. It was good though. As I always say, food is never what it costs nor what it looks like. Though higher prices usually grant you better food, if you know what to look for, price does not matter. What the food looks like is just an extra, not the food itself.
Since this was the last stop, we were all excited about the prospect of camping. After finishing dinner, I said goodbye to the cruel world full of hard work, virtual entertainment, and pain.
And how do you do that, you ask? Virtually, that’s how. You call up your boss, saying something came up so you wouldn’t be able to work, cancel your subscription for the gym, and then turn off the blue light that is always accompanying you wherever you go- the cellphone.
At the campsite, we unpacked all the stuff that we ‘needed’ for camping. We were probably being overenthusiastic about what we did bring, and not being minimalistic like I usually am.
Setting up the tents, and laying out the bedrolls, took a while. It brought us into the night. Since it was dark however, we decided not to build a fire. It was dangerous to walk around a campsite without light, and we had decided not to use electronics, making the deal that if we did,we would have to do one of those fear challenges on tv. Because of the danger, Izy and KK, the younger ones among us went to sleep.
That’s when we began to hear strange noises. I mean, there's nothing wrong with hearing a wolf or an owl every once in a while. But, this was something different. When we looked at where the sound was coming from, which had been coming from outside the tent, on the ground were the words.
I AM THE NIGHTMARE.
Written in red, mosquitos bugging around.