The Girl And The Forest
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Orlando Love, Grade 7, Newington College
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Short Story
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2016
Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition
The Little Girl And The Dark Forest
A dark forest surrounded the crumbling cottage is what people would say, but for me it was a beautiful place full of nature and the sound of birds and delitefull, every day I would go outside and play in the forest after I come home from school, climbing trees, picking flowers and playing games with my friends. But some days were different, some days it was dark and I heard scary noises, and these days I definitely wouldn't play in the forest, some times I would see figures walking through the dark, hiding when I was looking out the window at night. Some days when I come home and I'm walking through the forest I run and scream with my eyes closed because I'm so scared of what's going to happen to me. Sometimes when I ask my friends if they want to come to my house, they say no because of what they heard about my house. One day when I was walking home from school, I got lost and I didn't know we're to go, I was getting scared and I felt like I was getting followed, I looked behind me and I saw a black figure thirty metres behind me and so I ran, I ran as fast as I could trying to find my house, but I could not find my house. I didn't know if the person was still following me, but to be sure I kept running, as fast as I could and as far away as I could. As I kept running I eventually came across a deep, dark cave, I turned around to see if the person was still following me, I heard some strange rustling in the trees and I got scared and ran in the cave. At this point I had some time to thing about what was going on, I was thinking maybe the house got over grown in the trees and I couldn't see it, and why was this person following me. After about five minutes in the cave I was thinking I just needed to get out of here and find the house, so I did exactly that, I walked in the the direction that I thought the house was and walked without worrying about anything else. I was walking for about ten minutes when I saw a house in the distance, I got excited and ran to it as fast as I could. When I reached the house it was actually my house and the reason I couldn't find the house is because the forest got extended so I could find it and got lost. I walked inside and my mum told me that figure was actually my uncle who just came back from war and was looking for you to surprise me. And after that I feasted on a delicious dinner and never got lost in the forest again.