My best friend actually, her name was [name]. She like was always, like she kinda was mean to me, but like I understood it and like, she was my best friend growing up. And then like I remember she and the three other girls like were pulling away slightly. Like our group chats, which had just begun because everyone had gotten a phone in fifth grade, were slowly starting to die, and so was everything else. And like I would barely see them anymore. I became friends with my current best friends now. And I just remember them like pulling away.
And it was crazy. What really — the — is it straw on the camel’s back? Is that the saying? I can’t remember. But um, we wanted to go to the [name of haunted trail], it’s a about a mile trail in [a local town] that at night they’ll do like a haunted trail and so they’ll have scarers. And so I text the group chat and I’m like, “Oh hey, does anyone want to go to the [name of haunted trail]?” And the three girls, like I had already known that my two current best friends had already said no, because they hate anything scary. And so I texted the other ones, and they’re like, “Oh no, sorry, we already have plans.” And I’m like, “Okay, if anyone decides to come like, let me know privately and I will meet you there, we’re going first thing it opened — first, like first thing when it opens.”
And I get there a little, like 10 minutes before, and there’s this group standing next to, like — I remember this so vividly because it was just such a turning point in my life — there was this group standing by the like port-a-potties, and they, the three people — the four people who said no, were in it because um, the thing was the cross country team was going the same night. They couldn’t just be like, “Oh my gosh, we’re already going, like, we could meet you there. Maybe see you?” They were like, “No, we already have plans.” So, that was just a really big turning point.
Um, and on this trail you can get, like, you can get ahead of people. And so, at one point, um, we had this glow stick on actually and that’s like, so they won’t scare you too much. And like, we were still so scared, my mom and I, because it was just me and her doing this, like, we were so scared, and my mom loves everything scary. At one point, we could hear them like singing, like happy songs to get through it. And so, my mom turns to this scarer who had already scared us, and was like, “Hey, these girls behind us were just jerks to my daughter. Can you scare them?” And this is just so funny to me because like this scarer goes, like basically nods, and goes back into hiding and like jumps out, and says “Hahaha, you’re all gonna die!” And I just, I mean, it’s not a great story because it’s kind of mean, but I mean I was so mad, like I was scared but like I was so mad the entire time because they had betrayed me, so.