You Re It !: A Short Story

“You’re It!” Low battery. Exactly the two words I didn’t want to see right now. ‘No signal’ blares in bold black letters in the corner of my phone. Soon, I will be without any light or time source; I need to find my way out, and fast. At the moment, playing hide-and-seek with a bunch of Intrepid teenagers, in the middle of the night, in the woods seemed to be cool… but now, not so much. Every now and then, I hear faint howls coming from what feels like behind me, though, in all fairness, a few minutes ago, behind me was in front of me and in front of me was beside me and behind me was on the other side of me. Therefore, I am lost, in the woods, in the middle of the night; not one of the highest moments of my life. In the past, I have always heard or read in the papers
The figure gives me an instantaneous wave before disappearing into the forest. I am not frightened by the figure, though, I don't know if I should be or not… All I am sure of is that scary or not, that thing is the only thing I have seen since I've been in the woods, and it had noticed me. I have to follow it. I dart eastward for the wooded area where I saw the clandestine figure.I make my way passed the trees, push through the loose brush and branches trying to catch up with it. However, by the time I am back into the woods, more like back at square one, I only see what I saw formerly, trees, loose leaves and branches, and rocks. No cataclysmic figure, just me and countless acres of trees. My earlier objective to find my way out of the woods is getting slimmer and slimmer by the second.
The forest seems quiet now, too quiet. Every infrequent crackle of a leaf beneath me, or sound of a tree branch being snapped in half behind me has me alert at attention as if I were a Rottweiler spotting an unknown enemy approaching my premises. Little mice paws patter up and down my back leaving little chills, as I hear the howling commence once