The Lake (323 hits)
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Submitted by QuinnTheEskimo (View user info) at 2007-07-30 21:41:10 EDT
"C'mon, man! Where the hell is the lake? We've been walking for hours!" Erik, sometimes called Chubs when he was irritating the rest of us, was sweating through his t-shirt. One of his flip-flops had fallen off a while ago, and his unprotected food was bleeding a little.
"Shut up, fat ass." Toby said.
"Leave him alone, Toby." Jake warned. He was sweating under his heavy coat.
"Forget you, Jake." Toby shot back. "You guys are lucky I'm even taking you out there."
I readjusted my backpack, then said, "We've only been walking for like, twenty minutes. But seriously, Toby, where is the lake?"
"A little farther. There's another hill, then some rocks." Toby answered.
"Are you sure that this isn't somebody's property?" Jake asked.
"Quit being such a wussy." Toby growled.
It was the summer after sixth grade, and we had been out of school for two weeks now. Toby had told us about a lake where his older brother sometimes went skinny dipping with his girlfriend. We all agreed to go with him once we heard that there was even the slightest chance we'd get to see his brother's girlfriend naked.
The woods were very sunny, with big islands of shade beneath the pine trees. Jake continually pointed out every bird, squirrel, and rabbit with such excitement that all we'd ever do was laugh at him.
Toby started walking backwards, facing the rest of us. "What if she's down there, right now?"
Erik smiled. "I hope I can see her boobs." He said.
"You idiot," Toby sneered, "Who cares about boobs? All the good stuff is between their legs." He pointed at his crotch.
"Like what?" Jake asked.
"Like, you know, girl stuff. Trust me." Toby turned back around and said, "Those are the rocks, we're almost there!"
I could almost hear Erik's sigh of relief. I, for one, was going to be glad to put down my backpack.
Toby clambered over the rocks, then said, "There it is!"
We all stood shoulder to shoulder on the rocks for a few seconds, looking at the lake. It was almost dusk, so the surface had an orange glow. "Look!" Jake pointed to the lake, "A fish!" He shouted. All I saw were the ripples it left behind.
"Last one in can kiss my nuts!" Toby shouted, and he ran towards the lake, throwing off his shirt and kicking his shoes into the bushes.
I put down my backpack and took off after him, Jake behind me, and behind all of us Erik shuffled, out of breath. "I'm not kissing any body's anything!" He cried to us.
We played Marco Polo, had races, and jokingly dunked each other's heads. Occasionally, we'd trek back to the backpack, our feet collecting leaves, mud, and small twigs to eat a sandwich.
We swam for hours, and it was well after dark when when Erik shouted, "Guys, I forgot! I have to be home before the street lights come on!"
"Damn it!" Toby shouted. "C'mon, guys, Chubs needs to get home."
"It's not my fault!" Erik shouted defensively. "It's my mom's rule!"
Slowly, we left the lake, shivering as we toweled off and pulled out dusty shirts back on. Only Jacob, with the foresight to bring a coat with him, seemed comfortable.
CRACK!
We all jumped. Erik cried out a little. It happened again.
CRACK!
This time a limb splintered off of a nearby tree. "Run!" I yelled, and we all took off into the woods. Behind us we could hear something, snapping twigs as it trampled through underbrush, and occasionally, another loud CRACK! would make us all jump and run faster.
"Guy's, wait!" Erik shouted. His foot was gushing blood, which looked like glittering oil in the moonlight.
Jake turned back. "C'mon, Erik, Lets go!"
I turned around, waiting for Jake and Erik, my back pouring sweat against the backpack. That was when I saw it. It stepped onto the path, dark and terrible, and as tall as a man. I turned my back on my friends and started running again.
"Gotchew!" I heard it yell. Erik screamed. Then Jake was next to me.
"It ate Erik!" He yelled.
"Ate him?" I yelled back.
"Probably!"
It was a few more minutes before we reached a road.
"It's the highway!" Toby shouted. "My house is this way!"
We ran down the road maybe a hundred yards before Jake pointed out, "It's not chasing us anymore."
We stared at each other.
"What happened to Erik?" Toby asked.
Me and Jake looked at each other. "Eaten." I said.
"Eaten?" Toby asked. "By what? The guy that owns the lake,Mr. O'Tool?"
Me and Jake looked confused. "The monster?"
"Now Mr. O'Tool is going to call our moms!" Toby shouted.
"I thought the lake was, like, public!"
Toby shook his head, and a cop car rolled into view, shining its spotlight on us. The cop stepped out, and opened the back door. "Are you boys going to come with me, or am I going to have to arrest you?"
We looked at each other. Jake and I felt stupid, thinking that some old man was a monster. Jake climbed in first.
After the car started rolling, Toby looked at the two of us in the backseat.
"So, how'd you like the lake?"
User Reviews
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-10-05 08:49:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It made me smile. And it definitely doesn't deserve to be a minus.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-08-01 20:40:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-07-31 08:44:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2007-07-30 22:31:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Nice try, but the dialogue is pretty shitty, and the story is kinda lame.
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Submitted by Prime36L (user info) at 2007-07-30 22:03:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I was waiting for some sort of conclusion. Now I'm just pissed I wasted 2 minutes.
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Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2007-07-30 22:31:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Nice try, but the dialogue is pretty shitty, and the story is kinda lame.
Submitted by Prime36L (user info) at 2007-07-30 22:03:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I was waiting for some sort of conclusion. Now I'm just pissed I wasted 2 minutes.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-07-30 21:54:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by sir_cowman (user info) at 2007-07-30 18:53:26 PDT (#)
Ranking: 1
One of his flip-flops had fallen off a while ago, and his unprotected food was bleeding a little
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Moral of the story, if you don't fully cook your meat, an old man will eat one of your friends.
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God damn it, that was me trying to make fun of him logged onto his account. This shit is starting to piss me off.
We need our own 'puters dude.
Wait, those cost money, fuck that.
Submitted by sir_cowman (user info) at 2007-07-30 21:53:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
One of his flip-flops had fallen off a while ago, and his unprotected food was bleeding a little
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Moral of the story, if you don't fully cook your meat, an old man will eat one of your friends.