LETTER

Ethan

The minute the morning light struck my eyes, I jerked to my feet. My eyes shifted to the corner where Kayla slept last night but it was empty.

“Kayla?” I yelped in shock as I stood up and looked around, wondering where she had gone to so early in the morning.

I walked around the part of the forest where we camped, hoping that I would catch sight of her around.

To my utmost surprise, she wasn’t anywhere in sight. Panic set in at that point and I called out for Claire and Jason.

“I think something is wrong. Kayla is not anywhere in sight”, I explained, with my heart beating out of panic.

Claire was the first to react. She took to her heels and went around the forest in search of Kayla.

“Where did she go to? What is going on?” Claire screamed out of her lungs, almost at the verge of having a panic attack.

I sensed trouble in the air at that point. Claire was reacting in a manner that got me scared. It seemed as if she had an idea that something might go wrong.

“What’s going