Silly camping

It's summer once again, the cities are blooming in festivals, and people are traveling from on part of the world to another. However, our story was not just a ’going camping with the friends’ kind of a story, oh, no, it changed our lives, all of them in separate ways.

It was 2024's summer, right after school ended. Me and some friends of mine gathered on a Friday evening in the parking lot of a supermarket. I arrived with my car, one of my friends did the same, he also came with his girlfriend. The other two guys and one girl were going to ride with me in the car, however, they arrived via bus to the meeting point. At around 8 pm we gathered all, and after revising the plan, we started our drive towards the camping site. The drive was supposed to be relatively long, but somehow we got there in less than two hours.

We unpacked our gear, the girls started setting up the tents, and we three four guys went on an adventure, more like a scavanger hunt for firewood. It was already past 10pm when we had arrived at the camping site, and now it was 11:30 pm, which meant that we left the girls for half an hour alone, we decided that two of us would head back to the camp site while the other two were still looking for more firewood, and that was what we did.

We arrived shocked to see that the tents were not made, and there was no sign of the girls... We had no idea what had happened, we were afraid something had happened to them. We started shouting their names, looking with lamps for them in the dense forest, and yet, no response. We figured we should let the guys who were still looking for firewood know of what had happened. So we started retracing our steps in the midnight in the forest.

We didn’t find them either. So we tought of getting back to the car and call the police to make a report of four missing friends. To our surprize, they all were there already by the time we got back.

We started asking questions of what happened and where they had gone, and it seemed like we all got lost for around one and a half hours... so the whole situation which we’d gone thrugh was just becouse of absence of communication between us. We went to sleep after making the tents togheter, it was around 1 am.

Monorean Noris   X. H