Impenetrable
Elizabeth
B.
1,444 words
My name is Raven Vert, and I have a
mission. With, of course, my only friends. I am going to do something that no
one, absolutely no one, has ever done before. I know that it sounds like a very
cheesy thing to say, but what this really is, is not cheesy at all.
It’s a place that is hidden. It’s
difficult to find, unless you know what you are looking for. I do. I live In
Maine with my two sisters, Chelsea and Stephanie, and with my parents. I have
two friends, John and Percy. They are the people who are accompanying me on
this mission. They are my only friends. I live on a hill, three blocks away
from the hidden place. John lives one block away from me, and Percy lives right
across from the hidden place. He always complains how loud it is over there,
how creepy it is a night. Everybody is afraid of that place, everybody in the
neighborhood.
Everybody except us. John, Percy, And I.
Every Wednesday, Our only free day, we all go to the hidden place. We can’t
ever get past it. See, the problem is that we aren’t even scared of the forest,
it is just that we can’t get by it.
There are giant bulky trees surrounding
the perimeter of the forest. Each of the trees, only one centimeter apart,
stands at least one hundred fifty feet tall. Wickedly thick trunks at the
bottom. We have tried to get ten arms, stretched out, on the front of the tree
with no success. Humongous green leaves as big as my face hang from the trees.
The branches hang so low, and the leaves never fall off of the tree. Never.
Even in the most brutal of all storms, Not a single leaf has ever came off one
of those trees. Scientists haven’t even come up with a scientific name for it
and well, its because they don’t know anything about it. Every Wednesday, after
school, we go to the hidden place now as you know, the hidden forest. With
parents permission, of course.
You see, when we ask out parents to go
there, we don’t specifically say what we are doing. We say we are going to do
homework there. We do. Sometimes. But we don’t tell them what we do after that.
Our goal is to get past the impenetrable forest.
We have tried everything. Well, everything
we can think of. I had an idea, and this particular Wednesday I will be able to
put it into play.
Today is Wednesday. I am eating breakfast
and staring out the window. I am so excited to use my idea. I can hardly think
of anything else. My favorite color is green because when I look outside, I see
green, all green. The drop-off from our hill, the sun rising, sets a bright
glow to all the greenery. Right across from us is a creek, the highlight of our
neighborhood. One side of the community is all of the houses, and the whole
other side is occupied by the creek. The road is neatly paved and all of the
houses look completely different. Just like my house is the only house in the
community that is one story, and painted yellow. We are the only ones as well
that have a backyard. Small bushes surround our whole property. We have a whole
swing set in the back, and also a garden with all different vegetables. I get
ready for school ‘Arnold Tolkien Creek Middle’. Both of my sisters are in high
school, and so they are still asleep. I hugged my parents, threw open the door,
ran down our walkway and leaped onto the bus just as the driver gunned the
engine and sped off to the place of education.
“Everybody off!” the driver yelled to the
kids. I shot out the door. I then trotted to my
home room, and sat down. Just then, my best friends John and Percy sat
down on either side of me. John had dirty blond hair and brown eyes, Percy had
black hair and blue eyes, while I had brown hair and unusual wild green eyes.
”Hey guys, I have an idea for mission
impossible. But it will have to wait until after school when we are over there.
I don’t want anybody to overhear us.” John exclaimed, “What's
mission impossible? Is it something that I don’t know about? If so, why didn’t
anybody tell me?” I laughed. Then whispered,
” No it’s the mission with the bulky trees
that Percy lives across from. Remember?” Percy rolled his eyes.
“That was just the question you asked
about the science test!”
“So how did your dance practice go
yesterday, John? And what about your soccer game Percy?” I asked. John replied
in a hushed whisper.
”SSHH!! Keep it down! I don’t want anyone
else to know about my dancing! Oh, and it went very well, thanks!” Then Percy,
“Great! We won! It was a very tough game. As
we advance, teams are getting much much tougher. How did your track team tryout
go?” I felt proud.
“Amazing!” I exclaimed, “And I got in! And
by the way John, there is really nobody in here. It was John’s turn to roll his
eyes. He scanned the room.
“Yeah, except meanie Jenna over there.”
Jenna was talking to her best friend Abby.
Jenna was a very mean girl who had the
same classes as John and took every chance she could to bully him. We have
tried to get her to stop countless times, and also have talked to the
administration about it. They said that they are working on getting her
expelled for next year. She has blond hair and blue eyes, and everybody is her
friend. But, she has reserved one person to be her best friend. She is, if you
want to put her evilness into words, a lying, cheating, bullying person. And
people love her. Want to be like her. She is very wealthy, and she criticizes
people who are not. I can’t understand
why people want to be like her.
I had just rolled my eyes and said,
”Hey, remember? We can go and play an
instrument now, if we leave our homeroom teacher, Mr. Harrison a sticky note!”
“Since when do you like playing the bass?
I thought that you said that it was a waste of time and that is because you are
not very good at it…..” Percy inquired.
“SSHH!! Come on! Let’s just go!”
So, they got through the rest of the day
and got on the bus in a flash. As John, Percy, and I rode home on the bus,
Percy exclaimed,
“Wow! The school day went really fast.”
“Yeah,” I agreed, “I already asked my parents to go to the impenetrable
forest.”
“Me too,” Percy and John replied in
unison. We neared the place to get into the hidden place. We hopped off the bus
and neared the drop off to the creek.
Our routine was as usual. We started to
climb on the rocks of the creek. From there, we crossed the creek and took a
detour from the creek to a hidden cave filled with spider webs. We climbed
through the cave , under the spider webs and came out to a clearing.
The hidden place. It looked the same from
last Wednesday. Same huge trees and leaves that don't look real, and the
forbidden aroma.
“Well guys, let’s set to work.” We sat
down next to one of the trees.
“Ok, so my idea is that we can….. climb up
the trees! I mean, we have tried to go through the space in the trees and tried
to go underground. I know, we even tried looking around all of the trees. But
then, we haven’t thought hard enough. So, what else can we do? We can climb up
the trees!” John perks up.
“Oh my gosh, that is brilliant! I love it!
You can try it out first, though!” ‘Some friends’ I thought to myself.
“Fine,” Percy said, “I don’t believe it.
I personally don’t think that you can do it.”
“Ok, then. I will show you that this can
be done and that it will work.” As I was
explaining my thinking, I was also thinking,’ I’m scared. They call me brave,
but I am terrified of breaking something, or dying!’
All of a sudden, I stopped thinking. Instead
it was replaced by either determination or foolishness, I could not pin-point
it.
“Ok, I’ll do it.” I was terrified. I went to the nearest tree
and I started climbing.
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