we knew immediately that it was Henry, Miles, and Amos. I guess they hadn’t wanted to wait on line to use the toilets, either.
Miles and Henry were still not talking to Jack, but Amos had let go of the war a while ago.
And he nodded hello to us as they passed by. “Be careful of the bears!” shouted Henry,
and he and Miles laughed as they walked away. Amos shook his head at us like, Don’t pay attention to them.
Jack and I walked a little farther until we were just inside the woods.
Then Jack hunted around for the perfect tree and finally did his business, though it felt like he was taking forever.
The woods were loud with strange sounds and chirps and croaks, like a wall of noise coming out of the trees.
Then we started hearing loud snaps not far from us, almost like cap gun pops, that definitely weren’t insect noises.
And far away, like in another world, we could hear Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
“Ah, that’s much better,” said Jack, zipping up. “Now I have to pee,” I said, which I did on the nearest tree.
No way I was going farther in like Jack did. “Do you smell that? Like firecrackers,” he said, coming over to me.
“Oh yeah, that’s what that is,” I answered, zipping up. “Weird. Let’s go.”
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