It started with me and my friends sneaking after dark into the forest. Our parents always told us to stay away from it, but never explained why. So naturally we were curious as to what was in the forest that had our parents so finicky about even the word. It was called Mason's forest, named after the town founder who was as mysterious as the forest itself. We snuck out about 11:45pm, midnight was the time everyone said never to go out in so we decide to do, again, the complete opposite of what our parents and everyone else said. It was me, Hadrian, and Kayla, the three caballeros, heading into the forest. When we got into the forest it was noting out of the ordinary, so we decide to go toward the very center of Mason's Forest and wait to see what happened at midnight. Our minds set we head of toward the middle, which was easy to find because of the humongous willow tree that sat dead smack in the middle of the forest. It wasn't until 11:55pm that things started to get strange. We we about half a mile away from the tree when all the mushrooms on the the trees started glowing an unearthly blue. It was startling to say the least, but we didn't worry. "Maybe they're bioluminescent mushroom, those exist." Hadrian suggested. We nodded, knowing that was the only explanation that made the most logical sense. I couldn't help but feel, though something wasn't right. Why would mushrooms all of a sudden, at 11:55pm exactly, start glowing? It didn't make sense and it confused me. Putting my confusing thoughts in a box for later, we came up at the willow tree just at 11:58pm. It was much prettier than we had expected it to be; the willow tree had some fireflies in it's hanging flowers and that made it have a faint golden glow. We sat underneath the willow tree just talking, waiting patiently for midnight. Little did we know we would greatly regret are decision to come into this forest. It was a few seconds until midnight and we were excited, ready to prove to the world we were afraid of nothing. That was when it happened. The watch on my rest turned 12:00 and everything went dark. We didn't scream, knowing it would probably lead to us getting it even more trouble. We huddle closer together, knowing it would be best if we stayed closer together. That was when we saw it; two glowing amber eyes staring dead at us, sharp breaths were like throughout the quiet forest as if they were made louder by speakers. We were shaking as we watched the eyes watch us, the only light we had was the light of the fool moon, but that was only on us, the creature was hidden amongst the darkness of the forest. It watched us a bit longer before sharply turning around a running of into the deeper part of the forest, then the forest seemed to come back to life and everything started glowing gain. Standing there with my friends questions swirled my head making the for later box overflowing with for later questions. Joining my friends we headed home, sneaking in through our windows, and went to bed. It was quite the adventure and it obviously wouldn't be the last, but now as I think back to that day, not knowing what that thing was, all I can think is; we were lucky that night.
