They bought all they needed from a nearby supermarket including torch lights as suggested by one of the girls in the party group.
They got back and packed three changes of clothes each, into Rachael's dad's pickup truck. " Rachael your evil, your dad will kill you for this"
They both got in and drove off, all roads leading to the woods. It was about 3:pm, and Tessa enjoying the adventure of making Reel videos with the hashtag rock camp, she had curled her hair and sprayed it snow white, her video soon got lots of attention because of how beautiful she looked.
"Racheal pay attention to the speed limit, I do not want any trouble with the cops"
"We are on the highway Tessa, there is no speed limit"
Racheal corrected as she drove faster, they drove for a while, Tessa had slept off at intervals. " Are we there yet? " She asked as a jerk woke her up " and you are asking your driver, what a companion you are" " oh sorry I could not resist the sleep"
The road was now lonely, it looked as if they were the only vehicle on the road, the map had taken them to a narrow curvy road in the middle of very high trees that provided shade for the road.
" We have been driving for about two hours now, are you sure we are on the right route?" Tessa asked, the road and trees gave her a weird feeling, and she noticed an unusual sign 'keep going, if you stop you get taken' then she saw another 'don't stop. To be safe is to keep moving
" We are, according to the map, " Racheal replied sarcastically. Tessa, seeing her sarcasm, decided not to ask about the strange signs she saw while they drove by.
She logged into the group's social media and she saw she was not the only one who saw the weird signs someone had posted
" am I the only one seeing all these signs, isn't this place haunted or something this is creepy".
A few others reply " yeah so I saw something like keep going for your own safety"
another said "creepy is fun"
another suggested it was someone in the group who was playing pranks on them but it shows that they were on the right route.
A few minutes drive Racheal and Tessa could see where others were packed they were relieved they found the writer, please
" It's been a hell of a drive," Racheal said as they packed and got out of the truck. It Was a little after 5:pm and the clouds were fast getting dark.
"Heyy!!" Racheal ran off to go greet some of your friends
Tessa didn't know what to do at the moment she was not friends with whom Racheal ran off to great.
"Tessa!" it was Alex calling out to her who
"Hey Alex, nice to see you, you are here" she gave him a very warm hug.
"Get your stuff so you could pitch your tent before it gets late"
"I don't see anyone pitching their tent by the way where would we even do that on the road? because all I see is trees then the road"
" Funny we'll have to walk down that part a bit"
he said as he pointed towards a footpath that lead deep into the woods
"Racheal come on let's go pitch this tent it is getting late"
"Be with you in a minute" Racheal yelled a reply as she continued with her friend.
"I'll help you come on let's go it's getting late I hope you came with walkie-talkies for ease of communication because the network is messed up down there"
"Oh shit we didn't, well I think I have got another pair, I got you".
the circular help smiling as she observed him at least looked really handsome in his plain t-shirts and baseball cap he was always resourceful and willing to help her out she wanted to kiss him at the moment but she didn't know how to and he was busy offloading their tent materials and carrying them
" Come on, let's go, what are you looking at?"
"Forgive me, yeah sure thanks," said as she helped him carry a few light ones.
This way he took the lead as they walked down into the woods. There were signs on the trees that directed people to where they were in the woods.
"Just follow the signs you'll get there" " what about Racheal?" "she'll find a way" Alex replied with no alarm
They got to a place where there was space around the closely packed high trees about half the size of a football field, Tessa noticed that some work had been done, there were mapped-out spaces for tents with a pole for an electric bulb and for pathways, she also noticed that there were electric wires clipped to the trees surrounding them.
There was an elevated platform made of finely painted tree trunks with overhead led lights designed with an inscription that read " rock camp night ".
"Wow a lot of work has been done here, Caden is really good at this, don't you think?" "Whatever" Alex wasn't bothered about Caden, he didn't even want to hear Tessa talk about him.
There were a few tents mounted and Alex took her to a prime position near the center.
"I kept this space just in case, you can have it"
"Thank you but isn't this place too central?"
"Well think of it this way, If we get into trouble the center is more likely to be the safest place"
" Woa I am scared now Alex the woods usually have their dangers and we are all here alone"
" don't worry I won't let anything happen to you". "Oh common I was joking but thanks anyway",
"Well I wasn't joking, let's go grab all your stuff from the truck and set this tent up". "Okay, you have really helped me, Alex, what knows where Racheal went? " Tessa replied while she looked around for Racheal