The Conflict Within

The boys find themselves in the forest walking, and chatting about life. Johnny walks ahead for a bit, and Lewis decides he wants to tell Allan something. He grabs Allan, and stops him. Allan looks surprised, and says: 'stop grabbing my nips man.' Lewis can be seen physically cringing at the thought, and he says: 'no I meant to grab your chest, stop whining.' Allan: 'I know but it feels weird, and your hands are all wet.' Then Lewis tells Allan: 'forget that, focus on what I need to tell you right now. It's like super urgent.' Allan grabs a leaf from a tree, and starts stripping it apart. Then tells Lewis: 'I'm all ears.' Lewis: 'Don't you think Johnny's been acting kinda off lately?' Allan: 'if you mean what happened the other day, then look I know him it was just the alcohol.' Lewis: 'yeah that's what I mean he doesn't drink man, and he's being more rude than usual. Even to you, and you tried to help him.' Allan: 'actually I did help him, I didn't tell you guys but I called Mrs. Science teacher, and got him off the hook. It was simple no questions asked.' Lewis then face palms, and starts banging his head against a tree. Then Allan reaches into his pocket, and offers him some water, Lewis denies. Lewis says: 'Allan you don't get it do you?' Allan laughs again, and says: 'I almost choked on my water.' Then he looks at Lewis who has his arms folded. Allan says: 'fine I can tell you're serious, look Lewis I've had a really bad day, and I'm just trying to blow off some steam so of course I don't feel like arguing with one of my best friends today.' Lewis then looks down and says: 'alright dude I get it I just don't get what his deal is, and I care about you guys so it makes me mad to see him like that. Allan looks ahead to where he can see Johnny in the distance and says: 'I've known him much longer than you ever have, and he's a tough guy at least his shell is tough.' Lewis: 'his shell?' Allan: 'I don't want to get to philosophical or whatever but I mean his exterior, on the outside he doesn't care but on the inside there's much more to him.' Lewis nods his head. Then the two continue walking together, and Allan passes his water bottle to Lewis. Lewis starts drinking then he chokes on the water, and starts coughing. Allan looks over and asks if he's ok. Then Lewis starts laughing, and falls to the ground. Allan then walks away laughing, and says you imbecile. Lewis continues to stay on the ground laughing. After a while the boys catch up, and find Johnny. Allan walks over, and says: 'there you are man we've been looking everywhere for you. You just disappeared.' Lewis: 'why does he look all still, and paralyzed?' Johnny was just standing there with his eyes wide open, and his mouth as well. He was paralyzed standing completely still. Then he points in front of him, and that's when they see it. A void, a dark slip that looks like it's distorting reality right in front of them. After a couple of minutes Johnny finally snapped out of it, and told them what happened. Johnny said: 'I was just walking in the forest cause you guys were talking forever don't know what the hell that was about. Then I heard this weird sound coming from my right so I walked for about 10 minutes, and saw this f-ing thing.' Lewis said: 'we should get out of here.' Johnny: 'we should take a pic no one's gonna believe this.' Allan stares at it, and gets closer to it. Then he turns, and says: I think I know what this is. Lewis then turns around, and says: 'nah this is ridiculous, I'm leaving.' Johnny: 'shut the hell up, Lewis stop being boring. Don't you wanna know what this vagina is?' Allan and Lewis both look at each other awkwardly. Then Lewis says: 'no I'm out'. Allan laughs, and says: 'that's really weird, but really funny.' Lewis keeps walking away, and looking back at his friends while the voices start fading away. Johnny takes a pic, and says: 'the name is accurate though ain't it?' Allan says: 'man I think you just see what you wanna see.' They both laugh, and Allan looks at Lewis walking away, and calls out to him. Johnny says: 'let him go home man, he's being really annoying.' Then Allan tells him: 'nah we can't ditch him.' Allan says: 'um Johnny do you have some sort of problem with Lewis?' Johnny: 'we should've never added him to the group.' Then Allan asks: 'why? Man he's cool.' Johnny: 'I preferred the old days when it was just us.' Allan: 'I get it, but I don't see the problem with having more friends.' Johnny: 'you know I don't like that word.' Allan: 'what word?' Johnny: 'friends, cause it's kinda gross and makes me cringe.' Allan laughs and says: 'so what am I?' Johnny: 'some dude who follows me around all day.' Allan says: 'I guess I never know when leave.' Then they both laugh. Allan looks away and sees Lewis walking back. Johnny: 'oh look who's coming back.' Allan: 'he's been with us for years how come you don't like him now?' Johnny: 'I never did but you did so I didn't tell you.' Allan: 'admit it man you love us.' Johnny stays in silence and Allan says: 'ok man.' Allan walks up to Lewis and says: 'so why'd you come back?' Lewis: 'I actually came to convince you to leave.' Johnny says: 'not happening so you can leave.' Lewis looks at Allan. Allan says: 'sorry man.' Lewis: 'well I guess I'm staying to make sure you guys don't die.' Then they all look at the void.