Chapter 4

I get to the campsite and lay him in the tent while I gather my things packing them so I can get ready to leave and take him with me. I look at him. "Can you walk?" He responds with "yea I think so" he starts to try and get up. I tell him "rest you have been through a lot so lay down till I'm done packing!" He looks at me and slowly starts to lay back down and says "Ok! Ok! I'll rest!" I finish gathering everything ready to go so I pick him up off his feet and throw him over my shoulder and I get back to the car and put him in the backseat laying down I told him "stay." I put everything else in the trunk and get in the car. "You comfortable?" I say to him. He replies "yes my legs are numb from dangling so long. But my chest is numb from it being on your shoulder while you run down a hill and thru the woods!" I look back at him as say "well at least your safe that's what matters I'm taking to the hospital to get a check up to be sure because your back was covered in sores and scratches but, before we go there I'm getting some sodas from the convenience store up the road what would you like?" He says "Hmmm can I have a Starry?" I say "sure bud you been through a lot you can have anything you want." I crank up the car and hear the engine purr. "God I love the sound of that engine!" I smile and head to the convenience store and the cashier looks at me shooked as I have blood and leaves all over my clothes. "What the hell happened to you?" I looked at him and smirked "I saved my friend and shot the beast twice with the flare gun." The cashier stammered and said "y-you shot the beast?!" I looked him dead in the eyes and said "it was a wendigo but yes I shot it in the mouth and another in the chest. It was on fire when I ran with my friend on my shoulder." He shook his head. He then says "you are one crazy ass motherfucker." I grab a Starry two liter and bring it to the counter. "How much do I owe you?" I ask him. The cashier speaks up "it's on the house. I'll pay for it... Hero of Nature." I smile brightly and tell him "thank you. I'm sorry for being an asshole earlier, your not the low life I miss took you for. Your pretty chill." I then walk the door and head to the car. I look at my friend as I open the car door with a light squeak. I sit in the car and close the door and crank up the car. I look back at Eugene and hand him his drink before putting the car into drive and begin to head to the hospital. I look back at Eugene taking a swish of his Starry. "If the doctors ask what happened tell them you were attacked by a wild animal and was knocked unconscious till I found you. Ok?" I tell him while looking into his eyes. He simply says "ok." I put my eyes back on the road. Within a couple of minutes he was asleep with the Starry in his hand and the cap closed on it. I snicker to myself and keep driving toward the hospital in the darkened night.