The Hike Susi Holliday Novels & Stories

Stepping into the room, Daisy quickly flipped her light switch. 'Dang it! The power is out again.' Her thoughts raced as she walked slowly into the dark room. Just then the light flickers on. "Surprise!" The voice of Allison Melody and her two friends Vicki and Christiana broke through the silence. "Happy birthday, Daisy!" Allison and her friend's voices reverberate through the apartment, echoing with warmth and excitement. Daisy stood frozen, caught between the rush of adrenaline from the initial shock and the sudden flood of relief that washed over her.

******************** | Whitney | Iced London Fog in hand (venti sized of course), an exhilarated Whitney bobbed her head to Mac Miller’s “Good News” as Hollis happily drove toward Mount Apatite Blue Loop Trail an hour later. She’d explained how it was her favorite, being a moderate hike everyone could keep up with. They were meeting Jake, who was bringing along a date and Whitney couldn’t wait to mingle. After last night, she needed a fun outing to offset the less than stellar dinner party. They'd managed to avoid Dalton and Nina at Hollis' firm instructions, who were out back on the phone with their lawyer discussing her brother's auto accident case details. “So what’s her name?” Whitney as

he said while turning on his camera. "Then?" "Then I start to turn on my camera to take pictures of you. As soon as I captured the picture you're gone in my sight then I look at the picture in my camera just to find out that you are just in the lake." As the camera screen bright he go to the gallery and handed me the camera with the picture where Hilary is up in the sky looks like she's flying. Why would she do such a thing?

Said Blake taking a knee and facing her teary face. “I’m Susy, I’m five years old, and I want my mommy.” Said Susy to Blake. Across the way, Harrold was back at his grave with his hoe when he happened to look at the three leaving the mausoleum. ‘Thank goodness they’re leaving. I hope no one notices them.’ Thought Harrold, who was keeping an eye on them.

, Josiah said conspiratorially. “And who’s that?”, Robert was by now all ears. “Someone by the name Sarah Hill”, Josiah said. “I’m told she is Theodore Hill’s daughter. Henry’s sister. But there is no photograph of her on the internet and I walked into a wall when I tried to investigate more into her.” “May be she is a silent partner, or maybe we will meet her in our subsequent brush ins with Butterflies team”, Robert said nonchalantly.

"Excelente! The group is meeting tomorrow morning. Let's get you settled in the lodge." We wound our way up through twisting mountain roads; Juan filled me in with the details. Five days of unremitting hiking, reaching heights I'd never dreamed of. What had I gotten myself into? I met up at the lodge with the other hikers—an incredibly quirky mix of life backgrounds, ages, and usually unseen personalities: Maria, the loud one finishing off summer break from college; Jack and Elaine, the sweet, retired couple celebrating their 40th anniversary; and Raj, a soft-spoken software engineer trying to climb his way out from under the gun of burnout.

- The hostess announced. Majority lingered, but i slipped out, hoping to have a breathe of fresh air. I sat on a wooden bench, feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin. The breeze carried a faint scent of lavender, while i stared at the scenic, bright skies. My phone trilled, the familiar ringtone catching my attention. "Hello....?" - I picked, sparing no time to glance at the caller id. "Selene, my hunch was right!!." - Rachel spoke, her voice filled with excitement and disdain. "That Shawn guy is a shady piece of work, right now... I've got a whole load of crap on him ."

Daisy's cry came again, sending goosebumps to my skin. From where I was, I couldn't see her but I pushed on and on with relentless energy. Even as I did, part of my mind kept screaming at me HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID, LILY?! HOW COULD YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN?!.. Daisy rarely went out, talk more of doing so with me. It was my idea to embark on this hike, the peaceful hike through the woods as I had called it. “I'm here!” I screamed out as I finally arrived at the top of the heel where Daisy had voluntarily climbed for sightseeing but had instead, met a sudden descent into the steep valley.

She shivered as she walked, enjoying the view. As she was walking, she came to the second hideout the girls planned to use. The hideout was a large treehouse of sorts. One of the giant trees had died decades ago and had been hollowed out by weather and wild animals. The roots branched out above ground and made a hilly path around the tree. Underneath one of the roots, there was a small hole where a person could easily slide inside if they were small enough. Susanna tried to slide inside the hole and found she fit easily. She slid back out, making sure to drop her scent along the way. She wanted the Kreil to see the tree and scope it out on their way through.

Pulled out her phone. Got the flowers. They're beautiful. Hated them immediately. She checked the phone six times on the bus to Fiordilatte. Holly was waiting for her in the locker room with the expression of someone who had been sitting on information for two days. "Grand Canyon," Holly said, before Brigail got her locker open. "Yaki Point. Sunset. You and Eli Michealson snogging like you invented it." Brigail's ears went hot. "Who else."