Siblings Jake and Jerry loved walking through the forest which was a short distance away from their house on the way back from school. It was hard to explain but the walks felt calm and had the amazing ability for them to completely forget reality temporarily.
However, one day, their positive impression of the forest would change.
The long-awaited school break had finally arrived and Jake and Jerry celebrated by eating at their favourite pizza place with their friends. Happily conversing among themselves, Jake and Jerry was completely oblivious of their own surroundings.
As they had a curfew to meet, the brothers left first but not without paying their share of the bill. They waved their goodbye to their friends and headed back home. Since their house was a ten minutes' walk away, they took their time walking back home. What they had predicted to be a peaceful walk back home turned out wrong as suddenly, heavy rain poured down.
Unfortunately, they both did not bring along their umbrellas so they had to run to the nearest shelter, drenched from head to toe. As they shivered and tried to compose themselves, Jake noticed that they were standing under a large tree with a huge canopy, shielding them effectively from the rain.
"Phew! Now that was close!" Beside him, Jerry shot him a grin to which Jake returned. They were indeed lucky. To think that the forest near the house would bring such heavy benefits at untimely incidents like this.
At the corner of his eye, Jerry could see movement. Quirking an eyebrow, Jerry approached the culprit slowly, thinking that it was just a lost child seeking refuge from the rain like them too. Maybe they would be friendly and they could chat up while waiting for the rain to stop.
Just when Jerry was about to come closer, a knife struck his chest. Before he blacked out, he could hear a loud scream behind him.
The next day, a newspaper article was released, detailing the reports of two young boys who were found dead under a large tree in a forest.
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