One normal morning Jamie Colin awoke from her slumber at the sound of her brother Lex’s cat Charles clawing at the door and cautiously went to get dressed for the day. Jamie had Ailurophobia, which meant she feared cats. but she tried her best not to show it.

she could never get rid of Charles for it would eternally depress Lex and she wouldn’t be able to live with herself. she snuck past the Birman kitty cat, still clawing to get into lex’s bedroom where his food was kept, which was Jamie’s idea to minimize contact with the small cat, but she still needed to sneak past Charles to get to the kitchen.

After Jamie got past Charles, she was almost at the kitchen when she tripped on one of lex’s shirts that he left in the hallway and crashed to the floor.

“are you okay?” asked Lex who came from the kitchen when he heard the crash

“...no…” mumbled Jamie

``what's wrong?”

“I TRIPPED ON YOUR STUFF AGAIN!” Jamie snapped

“AGH” yelled Lex as he picked up his stuff and ran to put it away

“...ug…” Jamie grumbled and steadied herself, but as soon as she was about to get up, Charles walked over to where Jamie fell and hopped up on the shelf before looking down and staring down at her. Jamie froze.

“n-n-nice k-kitty” she stammered. as Charles watched her aimlessly from his perch upon the shelf where he stayed for about 30 seconds, on which he got bored and went to Lex to meow for food.

30 seconds might not seem like a long time but those 30 seconds were the longest seconds of her life. As Charles walked away Jamie got up immediately to avoid being trapped again and steadied herself as she strolled casually into the kitchen like nothing had happened, poured herself some cereal and paced over to the living room to use the dumbwaiter to get to her favourite spot in the house: a glass dome encasing the balcony where she could watch nature flourish.

pulling up a foldable chair and table to sit down and eat breakfast. after a relaxing breakfast on the balcony she started thinking about her Fifteenth birthday coming up in a few weeks, she had asked to go on a camping trip in the woods and that was the only thing she wanted to do, she had been asking for it for a long time and finally, her parents said yes. They were never home and Jamie only had a learner's permit and couldn't drive on her own yet, and they finally agreed that she could go with her friends. she couldn't wait 2 more years either so she NEEDED to go camping NOW.

then at that moment, she realized “oh no” she thought they would have to bring C-H-A-R-L-E-S camping and that would mean that he would get to sleep in her camper, which would mean that she would have nowhere to sleep but the ratty old tent she got at a garage sale 3 years ago.

“oh, shit” she quietly growled so Lex couldn't hear her, as she went down the dumbwaiter she heard a beep and saw a rickety old van pull up in front of her house through the window. Jamie ran outside after making sure that Charles was distracted

“Jamie!” shouted the 2 figures that emerged from the van “Carlos! Sophie!” she called out as she ran out to hug her two friends.

“dude where have you been all summer?!” Carlos called out

“stuck here, taking care of lex and...Charles” Jamie mumbled, then out of the blue a big fuzzy german shepherd launched out of the back of the van and barreled into Jamie, knocking her over.

“AHHHHHHHH!” Jamie screamed as the large dog ran right through her before proceeding to run in circles trying to catch its tail. “what the?” she mumbled as she got up from the ground

“BOB! SIT!” Sophie snapped and the big dog came over and sat down impatiently. Jamie still shaken from the furry missile

“s-so this is B-Bob” Bob glanced over and wagged his tail excitedly

“Well he’s certainly as fluffy as the pics you sent me, but I didn’t think he was that BIG” Jamie stuttered as she stumbled over to pet the dog

“BOB...LAY DOWN” Sophie shouted, Bob, obliged and layed down

“you try” Carlos encouraged Jamie…

“BOB” the dog sat up

“BANG!” Jamie shouted and Bob fell over and played dead

“good boy” they all called and Bob got up and strolled over for pets.

“So when are we off into the woods?” Carlos asked.

“After we hook up the trailer” Jamie replied.

(Later)(1:45pm),

“The trailers hooked up, Lex is in the van with Bob and Sophie, now I just need the...cat.” Jamie thought as she walked back up to her house to fetch Charles who was watching her through the window before jumping down and scampering away just to be annoying and it was there and then that she realized

“I-I I c-can't do this” she mumbled as she sat down before realizing

“Carlos!” she thought out loud and he came rushing in

 “what's wrong?!” he asked,

“can you help me find the cat?” Jamie asked

“uhh, sure!” he replied and they both got up to search for Charles within the massive house. Around half an hour later, Carlos emerged from the building holding the Birman tabby with Jamie cautiously behind and loaded the cat into the truck

“Charles!” Lex shouted in excitement, alarming the kitty-cat who shot out of Carlos’s arms and into the van with blazing speed which made Jamie duck for cover in case he tried to launch at her “shk shk shk” was the sound that was made by the cat treat bag when Sophie shook it and almost like magic itself Charles stopped freaking out and slowly strolled over to Sophie at which point started yowling for a treat “mrow mrow mrow mrow mrow mrow mrow mrow mrow” bellowed the cat as Sophie gave him a small treat.

“So we can leave now,” asked Lex, getting kind of impatient “yes, we are all ready” replied Jamie and they started up the van.

The drive to the campsite was long and boring but they still arrived on schedule around 4:30 despite leaving a little later than they had hoped. Jamie who had slept through most of the trip was abruptly awoken by the thing that happened when Carlos slammed on the breaks.

“MOrRoW, HISSSSSS” screeched Charles as he fell off the dashboard and landed on Sophie who screamed waking up Bob who jumped on Jamie who punched Carlos in the stomach and Lex stayed asleep the whole time

“W...we...we’re h-here” Carlos sobbed as he clutched his stomach and opened the door and as he was getting out

“WHOA” yelled Carlos as Bob shot out of the truck knocking Carlos to the ground “I… n-need to l...l-lie down” Carlos grumbled as he stumbled over to the trailer to lie down. Jamie saw her life flash before her eyes, Charles was bolting for the door 

“NOOOOOOOOO,” she thought as she tried to build the courage to stop the cat all the sudden.

“Gotcha little buddy” exclaimed Sophie as she scooped up the kitty, picked up her bag and walked over to the trailer where Carlos was sleeping “wake up lex” she called back to Jamie 

“Ok, I will” Jamie responded with glee that she didn't have to deal with the cat and opened the back door to the van which was decorated with cats and dragons painted all over “waaake uppp” Jamie whispered... “Wake Up” she exclaimed... “WAKE UP” she shouted

“AHHH” screamed Lex in fear as he fell out of the van onto the grass “why would you do that?!” snapped Lex back at her

“because we’re here!” Jamie retorted smugly

“Oh,” Lex replied and scurried over to the trailer to see Charles. as Jamie walked over to a nice flat spot to set up a tent.

(Later)

After setting up the tent Jamie took a small nap and woke up around 6:30ish before going outside to see how Lex is doing and looking in the trailer to find that Charles was missing?!

“No,no,no.no” Jamie alarmingly muttered as she whipped around to see an open window with a piece of cat fur snagged on and she bolted out of the trailer and into the forest to go find him.

Lex awoke the next day expecting to see Charles but saw nothing, confused he walked out of the trailer to see his sisters’ tent pulled up from the ground. Carlos and Sophie were still sleeping so he went to go check it out alone

“Jamie, Jaaamie, JAAAMIE” he shouted as he nervously looked around for his older sister

“Shx shx shx” there was a rustling in the bushes and lex jumped and sped back to the trailer to hide until his sisters’ friends woke up. (Meanwhile somewhere in the forest)

“CHAAARLLLES...CHAAARLLLES……...CHAAARLLLES, HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY” Jamie called as she trekked through the harsh forest, suddenly a small object bolted past her and she ran after it thinking it was Charles when she finally thought she cornered the small object it took a sharp turn near a cliff’s edge and Jamie fell down the mountainside “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” she screeched as she plummeted to the ground below and was knocked unconscious.

Jamie awoke after noon with a broken leg and was bleeding excessively along with writhing in pain as she limped over to a stream to try and wash off the blood

“she took quite a fall from that cliff boss, you think she saw?” asked a man

“Doubt it but we can’t be too careful around here” exclaimed the figure known as boss, they obviously weren’t being too careful because Jamie had heard them and started limping away in fear, she was quite fast for someone with excessive blood loss and a broken leg but before she got away she passed out in the stream and the two men brought her to a strange facility that was hidden by foliage and unseeable from the mountain top, where she was tied to a chair where she was kept for a day or two still unconscious with her wounds untreated bleeding onto the floor. When she awoke again she was in so much pain it felt like moving an inch could kill her, she waited for about an hour before she got used to the pain enough to move, she slowly but surely untied the ropes binding her to the chair on which once was done fell onto the floor

a surge in pain made her realize there was a massive needle in her arm injecting some kind of blue liquid into her blood flow.

“That might be the only reason I’m still alive” she pondered with minimal energy to not overstress herself, she knew it wasn’t some sort of new medicine or something or it would have at least numbed down the pain, she remembered that its better to rip off a bandage quickly so she yanked out the needle, big mistake "AHHHHH" she screamed in pain instantly regretting the decision and falling to the floor in agony, she couldn't stop herself from crying and screaming, there was so much blood and she was so scared "they could come back, they could do anything to me, I don't want to die". after a while she noticed a white box on the wall and proceed to slowly crawl over to what seemed to be a medical kit and knocked it down after many attempts to regain enough strength to do so. Jamie pried the box open and retrieved a roll of bandages, some painkiller and alcohol swabs which she applied to the gash on her broken leg slowing the bleeding and cleaning the wound. She limply stumbled outside and picked up some broken branches to use as crutches, took a multitool from a black army box outside and limped out into the woods to find help.