City of Suits (not completed) By Reid H and Mira H

Chapter 22: Georgia

I woke up to Jamie shaking my shoulders.
“What the heck do you want? I’m trying to sleep here!” I yelled as I rolled back over.
“Come on!” Jamie said, poking at my forehead.
“What do you want?” I said, sitting up in my blanket.
“It’s a surprise! Follow me!” He said, pulling my arm. I stood up still wrapped in my blanket.
He led me into the woods. We went farther and farther. Once we had walked for what seemed like forever we reached Leo. He was sitting by himself. He was tinkering with what looked like a small piece of cloth and some buttons. He had a basket type thing sitting next to him filled with dark purple colored berries.
“What is this?” I asked Leo quietly.
“Oh, nothing. I just found some berries,” He said looking up at me.
I suddenly felt embarrassed for still acting like a child and walking with a blanket wrapped around my head.
“What is that?” I asked, pointing to the cloth and buttons still laying on his lap.
“Oh this? I made you something,” He said, holding it up for me to see. It was a small piece of white cloth that looked something like a small pillow. It had small buttons lining the outer rim of the cloth. On the center of the pillow the letters G-e-o-r-g-i-a were spelled out. It looked like it was written on there with some kind of marker.
“I love it! Also not to be rude, but what is it?” I asked gently, taking it out of his hands.
“It is a pillow,” He said looking at me weirdly.
“Well I know that it is a pillow but what are these? And what is this?” I asked, pointing at the button looking at things and my name.
“Oh, well those are hand-carved buttons, and that is your name that I painted on there with a stick dipped in crushed berries,” He explained.
“Well I think that it is amazing!” I exclaimed sitting down next to him on the soft grass covered ground.
“I got some berries for us to eat,” Leo said, offering the basket of berries to me.
“Thank you,” I said, taking a couple of berries out of the small basket.
We sat there for a couple of minutes until Jamie walked back. I hadn’t even noticed that he left.
“Dad said that we should get going,” Jamie said, holding on a tree branch and swinging around.
“Okay. We’re coming.” Leo said standing up.
I stood up as well. We walked back to camp and packed up our stuff. Once all of us were packed up, we began to walk. Leo and I took the lead. We walked and walked for about an hour and a half. Nothing much happened. I shot a fish in a stream that we passed and Jamie started crawling instead of walking.
“Jamie, do you have to overreact?” I asked, walking next to the still crawling Jamie.
“I’m not overreacting!” Jamie said, dropping to the ground. He just laid there on his stomach for about 30 seconds when my father walked over to him. I thought that he was going to get Jamie back up on his feet, but I was wrong. My father laid down right next to him.
For a second I thought he would just take a quick break, but then Leo sat down next to them.
“Are you guys serious?” I asked them. I wasn’t too surprised by my father and Jamie, but Leo had traveled for much longer than how far we had traveled today.
“Come on,” I said annoyed. “How about this? We play a game.”
“What kind of game?” Jamie asked, lifting his head a little.
“You see that really big maple tree up ahead?” I asked, pointing to the tree. After everyone was sorted and the walls around each suit were built, the government planted hundreds of different trees around the huge wall.
“Yeah, I see it,” Jamie said, sitting up at the same time as my dad.
“You guys are going to army crawl your way there. The first one there gets a prize,” I explained.
“Why?” Leo asked in a confused tone.
“Because I know that you guys are not going to stand up any time soon,” I said, knowing that Leo would agree with me.
“Well, you’re not wrong,” Leo said, getting into an army crawling position. Jamie and my dad followed.
“On your marks, get set, go!” I shouted loud enough to be a shout, but not loud enough for anyone to hear.
I knew that what we were doing was childish and kind of stupid, if I’m being honest, but it was fun. We hadn’t had a lot of fun in the past days, so I just went with it.
“And the winner is-” I started, but I got interrupted by something. No, not something. Someone. A child.