Previously...

I looked at the screen, "You are telling me that you are watching people play video games instead of playing the games yourself?" I raised an eyebrow.

He looked at me with a smile across his face, "Yeah." Rosie and I looked at him. Clearly he didn't see the problem at hand, so instead of arguing, I decided that it was time to get this show on the road.

Currently...

1:30 am on Saturday

"How much longer do you think until we get back?" Kyle asked, flashing the penlight in front of us as if it would actually let us see what is ahead.

I sighed, rubbing my face with my hand, "I don't know, Kyle. Enough questions."

Rosie looked at the redhead, "You've reached your limit for the night."

"I've accepted the fact that we are going to lose. We are going to lose to Jamey. Jamey freaking Brookes. Once again, she will win without even trying while I'll try my hardest and loose," I was rubbing my temples with my finger tips.

Rosie turned her head to look at me, "Once again?" she inquired out loud with furrowed brows.

I let out a groan before answering, "Jamey and I go to the same school and she always does better than me in everything. If I get a 100% on a test, she gets a 101%. When I saw that she wanted to do this scavenger hunt I thought that I could finally beat her, but that's not going to happen."

Rosie looked like she was going to speak up again, but Kyle interrupted them, "Oh my god, there's no wifi!" He had his phone in his hands and was frantically tapping the screen.

Both Rosie and I looked at him with distaste, "Really? Of course there's no wifi, we're in the middle of the woods."

Kyle scoffed before typing some more, but looked up at us in disappointment, "There's no service either." He pouted before shoving his phone in his pocket.

"You're kidding. I had service earlier. Maybe it is just your phone," I reached in my pocket, pulling out my phone. I clicked the screen on, looking as the bars at the top of the screen disappeared. "I don't have service anymore."

I looked over at Rosie as she stared at us. "I don't have a phone."

I looked at her, dumbfounded, "It's two thousand sixteen and you don't have a phone? How do you live?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I just don't think my life should revolve around a piece of technology like a phone."

"But you have an iPad," Kyle stated.

Rosie shook her head, "I only use it to read."

"How do you check your Instagram and Twitter?" I asked with seriousness laced in my voice.

She looked at me like I had three heads, "I don't have any social media besides a Facebook, but I use my laptop for that."

My jaw fell to the floor when those words fell from her mouth, "You don't have an Instagram or a Twitter?"

She shook her head no, but I refused to believe that she didn't have any social media, "You don't have a Kik or a Snapchat?" She shook her head once again, "Not even a Tinder or Vine?"

"No, I only have a Facebook, but I did have a MySpace back in 6th grade," she shrugged again.

Shock was the only thing that could describe how I felt at that moment, "Even my mom has more social media than you. She has a freaking Tinder and she's married!"

Rosie looked at me skeptically, "What's Tinder?"

"It's a dating app," Kyle informed Rosie.

"What do you do in your free time? How do people know when you do fun things? How do you know when people do fun things?" I inquired. I couldn't understand how she functioned without the social media necessities.

She furrowed her eyebrows, "I read, and if I really wanted someone to know what I was doing then I'd post it on Facebook."

I just shook my head. I didn't understand, "How do you indirectly shade people when they piss you off?"

"Why would I indirectly shade them online when I can kill them with kindness in person?" she asked.

"You sound like my grandma," I sighed as I rubbed my face with my hands.

Rosie giggled a little but didn't seem offended or anything, "Let's just keep going. You guys probably don't have service because we're in the middle of nowhere."

Kyle and I sighed but continued to walk on. Some where in the distance, the sound of leaves crunching under something heavy broke the silence. All three of us froze. I felt Rosie take a step closer to me, slowly wrapping her hands around my warm. Kyle brought out his pocket knife, broken at that. He held the knife out in front of him, his hand clearly shook as he waved it slightly in the air.

"Come on. It's probably just an animal trying to find something to eat," I spoke up first, keeping the fear out of my voice.

Kyle looked over at me, holding his penlight in his hand. He pointed the small light over to where he thought the noise came from, "That sounded awfully loud to be a squirrel or something."

Rosie dug her nails into my arm, "That was not an animal."

I gently pulled away from the girl, "It was probably a deer. I'm sure they're plenty around here." I snatched the pen light from Kyle, leading us away from the sound, but to where I thought the clearing was.

As we walked on, I could spot several flashlights whipping around. It was the clearing. We had made it back.

Finally.

As we came forward into the clearing, it was clear that something was wrong. All the groups were already there, but they seemed on edge. Everyone was frantically holding their phones up in the air, yelling at each other.

"Hey!" My voice bellowed in the thick, night air. Everyone stopped and looked at me. "What's going on?"

"Haven't you heard?" Jamey was the first one to speak up, coming to us.

I shook my head, "Obviously not. What happened?"

Jamey swallowed hard, glancing around the clearing. She clicked the light around us, "Jade is missing." 

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QOTC Who's group would you want to be in if you were in the scavenger hunt?