She then, suddenly, took out a wooden charm with a string strung through it. The little wooden charm looks like a racoon! She then says " This was mine before I became a racoon. You can have it, its like a gift from me to you! This holds the memories of this place, and if you ever, and I mean EVER want to come back and I dont know, like stay here, just touch the wooden racoon and think of the memory you had here, and you will instantly be back!"
She kind of smiled in a sly way, and then jumped off you and scampered back to the pond. You looked sadly back, and walked out of the forest. Instantly, the forest seemed to dissaper all togethor, and you just started walking home.
The next day, you longed to go back, and when you went for the trinket, it was gone! You realized that you put it somewhere else and couldnt remember where you put it!
Day after day, you went back to the place where the forest was, but it never appered again. And day after day, you walked back home, went back to work the next day, and came home and repeated the whole cycle.
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One year later....
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You came home grim and angry. The company went under, and you where one of the people they "Let go". You longed for the forest and the peaceful tranquility, and you badly wanted to return. But, the forest never returned, and you couldnt find the trinket the racoon gave to you.
A few days later, the morgage was due, and you had no money to pay for it. The family thought it might cheer you up to come and pay you a visit, and mabey have a family reunion. Everyone in the family came! Your brothers, sisters, cousins, and your brothers, sisters, and cousins kids came too. You knew this was probably the last day you would live anywhere, for you could not find a good job. So, you enjoyed the party! During the party, one of the kids, Jimmy, walked away from the party to go exploring.
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Jimmy was walking upstairs to see what there was. While his dopy uncle was partying like there was no tommorow, he thought he could find somthing fun to do upstairs. As he went upstairs and into his uncles room, he heard somthing moving in one of the dresser drawers. As he opened it, he noticed a little wooden charm with the shape of a raccoon, and through it, and old string about to fall apart. Jimmy picked it up.
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At that moment, there was a loud BOOM from upstairs, and everyone rushed up to see what it was. Jimmys clothes where there, but no Jimmy! All that was left was a wooden charm with a raccoon on it.
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As you looked at it, you notice that it was the charm that the raccoon gave you, and as you ran out to the window, you saw a transparent form of the forest, but you could see through it, so you knew you couldnt get inside.
As you looked at your family, you knew what you had to do! You....