Episode 3

"Alyssa Bennet narrating"

I look around as I let out a frustrated sigh, since it's been more than three hours since the last sign of civilization.... three hours that I've been looking around and all I see is just wilderness.....trees and mountains.

Not that I'm finding it bad....okay, maybe I am....but honestly, I even kind of like it, you know? My mother loved nature, and that's why she made sure I joined the school's scout group.

But here's the thing, I'm a fan of horror movies, and everyone who has watched at least one movie from the "Wrong Turn" saga knows how much can go wrong on a trip like this.

Especially being alone in the middle of nowhere, in a place I don't even know, and I don't even know if I'm lost or not... Heaven forbid.

I look around once more, wondering if I'm really on the right path since the damn GPS seems to have glitched out, and since I'm so lucky, not to say the opposite.

I have no signal.

Oh, glory... This is God warning me that maybe I'm going to live a much shorter life than I thought, since I'm only 24 years old.

Or maybe it's just a lecture, since I should have accepted when my father offered to come pick me up.

This is what I get for being stubborn....but I just wanted to show that I'm okay since he's very worried....maybe because he had to put up with me crying like a baby over a phone call three months ago.

I smile thinking about how cliche my life is....Born in a small town in rural Virginia, a town I don't even remember what it's like, since my parents divorced when I was only 3 years old and my mother took me with her to the big city.

I grew up seeing my father only on special occasions, birthdays, or school performances, since I didn't even come to stay with him during vacations.

It wasn't his fault, as I was always kind of very attached to my mother, and the idea of being without her for a day when I was little was terrifying. And as I grew up, I kind of never got interested in knowing the town where I was born, because as much as I like being close to nature, living in it is another thing.

Losing signal, now that's scary as hell for me.

At least the car is working, and thank God I managed to remember to download my music playlist.

But anyway, here I am, returning to the place where I was born and to the only family I have left, since I lost my mother a year ago.

I sigh, remembering how hard it was to get used to waking up every day and not seeing her there, but what can I do? Since unfortunately, they still haven't found a cure for cancer.

I am Alyssa Bennet, and this is my story. I will tell you how my life changed so much and became such a huge mess from the moment I decided to return to the town where I was born.