" NAMES "

John said Goodbye to King Thard, Luka said goodbye to all his friends which he met last night.

He cried while doing that.

They knew eachother for five hours.

I didn't really talk with anyone so I had to akwardly wait for them to calm down and say their goodbyes.

And they did... after twenty minutes.

We went off into the woods.

- Raphael, you look tired. - said Luka. After a few seconds he added: Raphael wont do, you need a street name.

Did I mention I hate my name?

- I didn't get enough sleep. - I said.

- Middle schoolers get less sleep. - said John.

- SHUT IT.

- I got it! - Luka beemed.

- Got what? - Asked John.

- Rapho! - Luka replied pointing straight at me.

- That's TERRIBLE.  - said John.

- Then what do you want? Raphaellirus??

Raphaelakin???

- Don't make it more complicated!! - I said.

- Okay then, Ralph. - said John.

It got super quiet all of the sudden.

- It's not even related to my actual name. - I said. - But I like it.

- It's just dumb! Why isn't there a short version for 

" Raphael " ?! - Luka was furious.

- Nicknames are pretty pog. - said John.

Luka gasped. - I'm so proud of you. - he whimpered.

- What does " pog " mean? - I asked.

Nobody answered.

- My friends call me " hail tail " or " lil Luka ". Probobally because I'm the shortest :/

- When I was a young scout, my friends called me " Sofia " - John sighed.

- Why? - Luka laughed.

- I honestly don't know, but everybody started calling me that, even the teachers at school.

- Why don't we call you by your middle name?  - said Luka.

- I don't have one. - I replied. - Geuss you can call me Bennett since it is also used as a first name.

- It's still pretty long... Which do you prefer? Your first or second name?

- Bennett. Raphael is too fancy ://.

- My middle name is Grayson. - said John.

- I'm getting game of thrones vibes. - said Luka. - my middle name is Ace. And "Luka Ace Santos" was always a bit hard for me to pronounce because of the "A" :(.

- But it isn't hard to pronounce at all. - said John. - My middle name is Berekiah, try and beat that.

- Is that from the bible? - I asked.

- Proudly.... we should be quiet now.

- Why? - Luka asked ( as usual ) loudly.

- We're getting close to the vampire squirells. There's thousands of them, perhaps millions. If they see us, we don't stand a chance. If they hear us, RUN.

- It's hard to not make a sound in the forest with all these sticks and leaves and stuff. - said Luka.

- Shh! We have to be quiet, that is our mission!

" MISSION FAILED "

An acorn fell from a tree above us, landing right in front of us.

Soon enough, dozens of acorns, pincecons, stick and branches were being thrown off trees on to us.

Luka got hit by a pebble.

- Gah! - He pickd it up, threw it and knocked a squirell off the tree.

- RUN! - John yelled, just like when the we were surrounded by griffins.

We ran for our lives, once again. Luckily, we've ony been walking for about two-three hours so I had the energy to run.

Problem is, I didn't see anything! Nobody did.

We had to cover are heads, altough that wasn't much help against the squirlles!

Before I knew it, the vampire squirlles left the trees and started throwing their bodies on us.