Young Writers Society

“Shoko, open the door!” Kevin yelled, distracted from the fact that Shoko’s father was probably asleep in bed.

Shoko’s father, Hinata, was always disapproving of Kevin and her crazy antics. Kevin was shy when you first met her, but she was a true daredevil once you knew her well enough. Shoko liked to describe Kevin as “adorable.” Kevin was always rebelling against things and wanting to put up a fight for what she believed in, and Shoko thought it was cute.

Yes, Kevin was biologically female, oddly enough, but she liked her name her parents first gave her, so she kept it.

Shoko soon opened the door, her silky black hair tied up in a bun and bouncing as she stepped out onto the patio to greet Kevin. Kevin wrapped her arm around Shoko’s shoulder in a lazy hug.

Kevin had dirty blonde, and extremely long, messy hair, which she always let hang out. But Shoko, on the other hand, usually kept it up, as not to attract any unwanted “predators.” Shoko wasn’t interested in relationships, she simply wanted to do her writing and occasionally go on a little adventure with her good friend.

Kevin and Shoko weren’t very alike, but they worked well together as a team. Shoko was the brain, and Kevin was the brawn. They took their opposite parts and made them whole, like the Ying Yang itself. Without the other side, balance would be lost. They were honestly like a married couple, they always wanted to be together.

They would run around in the forest, play music, draw sketches of each other, and everything in between.

“So, did I wake Grumpy?” Which was the nickname Kevin gave to Hinata.

Shoko shook her head slightly, and placed a palm on Kevin’s back, leading her forward. They walked down the street, Kevin’s arm over Shoko’s shoulder, looking like a couple of lesbians.

“Where are we headed?” Kevin eyed Shoko with a grin.

“Uhm, forest.” Shoko responded with a little nod in the direction of the forest.

The forest was close by, which is why they went there so much. They would ride down on skateboards or rollerblades, or simply walk together.

“Wanna go poke around in that ditch we saw yesterday?” Kevin chuckled to Shoko.

“Every time we check out that ditch it gets deeper and deeper.” Shoko made a few hand gestures as she spoke.

“Your mom.” Kevin guffawed in a not-so-subtle way.

“Ugh.” Shoko gave Kevin a dirty look.

Kevin rolled her eyes and pointed towards the colossal forest before them. Shoko rested her head on Kevin’s shoulder and let out a sigh.

“You’re stupid.” Kevin told her.

“Your mom.” Shoko laughed and poked Kevin’s stomach repeatedly. “Zing!”

Kevin jokingly slapped her hand away and forcefully pushed her into the entrance of endless timberland. Shoko gave her a fake shocked look and gave Kevin a knee to the butt.

The forest floor was covered in autumn leaves and fallen acorns. There were many redwood trees throughout the forest as well as a few tiny mushrooms covering the forest floor.

They both walked together, hands in pockets, through the forest. They soon came upon the ditch they had spoken about, and Shoko studied it momentarily.

“I told you. It gets deeper and deeper every day!” Shoko said with a curious tone.

“And so does your—" Shoko cut Kevin off.

“Save it.” Shoko narrowed her eyebrows.

It was so quiet and serene in the forest. You could almost hear an acorn drop. So Shoko and Kevin lied down on the leafy forest floor, and looked up at the sky. They admired the tall redwood trees and fluffy white clouds. They spotted clouds together and explained what each cloud looked like, but they could never see the same picture.

“No it doesn’t.” Shoko said with a dumb grin plastered onto her face.

“Yes it does! There are the ears and the tail!” Kevin explained as she pointed at the features she saw.

As they were headed back to the entrance, Shoko whipped around to face Kevin, walking backward and not watching where she was going. They talked for a little while until they came upon that same ditch.

“Shoko watch out—!” Kevin yelled to Shoko.

But Shoko had already fallen into what used to be the ditch. But it was now a gaping hole in the ground. Kevin yelped and jumped in after Shoko. Kevin didn’t want to be on this planet without her best friend.

They were falling down the gaping hole, and eventually Kevin caught up with Shoko, and they were falling together. They kept screaming all the way down, until they eventually realized that they had been falling for about five minutes.

“So…” Shoko began, “This is fun.”