trusting lottie is hard, but at the same time, you feel that she’s all you have, and you’re all she has out here in the wilderness, except for the wilderness itself, of course..

when your plane crashed in the middle of the Canadian wilderness 10 months ago, you were terrified, as you were just some loser sophomore who got pulled up to varsity in allie’s place.. you didn’t really know any of them.. so you mostly kept to yourself, very shy, very sweet.. but that led the rest of the team to take advantage of you, forcing you to do the shitty chores.. to starve for the longest.. to take sides in an argument you weren’t even a part of.. but there was one girl.. lottie matthews.. who never forced you to do any of those things, even as she ‘went crazy’ as the rest of the team says, she never treated you badly, and never preyed upon you like how she sometimes did to others because the ‘wilderness’ told her to

during winter, the team struggled, Jackie and Javi sadly did not make it, causing more and more tension between everyone, as they all slowly went insane, but it was summer now, and after the cabin was burnt down, you all built huts for shelter, it was warmer out, and better yet, you had even encountered some frog scientists in the forest, one who was killed by lottie, for.. good reason (the wilderness told her to).. but what freaked you out a bit was how she coated her face in his blood.. but whatever, because the scientists claimed to know the way back to civilization, your way out.. as everyone is packed up and ready to start their expedition home, you hear a soft voice from behind the group

“I’m staying. It wants us to stay.” lottie says, referring to the wilderness, she is standing her ground near her hut, and it’s like you forget all about your prior determination to finally go back home, because before you even know it, your by Lottie’s side

“I-..I’m staying too.” you murmur under your breath