This time, it was the other girl’s turn to pout, unsure and somewhat insulted that the mysterious intruder to her tree house had just ignored her. She furrowed her eyebrow before sitting down beside the hunched girl and leaning on her shoulder. “Shouldn’t you go home, then?” She thought to ask.

Angry, the curled up ball jolted upright and retorted back. “I would do that, but I don’t know where I am!” She tried to explain to the overly clueless girl. “Well, how’d you get here?” She replied back calmly and easily.

“I was chasing a squirrel when I suddenly found myself here.” She explained quietly.

“Well, why don’t you just try and go back?” Despite the innocent nature of the questions, the lack of thought behind them was surely annoying the girl. Unfortunately, she was too distracted to recalling all her stupid mistakes to even notice the naivety of the question. “I tried, but I kept ending up back here.” She sniffled out.

The glasses girl tipped her head to the side in confusion. “What do you mean?” The unnerving part was that she seemed genuinely curious.

“I kept going round and round, and I kept walking and walking, but no matter where I went I always ended up here.” She cried out to the now falling tears on her cheek. The glasses girl saw the tears shed and decided that she didn’t like them. Smiling softly, she brought her hand up to the other girl’s face and wiped away at the tears. The crying girl looked to her and saw the soft comforting smile she had on. With quivering lips, she threw her hands out in front of her and held on tightly to the stranger.

“It’s okay.” She tried to comfort the crying girl, but to no avail as she cried harshly in her shirt. She frowned, thinking deeply at a way to cheer up the girl and comfort her. “How about this, if you always end up here no matter where you go, then each time you get lost, I’ll come here and find you.” Having said the sentence quite naturally, it seemed almost as though the thought wasn’t entirely preposterous, and it had given the other girl hope once more.