Mom, it's Temi.

I can't believe this shit.

We just saw her.

I mean me, Sebrina, Hina, and LaRazia—we just saw her! I mean Forrest. Forrest isn’t missing. Oh my GODDDD. It was almost like she came out of nowhere. Hina swears she actually did just “appear” from where she was looking and she was probably telling the truth because when she saw Forrest, she was like, “No fucking way—y’all look! look! look!” and we all looked. And Forrest was standing there breathing kinda hard it looked like. I almost took off right that second to go tell everybody or go find The Ghost of Harriet Tubman, but then Sebrina was like, “Wait no, we have to see what she’s gonna do first, you can’t just run up on Forrest Fiars like that.” And then she was like “Or maybe we should see if she wants to come back to Town with us.” So then we waited and I shit you not—she was gone again just that quick. It was wild. And so then Hina was like, “See!! How could she go out of our sight like that quick?” and LaRazia started acting all scared and shit. I’m not trying to be mean or anything but sometimes LaRazia is such goddamn baby. So scary about every fucking thing. (Mom, if you read this, I’m so sorry I’m cussing so much). I don’t know what the plan is right now and honestly, that does scare me, but Sebrina said you can’t let people like LaRazia see that. You gotta be calm so they can stay calm too. But like—I’m 13. She’s 16. Tf? Ugh. (Sorry, mom). But I mean, shit I don’t know if you’re even gonna get this. And maybe you’re scared about that too. Not seeing me again. You’re probably not even sleeping. But I hope you are, honestly. It seems like it’s gonna take a while to get back. Man, we shoulda never come out here. All I had in that box was some socks, two packs of gummy worms I got from my friend Isaiah, some candles and matches, and an old magazine from before The Fall with a picture of somebody named Pedro Pascal on the cover. I thought she might want to read something from before all the stuff that scared her. Sebrina said that was a good idea and if all else failed, maybe she’d use it as kindling for a fire somewhere because we don’t know what she doin out here. Anyway. Hina wanted to go out to where we saw Forrest but Sebrina was like “you can’t go over there alone” and LaRazia was like “I don’t know why y’all are going out there at all—that’s not even Phoenix Town anymore once you cross into those woods. I think it’s a stupid idea blah blah blah…” and she was saying sumn else but we didn’t hear it because we were already halfway across. So all four of us were on the other side of Phoenix Town just looking at each other because wtf were we gonna do then? It’s been 8 days I think. It honestly feels different over here. I don’t know what I mean by that or how to say it. It just doesn’t feel the same. Not like Phoenix Town. LaRazia keeps saying it’s “because it’s NOT Phoenix Town” and then me and Sebrina are like “if you’re this scared, maybe you should take your ass back to Phoenix Town”. But the truth is we—