I Was Here

Cameron thinks the world is against him. Nobody is trustworthy enough to have a peak in his life because every time someone does, things tend to go south. During his period of uncertainty, his family decides to take a trip to his childhood home.

Wanting to stay away from people and not be forced to socialize with others, he goes to his secret hideout that he believes nobody knows the location to. Little does he know when he gets there, he will find something he least expected. On the wall, written in sharpie, I WAS HERE, signed off with RILEY and a phone number.

Doing the last expected thing, he decides to text this stranger and an even more unexpected situation occurs, Riley replies. Realizing there are people in the world who aren't determined to make his life as bad as he makes people out to be, they become good friends, but at a safe distance. But the one question still remains; Can you really ever know a person without meeting them face to face?

*Entry in the Shaw Rocket Prize*
*1500 word*